THE QUIET QUIT OF SUMMER

Good morning ☕️🌿

*Please forgive the grammatical errors 

I am currently in the middle of an X-Files episode. The guy/s renting the room on the opposite end of the hallway from me disappear into the house, just *poof* disappears into the house, and then randomly reappears. Where does he go? Its an old house. The floor boards creak. The doors stick. And I hear this dude creaking and shuffling along the house at all hours of the night just creaking the floorboards, shuffling and creaking along. He doesn't cook. The TVs are in each bedroom so where and what the F is he doing all night long?? Pacing?? Just now I got back to the house, dropped my bag in my bedroom and started a load of laundry downstairs. I didn't see this dude ANYWHERE but now I hear him creaking along the floorboards. Bruv, where are you?? Yell if you need help! 

 

Like seriously, this dude disappears IN THE HOUSE. Help me, Mulder! 

UPDATE: Just ran into the dude renting the room at the other end of the hallway. Good he found his way out! He seems nice. He said he's from Sweden and speaks French and Swedish. My ex-husband is Swedish born and raised. I met and married my ex in Los Angeles. This guy however is black, my ex-husband is a 6 foot white Viking with long blonde hair and blue eyes. I wonder how the black dude got on in Sweden, one of the whitest countries in the world. He asked if he could shower upstairs. Our shower has a little calcium buildup on the shower head. I'm like use the upstairs shower, bruv. I don't care. I doubt the dude renting upstairs cares. 

2ND UPDATE: Its two men in the room. Two bruvs in the room at the other end of the hall. Father and son I think. The plot thickens. 

3RD UPDATE: There is no way bruvs at the other end of the hallway are Swedish. I heard one of them chanting this morning and it most def was NOT Swedish or French lol. Muslim, perhaps? Look, I've said it before and I'll say it again, I have no issue with Somalians, or Hmong, or Muslims, MN land was ripped to pieces looong before any of those I just named immigrated to MN. 

ANYWAY

And then there was THIS Scary Mary 😨: 

 

Dear 50-something white lady with blonde hair wearing posh blouse/skirt combo from 1985 just randomly walking through Walmart today talking trash to women of color, that black woman who almost ran you over in the parking lot, just know I'm a Christian but I turned my back when I heard the black gal gun her engine. That crazy white lady walked past me and slapped herself on her fat old butt and I'm like NO THANK YOU. Yuck. I don't know what plagues some white women of a certain age but just know your behavior is why your husband left you, why your kids won't pick up your phone calls, and most def why you're going to die alone. 

Point is, I don't condone violence but I understand it. 

I don't know what that white woman said to the young black gal in her car but it was enough where a homicide almost occurred had the black gal completely lost her cool. I don't condone violence but I understand it. Why anyone would get "dressed up" in worn out 1985 posh and just stroll through Walmart and Walmart parking lot, not shop for anything, just stroll through hurling insults at people who are minding their own business. Like how miserable are you? Add to that, while I was in line checking out, this old 70-something year old man got so close to me with his cart he bumped me with it. No, "Oops, sorry." Nothing. I had to put my hand out to stop him from hitting me again and he just scowled at me like how dare I stop him from hitting me with his cart. Dude. WTF. Just my opinion but I don't think a lot of white folks over 60 years of age are handling the world we live in very well. I think, just my opinion, most of that is because they cannot accept that they're old. Once you accept you're OLD, there's no need to seek validation. No need to dress like a fool and prance around like a crazy person. I mean why would you want to hold on to something that's long gone? To heck with it, accept it, you're old, now go do things that are old age appropriate like dressing yourself age appropriately. Know your limits, folks. 2026 is SO NOT the world these white folks grew up with. Its not the world I grew up with either but I had to adjust in my 20's and 30's or get left behind. These old white folks who are so miserable being a creep to people I'm guessing don't have children who care about them enough to teach them the world of 2026, but that says more about them than their children. 

EXAMPLE:

Oh dear. And stop blurring out their faces. FAFO. 

Good. We need to stop blurring faces when people act this ridiculous. 

What happens to some y'all white folks after 60? Why did this have to happen? Like you couldn't just sit on the plane, enjoy your flight, read a book and mind your own business? You just couldn't do it, mister? Dang. Funny but sad.

And then today this older white lady in her 60's decided not only was she not going to let anyone sit next to her on the tube, she took up the two seats in front of her with her bags. The bags couldn't sit in the empty seat next to her? 

