Nicole and I, eating our way through the County Fair!
Bracelet Day.
We took all the Grands! The wheelchair makes getting around so much easier/better for me.
They rode all day, had fair food, checked out the animals barns and saw the usual critters and also alligators and llamas and whatever the hell this was...oh my.
I can see a board and practice cubes in their near future. Everyone had a great time!
A friend of mine (Diane Y.) was helping with her daughter's goats at fair. Yesterday she brought me fresh (raw) goats milk to make us both cheese.
So last night was spent setting the curd...and this morning bundling it into
a dripping whey cheese ball..
So easy, and good!
Goat Cheese
1 gallon raw goats milk (room temperature)
2 whole lemons
salt
Heat goats milk to 89 degrees...lukewarm.
Add juice of both lemons and stir.
Turn off heat, cover and let sit overnight undisturbed
Gather curd into cheesecloth the next morning and twist into a ball. Hang over sink to drain excess whey. This takes about 3 hours.
Open cloth and salt. Can be eaten soft (as is)...or spooned into container with draining holes to cure until drier and chalky white.
Goat cheese is a very mild cheese and works well with the addition of herbs, seeds, nuts or figs, and fruit.
The kids brought me three tree-frog tadpoles to add to the frog bog. In addition there are 2 grown frogs that seemed to have found it on their own and taken up residence. It is full of activity now!
Since the heat and humidity are less the Hummingbirds are back to buzzing me and draining the feeder, as well.
Saw
War for the Planet of the Apes
this week.
Anybody else think he plays these psychotic roles a little too well???
And speaking of bad guys...now it is time for
Spicer was out and The Mooch was in.
McConnell and Trump and most of the Senate was trying to ram the new healthcare bill down our throats like Linda Lovelace at a Convention
Trump was tweeting away as fast as his tiny hands would let him.
John McCain (fresh out of brain surgery) reanimated and cast his vote to progress the healthcare bill to a vote.
In retrospect this was an act of brilliance...I will explain in a minute. At the time I was fairly pissed off.
Trump did a speech in front of the BSA which was (pick an adjective) inappropriate, bizarre, politically inappropriate and bizarre, disgusting. The BSA did finally issue a statement almost denouncing it...sort of...kinda..for godsake please don't stop sending us money.
Not to be outdone...Scaramucci gave an interview using the words: fuck, cock-blocker,and alluded to one person's ability to (quote) suck his own cock.
Yeah...once you go over the line and start accusing others of self-fellatio...well...where is the limit, then-eh?
And when the Healthcare vote came down to the wire...Trump's Tweeting got even more bizarre.
Stating he was "banning transgenders in the military"...an obvious ploy to stroke his fan base (the Trumpettes) because
A. There was no EO to this effect.
B. This isn't how legislation is made. We do not legislate by TWEET. It requires Congress.
C. The DOD had no clue what he was prattling about...since there is a distinct line in their own laws which strictly prohibits the very thing he said he was going to do.
But it had the far right...and the far left salivating like they were Pavlov's Dogs and someone had just rung a dinner bell.
Even the ACLU weighed in...saying if he were even to breath this as legislation they would be on him like flies on shit.
Since McCain voted with them to advance the bill they stayed up all night to pass "The Skinny Healthcare Bill"
Which actually wasn't a healthcare bill by then...it was basically a repeal of the ACA (Obamacare) and a big fat tax break for the 1%.
And nearing midnight...when it looked a lot like it was going to pass...
John McCain walked back into the Senate and....
looked McConnell right in the eyes...and...
GAVE THE BILL AN ACTUAL THUMBS DOWN
Just like the Romans at the Coliseum.
The LOOK on McConnell's face was probably the best part for me. I have watched the video repeatedly.
"Gelded" comes to mind.
The only thing that could have possibly been better, is to have seen Trump's face at that very moment.
Then I would have had to smoke a cigarette...lol!
It seems that John didn't forget
"I prefer my War Heroes NOT to be captured"- Donald Trump
after all.
What a perfect "Screw You Very Much."
So close....lol!
Proving once again
Revenge IS a dish best served cold.
A lifetime of votes...but this....this will be the vote that will be immortalized in history.
(...and to explain why it was better that he forwarded the bill and then killed it on the Senate floor...if he had stopped it before it reached the floor it would have hung around like the Zombie Bill...undead...to keep crawling back again and again...by double-tapping it on the Senate Floor he effectively KILLED THE BILL. Now they will have to start from scratch,if they start at all. Truly brilliant strategy...)
People in the Trump Whitehouse are dropping like flies after a heavy spraying of RAID.
Already
1. National Security Advisor
2. FBI Director
3. Press Secretary
4. Chief of Staff
5. Private Lead Counsel
All fired/resigned w/in 6 months.
The most recent casualty Reince Priebus. Who, like Sean Spicer, stood by his man...right up until the moment TRUMP kicked him to the curb.
Interestingly...Priebus did NOT sign a Non-Disclosure statement.
So things might heat up in the next week or so. I hope he starts bitching like a dumped ghetto tramp.
Some Montel-Jerry Springer Stuff.
Could be entertaining.
Just saying.
And who but TRUMP could make you feel a bit sorry for
Jeff "Dobby the House Elf" Sessions...really.
Please don't FIRES, Dobby..."
Oh...and Scaramucci's wife just filed for a divorce...seriously...because she cannot deal with the fact he is willingly Trump's..."cock-holster"...er... Mouthpiece.
Smart Woman.
So..to summarize...this week in Politics has been a lot like Game of Thrones.
Without Kit Harrington for Eye-Candy.
Addendum: Only
More days until Rose And Idgy's Early Fall Artist Retreat!
Can't wait!
