"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves." - Abraham Lincoln

Never mind their caption. It doesn't work. Can you guess what this is?? (Answer below)

It's 6 a.m. Sunday morning. Buddy and I have both had breakfast and in a minute I'll take him out for his morning constitutional and then feed the goats. I'll start this post first in hopes of increasing the odds of actually posting today. After the goats are fed I'll have another cup of coffee and then head off to teach my class. We'll stop on the way home to get some Round Up (everybody has to die from something) and then work outside the rest of the afternoon, the last rain-free stretch for the rest of the week.

We're signed up to take dessert to our small group tomorrow night and I want to take something for the staff meeting Wednesday morning so after supper I'll make a batch of snickerdoodles. If I take them to small group and staff meeting they should be all gone, and with them the temptation to eat a dozen of them myself.

My goal for yesterday and today was to finish the deer fence around the garden but I worked hard all day yesterday and had it finished by 4:30. My body is feeling it this morning. Yikes. But I can now use this afternoon to spray the weeds that have sprouted up in both the raised beds and the space between them so that it's ready for planting when Pam gets back from Michigan.

She leaves early Wed. morning and is gone a week. Her mom turns 96 Thursday which is the main reason she's going back. But she's also going to help her younger brother Tom deal with some issues related to her care. She's in independent living and doing reasonably well physically but slipping significantly mentally so Pam's going to help Tom make some changes their mom is going to resist strenuously. The thing about dementia is that you don't realize you have it, so the efforts of others to take care of things is seen as a hostile takeover.
Parent/child roles are reversed, and sometimes kids put up a fuss. It's just that we expect it out of kids. It feels wrong when a child is "mean" to their parent.
Our mom's are the same age (mine turned 96 last December) but in opposite situations. My mom is quite good mentally but her body has deserted her. Pam's mom is the mirror image of that situation.

OK, Buddy needs to be walked and the goats will be making noise as soon as it starts to get light in another 30 minutes, so I'm going to bundle up (it's 37 now) and go take care of things outside.
I'll be back! (At least that's the plan)

It's 4:30. Class and church this morning, a stop on the way home for spray, lunch and a nap, and then sprayed the garden and paths to/from. In two weeks it should be cleared of weeds and unwanted grass. Buddy is exercised and the goats fed & watered. I'm watching the recorded F1 race from Bahrain this morning while Pam fixes supper. Great start to the race!

I've used Ghostery as an ad blocker for a couple of years and like it a lot. It's unobtrusive, running entirely in the background but blocking all ads on all websites. I still get Facebook ads but that's because they are posts and Ghostery doesn't recognize them as ads. Sites load much faster especially when you get your internet connection via a satellite. I also like not having all the "noise" of ads that use garish colors and flashing graphics to grab my attention.
Apparently a lot of people are using ad blockers because an increasing number of the news sites I visit are throwing up a large panel that asks me to turn off my ad blocker. When I don't I can't use the site. So I have to decide if I'd rather do without their version of the "news" or deal with the ads. So far I'm finding other sources for my news.
Something about USAToday and others telling me I have to watch their ads feels like a paywall, something I don't ever plan to accept. If they're OK without me with an ad blocker I'm OK without them and their social commentary masquerading as news.
So there!

That pic at the top is an egg separator. Cool, or gross?