Notices by Author in Mourning (jnye@mstdn.plus)

I haven't been able to be online much this weekend. #Icestorms. Power outages. Cell service outages. Northern #Michigan looks like Armageddon backwash. 90% of my entire township was in the dark this morning. Yet with temps tonight forecasted to be around 15F, guess who's here with additional linemen crews?? #Canada. 😶 I am grateful. And ashamed. They are better neighbors than we are, despite everything.

Tonight's #3GoodThings and the nightly #GermanShepherd post are all in one. This book is finally done and about to be released on April 1. I'll probably have more to say about it in days to come, but that will require a thread. For this moment, a cover photo and link are enough.

#GSD #GoldenRetriever #Collie #Labrador #DogsOfMastodon

https://bookshop.org/p/books/shepherds-of-our-hearts-canine-champions-among-pioneer-service-dogs/ae68a4cab2bc136f

#3GoodThings

1: despite ice storms (2 of them!), the power remains on
2: I saw a robin today for the first time since October. Spring must be near.
3: new book pre-orders have been moving along, which is certainly happy new for any author.

#3GoodThings

📚 Tonight they are all about the next book. 📕

1: Deadlines have been met!
2: I don't hate the cover and don't hate TOO much of the text.
3: This impossible, endless writing project is about to be off my desk.

Tomorrow's edition will include a shot of the cover. (Pardon me if I'm overly excited about finishing a project that's been cooking for a dozen years....)

@HistoPol Yes, that's what I'm telling you. -20F isn't uncommon here. I remember much colder than that when I was a kid, but it didn't bother me then like it does now.

@HistoPol I'll take anything I can get that does not involve negative numbers on the thermometer and huge piles of frozen stuff in the yard.

☀️ Is it #summer yet??? The boys & I are really missing the water. Just sayin.

#Michigan #LakeHuron

A thought for #today for #writers, #artists, and any kind of #creators.

On #Caturday morning, young Lola seems especially entranced by the evil socialist snowplow. Could she be an undercover MAGAt? 🤔 Nah. #Cats are smarter than that. 😹

#Michigan #winter

Survival strategy. Think local. Support individuals as much as possible. My price for #eggs? $3/doz for free-range organic. It's a standing arrangement: we pick up a certain amount every Wednesday from a local source. At least it works unless bird flu gets that flock, I guess. But a contingent around town is already working up an informal trade setup for who has best luck with which produce and how to share. Time to buy seeds.

#gardening

This post is a re-run from last summer. But it's on my mind tonight. I believe the best advice I can give anyone right now is to buy books, learn some stuff, and figure out as much as possible about the skills common in the 30s & 40s. Hint: without a massive change of course, we're going back. Never have I been so grateful for the things my parents made me learn: #gardening #canning basic #repairs

On that cheerful note, g'nite all. I hear my pillows calling.

Friends, followers, & bystanders... a plea for #today: do your #will. Document your final wishes, including who is authorized to execute them. Most people think "Oh, I'll get around to that." But so many don't. If you haven't, I beg you to get it done immediately for the sake of your family or whomever could be left with the incredibly complex and expensive mess. PLEASE DON'T DO THAT TO THEM. That is all.

I truly thought this was The Onion. Not. It's real. 🤯 🤯 🤯 🤯 🤯

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1161

#USPol #Insanity

Well, I've been bitchy enough for one day. Time to say goodnight with an #Arizona #sunset photo. The colder it gets here, the more I yearn to be there! 😎

Y'all take care!

No #Costco near me, so I might have to explore mail order, even though I never cared much for them before this year.

"South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson joined attorneys general from 18 other states Tuesday in calling on Costco to end what they call "its unlawful diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies," according to a news release."

https://www.wyff4.com/article/south-carolina-attorney-general-costco-dei-policies/63591313

#DEI

I saw a term #today that was new to me, and I like it.

#Dictraitor

So many uses. So little time for posting. Seems like it could have applications far beyond #USPol.

🐷🐷🐷🐷 🐺 There's an excellent thought, here, that I seem to be too tired to get all the way articulated. Maybe some of you would like to have a try. 🤔

#USPol

I don't often struggle this much for words. But #today? This past week? .... 💣 💩 💣💥 💩 I've spent 10min scanning posts, blocked at least a dozen fools or trouble-makers, am more depressed than when I opened this platform, and can think of absolutely nothing constructive to say. My head is full of oh-so-helpful thoughts like "To all you self-righteous idiots who didn't #vote, I hope you suffer intensely in what's coming." And I'm just not sure that's gets anyone anything.

Heeeelp....?? I'm looking for verification, a source. Did the illustrious jackass actually define sex as defined at conception? I saw it posted, then lost it. Can't find this anywhere else yet.

Want some in-depth but comprehensible data on how much #immigration has actually changed in recent years? (Hint: not much)

Excellent, hard-data piece by Dr. Troy Tassier, professor of economics at Fordam Univ.

"Every statistic that one wants to look at has changed little since the last half of President Bush’s second term in office. Simply put, there isn’t an unauthorized immigration crisis."

https://troytassier.substack.com/p/a-baseline-for-us-immigration?publication_id=1530667