2/13/2025

 Thursday, February 13, 2025

D+98

1943 The women's US Marine Corps was created

1945 Allied planes began bombing Dresden, resulting in a devastating firestorm that destroyed the city and killed over 22,000 people

2018 Israeli Police report recommended that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be prosecuted on bribery, fraud and breach-of-trust charges

2021 Donald Trump was acquitted in the second impeachment trial on charge of incitement of insurrection after senators voted 57 to 43 in favor of conviction, less than the 2/3 majority required for impeachment

2025 Robert F. Kennedy Jr., dingbat or /other fearmonger, was confirmed as Health and Human Services secretary by the US Senate

In bed at 9:07. awale and up at 4:30 following dreams of DPL but mostly of TSJ.  I lit a candle and a log in the fireplace.  16° at 5 a.m. on its way down to 13° around 8 a.m. and then up to a maybe-high of 18° this afternoon.  The current wind chill is +1°.  We are so fortunate that our snowplow guy, Rustin, not only has plowed both driveways but also shoveled our walks.  I very much doubt that other plowing services provide sidewalk shoveling.  I wonder if Russtin provides this service to his other customers or only to us, knowing we're oldtimers.  As of 9:30 last night Milwaukee had received about 6 inches of snow so I suspect we received at least that much, perhaps up to 7 inches considering the lake effect snow we received.  Another storm will make its way into the Milwaukee area on Friday, dumping another 5 to 8 inches of snow.  Most of the snow is expected to arrive on Friday afternoon.  I'm hoping that won't interfere with Sarah's flight from Austin, TX.😨  The photo gives some sense of the accumulation and shows my walker that I use to assist me in mounting and descending the stoop, a substitute for missing railings.  It reminds me of how many standard architectural features are major problems for some old and decrepit coots. . .  Seeing the top of the patio table after daybreak suggests that we may have gotten 7"

Prednisone, day 298, 5 mg., day 9, Kevzaa, day 9/14.  Prednisone at 4:45 a.m. and 5 p.m.  Other meds at around 11 a.m.-.

3-ring project.   I picked up my 2 and 1/2 years' of printed daily journals from Minuteman Press at 64th and North Avenue with the newly drilled 3 holes.  They are now safely loaded into 3-hole binders.  Also, Amazon delivered my 3-hole printer paper this morning.

Work in progress, fingers crossed.