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 Wednesday, December 28, 2022

In bed at 9, up with GERD at 11:30, in tv room recliner between 11:30 and 3:40 catching up on various Amanpour & Company interviews, back in bed from 3:40 till 6:30, watching an interview of Cher.  28 degrees outside going up to near 40 cloudy degrees, seeming like a heat wave.

Our Town.  At 8 a.m., the Sherriff's Office also indicated a full freeway closure was underway on southbound I-43 at Mequon Road in response a single-vehicle accident after the car was struck by gunfire during a road-rage incident. No injuries were reported, but all lanes were shut down from Mequon Road to Brown Deer Road.  That was the second reported shooting of the morning on the freeway system. Shortly before 7 a.m., westbound travelers on I-94 also began getting diverted off the interstate at 68th Street following a reported shooting.

Bait Bucket thoughts: cinnamon toast, childhood treat; tube feeders and suet getting low, need replenishing; why does it seem like local tv weathermen and anchors so often talk to viewers as if we are children

Morning Ukraine headlines:  Russia’s abductions of Ukrainian children are a genocidal crime;  ‘Nothing left to destroy’: Russia is fighting for land already in ruins.  Lyman and cities across Donbas have been invaded and liberated multiple times 

Midweek adventure.  Trip to Whole Foods

Late Christmas delivery. Pink trim-fold exercise mat, probably Lizzie's.  Texted Andy to have him check.

Navy Bean Soup. Chalked it up as a failure.  Hard to screw up bean soup, but I managed.

Attempt at Aunt Lydia portrait.  Started by drawing grid lines on 8 &1/2  x 11 printer paper and 20x24 canvas.