Fern.

Look what I found! Yesterday during Buddy's morning walk I saw the neighbours had left this out by the curb for garbage pick up, a perfectly good hanging fern so I picked it up and brought it home. I am a plant rescuer and I rescue and ressurrect abandoned and dying plants and save them with love and TLC. At first I thought I would put it on the livingroom coffee table but then it ended up being much bigger than I thought and would take up pretty much the entire table but I ended up finding a spot for it in the rec-room in front of a big window. I named it Fern(for obvious reasons.) I also have Robert Plant (named for the Led Zeppelin frontman) a plant on the coffee table, Robert Palmer( a baby Palm  tree in the livingroom in front of a window for sun also named after a musician) and Mr.Ficus a Ficus in front of a main window in the livingroom. Yes, I know, I'm one of those "weird" people that names their plants. I found out that the 22 YR old does,too so she's also weird like me. 😁 Yesterday during her afternoon nap my mother also woke up and walked into the livingroom and saw me watching the news and I asked her What are you doing up? and she asked me what I was doing up(which I thought was strange) and I said watching the news... and then she goes what time is it? and I told her, 5:30.....what time did you think it was?  and she said she thought it was the middle of the night (and it was really dark,too)and she wondered what I was doing awake and up downstairs! Now that's how you know that you had a really good nap; you wake up so disoriented you don't know where you are, what bed you're in(or if you're on the couch), what day it is or what time it is! I was proud of her as well that she recognized( all on her own!) a Queen  and Rolling Stones song she heard playing on my iPod.

I also love this cute photo of Buddy I took the other day when we were sitting outside. I just love him so much and last night in bed sleeping he was so cute,too; his tail was wagging in his sleep and he was "peddling" his hind legs too like he was riding a bike, but he doesn't feel well today though and is just laying around and didn't even want to go for his walk this morning,poor old guy, and just like me he has not-so-bad days and he has bad days(we're both old and broken and falling apart together; like old war cronies) and for the past 2 days my stomach(above belly-button) pain is really bad,too, and I wonder with my lower right rib pain if maybe I could have duodenal cancer perhaps, or maybe even TB also explaining my chronic cough, esp. since I have  travelled to places it exists? it is possible, and *something* has to be causing my pain(I hope the colonoscopy can find out)...I've also had my cold for a few days now but yesterday my throat got sore again which is odd so I hope it's NOT turning into Strep but smoking weed even helps as the warm smoke soothes the sore throat. I also picked 8 or so dandilions off the lawn too which is unheard of this time of year; they come in May-June so it's almost like we're in some sort of alternate universe .

I also ordered Christmas presents(chess-related) for my hubby and the 27 YR old and with shipping( not to mention taxes) it was an extra 20$(we always get cheated and over-charged like that) and I hope the 27 YR old is grateful this time and not like last year, complianing about the "cheap" candle I got him( a nice "Christmas"- scented candle because I know he likes candles, just like I do) instead of one of the more expensive ones(even though that was all I could afford) at the fancy  high-end shops,and it made me feel really ashamed and bad, and my mother first of all went from I don't need anything(and I said it doesn't have to be something you need; for Christmas it can just be something nice that you'd like) to pointing at my Oodie I was wearing and saying, You know, I could use one of those ,to keep me nice and warm...and I told her, These cost over 100$!and she goes, How much were you going to spend on me? and I told her, NOT over 100$! For one thing, I don't have that kind of $$$,and she only ever gives me chocolates that cost 5-10$  for my  Christmas gift (and I get it, she doesn't have $$$ either)and why should I spend alot of $$$ on someone who treats me like shit? It's also my hubby and my anniversary next month too but this year weve been deemed dirty Plague Rats not getting the Mark of The Beast so we can't go to a restaurant for our dinner anymore now and have to order-in this year instead, and I also heard Canadians are now leaving en masse to live in places like Mexico, for example, fleeing the tyranny of vaccine mandates,etc.like political refugees desperate for freedom,and my hubby smirks it's people that don't comply and don't follow the rules is why the COVID rates are going up(when really it's side-effects of the vaccine, but of course they'll never admit that!) but you have to unite and there's strength in unity and there's more of us than there are of them,and since when do you let the bully WIN? He also says it's "impossible" to get all world leaders to agree to co-operate together( population control, for instance which is what the so-called "vaccine" really is)) but they just did; for that climate summit in Glasgow, so why not for other things,too? He's just in denial,and like most people doesn't want to see the truth and what's really happening because it's just too horrifying but what happened in Nazi Germany is happening all over again and all it takes is for people to allow it and not to stand up to oppression and tyranny.

Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.-Kurt Vonnegut