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Monday, May 1, 2006
After 2 weeks of fun but trying company I have a few minutes to mention my favorite recent adventure.
On one of our many ventures out into the area to show off it's beauty, we drove to Ediz Hook, a spit of land that partially encircles the harbor.
To relapse a little, the day before we went to Marymere falls near Lake Crescent and picnicked there. We enjoyed feeding camp robbers who would sit on our hands.
So when I saw a very young seagull (Mottled rather than gray and white) I went to toss him a few crackers and found...
He was tethered to the log from a fish hook in his neck and another 6 feet further that hooked into the drift log.
What to do!
I went to him and tried to see if the hook was only superficial. It was embedded in the fleshy part of his neck and partially healed over. Too pull it free would be painful for him not to mention the trauma so I asked Mubeena (who carries all life's necessities and joys with her) for a pair of scissors. I clipped the wire as close to the hook as possible and he was gratefully freed. His parents and a couple of his fledglings swooped over when they heard him cry out at my initial approach. But he didn't join them right away he seemed to need time to study us and recover.
I do not know if the hook in his neck will eventually kill him, but at least he won't starve or become prey because he is tethered to a log.
(There was a fish and game woman out there whose attitude seemed to be "let nature take it's course. Sorry, I don't feel a man's fish hook is necessarily "nature".
I got a few pecks, washed up in a fish shop sink so I wouldn't get bird flue and admit i felt like a super-hero the rest of the day. (Bill helped by putting John's leather jacket over patients head while I did surgery)
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Waiting is difficult.
Waiting hurts sometimes, as much as pain.
Day 15 of not knowing what is causing this pain in my side. Is it cancer? I hate to think like that. But how else? I don't know!
Been there before so know it's possible.
Started right away doing all the right things, but every test every connection is taking soooooo looonnnng.
I'm becoming poor company I'm sure.
If I knew I could deal.
Decide on treatment and get on with it. Or if I am clean of disease then just start a regimen to eliminate the pain or learn to deal with it.
I just can't handle the waiting.
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
I don't think I knew what Marshall law was the day that it was enforced. I learned fast that it meant a curfew. That no one was allowed out of their home after dark. All firearms except those carried by the president's army were confiscated. This included those owned by US military men and women stationed there.
Why was this law enforced? Because Ferdinand Marcos decided that he needed more that 8 years as president, he wanted to be dictator for life. He loved the power and the riches, and he wasn't about to give it up. He loved making laws and rules which would benefit him and his friends and Democracy be damned. He would make the rules and the people would obey them.
Sound impossible for the US?
Think about it.
From Wikipedia:
Marshall law is the system of rules that takes effect (usually after a formal declaration) when a military authority takes control of the normal administration of justice.
Martial law is instituted most often when it becomes necessary to favor the activity of military authorities and organizations, usually for urgent unforeseen needs, and when the normal institutions of justice either cannot function or could be deemed too slow or too weak for the new situation; e.g., due to war, major natural disaster, civil disorder, in occupied territory, or after a coup d'état. The need to preserve the public order during an emergency is the essential goal of martial law. However, declaration of martial law is also sometimes used by dictatorships, especially military dictatorships, to enforce their rule.
Usually martial law reduces some of the personal rights ordinarily granted to the citizen, limits the length of the trial processes, and prescribes more severe penalties than ordinary law. In many countries martial law prescribes the death penalty for certain crimes, even if ordinary law does not contain that crime or punishment in its system.
In many countries martial law imposes particular rules, one of which is curfew. Often, under this system, the administration of justice is left to military tribunals, called courts-martial. The suspension of the writ of habeas corpus is likely to occur.
Yes, dust motes.
Those little bitty things that hang in the air when sunshine flows through your windows. Tiny hairs, bits of pet dander, dust particles, who knows. I wanted to be rid of them. A really good vacuum cleaner with a hepa filter was a must. I am sure it helped but still, dust motes.
So I decided to try an air filtration system and now......ta dum!..........Very few dust motes.
If I fluff a pillow where pup has been resting, yes, a few. But when they settle no more.
The throws and afghans,and little pillows get regular air tumbling in the dryer and the drapes and curtains as well, (with the filter cleaned a couple times during each cycle.It has made a big difference.
When I vacuum a room one of the air purifiers goes with me. Otherwise one works in the living room and one in the bedroom.
They will NOT conquer me!
Onward and upward.... making ready for the next challenge.
InaRae
Monday, February 6, 2006
Bad Choices
The storms that hit around our town did damage to trees, power lines, homes. I wonder how often animals are killed by falling trees, by flooding of little ones homes. Is it an annual thing for them?
Undoubtedly. Their news media is not as adept as ours but countless lives must be snuffed out on a regular basis due to "natural phenomena". How natural is it?
Weather has become freaky.
These storms were not common in this area 50 years ago.It has all happened since the global warming phenomena became a fact. An unerasible apparently unavoidable fact. How many conveniences would we (humans) have to forego to make a turnaround. It isn't going to happen.We are on our way out and it is because of our own foolish choices.
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