We Prepare For Hot Weather!!!

After a good night of sleep for the hounds they were more than ready to start Wednesday unaware their schedules were a little different since the time change. Things like sleeping an hour later each morning, and that starts the daily walk an hour or so later. One thing they and I enjoy though ... is this great weather the past two days. It is suppose to be 69° by mid-afternoon if you can believe that.

These two photos were taken last night as they enjoyed the warm leather couch as I wasted time watching some tv. Their body heat and the leather couch is a good combination for a good night of sleep for them.

This morning Heidi wasn't sure what she heard, "do you want to go on a walk?", or was she dreaming. She had no plans on changing her daily routine, which is sleeping wrapped up in a sleeping bag until lunch time. The fact is I can't remember the last time she ever went outside to join us on the morning walk, even in summer weather. Maybe never!

It was a nice change with the carport thermometer showing the needle above 50° when we stepped outside. I didn't have to wear gloves nor my sock hat, and that cold wind was gone ... just birds filling the sky up with their communication and a little energy in Stella's walk.

We will be getting more rain sometime late tonight, maybe after midnight. That will be some of the residue from the storms out west on Tuesday. My twitter account was showing photos for a funnel touchdown just east of Mesa, AZ and again SE of Roswell, NM. It's hard to imagine anywhere in AZ or NM having tornadoes.

This morning was one of those times I couldn't put my finger on what I was going to do today. I do have plans to watch or turn on a couple of basketball games at noon. They are being played in the Big10 Conference tourney. My team does not play until Thursday at 12:30pm.

I am still trying to sort out my menus ... high fat and high protein, or low fat, regular protein and more carbs???? I could never do the strict Keto Diet. For example, yesterday I had a banana and 2c of steamed spinach during the day and that equaled 46g of carbs ... Keto likes you to have no more than 20g of carbs per day.

I have thought of going back to a ratio of 70% Carbs, 20% Proteins and 10% Fats of my total calories for the day. The hesitation and the continuous analyzing is from the way I feel when I have more carbs in my diet. I can feel fat, bloated, some indigestion depending on what I have eaten, such as a bowl of oatmeal. The answer will eventually come to me.

The "dingbat AOC" was in PRIME FORM yesterday and many people in the congressional room and later on the internet were slapping their foreheads asking WTF ??? Did she really say that? I am including one link but it is very important to view both videos on that page. It will explain things much better than I could tell you. The first video is 4 minutes long and the second video about how she got where she is, is 20 minutes long. It is a youtube video down in the comment section but here is the link ... but well worth the time.

It is just astonishing to think about.

I am sure you have heard or read, it is fact, that Omar married HER BROTHER to solidify her US visa and ability to stay in the US. How can that happen and still get away with it? The UN assigned her to live in the US as a refugee. Her district in Minnesota looks nothing like an American town, say those that pass through there.

Stella started moving in the direction where she could hear the cows again this morning. Then she had to stand, sniff the air, listen and try to figure out what that sound was or maybe she understood what the cows were telling her. It took her a few minutes before she moved from this spot.

The released transcripts recently as last night are telling exactly what went on with the DOJ and the FBI when Obama was in office. The nice thing is all of those involved could be headed for major jail time with this new Attorney General. Of course CNN is not covering any of those transcripts the past week but Fox News is showing what is in those transcripts.

It's not surprising because it is what everyone suspected when Clinton was let off the hook by the FBI in the summer of 2016. The transcripts just confirm it was Obama's DOJ calling the shots, telling the FBI to back off because they were in charge of the investigation.

I am going to look tonight and see if I can find the transcripts online. I am sure they are in a pdf format somewhere. Basically I honestly believe the people who have gotten away with federal crimes will finally be prosecuted under the new AG's department. It should be interesting. Everyone involved would be in ******* jail if I were in charge.

Stella may have started walking but that didn't mean she was finished with the moooooooing cows. She had to head their direction as she approached the back of the field, just to make sure she was thinking clearly.

She decided it was time to continue the walk but we were at one of the slowest paces ever for this morning walk.

Does that look like it will be 69° by this afternoon?

I had a long phone call yesterday from an old friend that lives in Sacramento. She was driving through San Francisco heading home from one of her consulting jobs. We covered getting older, our health, our dogs and their health, retirement, and then politics. She like many other democrats is hoping that Joe Biden will run. From news reports last night that sounds like a real possibility. Timing is everything and just because he has run twice before  ... doesn't mean he could not win in 2020.

I kept moving way out in front of Stella. I wanted to see how long it would take for her to get back home. I can't really leave her on her own like I could Sadie, because given the chance Stella will veer right and head to the neighbor's yard where there is food left outside for the mystery field cat.