They were her bags, not his. She was the one with big FU smirk on her face as people walked past her. A part of me wanted to take her bags and throw them at her head but with my luck something on her unhealthy looking obese fat face would break. Aaand besides, I don't want to touch her bags bare handed. Know what I mean.  

HERE'S A REDNECK STORY FOR YA:

One morning last year a white male pal (over 65 years of age) said, "I need you to take a picture of my butthole to send to my doctor." Bro, are you serious? Gross! But I did it because he's my friend and he said he was concerned something not cool was happening down there. He's been known to have bi sex and I guess his doctor didn't want him to come in to look at his BH in person. Not that I blame her! Instead she requested a photo. I guess he just assumed I would take the picture for him. I don't know. Did he take advantage of my friendship, oh 100% no question! BUT he was my friend so I did it. In his mind this was a completely normal thing to ask of a female friend, yeah no, so not normal! It is not acceptable friendship behavior! Personally, I think his perversions just wanted an audience, mine and his female doctor. I never threw the fact he asked me to do this back in his face, not ever, but you better believe that ain't ever happening again. I chose to take the picture that time. I choose to never do it again. As it turns out nothing was wrong with his BH. 🙄 He's saved in my phone contacts as "Butthole". Not really but he should be. I just want to forget it ever happened. Nasty! Point being, that's what many older white men think is normal behavior. Like WTF happens to you people? Is it a neurological thing? Did the age of Alzheimer significantly lower among Caucasians? What's going on here Doc? It's getting to the point where I feel 200% safer on the same side of the street with the most out-of-prison-murdering looking criminal than some elderly white people between the ages of 65-80. I mean, a lot of how safe I feel is how they're dressed too. Just so much anger in some y'all. Wow.   

And it may seem like I'm picking on white folks but hear me out, are they or are they not the self proclaimed "superior race" and this is how "superiority" behaves? WHAT HAPPENED to Nancy Mace?! 

  

WHAT happens to some of you people?

Ms. Mace, you are WAY too old (48 FFS) to be "finding yourself" unless you just recently did a stint in prison. You're the South Carolina equivalent to Kimberly Guilfoyle. Watch yourself. You might be the next U.S. Ambassador to Bhutan. 🇧🇹  Never heard of it? Yeah.

🤦‍♀️ We don't want your stinkin' 5K, Mr President. We want affordable healthcare, affordable housing, lower gas prices, and lower grocery cost. How about you do that instead of buying 5 TRILLION dollers in illegal votes. 

PS I got a flu shot at Walmart for $45.04. Pass it on. 

Preach, Canada! MAGA still have not figured it out. It's this kind of derpy behavior that turned life long conservatives (like me) into Independents. I'm a Christian but that doesn't impact my political beliefs. I'm not Catholic and I'm not wealthy. My relationship with Christ is private. My concerns aren't just about me. Yes, I want my man to make money but men today are not trad-men. Many of them who want trad-wives don't come close to making 2026 trad-husband money, that's an annual income with six zeros for those wannabe trad-men not in the know. That's why women are forced to make do by themselves. God bless us. 

Preach, Preacher! 

AND ANOTHER THING

I will always believe that parenting requires two people. One to make the money. One to stay home and care for the house and children. Trad-women are still willing to do their part. It's the men who don't want to do theirs. If you look at every other animal in the kingdom, there is always a primary caregiver and a primary privider. "But they're animals. We're not." Yes we are! We're animals in the Kingdom with opposable thumbs. If men want to provide they also have to earn 2026 money. We could have lived blissfully in the Garden but no, now we have divorce lawyers and taxes because it's a better way to live apparently. The Amish and Indigenous people know how to live. My childhood was greatly influenced by those who lived off the land. Minnesota used to have 18 million acres of native prairie to live on and now there's less than 2%. Migration after migration of Americans who saw gorgeous land and thought, "Rip it up and put gas lines under it!" Living in the country used to be free. Now there's a price tag to live in what they call the "rustic life" but for us in the 70's and 80's it was just life. Our way of life. 

Anyway...

Yes! Not just because I'm 57 years old with a shaky left hip and no health insurance but because there are A LOT of people it seems who lose the ability to emotionally function in today's society. Include mental health professionals with Medicare.  

FACTS.

