Turtles Run Away - Fast! a PSA on July 30th, 2025

Hello, folks! Greetings and salutations on another beautiful day above ground. 💖 We almost lost our little turtle today and it was wholly my fault, so I'll tell you about it.

she looks innocent here but she is much faster than you'd think! 

So, earlier, we had the turtle outside and were talking to some friends who I asked to watch Freedom for just a minute so I could run and fetch something; when I returned, this creature had scuttled off into some nearby tall grass and instantly disappeared on them, so when I got back, we were all looking for the turtle. 
There were (my) tears, garden tools were fetched and used, and once I came inside for a hair-tie (due to building heat), Terry found the turtle and told me when I got back outside. 

I realized that it was MY fault for not warning my friends about how super-quick the little turtle can and will disappear every time she reaches thick cover like that - it's in her DNA! I'd forgotten about the time I lost her like that, same situation with just me that time: I was walking her, she saw the tall grass and BLOOP! I spent thirty minutes searching for her that time.

So - the PSA is this: when you have a tiny little pet turtle and you take her for a walk, she WILL disappear like Houdini if she's able to get to the tall grass!

💜

I'm so grateful that we found her! 

About the Second Amendment on 7-17-2025

 Hello, dear Reader, and welcome (back?) to this (in every sense of the word) free, obscure American blog on a mild July afternoon in 2025. 

First things first, please:

If you are prone to, say, hating another person because that person, say, is a MAGA Republican (you know! 😉 for example) then, maybe, you know, don't read what I write? 😎👍 And, I say this as a former card-carrying Democrat (1979 - 2016). 
But I digress. 

What I'd like to point out is a well-known, irrefutable fact and that is this:
the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ends with the phrase:
 "...shall not be infringed". 
Does it not? 
If not, then what exactly are the ending words/ phrase?
Tell us, if you know.
No?

Ok.
So my point here is, the 2nd Amendment does not end with "but".

It doesn't say "maybe don't infringe".
No, the words - verbatim - are "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED". 

Therefore, all gun control laws *are* unConstitutional. 

😂

Fight me. 
☝I jest!