So I kept her within my viewing range and let her roam on her own.  She is slow in everything she does ... except eating. About here I honestly thought I'd go inside and wait for her to come to the door but in that area she would still have the chance to go next door, so I stood in the yard and waited for her.

You can tell by her expression she was not concerned with how long it took her to finish the walk. In fact she still wasn't finished with the walk and had me waiting even longer. With the nice warm morning I didn't mine it at all. In fact I really didn't want to go back inside because it was just that nice.

She continues to head to the house to walk along the side of it ONLY after the morning walk, not in the afternoon walk. How strange is that?

She will also wait for me to open the door, yet yesterday when I came back inside after checking out the pile of eggshells in the field, I heard her trying to open the bedroom door. After letting her and Heidi out of the bedroom I touched the doorknob and felt that familiar bloodhound drool where she had been trying to turn the doorknob to break out.

LOL ... too funny.

This morning after our return I see where Heidi felt the best and warmest place to be sleeping was to have her nose tucked inside the sleeping bag. How many hours in a 24 hour period does a basset hound sleep? All I can say is ... A LOT !!!!

Well it's already late this morning so I need to stop and get this edited and posted. I have a lot more to say, so maybe I'll post again later tonight with some afternoon photos of the hounds.

It's great weather this morning in 'the tropics' of Southern Indiana.

Lots Of Questions & Opinions Today

It felt so nice this morning not having to bundle up in preparation for freezing wind and cold temps. It felt like a heat wave at 38° and for some strange reason the wind was from the east. Even Stella decided Saturday morning was a great day to start her walk by using the return path. She was not into eating deer scat nor collecting data for her brain cells ... sniffing deer scent was her purpose this morning.

We will have to wait and see if the afternoon walk is possible today. It is supposed to turn into terrible weather a little after noon with thunderstorms and high winds from the E/SE. That will give me plenty of time to stay inside and clean house, read a little, check out the ballgames and review the finer points of my food intake.

Yesterday I read a lot of different articles on each diet I have mentioned recently. Just like I said yesterday, EVERYONE has their own opinions, their own research, their own studies. In the comments section of each article I saw as much arguing as I see on a sports forum or on tv news. Does everyone have to argue????

Basically "my diet", the one where I make some slight modifications to all the diets listed as beneficial, is a pretty good way to eat. I've always been a fruit and veggies eater, I like fresh salmon or halibut more than chicken and steak. I cook with olive oil and most seem to agree that is a good thing. So really after looking over what I am doing, it's pretty good. I think the "Flexitarian Diet" the medical panel on US News & World Report is pretty close to what I do.

Speaking of food, there is one advantage for having hounds around. They can be in a deep sleep in the living room but can hear any time a piece of food may be dropped on the floor by me. I don't drop a lot of food on the floor but sometimes the end of that carrot I am slicing gets out of control and flies off the cutting board. Not counting the time it took a bloodhound and basset hound to sprint to the kitchen ... that piece of carrot was gone within seconds after they arrived.

With my return to tv and online news, it is just amazing the amount of stuff going on.  Does anyone follow the laws anymore? Congress included? I must be confused because I cannot grasp any legit reason an illegal immigrant should have a right to vote in US elections at any level, from small towns to the presidential election. I know why the Democrats proposed the bill and why they want all of them to vote ... they are not taking long telling the country where they stand on issues.

Does Elizabeth Warren even know how to turn on a computer? Yet she has the knowledge to tell Yahoo, Amazon, Google and even Apple how they should run their companies. LOL ... what a joke she is. That might not be as crazy as the state of North Carolina though ....

They want a new law where EVERYONE has to register THEIR BICYCLE annually for $10 per year or face a $25 fine. Being more of an "ex" bicyclist but with three bicycles here in the house, I'd tell them to go pack sand before I am paying $10 for a bicycle registration, even if I had only one. Are we going to be turning into a country of "the taxman" that The Beatles sang about on their Revolver album in the 60's ???? We will if the Democrats ever take back the White House.

One thing I WOULD NEVER DO is put any kind or any size of 'registration sticker' on my custom made bicycle. No way.

It will not be long before all of that brown will be nice and green.

Will Cory Booker ever answer questions about his policies, or policies of HIS democratic party ???? ... every time I have seen a short news clip of him he evades the question asked and moves to something or someone on the other side of the fence. He is another piece of work ... a total waste.

Adam Schiff ... you should go right to f******* jail, do not pass Go and you do not get a free out of jail card. He is the true definition of a lying congressman. How does he get away with all of his lying (lies on tape multiple times) ... or will he get away with his crimes?

