TREES - they are here.

It takes 45 minutes to get from Columbus to UW Hospital/Clinics.  I got there and  checked in and they asked "do you know where to go" I said "no" and they said "it's simple - past the coffee, down the hall on your left"  simple right?

So I walk past the coffee shop and I see nothing that looks close to hearing or audio or anything else. I walk around looking and I see nothing.  I stop at some cancer place and they say - simple . up the hall on your right . . . I walk up the hall and see nothing recognizable.

I go into another room and ask - OH - THIS is it -  The Otolaryngologists clinic - HOW COULD I MISS THAT!!

Anyway - I didn't think I had an issue but my mom complained that her hearing was good but everybody else mumbled a lot.  I had noticed that loud bars all my 30 year old friends had no issues but MAN I could only hear half the words and on TV we would turn on the captions because it seem that sometimes actors just mumbled their lines. Kiefer Sutherland was one of them.

SO - why not get it checked every 4 decades.

Bottom line.  I'm fine.  The high middle range such as a woman's voices is a little soft but I can make that work for me.
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Just a weird photo I took.

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In other news - The trees are being planted downtown.  A windmill I have been chasing for 10 years  all the way back to being on the Main Street Committee is finally coming to fruition.

Alpha - with awesome cool car in background

Beta

   

Wetting Wilma - already named by citizens 

Of course the complaints are rolling in.  "Now we have to duck branches"  "It's going to tear up the sidewalk in 40 years" (a real comment) and what about the sewers pipes.  

Now businesses will be lined up waiting to open store fronts.  Of course the tree next to The Cage will last 2 weeks but . . . . hey.  it's a start.    I can feel the fresh air already standing next to them. 

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The price for a POUND of cannabis in Colorado is below $1000 for the first time.  In 2015 a pound was $2,007.  Prices continue to fall.  

I saw on the news Coors is looking to buy Cannabis from Canada to infuse into their beer.  The news said Wisconsin was one place they were thinking about brewing it.  WHAT?  Do they know Wisconsin ass backwards when it comes to cannabis? 

Yesterday Epidiolex became the first cannabis drug approved by the Food and Drug people to treat epilepsy.   

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There are some places in Utah where you can vote by mail.  There was a 7% increase in votes from younger people.  

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Ever since Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico and the GOP decided they no longer were worthy of saving , 135,000 residents have moved to Florida, Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts .

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There are 350 woman running for office that are Democrats and 118 woman running for the GOP. Meanwhile the number of woman in Congress that are Democrats has steadily grown the last 20 years, the number of Republican woman in Congress . . . . no real change. All older while males.

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TURN : Washington's Spies. EXCELLENT 40 episode docudrama about the Revolutionary war. I'm on to the last 10 episodes.  Benedict Arnold just defected (and failed)

A true story about the Culper gang.  All but the woman has been identified. She was the actual leader but historians still have not figured WHO she was.

https://youtu.be/udtna7djtsg


A MUST see TV on Netflix.

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Be careful this afternoon/evening.  A slight chance for some sever storms - probably closer to the border but there is some flooding potential as this VERY slow moving system could stall with torrential rain in some spots

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doesn't it seem weird that the right is so worried about socialism as they install a fascist government?

1. Disdain for Human Rights
2. Identification of scapegoats as a unifying Cause
3. Rampant Sexism
4. Control and disdain of Mass Media
5. Obsession with National Security
6. Religion and Government intertwined
7. Corporate Power is Protected above individual power
8. Labor Power is surpressed
9. Disdain for intellectuals and the arts
10. Obsession with Crime and Punishment
11. Rampant cronyism and corruption
12. Fraudulent Elections

carry on cronyism