Hosed! And other ways I've been kept in stitches

Gary left me with instructions to water the couple of houseplants on his patio while he's away -- they're under an umbrella for shade, so rain doesn't help -- so yesterday I thought I'd do so.

He'd left the hose helpfully where I could find it, said he'd set it up all ready for me. This is Gary, so the hose is high tech. Couldn't get it going for ages because the spigot is all changed from my simple wheel turn on. 

I finally found that the solid, immovable thing on the spigot was the on switch. It took both hands, both thumbs, to shift it far enough to open the line.

Whereupon the hose leapt up off the fence, and sprayed the operator, while I was trying to get hold of it. This happened a couple of times before I got through, because I decided to pull it further and water my flowers and herbs, and this hose has a mind of its own, especially when filled with water. 

Way back there, past the corn patch and the other obstacles, are the houseplants, two, his main concern.

But the sedum outside his fence is alive with bees of all nations, very good sign.

And, home and dried off, I made the first move to keeping tfg off the NJ presidential ballot, with this tweet to our Secretary of State. It's intended to encourage other people online to do likewise. Ballots, even for federal elections, are set up by State and County, so that's where you need to apply the pressure

Now here's an interesting thing. I tweeted this, using the correct term, disqualified, and the name of the candidate. Twice. Each time it was published and immediately vanished. This tweet uses different terms, and it stayed up. I did a screenshot anyway, for insurance, and I've posted it to Spoutible as well as here.

 In NJ the State board of elections seems to be part of the State division reporting to Secretary Way, but I'll also be in touch with my County.

In other news, here's where the stitching is. The most recent, bottom right, is veering into Arp territory, Google is your friend.

And I'm just sayin', in view of my little contretemps with Twitter or whatever it's called now, computers being the tool of modern astronomers' choice

Happy day everyone, and remember for evil to thrive, all that is needed is for good people to do nothing.  Please do something:  contact your Secretary of State, expats can do this too, and ask for tfg to be disqualified from the ballot for the 2024 presidential election. Your light and mine are little, but together they're powerful.

Photo AC