...and on another topic...

 Someone who owns a cat, and has lots of take-out/delivered meals, and drinks Pepsi pretty regularly...

Perhaps the same person...but these are certainly not recycleables...yet that's the bin which Mr. Bear tumped over.  It's possibe that someone righted the other black one. Food stuffs are supposed to have been placed in that brown bin to the far left, which has toggles that insert through rings, and is bearproof.

I was dismayed to see these piles of garbage left out over Sat and Sun. last weekend. The management had sent out a letter as to how we should place our garbage, and if we didn't we might have to clean it up and be fined.  Apparently everyone is now suffering because of this one person's mistake.

I had garbage waiting to go into the brown bin, but didn't take it out until this was settled. I fear the person at fault, who has a cat, also can't clean things up, as she rides an electric wheel chair herself. And from her eye level, she must not have even seen the "Recycle" sign on the top of the black bin. There's no way she'll be able to maneuver and clean up that trash either.

It was cleaned up by Monday morning (probably by the management.) I wonder what they will do the next time...

Poor bears get used to eating people's food, and it makes them more likely to have healthier cubs, which depend upon people's garbage more and more. Not a pretty cycle. These are wild animals and a close encounter may well leave a person injured, and then the bear would be killed.

And just to make this a bit of a Sepia Saturday post...

A dear friend/relation who was also a former Pan Am flight attendant... posted this to share. I can't resist adding it so all of you who remember Pan Am can smile at the good ol' days.  Check out other Sepia Saturday posts this week - the last Saturday of August!

Today's quote:

There will be something, anguish or elation, that is peculiar to this day alone. I rise from sleep and say: Hail to the morning! Come down to me, my beautiful unknown.

JESSICA POWERS

Eating and staying safe!

Switching foods around.

My friend had a blood workup which showed she was pre-diabetic. Her doctor said she could lose some weight and maybe she wouldn't have to take insulin. She was worried about the cost of insulin going through the roof with all the medical insurance changes.

Buncombe County had 105 Covid-19 cases as of May 13 news...I think these are all that have been identified, out of several thousand tests. (They didn't tell us the death total, but I think it's maybe in the teens.)

So she went on a Keto type diet...all meat, veggies and maybe a few other things...but no carbs. So all baked goods were out...including bread and deserts. And I think even fruit, anything that would raise her blood-sugar. Absolutely nothing with sugar in it. She did it religiously and lost 25 pounds, and went back to the Dr. who said she had things under control. So she's still doing that. And she does have a good friend who also is doing this diet, so they share recipes.

She's going to drop a bag of flour at my house sometime today. I do eat breads, and cookies, and sometimes other things that are carbohydrates. Give me a potato and I'm in heaven.  I've got a cupboard with one that surprisingly enough has started to sprout. How did that happen? I've been eating other people's potatoes, that's all there is to it.

I'm returning a book to her which I borrowed back in Feb. It's hard to believe we haven't done much together since then.  I got her some groceries Tues. a week ago. That's probably the last time I'll go grocery shopping for a while. I keep hearing horror stories of all the people not wearing masks in the stores. I am at risk, y'all. I don't want a tiny little 4 micron size particle (virus) to sneak into my eyes, or hide on my sleeve till I take off my mask at home.  I have definitely learned how to not touch my face. I sure am going to be mad at myself if I get this sickness, because some days I'm not as full of disinfectant as others.

So there's a table on my front porch, which is the staging place for things coming in or going out of my apartment.

My friend just called from a barbeque place where we used to have lunch together. Now she gets the meat dishes, and I get the sides. I'm mostly vegetarian these days, except for fish. And the barbeque place makes delicious brownies. So I asked for one. It's still take-out here in North Carolina.

Today's quote:

There will be something, anguish or elation, that is peculiar to this day alone. I rise from sleep and say: Hail to the morning! Come down to me, my beautiful unknown.

JESSICA POWERS