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Life In Balance Dept:

Yesterday eve at dusk, I saw a rat come through the fence into our yard. I was upset, thinking what this pest would do to my garden.

Today: same time of day, same spot on the fence, a Cooper's Hawk landed. It stayed a while, as if to say, "No worries, I've got this."

1st green bean harvest. Beautiful & perfect, but not as plentiful as I could wish. Total 4 oz. Perhaps I should have waited till they were bigger...

This is the output of 10 plants in 2 bags. The 3rd bag has not bloomed, so none there yet. Guess I must devote 4-6 bags to green beans next time.

I love how the scammer stutters in the last message.

Update on BP & diuretic (chlorthalidone):

It's been 1 week at lowest dose, 12.5mg/day. BP is normal! No more numbness/tingling/burning in hands! 4# of water gone.

No side effects! Seems this is the perfect tweak for me. Am drinking more water to avoid dehydration +supplementing calcium/potassium.

My BP, stellar since my 1st child was born, has risen alarmingly this past year. I think it's due to left-side radiation + tamoxifen. Started a diuretic today. This could help not only BP, but body weight, blood sugar, inflammation, joint pain, swollen feet/ankles. My hopes are high.

Sweet moments - camp dinner outdoors, then sitting around the fire pit after dark, then returning to a comfy and inviting Calypso set up in night mode. Soft music playing on Bose speaker.

We're at Cirque! "Echo". Amazing.

We do that too! Ours get read on the anniversary of the day we met.

Ovi!!!!!!

Oh no.

I've had my eye on him for several years now, before he made national news. He's pretty amazing.

I'm looking into this for us as well. We pay $83/mo for YouTube TV, which has both NBC Sports California & NBC Sports Bay Area. Looks like Peacock charges $17.95 for each of those channels, and $7.99 for its basic service, for $44/mo total.

Watching the Mongolian musical group Anda Union, at the Bing Concert Hall at Stanford.

We get to the gym a couple of times most weeks, and I'm trying to build up endurance for trips later in the year. I had to bow out of a planned trip to Japan because I didn't think I could manage all the walking it would entail. I want to be ready the next time such an opportunity comes. my way.

Woohoo! I managed 20 minutes on the treadmill today. That's a goal reached!

Yep, and the gov't had plenty of money for beneficial projects. If you had any full-time job, you could afford a small apartment. The middle class could afford to buy their own home. Not so today.

What's TC?

Would something like this be helpful for someone with a knee problem?

The pink camellias here have been in furious bloom for more than a month! Am waiting for the red ones now (bush is covered with buds).

S'ok. We love ya anyway.

Thank you, that was beautiful.

A lot of this is centered on where we put our attention. Attention is a huge commodity these days. Also data. Am considering unplugging all Amazon Alexa devices.

Small acts of resistance. Here are a few of mine, what are yours?

Left FB for BlueSky
Sent 9 gift scrips to Mother Jones
Read my issues of MJ cover to cover
Subscribed to The New Yorker
Read TNY cover to cover
Canceled Amazon Prime
Boycotting Target, Walmart
Favor locally-owned small business

Well said. I agree!

Success looks like visibility, I'd say. Obviously a 1-day economic boycott is not going to make even a dent in those companies' profits. But it's a message being sent, regardless. The Mercury News featured the boycott on page 1 today!

What happened?

It's interesting that nearly all the films were readily available streaming or via the library. Why was this one so hard to find? Message being suppressed, perchance? Even Wikipedia has nothing much to say about it.

rarefilmm | The Cave of Forgotten Films

Finally completed my 10 year project to watch ALL 322 of the "TCM Essentials" films. For a long time I was stuck at 321, because Ashes and Embers (1982) was unavailable anywhere. I finally found it, today, at rarefilmm.com. Possibly not coincidentally, it was apropos for Black History Month.

I'm going to miss the free First Reads. Have read a lot of good books that way. Time to start using my public library again!