Very busy day with little time to think.

Arremony Bakery run then delivery of lawn vacuum from Lowe's. Trip to Coventry, back, up to mom's to roll up garden hose, pick up prescriptions for mom and me, also got flu shot. Stored new machine in rear shed after making room. Tonight wrote letter of thanks to JCB.

Too busy for news yet today but  couple of things standing out in the background:

The cop versus student incident in SC. (This is gonna be another big one.)
Trump falling in polls. (Let the whining begin.)
Walgreens buying Rite-Aid (Grow your business by buying it, then fire a bunch of people.)
Idiot politicians

The item to set off my shudder reflex was an article on a clergyman who tells his congregation that women should live in dread and in fear of their husbands because it made the sex better. How is it possible that this guy has even one woman in the congregation? Most of the wonderful women I've known in my life would respond to that with a giant "Oh hell no!"

Many thoughts lately about people I consider friends. K&A in Az, E in MI, A in NC. In addition to K, three people with whom I had some kind of relationship died recently: J the artist who was my BFF for many years; BN who was  friend during a hard period; and GJ whom I worked with many years ago.