January 16 2024 - wow the years they are a passing I do so want to blog, I enjoy writing down my musings so I can look back and see what I was thinking at any random point in my life. It doesn't take much to entertain me. Take for instance my afternoon munchie. A toasted baguette slice (4) with cream cheese and what I would call olive salsa a lot of the same ingredients as a tapenade but not as finely ground and no capers or anchovies. I like most foods but anchovies are not one of them, If I can get table side Cesar salad and they rub the inside of the bowl with them, well that is nice but it is just about my limit. I cooked a lot in the last two days, two of my granddaughters came over and spent the night. I love cooking for them and they both have a good pallet. Unlike my grandsons who are extremely happy with steak and steak and steak. At least they like it medium or medium rare, I hate to see a good piece of meat burnt to the point of dry and no flavor whatsoever. The weather has been cold and cold is a great reason for soup, anytime is a great time for soup but in winter it is easier to get away with heavy soups and stews. Growing up I never knew the difference between a chicken or beef stew or soup. Seems like the first night it was more soup than stew but after resting for a day or two it became thicker and more stew like, never the less I'm still a fan......why don't we call chili a stew or do we, it has always just been chili.
Politics. Most of my friends and relatives are Republicans and we are all having a hard time with Biden and his crew. Could someone please tell me who is running our country, it sure as hell is not Joe Biden, if anyone has intrusted anything to this man let alone state secrets and nuclear launch codes.......tell me it isn't so. I have had family in nursing homes who were more cognitive alert than this man, in fact my dead dogs were more alert. It is both sad and frightening to watch this man. I truly do not understand anyone who can support him, it really does seem like elder abuse. I also have a hard time listening to people defend him, he cannot walk and talk at the same time and not just on a few occasions. His press secretary must go home at night and practice self-flagellation, one strong (but stupid) woman to keep doing this in front of the whole world.
Border. Anyone who doesn't think this is a crisis is just plain blind and/or stupid, there I said it. I cannot believe what is shown on the crossings and I know that is just the tip of the iceberg. I have no idea short of extremely radical action how to stop it. No-one in their right mind can think that so many able-bodied men carrying small children who are not their son/daughters is up to good........breaks my heart. Yes I believe that we should let people in our country, the legal way. I cannot see that kicking veterans out of the hospitals and children out of school for medical care and housing is agreeable to anyone with two functioning brain cells.
Well, between politics and the border I am depressed to the point of closing this rant out, I think talking about the state of the economy, oil production the war in Ukraine, China, Putin etc etc etc might just cause me to start drinking.
with all this in mind HAPPY NEW YEAR, hope for better days ahead.
