A client of mine was a friend of Janis Joplin. She also worked in the music industry. I hope to share some cool stories when the client makes an appointment to do some estate planning.

Texas mis-pronouncements:
Guadalupe' is pronouced "Guadalupee"
San Jacinto is pronounced just as spelled
Bahia grass is pronounced "bahaya"

First: Briahna Joy Gray quizzes Chris Hedges about Cornel West's strategy:

I just left the House floor, where the SECOND McCarthy-backed effort to censure me for holding Donald Trump accountable just passed.

We have a number of pressing challenges before our country - affordable housing, access to health care, creating jobs and so much more. Yet, Kevin McCarthy chose to take up this MAGA effort to distract from Trump's legal problems.

Growing in Containers:
First off, this is an open thread, so post whatever you want in the comments, please! Me, I'm gonna be talking about growing plants in containers. This is something I've done for a long time and learned to make fairly easy and profitable and as completely organic as possible.

Anything can be a container! Anything

In a recent comment I laid out my -- more or less -- core statement on the presidential race. Here's what I said:

the public interest is currently served by a proliferation of candidates who are not Joe Biden and who are not Republicans.

The alignments say summer starts around 1038 am today EDST. The weather gods seem to be in
agreement. Back in our pagan days this was known as Litha and celebrates the longest day of the year.

Here comes the rain again.
Humm along if you know the tune. This is the third day of rain here in the PNW and a dusting of snow in the higher elevations. We've not had snow this close to summer solstice in my memory living here. It only reached 59° here Saturday in East Vancouver.