Since the "Hands Off" rally was on a Saturday, though, I didn't see anything on the local news about it. They kind of take the weekend off. But I drove downtown, with Ember in the back seat, part of her car practice. The first few are people walking toward the rally point. All are photos from my car window while driving by, so not the best.
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| Habeus Corpus sign |
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| Rounding the Capitol building |
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| WTF, GOP sign |
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| Walking on the other side of the Capitol |
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| Across the street at a Catholic school |
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| Somebody blew up the political cartoon to display |
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| On the Capitol lawn |
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| Note the crowd not just in the window, but in the side mirror, too. |
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| In front of the North steps |
The rally was at our State Capitol, and I saw on NextDoor that someone estimated the crowd at 3000. It seemed like a "good crowd" to me, considering it was a pretty chilly, overcast day. It also seemed like the "aging boomer" generation was well represented. Funny how having your retirement savings lose a lot of money in a week will put a fire under the middle class.
"The kids" have their entire future at stake, but they have more time to recover from the big stock market drop than we "Boomers" do. In the past month I've been to a couple of informative sessions with my financial guys and am happy that I'm in some "hedging" things that help shield from the downside of this slide. Never entirely, of course. If the goal is to have your money last the rest of your life, every time it takes a hit like this last week, no matter how large or small your "nest egg" is, it's serious business if you are (like me) already retired, or if you're getting close to the time you'd LIKE to retire!
Ember did well in the car but clearly is not entirely over her anxiety related to it. It was both a longer trip than most of what we do, but also different look to traffic and road construction. We almost got home when she lost her breakfast. She whined at the garage door while I cleaned up the results, then had a pretty quiet rest of Saturday.
We are continuing the dietary change, and the increased performance for each treat, in the hopes of helping her drop some of the excess weight. I may be imagining things, but it seems like she runs better in her fetch games when she's a little bit on the hungry side.
Ready for my walk, in my alternate harness, Mom!Regardless of news and such, life goes on, and Life is by definition a Good Thing! Choose wisely to live well.
Spark on!
