BE-WITCHING

 The season is drawing nigh.

I ONLY KNOW IT'S MONDAY

 In this 21st Century a hoo-hah has erupted over whether today's holiday is Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples' Day.

In the once peaceful city of Portland, Oregon, statues of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt were torn down overnight.

I can't make sense of it all.

So I resort to a cartoon, with which to wish you all a good holiday.

POT PLANTS

 Our pot plants are hanging in there nicely, possibly due to the continued warm weather.

(They're not what you may have been expecting. I call them that because we grow them in pots.)

The tallest plant here is a Serrano pepper plant.

Next to it is a Shishito pepper plant.

Down in front is a Coleus plant that started from a cutting and was about to be given up for dead until SWMBO brought it outside and snuggled it in with the pepper plants.

Since then it has thrived.

In the lower left you can see a Basil plant and way down to the right you can catch a glimpse of a Mint plant.

There's also a peek down in front of our struggling Chives, about done for the season.

Meanwhile the tomato plant keeps surprising us with a plethora of various sized fruit though it's beginning to look like we may have to have some Fried Green Tomatoes.

The rain gauge sharing the pot regrettably is as dry and unused as that barbecue grill in the background.

Pot gardening - it's been profitable this year and kind of fun.

STILL THE BOSS

 

THE FRIDAY FUNNIES

Yes, I know.

The weeks just keep getting weirder and weirder.

Sometimes I think, "how can I come up with something to make people laugh."

But I keep trying and searching, aided by my many contributors and fellow funny folk.

So with that wee bit of alliteration, let us begin.

Okay, you're giggling, right?

C'mon, I know I got you with at least SOME of these.

Well, whatever, have yourselves a wonderful weekend.

And always remember to keep laughing!

Here, kitty-kitty . . .

HYDRATE

 For years now, I've been taking a drug called Warfarin, which is a blood thinner.

That requires me to have a blood sample taken every four weeks.

It used to be simple, just a quick finger stick and a drop of blood taken.

But then the labs here quit using the finger stick and instead insist on sticking a needle into your arm and drawing out a larger quantity of blood.

So today, I went to have my monthly blood draw and here's what happened.

My bandaged left arm . . Old Faithful, as I call it.

Except today while the nurse hit the vein right off, the blood didn't come in a quantity that she needed.

So, the right arm got pierced, as well.

That one got enough blood to satisfy the lab personnel.

I've been having these tests done for so long the piercing actually doesn't bother me all that much.

But if you fear needles let me advise you, as the nurses do me, drink lots of water the day before your blood test.

Actually we're supposed to drink lots of water every day.

So do it.

And wear your mask.

That's today's medical lesson from Doctor Catalyst.

Um, yeah