Hello Everyone. I am sitting here with my back on fire, not just the muscles but the actual spine is feeling like it is burning. I also am very tired, oh and my cat has had a couple strokes, more on that later. Ron is so frustrated he got into an argument with James the tail end I heard James apologized after I heard Ron say “I felt it was more important to do everything I could to make sure we had some parts of the house to still live in to survive than …”. But let me tell you about today.

I tried to find a way to do this post from WordPress or the WordPress app and there is no way I can find, so I am writing this as an email. When I get done with this I have to finish picking up the kitchen and getting ready for the guys to make lunch. James and Ron are still working on the out side of the home, cleaning up the backyard and saving as much of our stuff as they can.

So yesterday Ron went around to the different local laundry mats to find the best one he could for us to go to. He found one in a plaza that use to have a Winn Dixie and it was rather nice / OKAY not too far from us. It opened at 7 am. So I got us up at around 6:20 am. Ron is not a morning person and neither of us slept well last night, both have been up most of the night. Yesterday I had sorted and gathered up all our dirty laundry into about 8 large white large kitchen trash bags. We got there about 7 am, and we were only the second people there. And we loaded up six washers, and started the laundry. The place is manned and secured, has a limited amount of vending machines with soda and smacks and many more filled with soap products. They also had a woman who could give you change. Then after the wash was done we had to find dryers as a lot of the dryers were not working, the guy there said they were working to get them repaired as fast as they could. So the washers cost $3.25 for light load wash, $3.50 for a medium wash, and I did not check the heavy soil wash. I mortally due heavy soil at home, but I was in a hurry so chose light wash for all. But my hope that all would come up at the same time so I could use a couple of the large dryers to do everything did not work as all they washers took different times, but lucky for us we got there earlier than the rush that came in later so that there were enough regular dryers to do all our stuff, which because we were the first ones there we were lucky. So the dryers cost $25 cents for 6 minutes. It took at least 30 minutes to dry each load, a few things were not quite fully dry but my back was killing me standing there watching laundry machines. It took us 2 hours to do all the laundry which is much faster than I could have done it at home, but in a lot of cases it did not wash as well as if I had done them at home.

So we came home with laundry in the trash bags we took and lose clean laundry in the back seat because clean laundry doesn’t compress into trash bags as well as dirty laundry does. Ron and James then brought the clothing in and I threw it on the bed and folded it. Then I cleaned the kitchen for supper. I have not been in a laundry mat since I was in the military back in the 1980s. But it was a real diversity of humanity. We got it done. I will not hesitate to do it as needed.

Then when we got home Ron and James started doing work outside, I was cleaning up inside and folding the laundry. At about 1 everyone went to bed for a nap. Now James and I are in the living room and Ron is in bed for a nap. It is hard for both of us to realize that activity like he has been doing is so much harder for him than it use to be. Anyway it is now 2:42 and this is the first I have had to do any internet posting type thing.

There is so much going on just trying to make everything keep working and going on. We have no idea when we will get power. But we ordered tarps and they should be here today. Life is not easy when you are poor and you don’t have the normal services. Like I am so used to my big monitors and fast computers. Right now I have my very old IPad Air 2. We had planned to get Ron and I new iPads this Christmas but I am not sure what we can do or not, not sure if we will have a home. The IPad is what I am using to blog and read news and my IPhone 12 max is what I am using to watch YouTube and other videos as I can get. I tried to watch TYT my fav morning news show but I can not get all of it to load or play. Until a few days ago nothing would play or load. My podcasts were hit and miss. So I will keep trying. As I wrote on Nan’s blog and thankfully she didn’t object to my adding to my comment on her blog the situation I am under. This is stressful and I am not able to really deal well. Thankfully while he was here during the hurricane James did save my monitors and computers. Sadly a lot of my other electronic gear such as all my cameras, printer / scanner / sound board, microphone, and so much more is all destroyed. I had over over $15,000 in computer electronics in that room, and I have lost it all as I lost the room it self. There is more I need to write and tell everyone, but I I am so out of time. Hugs

And if we did not have enough problems James just came and asked me to send Ron to him. The regulator on the generator had frozen over. Normally the regulator is fine and the bottom of the tank freezes to the concrete. So the guys have shut off all the electric while they figure out what the issue is. That maybe a tank issue or something worse. We just did not need this. Hugs

