War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Another scorcher outside this late-afternoon Saturday here in California’s Central Valley — it’s 103 degrees right now, with barely a breeze. Despite a couple of ‘coolish‘ days immediately ahead, more blasting heat is on our schedule well-past Labor Day. It’s been a seemingly-quick, hot-ass summer, though, the entire clock/calendar, keeping-time apparatus feels like it’s on…
Another hot one building outside this near-noon Friday here in California’s Central Valley — we’re still under triple digits right now, but the heat-blasting doesn’t always intensify until late afternoon. We’ll weather the weather, as we have so far, and eventually, hopefully, we’ll persevere. Anyway, spied this earlier — Ron DeSantis epitomizes the entire Republican…
Late-afternoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — hot time in the summertime. After a couple of weeks of fairly-nice weather, we’re heading into a fertile hotplate of scorcher temperatures and blistering sunshine this week. Although the NWS announced an ‘Excessive Heat Wave’ wouldn’t officially start until Tuesday, the wave is two days early —…
In the darkness, sometimes there’s a flash of light. Maybe not enough to blind you, but enough to see the shift in the wind — and ascertain there could be hope in the face of a shitload of shitty news. Last Tuesday’s big win in Kansas is just one example, and today is further evidence…
Hot sunshine returned this Tuesday morning here in California’s Central Valley — after a few days of clouds/overcast skies and some lower temperatures, the heat of summer returns today as we’re forecast to hit triple digits later in the afternoon. Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi showed her grit earlier when she arrived in Taiwan for a visit…
Another end to another workweek this Friday early evening and the start to a couple of days to reboot. A post on reflection about the TV audience for those Jan. 6 hearings — the last in the original series last night, supposedly more hearings most likely set for September as more evidence and testimony fill…
UPDATE Below Horrible, heart-breaking news this Saturday morning — one of my most-personal favorite bloggers has died. Known to me only as ‘Big Bad Bald Bastard,’ who conveyed a wondrous humane view of not only the whole, wide, wide world, but also a love-of-life living in Yonkers, New York — a combo sweetly found in…
Hot with just a hint of a breeze this late-afternoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — summer be here already in full force. Pleasant Valley Sundays a dream memory. Writing this blog — Compatible Creatures — for now more than 15 years (April 22, 2007), I usually have a subject matter for each post,…
Hot and delightfully breezy this late-afternoon Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley – although it should be boiling and the air heavy as shit (supposedly right now we’re just one-degree shy a hundred), the outside ambience is not so bad, making ‘delightfully breezy‘ a true and poetic weather report. Wind can shift the sense of…
Warm-on-the-border of hot this early-evening Monday here in California’s Central Valley — in the low 90s today, but into triple digits starting tomorrow and lasting through rest of the week. Summer catching up quickly. Along with a shitload of sad, unnerving, frightful particulars buzzing around the nowadays, from the before mentioned gathering heat storm to…
