Biked 11.7 miles last evening, sticking to the trails that did not go around a lake. Much more enjoyable. I've also determined that the elbow pain I've been experiencing is from bike riding. I need to switch up how I climb hills.

Honey did it again...put into words what I can't. His MAGA workmate was talking about some video he saw and honey stopped him and said to him, "You'll believe anyone on YouTube, people you don’t even know or their background and yet, you don’t believe the people you work with, who you’ve known for years." Apparently earlier in the day they'd had a disagreement about a delivery. Honey had opened the box that had been delivered and knew what was inside but this MAGAman had only driven by to see that the box had been delivered, but then insisted that what was in the box was something else...even after honey told him he had looked in the box and it was most definitely NOT what MAGAman thought it was. MAGAman still insisted it was something else even though honey had seen it with his own eyes!!

And when honey finished telling me this story I said yes! This is exactly how I feel about that person that used to be my sister. I told her what was going on here as someone who was directly involved, using real life examples from people she had met, members of MY FAMILY, and what I had seen with my own eyes, and even though she had known me and my character my entire life, she chose instead to believe the lies of the gangsters and the internets, to insult and discredit me. That is what made me say enough, why I just couldn't continue a relationship with her anymore. She would rather believe the MAGA bullshit from people she doesnt know than believe what was really happening coming from her own sister!

I made the right choice.

I also know now when someone says they've done "research", that their source is YouTube conspiracy videos and algorithm websites in their feed. "I've done research' are key words to alert me they are looney tunes. Every time. Because they wouldn't even know that true research involves a seven-step process. It does not involve TikTok.

I was quite impressed by the probiscus on this teeny skipper:

And while meaningless to most, seeing the pic below made my day this morning. The county finally came through and trimmed back all the brush and bramble that limited the sidewalk to only one person getting by at a time.