{"id":23380,"date":"2019-01-24T13:59:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T20:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=23380"},"modified":"2019-01-24T14:00:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T21:00:54","slug":"spooning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=23380","title":{"rendered":"Spooning"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_5406\"<\/a>On cold nights Mr. B gets under the covers\u00a0with us. He\u00a0needs physical contact: one night\u00a0he’ll spoon with\u00a0Donna, the next with me. Our other dachshund, Maxie,\u00a0hunkers down between us but wants a bit of\u00a0space on either side … she’s not as touchy-feely as Mr. B\u00a0and is happy just to be near.<\/p>\n

I’m thinking about dogs this morning\u00a0because\u00a0two days ago a friend had to put down\u00a0a beloved companion of many years. Her loss brought back\u00a0our grief over losing Schatzi a couple of years ago. I gave her my condolences, then like a busybody told her how\u00a0we couldn’t even consider getting another dog for a year, but\u00a0once we brought\u00a0Mr. B\u00a0home wished we’d done it sooner. Now I wish I’d kept my mouth shut. People\u00a0said the same thing to us\u00a0when Schatzi died, and it didn’t help. I’m sorry,\u00a0dear friend … your grief is your own, and it’s necessary, and I was insensitive to butt in with unsolicited advice.<\/p>\n

As I\u00a0came to\u00a0this morning, my first thought was that not only Mr. B but Maxie too was pressed against me. I quickly realized\u00a0it was Donna,\u00a0trying to draw out whatever\u00a0heat there was in my poor old body. I have to admit I liked it, and stayed in bed a little longer than normal.<\/p>\n

Today’s agenda: put on some sweats, visit the gym, wash the motorcycle. The Tubac car show<\/a> is Saturday, and I want a shiny bike\u00a0to show off … the show’s on a golf course and the organizers let motorcyclists park on the fairway next to the cars. Our\u00a0bikes, judging from the number of spectators who walk over to ogle them, are part of the show.<\/p>\n

There’s more to do later, including drafting\u00a0some comments\u00a0in honor of\u00a0our departed friend Rudy<\/a>, whose memorial is next week in Las Vegas. We’re going to leave the dogs with a friend in Tucson Tuesday morning, then drive with our friend Mary Anne (also a dear friend of Rudy’s) to Vegas. The service is\u00a0Wednesday and we’ll drive home Thursday.\u00a0A wham-bam visit, but Donna heads back the first week of February and we’ll both\u00a0be there\u00a0in March for our grandson’s Eagle Scout induction ceremony. This time with our dogs.<\/p>\n

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I watched Kamala Harris’ interview with Rachel Maddow<\/a> last night. Like Rachel, I think she’s a strong contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination\u00a0and could very well get it. I’m perfectly okay with her hard-line\u00a0performance as a prosecutor\u00a0and her history\u00a0of seeking maximum sentences for those convicted of violent crimes (along with her opposition to the death penalty), and think most Americans will be too. It’s a cheap shot, but I\u00a0bet\u00a0those whining about her law and order background have not been the victims of violent crime.<\/p>\n

The shutdown? I got nuthin’. And if I did, who’d listen? Careful what you wish for, yadda yadda, but I’m kind of hoping it’ll be the FAA air traffic controllers who force\u00a0the issue by stopping work en masse.\u00a0Even then we probably won’t do anything. We’ll\u00a0put off fixing the problem until the first fatal midair, maybe even the second. My god, if we were French, we’d be wearing yellow vests and putting the torch to government buildings by now … where the hell is our vaunted bravery when we need it?<\/p>\n

As for choosing sides, I’m with\u00a0Nancy, or, as the\u00a0puppet\u00a0calls her, Nancy. I\u00a0hope she stands her ground. If she caves to Trump on wall funding, like a kidnapper he’ll come back for more, and what’ll it be next time? I sort of suspect he’s going to get his wall funding, though … and at the same time\u00a0doubt the wall will ever be built. The 5.7 billion will go into the pockets of a few favored cronies, but nothing more than a few symbolic sections of fencing will ever go up. The wall we should be worrying about is the one they’ll erect\u00a0between the southwestern\u00a0states and the rest of the country when the Colorado runs dry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The shutdown? I got nuthin’. And if I did, who’d listen? Careful what you wish for, yadda yadda, but I’m kind of hoping it’ll be the FAA air traffic controllers who force the issue by stopping work en masse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,40,10,555,5,2,8,29],"tags":[2665,2663,2448,2664],"class_list":["post-23380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumerism","category-critters","category-current-events","category-local-color","category-motorcycling","category-personal","category-politics","category-the-economy","tag-carshow","tag-fuckthewall","tag-fucktrump","tag-kamalaharris"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23380"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23398,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23380\/revisions\/23398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}