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I just remembered what I wanted to write about earlier.
Today the grandkid asked me if I loved my mother. It is a tough question to answer honestly to a little kid but the truth, as I told her, is, no. I don't love her, I don't even really like her but she is my mother.
To other people, she is charming and funny, and entertaining. I just know her differently because I grew up knowing her. I know how cruel and two-faced she can be.
I didn't tell that last part to the little kid, she will probably never meet her in person and i believe people should know where they come from.

Today was an interesting school day. Increasingly my grandkid gets less and less from the daily zoom lessons. They are fast-paced and offer little actual instruction. She gets stressed and anxious.
Math was at least interesting. It was a game day and I was able to see how well she can actually read and how fast she can do math in her head. She needed help with one question only and that was because the wording in the problem was convoluted.
She is reading well enough the glean information from text. I feel pretty good about that.
I decided to scrap the online reading website because it isn't helping. I don't know why but reading from a screen makes her upset but reading from a book doesn't.

Sleet is melting, things are slowly warming.
I feel good about how prepared we were this time even though we didn't lose power or anything, we were ready without going to a whole lot of trouble.
I need to put an actual roof on my chicken coop. I want some actual walls too. At least two.

We have two budgies.
Because of the weather, the two silkie hens were inside all day.
The budgies have chosen to sleep outside of their cage for two nights in a row.
Today they were in the silkie cage, just hanging out.

Been busy this week preparing for freezing rain. Baked bread and snacks. Re-enforcing the chicken coop. Making sure all my walkways are clear so I no one gets hurt trying to maneuver through clutter. Nothing extreme.
Woke up this morning to half inch of sleet. Such a relief. I stepped out onto my back porch and it wasn't slippery so I went outside to check on my chickens. No accumulation on the roof, it all slid off. Yes!
Freezing rain just started as I write this. I am optimistic.

Pre-Southern snow ice weather feels yesterday. It is this sensation of dread, turning slowly to acceptance and hope that it will just be a cold rain.
I decided to watch the free sample of the new Star Trek show. I couldn't focus on it. I was bored. It was so flat.

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TheArtistRose
19:51 Jan 25 2026

I want to watch it but I haven't heard anything good about it. Too bad they canceled Lower Decks. I really enjoyed that.

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Blindpetie
20:37 Jan 25 2026

I watch even if I think I might not like, if it is free.
Second attempt, yeah I watched it twice. It didn't make much sense to me.

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Husband's brand new car got hit by flying debris today on the way to work. Broke his heart I know. He called insurance to file a claim and they said they had no record of his account. I know we paid the bill and no one told us it was cancelled. He had to even reset his login password when he tried to log on. Logged on, got it sorted. Insurance will pay for his bumper.
It was just stressful for a while there.

Yesterday my husband was listening to a podcast about Carthage. The person speaking posed the idea that people who sacrificed children often do so out of desperation. He asked what they must have wanted.
I said, cookies. They would have sacrificed a child over chocolate chip cookies.
When a society becomes wealthy it has no concept of need. I think a person would slaughter and innocent to ask god for cookies.

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TheArtistRose
17:01 Jan 18 2026

True, they did all kinds of stuff. It's human nature.

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TheArtistRose
17:02 Jan 18 2026

And honestly, it's animal nature too.

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Blindpetie
19:05 Jan 18 2026

Yes it absolutely is.

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Had our first hawk attack yesterday. Kind of freaked me out.
The chickens got suddenly noisy and I went outside to find a little bitty raptor on top of one of my Brahmas. Of course the bird goes after the big white cuddle chickens.
I called it a bad bird and told it no and that scared it away for now.
The chicken wasn't hurt. I am just glad it didn't go after the white silkie, that would have been sad. There are at least a dozen chickens the hawks can take if the want. I don't care that much, but my husband and grandkid like the cuddle birds and the poodle chickens.

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TheArtistRose
15:21 Jan 14 2026

We have hawks in NY and in NYC. I always could tell when one was around because all the other birds would scream at it. Where I live now, there are Eagles. They're so majestic in person but HUGE.

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Kindergarten Social Studies pisses me off.
It is so bullshit.

Reviewing the Drivers Education manual for the first time in decades.
Not much has changed, just my eyesight.

Today I made a 24 egg scramble for my chickens and ducks.
I have way too many eggs.

My daughter called this morning before 7:30, she had just hit a deer. Car is only a year old. Low mileage, it is at the dealership now for assessment and hopefully repairs.
I waited until I discovered that live lessons aren't being conducted this week before I tld the little kid about her mom's car.
She burst into tears because she loves that car. She wasn't even worried about mom, just the car.

I mean, she's 5.

Planning my husband's lunches has been the bane of my existence. I look up ideas and the internet thinks he will eat quinoa and chickpeas.
The internet is a fucking idiot.
Today I downloaded the school lunch calendar for a local grade school. I think that'll do the trick.

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TheArtistRose
17:41 Jan 04 2026

I love quinoa and chickpeas. So delicious as a curry.
Recently bought a hemp, flax and chia seed mix for extra fiber. Fiber is fantastic

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Blindpetie
19:28 Jan 04 2026

He is a very Southern man, He likes his veggies raw or fried. He likes his beans mashed, chilied, or baked.
Occasionally he wants a hummus, until he eats it.

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Happy New Year!

Woke up to money in the bank. There is food in the fridge and I get a rare break before school starts next week.

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Cadrewolf2
18:55 Jan 01 2026

Happy new year

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dracken
19:34 Jan 01 2026

Awesome

Happy new year

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Blindpetie
00:21 Jan 02 2026

Thanks!

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TheArtistRose
17:42 Jan 04 2026

Happy new year!

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Blindpetie
19:25 Jan 04 2026

Thanks Rose!

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