Is Pride Month On The Wane?

Hello Friends,

Here we find ourselves once again in the month of June. It is a new year and a new era. Times they are a changing, and for the better in my humble opinion.

It seems that more people and more companies are turning away from "pride month" (intentionally not capitalized). If you have been reading here for any length of time, you know where I stand on this subject.

We'll start with Target as our first example. There are videos and articles saying that Target is pulling back from pride month, and their displays are patriotic, American themed and family oriented. You know, like a regular summer display. Okay, that's great, right? Well, I went to their corporate website and guess what I found? They DO have a pride collection, although they have largely scaled back since the major outrage from consumers in 2023 when they featured LGBT and trans clothing for children, not to mention the Satanist designs. Oh my word. Decent people will only take so much then look out. 

Mostly what I saw online was items with rainbow colors and "sayings". So it would seem that they not turned away as much as toned down. Perhaps this is only on their website. Maybe stores in more conservative areas have less, and the more liberal areas have more. I don't know. I haven't been in Target in years, and I used to shop there before the woke virus overtook them.

Here are some of the companies who are NOT sponsoring pride month this year.

19 Companies pulling back their support for pride

Among these are Anheuser-Busch, Disney, DoorDash, UPS, PepsiCo and Capital One. It seems a number of companies are doing a complete about face when it comes to pride. Maybe they figured out that when you go woke you go broke. 

Here we have another article on how just under six months have brought about big changes. Trump Era: Target Majorly Tones Down Children’s ‘Pride Month’ Apparel.

Now let's have a look at pride in the NFL and the MLB. I have no love for football to begin with, but even if I did, this would certainly change my viewing habits. They are obviously not listening to the fans.

This is so disgusting, but I had to include it to show the full scope of their wokeness.

Major League Baseball is right up there with the NFL, but there is one outstanding exception and that is the Texas Rangers. No Pride in Texas, Rangers Lone Team Without Pride Night.

I hope this post finds you well today, and gives you some hope that things are indeed changing for the better. Maybe someone will find a cure for the woke mind virus plaguing so many.

Until next time, stay safe and stay sane.

It's Official!

 HAPPY SUMMER SOLSTICE

I hope you take some time to step back from the craziness of the world to enjoy the summer and spend time getting back to nature. We can all benefit from fresh air, sunshine and connecting with the earth.

Picture is AI generated.

A Good Decision

Hello Friends,

Fitting right in with pride month (no I don't capitalize it), here is a bit of good news for the sane among us. It seems the Supreme Court has ruled against gender-affirming care, i.e. child mutilation, and upheld the ban in Tennessee. The vote was 6-3. 

Here is the article from PJ Media. Supreme Court Delivers a Crushing Blow to Trans Agenda

Now, I'm not a lawyer, but it seems to me like this could set a precedent for other states to follow. I certainly hope so! I have seen too many stories from both males and females who have DE-transitioned because they realized it didn't fix anything, and they regretted making the transition. 

Many of these individuals come from a background of abuse, neglect, addiction, autism and, mental health issues. Some began taking hormone treatments in their teens. If these young people had gotten the medical and mental health care and therapy they needed, instead of being told they can change their gender, likely they wouldn't have ended up transitioning in the first place. I've said it before and I'll say it again. You cannot change your gender. All the hormones, and surgeries will not make a man into a woman or a woman into a man, and once you have had those surgeries your life is changed forever, even after you detransition.

Those who are pushing this mutilation of children make it sound appealing as if it will magically make all their problems go away. You know what, problems and figuring things out are part of what it means to grow up. But first, they just need to be kids, to run and jump and play, to ride bikes and learn to fish, cook or do chores for an allowance. They don't need LGBT books in their schools, and pride displays in stores. They need love and discipline. They need guidance and to be taught critical thinking and reasoning skills as they navigate the path from child to teen to adult.

No matter what your political views are, the world's children are the future. We can ensure the future by doing our best to protect the children, not from bumps and scrapes, but from evil.

Your thoughts are welcome in the comments. Until next time, stay safe and stay sane.

How Does Your Garden Grow?

 Hello Friends,

It's been a few days so I thought I'd check in and give the first garden update of the year. Since it rained a lot during the time I would be putting the garden in, I had to wait. I only managed to get it tilled once and had to spread the amendments on the top and dig them in by hand as needed. Ugh! 

Finally I bought plants and slowly introduced them to the garden with all the usual things like fertilizer and for the three tomato plants, a bit of epsom salts in the hole and some baking soda sprinkled around. Straw was applied liberally.

Then came one zucchini, one sweet banana pepper, one jalapeno, and two cucumbers. All got their own bed of straw as well. Now we wait. Well we had some nice warm, sunny days, and then the rains and cool temps

came back. The garden appeared to be at a standstill for what seems like forever, but I am seeing runners on the cukes and buds on them and the squash. I even have blooms and one small pepper on the itty bitty jalapeno. Now I have heard people say that they pluck off the early fruit so the plant will put more energy into growth. I've never done that and still had success. 

The last time I planted jalapenos, they got eaten off and what grew back didn't produce well. So now we have our garden fenced in against at least the larger critters.

What a difference a couple weeks make. The first picture above was taken May 20 and the second was taken June 2.

Here is my jalapeno, up close and personal. 

My herb garden is doing nicely, too.

So there you have it. A sample of my 2025 garden.  

Until next time, stay safe and stay sane.

Junk Mail

Hello friends,

Raise your hand if you get buried in mail. I see that is about 99.9% of you. If you're like us, a portion of that gets shredded (for security purposes) and the rest goes into the recycle bins. Am I right so far?

So why am I writing a post on junk mail? I find that there are other uses for some of it. Take for example the envelopes, both what the item arrives in and the often-included return envelope. These make great grocery, to-do lists, sketching a design or just taking notes.

No more buying the fancy pads of paper just to scribble down bread, milk, eggs, cheese and hot dogs, only to crumple it into the trash bin after shopping. Just use the free stuff delivered daily to your mailbox.

Speaking of shopping, you can also use your envelopes to hold coupons for grocery shopping, receipts, etc.

Keeping closer to home, plain paper can be shredded and added to your compost bin. Worms love paper so you could add it directly to your garden or start your own worm farm. The worms will make great compost on a diet of unsolicited letters wishing to buy your property or offers for great rates on car insurance. Click here and here for more information on worm farms.

If you're not already shredding your sensitive information, please invest in a shredder if you can. Crosscut are best for security purposes. This is the shredder we have, and it works very well. We got ours some years back from Costco.

I hope you find some of these tips useful in dealing with the mountains of junk mail, or as we like to call it 'dead trees' that arrive in your mailbox six days a week. Let me know in the comments if you have other uses for your junk mail.

Until next time, stay safe and stay sane.