I managed to get in a bike ride Tuesday morning
(6/2) before we left for another follow-up vet appointment for Cookie. She is currently in remission….but you know
what that means. She must still be
monitored over the next several months to make sure she doesn’t have a
relapse.
We were finally home around 2
PM after additional stops at the chiro, Food Lion and the bank. I did intake on a customer quilt, and got a
tiny bit of sewing/ironing done….my 8’’ squares QoV is finally sewn into
rows:
As I mentioned before, I am not really enamored of the pattern and doubt that I will do it again....but I did make some notes about what fabrics are needed and dimensions for cutting just in case.
Michael wanted a pretzel from the
food truck, so I called Paula to see if she wanted to go along…..at this point
you should start singing the theme from ‘Gilligan’s Island’….we should have
been gone 10 – 15 minutes….but it was more like an hour!!! First stop, the Lake House….no pretzel truck
to be found, next stop, the bank (the teller transposed the numbers on the
check I cashed, and when I finally counted the money, I had $45 too much. We finally got that all straightened
out). Then we decided to check the Lodge
for the food truck….no dice…but we talked to someone there and she asked us to
let Geneva know at the Lake House…back the Lake House we went, to tell Geneva
about the truck….she was shocked as she had checked that it arrived at 3 PM as
scheduled….but it apparently left within an hour, as it wasn’t there when we got
there. In the meantime I got a phone
call from Michael….I had left my driver’s license at the bank….so back to the
bank we went!! When I finally got home I
felt like we had been round the bend and back
:~). And my adorable puppy was
snoring away in the living room:
Fortunately
the rest of the evening was uneventful.
Peaceful protesters were tear gassed and shot with rubber bullets so that Trump could have a photo-op, because of course...that is what's most important these days:
The plaza between St. John's Church and Lafayette Park was full of people nonviolently protesting police brutality late Monday afternoon when U.S. Park Police and National Guard troops, with the use of tear gas, suddenly started pushing them away for no apparent reason. And then it became clear. President Trump wanted to walk from the White House through the park to the Episcopal church.
"There was no reaching out, no sense that it would require some sort of authorization before using the church as a backdrop in that way," said the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, Episcopal bishop of Washington.
When the president held up the Bible, without praying or quoting a verse appropriate for the moment, Budde was further incensed.
"It almost looked like a prop," she told NPR.
He cradled
a Bible, bouncing it in his hands as if testing its weight. “Is that
your Bible?” a reporter yelled. “It’s a Bible,” Mr. Trump responded,
and hoisted up the book so reporters could see.
A former St. John's minister, Gini Gerbasi, was among those attending to the protesters in front of the church when the police moved in.
"We were literally DRIVEN OFF of the St. John's, Lafayette Square patio with tear gas and concussion grenades and police in full riot gear," she wrote in a Facebook post. "PEOPLE WERE HURT SO THAT [President Trump] COULD HAVE A PHOTO OPPORTUNITY IN FRONT OF THE CHURCH!!! HE WOULD HAVE HAD TO STEP OVER THE MEDICAL SUPPLIES WE LEFT BEHIND BECAUSE WE WERE BEING TEAR GASSED!!!!"
"This evening, the President of the United States stood in front of St. John's Episcopal Church, lifted up a bible, and had pictures of himself taken," Curry said. "In so doing, he used a church building and the Holy Bible for partisan political purposes. This was done in a time of deep hurt and pain in our country, and his action did nothing to help us or to heal us."
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