Jussie Smollett is another one ... Can he get out of 16 felony counts to stay out of jail, or will the media put him in jail ???  His defense lawyer seems to think the media did all of this to him. The Chicago police probably disagree. Another waste ... and living proof why some animals eat their young.

There are approximately 55,000 people living on the streets in Los Angeles / Orange County area ... why is there any surprise they are finding a breakout of typhus in Los Angeles. I use to love going to that city when I lived about 90 miles south of it back in the 70s and 80s but today I would not get within a 100 miles of that place.

Where do all the illegal immigrants move to after they are processed and await their court dates, where they never show up??? Major cities, small towns, certain states or scattered??? It's a serious question.

Something else I am confused about with all of these newly elected Congress women, the Big 3 I call them. They make remarks and then backtrack after they are questioned or claim they didn't say that or was misunderstood ... but they were on tape when they said it. Those Big 3 make my blood boil.

How many $300M baseball players can one team afford?  It will not happen until after the 2020 season and right before the Players Union tells them to go on strike ... but it sure sounds that Mike Trout will or would love to play for his "hometown" Philadelphia Phillies. His from New Jersey but that is their hometown team. IMO he is a better player than Bryce Harper and will get more money than Harper did a few weeks ago.

Plus someone made the point, due to state tax laws Harper saved MILLIONS of dollars in his 13 year contract by choosing Pennsylvania rather than California when he turned down offers from the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants. Mike Trout plays for the Los Angeles Angels ...

Whenever I see something about the opioid crises I think back to March 2010 as I left the hospital to return home after my no-fault car wreck. (totaled car). I had a handful of prescriptions from the doctor and really no plans to take any meds. I even told her I didn't need/wanted any. Yet by the time I left my local CVS Pharmacy I had enough opioids to start my own store or turn into a drug dealer. The insurance company paid for over $600 worth ...

I didn't take any. I didn't sell or give away any. I waited for the annual call from one of the local fire departments, where I could take all of them, turn them in and they would destroy them. I never like flushing pills down my toilet. So with a story like that, is there any wonder they have an opioid problem in this country?

Any Minnesota readers out there? What do you think of your state's representative ILhan Omar?

I almost forgot that we change time 'tonight' or officially Sunday morning at 2am. I remember when the state of Indiana did not change time, it was great. Then one year they decided they would split the Eastern and Central time zones down the middle of the state. At the time my office was 12 miles away and in the Central time zone while I lived in the Eastern time zone ... now that ... was a real pain in the ass.

The hounds will let me know when to feed them their lunch after the time change. I try to keep it the same time, 11am during the winter and noon during the summer. But they will decide, not the clock.

Zuckerburg's new plans for the future of Facebook brought a laugh the other day. Does anyone believe a word he says? He is another person I cannot not stand. The movie Social Media shows that he has always been a smug asshole.

Transgender athletes in High School sports ... no comment.

I don't care what anyone says (that small voice in my mind), I have a feeling I'll be buying a couple of containers of Ben & Jerry's ice cream today. As I said in December, I cannot eat just a couple of spoons of it nor a bowl of it, I eat the whole small container when I buy it.

See ... I really am a goal setter.  :)

It was at this point of the walk where my camera started telling me the battery was going to die. I got one more photo before the camera shut down on its own.

When I looked at that list yesterday of "The Top 5 Digital Cameras", I still preferred the one I bought ... the Canon G9 X Mark II.

Heidi never moved while Stella and I were out walking.

I have followed the FBI investigation of College Basketball since it started last year. Three of the "middlemen" are headed to prison. The LSU coach is suspended by his school president, yet Arizona suspended their coach last year for only one game before backing off and letting him coach again. Both coaches are on FBI wiretaps, caught in the act of brokering a financial deal for recruits. Louisville fired their coach, Rick Pitino, last year for the same thing.

What is interesting, these three coaches all say what the Big 3 in Congress say ... I didn't say that ... yet, it's all on tape. WTF is wrong with these people??

Well that idea of cleaning the house today is fading fast. Ice cream is climbing to the top of the list like an F-14 going vertical. (plane shows how old I am). I am still a few hours away from feeding the hounds lunch and no trip for ice cream will take place until after they are fed. Stella is more relaxed after she eats and I leave the house.

One last question.

What do you personally do to handle all the "noise" on tv news or online news ... all one bag "News" ???

In the next 10 days I am now seeing two days where the high temperatures will be in the high 60's !!!! Today after it rains we might hit 58° ... pretty amazing weather changes.

Sanity prevails in "the tropics" of Southern Indiana today.