light with one hand holding a leash, camera cover and bag of “dog waste”, camera precariously perched in the other as Sumi lunged for a small attack pack of cocker spaniels who’d snuck up

from behind made getting the above image particularly tricky though come afternoon by the marina there was this and, between contemplating “antisemitic”* [defined linguistically or

ethnically, not according to some exclusionary bullshit “religion”, all those peoples are ‘semites’, so what could be more antisemitic than what the Israelis have been perpetrating for close to a century, eh?] and the threat of a “wintry mix” on the horizon the week leading towards all our

traditional solstice, returning of the light etc. festivities rolled merrily along including but not

limited to a visit to the local healthcare provider, jus’ checkin’, comfortable in the knowledge that no racist totalitarian anti-semitic state** will be blowing it up during my visit.

Another and warmer day of cognitive dissonance began with Sumi

and I running into Mark, local machinist and caretaker of an original ’46 GMC, on our walk

before the new mattress was delivered, the old one having never been quite right.

The day wound down with the annual Christmas Cruise down First

from which the ’45 and I

abstained, hanging with dogs by the barbecue, while

Sunday the wintry mix finally came sliding in…

precip at last!  A little, anyway.

*Well if “ceasefire now” is, um, “antisemitic” I guess all I can say to the racist fucks who think that is…well, I’m [expletives deleted] speechless.

**So now the chosen peoples have chosen the Netanyahu/settler kleptocracy to be their newest, lowest and most egregious iteration of government…a gang who will courageously settle for nothing less than the total eradication of their neighbors.  Nothing less.