Lake. Sky. Dog.
This week gives you plenty of time to prepare, because you’ll need it.
As anyone who’s read Pogo knows, Friday the Thirteenth is at it’s worst when it falls directly on a Friday, as it does here. And not only that, all sorts of other ill omens arrive exactly on that day. Coincidence? I think not. Look the evidence for yourself:
- On Friday, the moon is in Libra, knocking the celestial balance cattywumpus
- On Friday, we get a multi-planet construction involving said moon, supra, with Venus, Venus with Mars, and Mars with the Sun. Putting all these together it indicates someone hooking up with an old flame, which everyone knows is A Bad Idea. And in case that’s not enough to convince you:
- Friday begins MERCURY RETROGRADE.
Beyond those day-specific readings, there are other signs of higgledy-piggledy to wit: Venus in Aries is especially bad news for breakables and upholstery; Mercury in Gemini is a particular warning against liars and the Moon in Leo (it’s there before it moves into Libra on Friday) indicates comfort and luxury. Well, that last one isn’t bad at all, but it ends on Friday the 13th.
When it’s a miserably hot 67 degrees out it’s nice to have a 40 degree lake to have a swim in.
Freya is also a water dog, and a faster swimmer than Lily.
Taurus: Ace of Cups – House of the true heart, joy, content, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility; Holy Table, felicity.
Gemini: 9 of Wands – Strength in opposition, defense, delay, suspension, adjournment.
Cancer: King of Cups reversed – Dishonest, double-dealing man; roguery, exaction, injustice, vice, scandal, pillage, considerable loss.
Leo: The Hierophant – Marriage, alliance, captivity, servitude, mercy and goodness, inspiration.
Virgo: The Hanged Man reversed – Selfishness, the crowd, body politic.
Libra: 2 of Swords reversed – Imposture, falsehood, duplicity, disloyalty.
Scorpio: 8 of Swords – : Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny, sickness.
Sagittarius: 5 of Coins – Material trouble, love and lovers, concordance, affinities.
Capricorn: 3 of Coins reversed – Mediocrity, puerility, pettiness, weakness.
Aquarius: Page of Swords – Authority, overseeing, secret service, vigilance, spying, examination.
Pisces: The Magician reversed – Physician, Magus, mental disease, disgrace, disquiet.
Aries: 2 of Cups reversed – Ending of a relationship, betrayal, food poisoning, bad hooch.
Lily and Dakota relaxing on top of Cat mountain
I suppose I should include a view from the top of Cat. People here seem to think a view is the most important part of a hike.
The view at the top is the reward of the hike.
Wait, you brought Dogs to Cat mountain?
If it is like Cat Island you need the dogs to clear a path.
Aaaaack!! Not Mercury Gatorade!!! ?
It’s a pretty heavy drink. Use sparingly.
Lovely hike and, as always, lovely pupper pics. As mine are 12 and nearly 15, they don’t hike the mountains with us. Kiki likes the creek that runs through our neighborhood. Max thinks the only thing good about water is drinking it.
How high is Cat?
Leo: The Hierophant – Marriage, alliance, captivity, servitude, mercy and goodness, inspiration.
Works for me!
How high is Cat?
Pretty high.
That cat IS high!
I note that Lily just seems drawn to mud. Does she ever look clean when not in water?
Cancer: King of Cups reversed – Dishonest, double-dealing man; roguery, exaction, injustice, vice, scandal, pillage, considerable loss.
Already happened. Had an employee leave with no notice.
Why do people do that? I mean, that’s awfully rude.
Terribly rude on him and his next employer.
We were very good to the guy.
It’s one thing for an employee to do it, but for an employer* to encourage, or at least not condemn it, is even worse.
*I guess the guy could have lied and said he wasn’t currently working
Had an employee leave with no notice.
Ouch. Sorry.
I’ve been there. On the one hand, I was cursing her for leaving me shorthanded. On the other hand, I figured this probably avoided a serious problem in the future.
just hire one of the censors I’m gonna lay off! – Elon Musk
We had a guy do that a couple weeks ago. He was generally an asshole, and he had been going through some mental issues of late, but he had been with the company almost a decade. I guess it didn’t really surprise me that he just said “fuck it”, but it confirmed what I already believed about his character (or lack thereof).
We had someone a few years back just flat-out stop showing up.
Confirmed via other channels that she was still alive, etc. She just ghosted us.
ISTR our policy is 5 days of no-communication, no-show and you’re considered to have quit.
I’ve got 5+ lbs of ribeyes to grill today.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/Zpn39PBNSWa6C-epphAGzQ.RNrQOyOkxWhlyurEfoIHos
Good sized. And some cheeseburgers for the week. Beef, it’s what’s for lunch and dinner.