BACK IN MINNESOTA for a month now. I'm reminded why I missed being here AND why I left in the first place. As Earth said in the tweet, I miss being a kid here. I miss the friends I made here when I was young. I wish I had done more to keep in touch with many people. Fact is, I simply left MN one day. No goodbyes, nothing. One day I just wasn't here anymore. I miss those people. There's a quiet hostility among friends of old when you come back after a long leave (35+ years). You're not so easily forgiven. You're the subject of criticism until you earn their, I don't know, forgiveness, or whatever. Minnesota isn't a transient state like California and Nevada. People take things way more serious here sometimes forgetting our Stoic upbringing. Hey friends, we were raised Christian Stoics. That said, what I don't miss are the people who, I don't know how to say it exactly, the people who lack common sense and logic.

EXAMPLE: I'm walking down the sidewalk. I stopped to look at directions on the MAP app. It's a big sidewalk. A very big sidewalk. I move over to one side of the sidewalk to be considerate. As I'm looking at the MAP app, unbeknownst to me some young people, teens to 20's, were riding their bikes on the sidewalk coming up behind me. Remember I said it's a very big sidewalk. One kid waited until he was directly behind me to scream, "Don't walk!" Like calm the F down I'm just standing here. He could have peddled right past me without incident, but since he waited until he was directly behind me to scream at me, I got startled and quickly turned around, and at that moment he almost crashed into me. Remember I said it was a BIG sidewalk. No one else around. Like three adults could peddle their bikes side-by-side on this sidewalk no problem. There was no one else on the sidewalk but me and the bicyclists, but for whatever reason directly behind me was where this one guy had to peddle his bike and yell at me not to walk. Do you ever just want to push them over? 😏 It takes the hand of God to stop me from pushing them over sometimes I swear. "That's what you get! Life doesn't punish, it teaches!" 

EXAMPLE 2: I'm at the market. I see there is someone with a grocery cart around the corner probably not paying attention (and you know they're not) so I stop and let them do whatever he's going to do, but no, then HE stops. I'm like bro are you going or what? He doesn't move. So I start to go around him and HE picks that exact moment to ram his mini push-cart into my knee. And yes, he was an older man. An older Asian man. Which is why I don't date Asian men unless they were born and raised in America. Had this dude been born (or at least) raised in America he would have said something - anything - like "ope" or "oops" or "no, you go" or "sorry" and then awkwardly giggle, or SOMETHING. Instead, my guy just rams his cart in my knee and acts like it's my fault. Stop my hands, God! Stop my hands! 

I'm convinced that we Gen X, our 20 years strong generation, is the only generation standing that has Stoic common sense regardless if we were intentionally taught Stoicism in our youth. That's why American Gen X is a generation no one else gets. America raised us. The outdoors protected us. Simplicity is our guide. We're the Square box goes in the square hole generation. Majority of our childhood toys were stress tests, geometry tests, and tests on logical reasoning. Those were our childhood toys. As adults we're considerate to a point. The moment other people start behaving without logic we have nothing more to say to each other. 

Now...

I WANT TO TALK ABOUT the state fair. Today is the last day thank God! I had to pick up some groceries but then came back the other direction to everyone taking metro to the fair. Smart. I get why they do it. The state fair is a big deal. Minnesota doesn't have a Disneyland or Six Flags Magic Mountain. We have winter here. Snow on the ground five months out of the year. The state fair and Valleyfair are big deals. Now there's public transport. Back when I was kid if you didn't have a car you weren't going to the fair. That said, everyone goes at least one day to the fair. Everyone. And if they take the metro where it's mostly stand alone holding a hand strap from the ceiling, you also see all the women who don't shave their armpits. Its a thing. I don't know if unshaved pits is a political statement because its definitely NOT more hygienic. Add to that, the gals with bushy hairy pits don't use deodorant. Aaaand then they walk around the humid outdoor fair all day long, then get back on the metro and hang on to a ceiling hand strap. I did my best to avoid taking that one particular tube that goes to the fair but today it couldn't be helped. I needed groceries. Also, how did everyone get a week off to go to the fair? Is this considered a holiday? I mean, it's jam packed all week long. Today, Sunday, being the last day, I'm sure it's a freaking nightmare. I went on Thursday and it was still crazy packed. I want their jobs. I want whatever job allows me to go to the state fair during the week. *Monday, Labor day, was the last day of the fair.*

ALSO, the only reason I went to the fair was nostalgia.  I hadn't been since I was sixteen or seventeen years old and I wanted to reminisce. The fair used to have more animals, contests, cars and tractors, the Midway, and youth groups like 4-H, but now it's just one food truck after another. Not just food trucks but food tents and food stands and food buildings, like just how many different ways can you make a pronto pup? *Corndog.* 

And WHY y'all paying $6 for one ear of corn?! Y'all Minnesotans! It's literally $1 a pound at the market! Get $10 worth of corn, shuck, and freeze for the winter. The only thing I got at the fair that I can't get anywhere else was a cherry snocone. It was pure Heaven in this humidity. 

