Back to the Beginning
Sunday morning.
In a return to the morning coffee posts where I stagger down to the studio while trying not to slop coffee on the carpet, plop down in my new $59 “Executive Chair” and try to write something coherent. Spell checking, and maybe some rough editing is allowed, but these are not orations nor dissertations. Just the observations of an old man facing his doom. The challenge is to limit them to 500 words, but ideally I will wrap them up around 250 words, más o menos.
As fate would have it, my brother and niece have come to stay with us. I presume permanently, but who knows? They visited earlier, and while here the Covid madness stupidity hysteria settled in and even auto travel was proscribed. While they were here, they concluded this would be an ideal place to live, and after a brief return to their home in Colorado after everyone was too exhausted from all the hyperventilating to care, they made the move.
My brother then had a cardiac episode and went through bypass surgery and is now recovering from that. The niece went to work nearby in Temple, a twelve-mile commute from the house and near where my brother is going through cardiac rehab. Kismet again.
But for me, little changed. I mow when I can, take lots of naps muse on arcane religious texts and torment the budgie.
And blather on like people hang on my every word.
Rusty's Armory 
October 11, 2020 at 11:11 am
I believe Our Brother would not have survived His Cardiac Episode if it had happened in Colorado. And I also believe that being at the lower altitude is beneficial.
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October 11, 2020 at 11:17 am
I am glad that the VA transferred him to Baylor Scott&White instead of doing it at their facility.
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October 11, 2020 at 12:06 pm
speaking of hanging…maybe we should bing that back in style for violent protesters…you know….from the street lamps
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October 11, 2020 at 12:07 pm
ya, I said it
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October 11, 2020 at 12:12 pm
I can think up several fit punishments for those that loot and destroy private property. They might prefer hanging to those punisments.
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October 11, 2020 at 12:51 pm
Thoughts are with your brother and his recovery. That can be a long road, I know. Glad he’s in a good place and with family.
😊
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October 12, 2020 at 12:49 pm
Me too … there was a time when all that wasn’t so certain …
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October 12, 2020 at 10:55 am
I DO hang on your every word Sir !!! Always happy to see you post here. Hope all works out for your brother and he recovers nicely and that you all can live together in one house peacefully 😉
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October 12, 2020 at 11:20 am
I suspect we can … maybe some territorial disputes, but no major policy disagreements! 😉
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October 12, 2020 at 11:00 am
Wish I had the time, vacation, and covidless opportunity to buzz down and meet/see you. Hugs
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October 12, 2020 at 11:21 am
🙂 Maybe some day?
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October 12, 2020 at 12:13 pm
If this covid crap ever ends. It keeps mutating instead of finishing up.
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