Brindy is loving being in sweaters. Here’s her latest:

I spent the last week working on making Christmas cacti. These are the first flowers I have made in months. It felt good!

The first steps in transforming my 2nd bedroom into a workout room:

I have a 3-bedroom house. The main bedroom is huge, and I have a king bed, the dog’s kennel, my rowing machine, and a chair with an ottoman in it. The other 2 bedrooms are a Jack and Jill arrangement, with one “bedroom” having been my computer and craft room since I moved in.

The other bedroom was just that, a bedroom:

In the year-and-a-half I have been here, this bedroom has only been used once or so. I have decided, then, to turn this room into a home gym. I found someone I could donate the furniture to, and they picked it up on Wednesday. So here’s the basically blank slate I have to work with:

I’ll post pictures as things move along.

Next to me is one of the Row House coaches, Amber, who was a collegiate rower herself and has really helped me with my technique.

I joined Row House in July of this year. Today I hit 250,00 meters. I’m not sure which sounds like more: 250,000 meters or 250 kilometers. A good distance, either way.

Next up; 500,000 meters!

I was looking back at some older posts and ran across one that still resonates with me. At that time our national “leadership” was threatening to invade Mexico, and these were my thoughts:

Soap Box: Violence in Mexico

Nothing about the current situation with Venezuela or any other country has changed my mind about the real reason behind the problem.

Walt Kelly is credited with the phrase “We have met the enemy and he is us” in his Pogo comic strip in 1970 or so. According to https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walt_Kelly, he also had this to say back in 1953:

Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly. It is just unfortunate that in the clumsy hands of a cartoonist all traits become ridiculous, leading to a certain amount of self-conscious expostulation and the desire to join battle.
There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tinny blast on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us. Forward!

Last year about this time I posted about how much I loved my bidet (https://tuplesandattributes.com/2024/11/23/i-love-my-bidet/). The weather here has finally turned chilly, and I can’t stress enough how nice a warm toilet seat is! If you haven’t gotten one yet, what are you waiting for?