 

Many if those high school friends I mentioned earlier moved to the farmlands, the UP (upper peninsula) just under Canada, and the farmlands next to Wisconsin. Look, we're prairie people. We have nothing in common with the twin cities. I, however, like my Starbucks. You don't get Starbucks in farm country unless you make it yourself and coffee runs are an excuse to get out of the house.

AND (sigh)

REST IN PEACE DOLLY. I liked HER more than her music. What a cool Godmother to have. Some people have all the luck. 

I think about death more now than ever. I'm closer to it. Sure, maybe I'll live another 30 years but more likely not. My body relies on a handful of daily prescriptions to function. If I live five more years it would be an act of God though I know not what for. 

Lord God Heavenly Father I pray protect this man at all costs. His words are always kind. We need more kindness in this world. We need more kind men like him in this world. Amen. 

AGAIN, THIS GUY

Welp, I guess 80 years old is when men start getting punchy for Alzheimers. Sounds about right I guess. Can we please stop voting for people this age. There should be a 65 year old cap entering the WH. 

I love my pals on Twitter. I love sharing photos of our walks, hikes, and travel adventures. We're a community of outdoor enthusiasts. They are my daily Zen. 🕊

Outside of my generation (Gen X) I prefer the company of domestic animals & wildlife thank you very much.

 

Peace. It's called peace. Get as much of it as possible.

Preach, Preachers!

ONE-THOUSAND percent correct.

Awesome. 😏

See this week's photos here on my TWITTER page:

https://x.com/Onedove_LV

I really liked this photo of my walk. I wonder why people didn't. It's a mystery. 

They did however like this photo. It's a popular angle shot among the tree people and outdoor enthusiasts. I don't get how trends work. 

September 11, 2001. A lot of people dropped that horrific tragic ball. Not just you. 

Take us out, Vicar of Christ. 

God bless us all. Pray for peace. 🙏🏻🕊

Ok bye! 👋🏼

 

AMERICA MADE GEN X

Good morning. ☕️ 🍃

*Please forgive the grammatical errors, Chad. 

Yes! The cleanest way to cook & heat your house. People throwing gas lines underground because they don't know how to light a wood burning fire pit. 

I knew I was back in MN the moment one small piece of luggage tipped over on the tram and four people standing next to me all said "oops" at the same time because that's what you say in Minnesota when you witness something happening to someone else. 

This week on my pals Twitter timeline.

The first farmhouse I worked for did not have electricity. Their immediate neighbors were new order Mennonites who also, as you know, do not use electricity. Much of my upbringing was heavily protestant based with Mennonite and Native American influences. We support farmers. I still, and will always, support farmers. I'm a firm believer of being as self sustained as possible. I was a prairie kid. There were three kinds of people in Minnesota back in 70's & 80's - prairie people, townies (AKA lake people), and city sluts people. None of the three liked one another. Townies & prairies especially did not like the city whores people. If you were from Minneapolis you can just stay there, come to the prairie and you might get lost FOREVER. I don't know if it's still that way but just so's you know those little farm sheds out in the middle of nowhere were either outhouses or small kill slaughter barns. Meat hooks on the wall = small kill slaughter barns.

The same politicians who scream "America first!" are the quickest to sell American land to foreign corporations. They're also the quickest to buy products from overseas that Amerca makes right here at home.

Seeing all the closed mills that Minnesota was once famous for (3M, Google it) is not a sign of progress. Gen X really is the last generation America made. Not American-made, though that too, I'm saying Gen X was the last generation America MADE. We were raised on everything that came out of those mills - flour, corn, wheat, barley, etc. We were raised on American made products. Everyone remembers the great ten year debate of Ford vs Chevy. 😏 We have more Coca Cola flowing through our veins than blood. The boys first Harley Davidson were from Wisconsin. I grew up eating Midwest red meat from Iowa and Nebraska, Minnesota fish, Idaho potatoes, and cheese/dairy from Wisconsin. America raised Gen X. Can't say the same for generations after ours.

