excellent news, Trudy's mom, erika's mom. Best luck vibes, Calli. Gift-giving energy to those working on lists.

We have had thirty-five days of rain and now are flooding. This is better than August fires, but seems like we should have happy medium in there somewhere.

Happy Birthday, suela!

Anybody I missed, vibes and wishes as needed.

Hope you can stay high and dry, Bev! Thirty-five days is approaching biblical...

I am sad to read the local Anheuser-Busch brewery is closing. I don't have any fondness for their beer, but I like smelling the malt when I drive past. And I'm not sure how many people they employ, but it seems like a pretty big facility so presumably it's not an insignificant number. And if the building is going to sit empty that will not be good - they are just getting around to building something else where the old Walmart was, that might have taken 20 years...

Sidenote, a fair number of the headlines are referring to it as a plant, which is how I tend to think of it (or as a factory, sometimes) so that's some nice validation for what I thought was idiosyncrasy