I’ve depleted by beef reserves.
I have replenished my beef reserves. ?
BEERBEEF RUN!You reminded me to set out of hunk of brisket I have in the freezer.
Nice.
I have a Belgian style pot roast in the oven.
When did you win the lottery?
I got my wife a nice big piece of meat to warm up for Mother’s Day dinner. Three pounds on the bone, and more than 2 inches thick.
https://i.imgflip.com/zjx5f.jpg
The good bacon was half off at Kroger today, so I bought the store out.
/chest freezer privilege
Wife got a nice brunch of pancakes (ATK recipe) , biscuits and strawberry jam (homemade) , and some of that clearance bacon for mother’s day. ??
I didn’t see any abortionistas protesting at churches in my area. I assume it is because we have a lower density of crazy.
I suppose I should include a view from the top of Cat. People here seem to think a view is the most important part of a hike.
I thought the alt-text was the most important part.
☝?
Very true.
I thought the whole purpose of a hike is to get to your hidden stash of contraband.
Or to scout out a new hide site.
My hikes contain multitudes.
Marriage, alliance, captivity, servitude, mercy and goodness, inspiration.
Sounds kinda shitty.
Sounds like a typo…
Marriage: alliance, captivity, servitude, mercy and goodness, inspiration.
School Board considering adding Narcan to schools to combat opioid overdoses
Since they have tackled pronouns and bathroom access, they can move on to less important issues.
I’m curious as to how many ODs they get in Alexandria schools. Now if you had told me Baltimore or Philadelphia, I wouldn’t have blinked.
Students or teachers?
Lol
“ Virgo: The Hanged Man reversed – Selfishness, the crowd, body politic.”
You forgot the snow which just started.
And I was going to hand the potted fuchsias today.
Sagittarius: 5 of Coins – Material trouble, love and lovers, concordance, affinities.
Yeah, right, he says, from his hermit cave.
Ending of a relationship, betrayal, food poisoning, bad hooch.
Well ain’t that just grand.
At least the dog pics are enjoyable.
5-on-3 and the Bruins still can’t score.
Another 5-on-3 chance to start the third period.
There we go.
Fourth goal was a thing of beauty.
a miserably hot 67 degrees
Oh boy.
*looks at thermometer*
88 here, going up to 92. Spring is almost over.
Well, now! That’s a horrorscope I can persuade myself to believe.
“…fertility…”
How YOU doin’ ?
/read your damn email
Capricorn: 3 of Coins reversed – Mediocrity, puerility, pettiness, weakness.
Mediocrity and weakness. My specialties.
Pisces: The Magician reversed – Physician, Magus, mental disease, disgrace, disquiet.
At least I’ve got that going for me.
+ Gunga Kalunga
I totally get the dog swimming in any conditions. My lab has never met a body of water he didn’t like.
Still waiting for my dog to start swimming (she’s 2); webbed feet from the Catahoula side, but super-lean from the Staffie side, so not certain she’ll actually float.
Bidenomics
Starbucks isn’t pleased that the White House left management out of a meeting with union representatives.
On Thursday, union organizers representing workers at Starbucks, REI and Amazon, among others, met with Vice President Kamala Harris and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh at the White House. President Joe Biden also stopped by the meeting to greet the organizers.
Representatives for Starbucks (SBUX) weren’t present. That doesn’t sit well with the company.
“We are deeply concerned” that union representatives were invited to the meeting while “official Starbucks representatives” weren’t there to share their views, wrote AJ Jones II, SVP of global communications and public affairs at Starbucks, in a Friday letter addressed to Steve Ricchetti, counselor to the president.
“We believe this lack of representation discounts the reality that the majority of our partners oppose being members of a union,” he said. “I am requesting the opportunity to meet with you and bring a diverse, representative group of Starbucks [employees] … so that they can share points of view and experiences.” The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the letter.
Starbucks Workers United, which has been working to unionize Starbucks stores, said in a statement that “if Starbucks … grants us equal company time to talk to partners for every anti-union meeting they hold, we’d be happy to have them tag along next time we get invited to the White House.”
One of these days, Very Important People will be asking one another confusedly, “What ever happened to that seemingly bottomless pool of risk capital we used to have in this country?”
Poor Starbucks. All those years pushing lefty hot button issues and now it’s biting them in the ass. I weep for them.
^^^
Something something made the bed, something something lay in it.
We support a living wage, we just didn’t think we would be the ones paying for it.
I was going to shout at clouds but you make a good point.
Never the less, fuck Biden’s thumb on the scale anyway. CWAA.
To TPTB, I submitted a post, but didn’t tell anyone about it.
It’s sitting there. Use it whenever it makes sense.
Wonderful Lily photos!!