EXAMPLE: The new "struggle" for Americans 35 and younger is setting up their cell phone tripods in time to video themselves having a mental meltdown and posting it on Tiktok for likes. America did not make these younger fetus generations, China spoon fed these kids, therefor I think China should pay for all their mental/emotional breakdown medications because Lord knows they cannot survive in the real world without internet or antidepressants. Remove the internet, remove AI, and see how many fetus generations can install a garbage disposal. It's a good thing many of them got rich on social media because once something breaks in their house they're just going to have to buy a new house. No electricians or plumbers among the fetus generation.

AND ANOTHER THING

Preach, Preacher! 

Perfect advice, sir. 

This is where I took my walk this morning. Thank you field of lovely accommodating tall grass. 

My Twitter pal in Iowa posted this just now. Beautiful. 

So.

I write my blogs over the course of weeks. A sentence here, a paragraph there. All obvious subjects like the Big Bear Lake bald eagles covered in due time and due course. 

Of course we all know our dearest bald eagle Jackie of Big Bear Lake nest cam has unfortunately died. Horrible sad news. It was a terrible day. We all knew it was a possibility that she may not pull through but we hoped. I hoped and prayed along with the rest of her followers. 

I'm not going to rearrange my blog since the terrible news of Jackie. The paragraphs will stay as they were. God rest you dear bird. You too are a child of God returned to Him. We humans are selfish to want you just for ourselves.

WRITTEN BEFORE JACKIE DIED

Everyone following the bald eagle nest cam in Beg Bear Lake is heartbroken over of the separation of Jackie and Shadow as Jackie is still recovering four hours away in Ojai. People screaming for the release of Jackie saying if she's going to die let her die in Big Bear Lake where Shadow may or may not see her. He definitely won't see her in Ojai. By the way, Ojai is a very beautiful town. My ex and I used stay-cation there (and Lake Arrowhead, and Big Bear Lake). Folks, I'm right there with you. IF IF IF Jackie cannot be saved let her live the rest of her days in Big Bear, and die, as God and nature intended. IF. 

I have a vague understanding that once an eagle has died and been recovered, the remains go to a National Eagle Repository. Certain parts of the eagle goes to Federally recognized Native tribes for ceremony. Cool. 

All that said, we must also remember Jackie and Shadow do not feel as humans do. They feel as bald eagles do. We must not humanize bald eagles. We're humans, they're bald eagles. No question Shadow wonders where his mate, his BONDED life mate is, no question, but when mating season comes, Shadow gonna do what bald eagles do, mate, with or without Jackie. Yes, we humanize Jackie & Shadow's love story BUT making sure bald eagles do not go extinct as they almost once did is more important than a bald eagle Romeo & Juliet love story we have invented in our minds because we love romance and these bald eagles give us what we want for ourselves. I hope and pray Jackie makes a full recovery. I'm three winter seasons in, guys, I'm right there with you, but, Shadow continuing to reproduce eagles into the wild (wildlife) is much more important than reuniting a sick Jackie to a healthy Shadow. I hope they are reunited in good health but more importantly I hope to see eaglets in the nest this winter. 

BEFORE WE LEARNED OF JACKIE'S DEATH:

Here's some inspiration for us eagle lovers, an unidentified eagle tried to cozy up to Shadow on his branch but he was not having it and flew away. 

In the meantime, no question Shadow is still keeping an eye out for his mate Jackie.

I'm invested with all of you. Three winter seasons and four eaglets. Let's hope and pray for winter season four, and let us be thankful to everyone taking care of Jackie. Please do not send them hate or aggro hostile opinions. I know when emotions run high we all think we know more than the professionals - WE DO NOT. Let's be thankful they're here for Jackie. Send words of kindness, encouragement, and thanks. Without them Jackie would have zero chance of recovery. 

Moving on.

