Why no posts? Because it's 2020

Because it's been a very long, hot summer. Never in my life have I experienced a year like this one has been. We've had three deaths: my brother, and two of our friends. Sue had to put her dog down. My husband had a trucker try to kill him while he was driving on the interstate. Fortunately, he is unhurt and insurance covered the damage to the car. We have that moron in the white house doing his best to steal the election and have himself anointed emperor. He's already a dictator and wants to keep it that way. This epidemic has curtailed so many activities, and doesn't seem to be relenting. But it's mostly due, in the US's case, of nitwits refusing to wear a mask and maintain a distance. The police have turned into monsters, and despite my gender and skin color, now I look at them with trepidation. I had to evacuate my home due to wildfires. I had just enough time to throw the cats, my laptop, and a bugout bag of clothing into the camper. The flames were right up to my truck's windows. You see those terrifying views of people driving through tunnels of fire? Now I know what it's like. Fortunately, those wonderful men and women who fight fires saved my house. The area around it is blackened and scorched, and the air has been full of unbreathable smoke for two weeks. I'm not out of danger yet, but the rains are trying to return. No one in my neighborhood lost their animals, although, sad to say, one person's house did burn. They were unharmed, but now they're homeless. But there's a gofund me website set up for them and they've accumulated quite a bit. I learned that when a disaster such as this hits, you hope you are on good terms with your neighbors, because you have to pull together. My neighborhood is pretty much a smoky wasteland. But no one died. Now we have to deal with carpetbaggers...opportunistic 'contractors' going through the area, looking to 'rebuild' whatever you lost...outbuildings, sheds, fences, houses...:-( and they're shysters. We also have had our share of lookylous...people coming to gawk. Not help, just gawk. It's the same sort of reaction when one sees a car accident. This is when you want to cover for your neighbors...when a stranger says, oh, where does so and so live, you just ask, why? I'll tell them you were looking for them. That runs a lot of the shysters and crooks off. I have no horse in my life at the moment, but...that may change. In the meantime, thank you for reading. Khutulan