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Happy Friday everyone. Welcome to Friday Night Photos your once a week escape from the day to day insanity of the world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music or whatever else you find of interest that helps tune out the madness.

The week started with a little rain on Sunday and Monday. The rest of the week has been a mix of a couple of sunny days and a couple of mostly cloudy days with temps in the 70s all week. The price of gas has held steady at $5.59 a gal. for the last 2 weeks. Hopefully the conflict in the Middle East will be resolved soon (not holding my breath) and prices will drop.
Found out on Tuesday the Photo Arts building in Balboa park where our camera club meets will be closed indefinitely for the removal of asbestos and mold that was found in the building. If the past is any indicator it could be anywhere from months to years before the city gets the work done. In the mean time all the camera clubs that use the building have to find somewhere else to hold their meetings or do the Zoom thing. Uck! I hate Zoom.

Last week after I finished looking for bugs in the Balboa park rose garden I spent an hour in the Japanese Friendship Garden. The garden is beautiful and well maintained and a great place to sit and relax and contemplate your navel or anything else you choose to contemplate.

Since the Idiocy War began on February 28, it has been an article of faith among the majority of anti-Trump voices that Netanyahu and zionist billionaires were bossing Trump into making war on Iran. I have no opinion on the question of whether Trump is cognizant of who is pulling his strings. Trump is responsible for this war because he proudly claims it. But he IS nutso, and his subjective opinion is not worth much no matter how you slice it.

Morning

Going to start the day with an article on setting and storing food back for future use. It is a life long habit. Even in the best of times I try and have all the food necessary for the livestock in the barn by September for the upcoming winter.

Archaeology and History Tidbits
These are some interesting things! For example, the bones of D’Artagnan, one of the heroes featured in the book The Three Musketeers, may have been found. This is cool!

Although the book is a novel (more about the book and it’s writer(s) here) , D’Artagnan was a real person, and he died via a musket shot to the throat while conquering Masstricht during the Franco-Dutch War. It’s believed that he was buried in Masstricht in a church near the French camp. And, lo and behold, an archaeological dig (after a hole appeared under tiles in the church) has found his possible remains, underneath where the altar table used to sit. DNA testing and other work will confirm the find, eventually.

All for one, and one for all!!! The three musketeers and D’Artagnan! Image from www.completefrance.com

The current debacle in world affairs and US hegemonic ambitions crashes upon the putative leadership in the west.

The common observation bandied about by the "experts" is that there is no apparent strategy or method discernable in US policy abroad, particularly as demonstrated in the middle east currently. The US appears embarrassed by an obsolete worldview. It's policies seemed to be based on delusions rather than reality.

I saw on Tv a squib of Bernie Sanders talking about the 25th Amendment, sounding like the 2015-16 Bernie. The MSN home page offers a nonstop parade of squibs raising Cain about Trump and Israel and their downright EVIL effort to eliminate Iran from planet earth.