I'm back in Minnesota for health reasons although the men here may kill me with their bodily waste and flatulence. Let me explain, I'm on the metro, myself and two other passengers both men, the man seated across from me lifts up a buttcheek and passes gas LOUDLY like he's been holding on to it since 1973! It's the metro, I know, but bro, seriously?! 35 years in Los Angeles and NO ONE has ever passed gas like that on a metro I been on. Three days in St. Paul and some white redneck just thinks every public place is his bathroom. Nasty. WHY do men think belching and farting (loudly) in public is funny? My ex-husband used to belch as loud as he could while putting away his usual Saturday 24 case of beer, and Sunday's 24 case of beer. He drank and chain smoked in the house every weekend to "relax" on his days off. He would belch and occasinally pass gas as loud as he could because he thought it was adorable. Now that he has kids I'm sure he smokes around them too. He thought that toxic behavior was adorable just like the metro farter. You men. I currently live with two men and one of them doesn't know how to flush a toilet. HEPATITIS! The bad habits of men is my Biblical Job. Still, I'm grateful to be home. If I'm going to die before I'm 60, I much rather die in Minnesota.  

I'm adjusting to being back here. The air here is denser and wet. And while I did grow up here I have spent the past 35+ years in the west coast desert where the air is thin, dry, and motionless more often than not. Some people think thin dry air is good for the lungs and others think cool circular air is better for the lungs. After doing some 2cent Google sluething and going by life experience, I too think cool, hydrated, circular air is better for overall health. HOWEVER, I also agree that wherever you were born and grew up makes you healthy and strong for that region of the world. Once you travel outside of it you weaken your immune system. It's why people get sick when they travel. I totally believe that. 

I was born in 1969. I grew up in the 70's and 80's on the Minnesota prairie back when it was still a prairie. Everything in my world was outside. Four sudden and dramatic  seasons, outside. I would say 10/90 ratio indoors/outdoors. School, sleep, sometimes eating, we did indoors, the rest of my life outdoors. During school breaks we even slept and ate outside via camping, tents, on lawn chairs, or in a field somewhere. No idea how we're still alive. We survived ticks, gnats, mosquitoes, sleeping in tents in -20⁰, ever woken up to your eyes frozen shut? Good times! God loves all his children especially the wee ones apparently. Seriously, HOW are we still alive?? Then I turned 19 and moved to the west coast where I saw kids in Nevada wearing thick hoodies in 110⁰ heat! Products of our environment, eh?

Anyway, at 57 years of age I'm back in MN to get well enough to die in my childhood home. I have to remind myself to pick up vitamin D. I was here last winter and suffered horrible depression from lack of sun. 

Oh dear.

TSA is my new favorite Twitter account. 

Oh dear. Are we allowed to eat anything anymore. 😒

Restaurants are still not serving lettuce. I think Taylor Farms should look into a little inside espionage, eh.

HEY GUESS WHAT!

First of all, I thank you for visiting my blog. According to the stats, which I look at maybe twice a year, my blog is doing well in Germany. I don't know why. I'm writing in English but it could be because I'm a protestant, I preach protestantism, more specifically I preach Martin Luther, who was German, and I remind protestants all around the world what seperates us from Catholics is following Martin Luther's good sense Christian Reformation. So maybe that's it. You cannot call yourself a protestant without the Reformation. 

Martin Luther = Lutheran = protestantism. 

If I were to ever start my own church, minister my own church, I would be (what is commonly known as) a Hellfire and Brimstone minister. Saving and reclaiming lost, stolen, and surrendered souls from Hell. It is a life long devotion not done in five minute increments here and there and only on Sundays. Any church of lost souls require 100% attention every single day. 

There are non believers. Those who believe we have no souls but then how do you explains B.B. King and Aretha Franklin, Chad. 

There are people who do not believe humans have souls and, whatever, do your thing. I have ZERO interest religiously recruiting people, converting people, or pushing people to believe what I believe. You do you. Whoever or whatever you believe in, that's who or what YOU have to square your transgressions with. 

One battle at a time. Pick them wisely. Know what I'm saying. 

IN THE MEANTIME 

Help me, Lord. 

This has to be rage-bait.

How many times do I have to say it, it's pronounced LON/GEVITY not LONG/GEVITY. 

Even after I broke it up for y'all months ago you still believe it is pronounced 

long-gevity? 😞 It's pronounced LON-GEVITY! This pet peeve is right up there with people saying "aks" instead of "ask". What do English people think when they hear Americans butcher the English language? 

I had a stroke, part of my brain died, yet I still remember LON-GEVITY. 😆

THIS is why I need wildlife in my life. Wildlife makes more sense to me than people. 

::WRITTEN BEFORE JACKIE DIED::

Dearest Shadow, waiting for his mate to come home. He doesn't know what's happened to her. He doesn't know she is injured, four hours away, with good people trying to rehabilitate her. Perhaps he can guess since he himself has battled other eagles in recent days. 