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I couldn’t finish this article. The very first demand to obey with out question or complaint is required of most abused kids. The rest of the rules including not being allowed to state a complaint or opinion about the food to the idea of physical pain being applied by a larger person if you failed to follow their demands to act as they wish, to please Themis just furthering the abuse. It also creates unthinking foot soldiers willing to obey and do as told without thinking for themselves. Hugs

https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/this-nightmare-christian-father-has-horrible-advice-for-raising-good-kids/

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https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/american-crusade-how-the-supreme-court-is-weaponizing-christianity/

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One more step towards the Christian Taliban theocracy. Hugs

https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/texas-judge-wayne-mack-coercive-courtroom-prayers/

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Goes with out saying that if a Muslim did this they would have been fired and the right would be screaming to highest heavens. The last was a joke OKAY, there is no heaven but you get the point. I get tired of Christians thinking their god / religion gives them a pass to do illegal actions, push their god on others, violate other parents rights, and basically grant themselves the right to create an alternate reality and insist it is the one we all have to live in. Hugs

https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/a-georgia-teacher-openly-bragged-about-trying-to-convert-students/

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Seriously is there no one under retirement age that can handle running the government? How can a 90 year old understand the concerns of the people today, how do they understand the changing social structure or the LGBTQ+ and trans people? When Grassely was young segregation was an excepted practice. This has to stop. Hugs

https://www.joemygod.com/2022/10/poll-89-year-old-grassely-11-in-iowa-senate-race/

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This is the world the republican white Christian nationalist want to recreate. A world run by white male religious thugs. A country where white male Taliban moral police get to enforce the things they want and stop anything they hate. How does this guy think the driver knew anything about the neighborhood? it did not matter, what mattered is that the driver was black and did not come with his hat in his hand with tail between his legs to ask a white man permission to enter to do his FUCKING JOB! I hate what the Republican Party is doing to my country. Wish I could do more, but I cooked Ron and my lunch of MREs and while the idea is good, both of ours came out to cold. What mine said it was was not what was in the package. Tomorrow we will take our 8 large kitchen bags of laundry to any open laundromat we can find and spend all the change we can scrounge because our bank is not open yet to clean what clothing we can to keep going. Oh yes DeathSantis is spending the covid money to send migrants to blue states and the recovery funds to give the state a gas tax touting how great he is for the state, both which the republicans voted against. I am so tired. Hugs

https://www.joemygod.com/2022/10/hate-crime-cultist-threatened-to-kill-amazon-driver/

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And as always the help is federal and the republicans take credit for it even though they vote against it. Hugs

https://www.joemygod.com/2022/10/viral-video-sobbing-fl-man-thanks-desantis-for-hurricane-aid-says-motherfucker-biden-never-came/

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https://www.joemygod.com/2022/10/pastor-if-god-tells-you-to-kill-someone-do-it-video/

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When they say protect, what they really mean is they are going to prevent the people they don’t like from voting and try to to only allow those like them to vote. How will they do this. By being clearly thugs armed with guns making a show of checking people out at the drop box. This is clearly voter intimidation and is very illegal. But as this is happening in AZ that has become run by an increasingly fringe group of conspiracy people it will be over look how illegal this is. I am concern that these small minority groups of violent thugs / fringe conspiracy theory people are taking over the Republican Party in these states and end up actually running parts of the government in these states. It is like how the religious fanatics took over Iran and now the people are protesting for more freedom and less religion in their daily lives and the religious theocracy government is killing the people to stay in charge. Because staying in charge and pleasing their view of a god that gives men all the rights to abuse women and children is what really is important to them. It is like the Republican Party loyalist religious leaders in the US who harp constantly on how evil abortion is and that it is killing babies, that people who do it should be jailed for murder yet are willing to look the other way on Herschel Walker paying for an abortion and having multiple women with children by them is pro family values simple because it lets them gain control of the Senate. It is now and always has been about power, their personal power. The power for white men to do as they wish and be automatically assumed to be above women and all minorities. It is about the Republican Party being in charge and having the power to enrich themselves on the public tab while removing regulations to increase profit for their big money donors. Hugs

https://www.joemygod.com/2022/10/armed-extremists-to-protect-az-ballot-drop-boxes/

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