FIRST DAY OF SPRING ~ Shabbat Sunset

The first day of Spring 2020, started out nippy this morning with a 37-degree wake-up … and amped up to 67-degrees by the twilight hour.

The first thing this morning while I was tending to household chores, and preparing the castle to become my Shabbat Island of Rest, I saw on my phone’s newsfeed that Larry the Cable Guy had blasted celebrities for posting themselves singing john lennon’s imagine song – and I have to agree with him; it in bad taste considering that most of America, as well as 95% of the world, cannot hole up behind security walls and have curbside groceries delivered to them: calimexarabia alone – of ALL the States in America – has the largest homeless population: with tent cities everywhere and human feces piling up in the streets … and narcissist celebrities are posting pictures of themselves making fools of themselves singing a song of hopelessness (and doing it very badly! NONE of them could carry a tune), IN A TIME when most are feeling hopelessness. Grabbing for attention while people are actually dying for lack of real help (medical, physiological, spiritual), malnutrition, and unsanitary living conditions. Those rich morons, living their fantasy characters on screen/off screen … bitching about ‘the rich’ they claim to hate while amassing riches themselves; and ignoring the hopelessly poor amongst them, while baying about hopelessness in a song that amplifies hopelessness: they are clueless to ANY realities in real time.

Their hypocritical, ridiculous, and TRULY AWFUL ‘contribution’ is proof there is hell on earth. MPO (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sFLqGfSnVQ)

I also saw that Mitch McConnel was pushing for a final vote on the coronavirus aid spending Bill by tonight (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfAHqAJJbdE).

The politicians left the Capitol late in the evening, saying that progress had been made, but there are a several issues yet unresolved – planning to meet again tomorrow to hammer out the finer details: schumer is the fly in the ointment; as usual: he pushed for far too much, and holds everything up far too long.

“We need to deliver relief now,” McConnell said on the Senate floor, “We need to go big – and we need to move swiftly.” But it looks like the demoncrat bullies of the block are going to try to ram their pet projects through on the coattails of this proposed coronavirus driven stimulus Bill, and will continue to make life hard for everyone if their demands are not met … which will result in missing the deadline for the ‘largest economic rescue in American History. Moving swiftly will come to a screeching halt.

And President Trump told Americans that their Income Tax filings deadline has been rescheduled from April 15^th, 2020; to July 15^th, 2020:

Throughout the day, today, I did a couple loads of laundry, baked Challah loaves-dinner rolls-cinnamon rolls; and hopped in the car to watch the sunset – riverside.

Around 6 PM, I saw I was low on refrigerated butter, so I went out to the shed to grab some more out of the chest freezer … and found that the overhead florescent light has gone out. Permanently. At first, I was a little concerned, thinking maybe a breaker had been blown … but the compact chest freezer works fine, and the house electricity was okay; so, I knew it was only the florescent light fixture.  I gave my youngest BIL, Kerry, a shout, and he has agreed to switch it out for me when life gets back to normal (I am thankful! It’s 9 feet in the air, and I can’t afford to have an electrician do it) – we’ll take this one out and exchange it for an LED type of light fixture: he recently did that at his place. I was going to ask him if there was that kind of possibility, but he told me it was before I could even voice my question ;-) And the LED fixture is not that expensive either, so it’s totally doable. Kerry’s a good guy. I am blessed.

Elohim is faithful – He has provided willing helpers for me: willing to do for me what I cannot do for myself … and willing to patiently teach me what I can do on my own, once I am shown how to do it. I am a quick study ;-)

For now, I can use the flashlight when I have to retrieve something from the shed – even in broad daylight the shed is kinda dark because of the way it’s situated.

That snafu settled, I finished laundry and bread baking; and went for a sunset walk out at Willow Grove Park …

Plan on walking Willow grove trail and viewing river sunset.

A ‘Dumbo head’ cloud :-D

Something to do around the house while waiting this pandemic out.

Sun starting to slide over the horizon; 6:57 PM

Wondering about the stories this pumice could tell if I could hear it speak.

The setting sun looks like it is passing through the hill, rather than slipping down behind it ...

While watching the sun slide over the horizon, I found out that Willow Grove Park currently closes the Park gates at 7:30 PM (will close at 10 PM Summertime); but I did get to see the sunset – I’m happy about that:

Mt. St. Helens swathed in pink twilight.

A cargo ship sailing towards a topaz sunset lighting up the horizon.

An hour after arriving, I am leaving: entrance locked up. Same sky - different background.

All in all, the first day of Spring 2020 was off to a good start ;-)

L’Chiam!

I love you, Yeshua.

I love you, Bob.

Always ~ OX