I know I'm not supposed to humanize wildlife but Shadow has to be thinking and feeling something, right. He can't only live on instrinct, can he? He knows his mate is missing. 

I hope Jackie goes home soon but according to what is being reported she may not. She's in critical condition they say. Jackie may never come home again. 😞 I'm already devastated. 

Daddy-Google says eagles do not mourn loss of a mate. They wait a few days or maybe weeks and then apparently seek another partner. What happens if Jackie comes home to the nest and there's another she-eagle in it? Is there a Jerry Springer throwdown? 

Daddy-Google says YES. Oh dear.

#TEAMJACKIE. 

I'm so invested in these eagles. I been following them now for three years. This has been the most stressful year. C'mon Jackie girl, get well and go home. If you have to leave the nest at all, leave it with Shadow. 🙏🏻

Shadow, seen here this morning, is still waiting for his bonded mate Jackie to come home.

Another female eagle has been seen sniffing around the nest. Oh Shadow, please wait a little longer. Good people are working hard on your mate to bring her home. 🙏🏻

I'm so emotionally invested. 🥺 Big Bear Lake bald eagles are to 2026 what Shakespeare was to 1500's. We feel because of them. 

This morning Shadow was back on his usual roost. You can see his right wing. 

Human beings were supposed to be like this, mated for life, being part of wildlife and the landscape, raising our young, creating our homes, but no, now we have crypto coin and SUVS because that makes more sense apparently. 

UPDATE JACKIE (injured Big Bear Lake bald eagle):

Oh no. God rest you, darling bird. 

How much does Jackie mean to me? I will mourn her for a long time. 💔 For me she truly was half of an American iconic couple. You don't get much more American than bald eagles. I'm heartbroken. HEARTBROKEN. 

UPDATE:

As of today, it's been 11 days since Jackie died. Bald eagle Jolene, er, KD1 has been seen with Shadow. (Sigh) 

I guess we're calling the new gal hanging out with Shadow "Kaydee" instead of by her tagged name KD1. Still too soon for me. I feel like a teenager all over again having to accept my dad marrying his long time mistress. 

I always said working with wildlife is my dream job but really... 

I have an interview at the local pet store next week. Yes please, a job with animals and humans who love them. There's a wildlife rehabilitation center not far from me that accepts volunteers. Once I get my life settled I'll apply. I've only been back in Minnesota 16 days and there's still so much to do. My friends here are amazing. I found my old high school crew on Facebook and they're still all together. One of my high school besties and her dude are still married - around 38 years married now. I love that. I totally want to be married again. Why is it every good guy who is still single has a bum guy friend living with him. Like tell your bum friend to get his act together, meet a nice woman, remarry, and live a good life. There is no reason for a man over 50 years of age to still be single unless he's a terrible human being - or dragged down by a bum guy friend. 

Gurrrrrl, I could not agree with you more. 

Amen!  

I'll end this blog talking about what she posted on IG Threads.

FIRST OF ALL, I'm willing to guess she's never served a meal at a homeless shelter, ever. I have. In three different states. Minnesota is the only state where homeless people in shelters really are trying to better themselves. In Los Angeles and Las Vegas, those homeless people don't give a single F about anything. They don't care about food, clean clothes, running water, nothing. They are so twisted with drugs and mental illness they will starve themselves because they refuse to believe they need to eat in order to live. My dad's first wife was likewise so mentally ill (all her life) she refused to believe she was dying of cancer while on her cancer deathbed. She believed cancer was a made up lie by doctors to bill insurance companies. She believed she wasn't dying at all. Days later she died of lung cancer. PERHAPS that's what smoking two packs a day for 50 years does to you - it gives you lung cancer. People will live and die the best way they see fit. Nothing you can do about it. But this woman who posted in an uproar over people caring more for animals, not only am I willing to bet she's never stepped foot in a homeless shelter to volunteer her time, she thinks animals have the same ability to defend themselves as humans do. The number one predator animals have is US humans. Case in point...

This iguana was just living it's life and then some horrible human, most likely a man, came along and thought animal cruelty was a good idea. 

I will always root for the animal. I prefer the company of any iguana over some guy who thinks duct taping one to a tree is a good idea. 

Until next time, signing off from the back yard. 

Only for outsiders. 😏

I was just invited on a Harley ride. Let's go, babe. 

God bless us all. 🙏🏻🕊

Ok bye!