We’ve had a series of really violent thunderstorms here today. I apparently slept through one set, taking a nap from 4-5, but it has looked like the skies are going to unleash holy hell again soon. Power is out in a lot of places and there are lots of trees down.
I have Samantha for the week-end, and the house is a hive of activity. All it takes is for Lily, Tunch, or Sam to get worked up about something, and the other two join in.
beltane
We woke up to several inches of snow on the ground. It’s not that unusual for this time of year except that we’ve been having an exceptionally mild spring. The sudden appearance of normal April weather is unwelcome.
meh
heard megan on NPR today saying she couldn’t understand why the GOP is against cracking down on the banks…yeah, she’s a smart one…
bemused
@beltane:
Snow? Where are you, Beltane?
It wouldn’t be unusual in north MN either but hope we don’t see any this spring.
Cat Lady
I don’t think it’s possible to overstate the importance of passing HCR for the rest of this president’s first term. Winning begets winning. The MSM wants so much to focus on the teatards to show Republicans still can be a force, but when they do, well, it’s just too much stupid in one place even for them. Obama is calmly and determinedly setting a new course.
ETA: My wish is that he prosecutes the Bush admin war criminals in his second term. That needs to get done, and that’s my only real substantial complaint.
/Obot
HumboldtBlue
Umm, power-schmower, can we get some pics please?
MikeJ
Lillet, ice, orange slices, in a classic Bordeaux wine glass.
Now *there’s* an aperitif. I was going to say “a man’s drink”, but who am I kidding? It’s just darned tasty and refreshing.
gbear
Thunderstorms are cool but losing trees sucks. Hope things calm down.
General Egali Tarian Stuck
I don’t remember a sorrier day for this blog. Maybe tomorrow will be better.
beltane
@bemused: Northern Vermont. I really can’t complain since we’ve gotten an extra month of spring this year and not much of a winter. But it’s a little disheartening to have to start up the wood stove after thinking I was done with the cold.
R-Jud
Whee, insomnia, fifth night running. I am starting to have auditory hallucinations. I thought I could hear my dad in the back garden talking about car maintenance this afternoon. He’s five time zones away. He’s Italian and loud, but not THAT loud.
Ideas, please.
Ross
Just found out my mayor thinks Obama was born in Kenya.
What should I do?
General Egali Tarian Stuck
@Ross:
Whistle Dixie
SiubhanDuinne
You know the drill. Pictures, or it never happened.
gbear
@Ross: Is laughing at him an option? How about calling him a fool and a loser to his face?
Gina
@R-Jud: Early waking or hard to fall asleep kind of insomnia?
WereBear (itouch)
@R-Jud
Valerian root works for me.
Ross
@General Egali Tarian Stuck: I’m afraid he might enjoy that tune.
bemused
@beltane:
You have mountains which we don’t, makes a difference.
We have been going back & forth with the outdoor wood stove for a week. Tonight will cool down to the 20’s so the stove gets started up again.
General Egali Tarian Stuck
@R-Jud: five days is too long without sleep. Call your doc.
JCT
Hah– I’m actually in the air over your neck of the woods, John — very choppy ride!
And I want pics of your animal circus as well.
R-Jud
@Gina: Both. Have been sleeping 2 am-6 am or 3 am-7am or sleeping from like 9-2pm.
My mother-in-law’s response to this was, “Well, Margaret Thatcher ran the country on four hours of sleep.”
freelancer
@General Egali Tarian Stuck:
What happened? I’ve been in bed sick the last two days and have kind of tuned out.
JenJen
April Showers Bring May Flowers!
I win.
Ross
@gbear: I don’t know him personally so I’m unlikely to see him in face-to-face. But I’ll point and laugh if I do.
mr. whipple
Now that everything is in full bloom, they’re calling for snow this weekend.
Carrie
Tomorrow morning we drive to the other side of Montreal to bring my son to the army base for basic training. He’s very eager and i’m very proud of him but gawd…i’m gonna bawl my face off.
I’m gonna miss that kid.
Ross
@R-Jud: Yeah, call a doctor. Could be a lot of things.
Anne Laurie
Combination of a four-legged visitor and thunderstorms will do that, even for pets who don’t normally pay much attention to “angel bowling”. At least it’s not a full moon as well…
Beltane, for what it’s worth, you make me feel better about the predicted cold, rainy weekend down here in eastern Massachusetts. It’s been so warm down here that I had to rake the winter mulch off everything, and the weatherpods talking cheerfully about “even a few flakes tomorrow” are making me paranoid. Oh, well, so much for pansy-shopping this weekend… not to mention running the lawnmower for the first time this year!
Phoenix Woman
@beltane: Brrrr! Right now in the Twin Cities we’re looking at a low tonight of 38F, which will have been the coldest it’s been for a few days. Otherwise, it’s been freakishly warm since mid-February: All our March precip was rain, which washed away all the snow by the middle of the month, and we’ve had 60s and 70s for highs most of April, with rains coming at just the right times to stave off the grass fires. Things are greening up and leafing out — everything should be fully leafed out by this time next week.
As for Tunch, how would he feel about a staredown with this formidable kitty?
gbear
@Ross: Send him a bunch of racist emails and hope he starts forwarding them.
/eddie haskell
edit: R-jud, I used Tylenol PM to get me back on track when I was having a temporary problem, but it’s bad stuff to be taking on a regular basis. I agree w/ see a doctor
R-Jud
@General Egali Tarian Stuck: Oh, I will, I just figured I’d fish for bright ideas I could immediately put to use.
Phoenix Woman
Oh, and R-Jud: DOCTOR! NOW!
mr. whipple
@Ross:
Run off some sheets of paper saying there’s a rumor your mayor fucks chickens. Go out at night and post them throughout the city.
General Egali Tarian Stuck
@freelancer: Ask Cole, it’s his blog. At least I think it still is.
Comrade Mary
The power is going to go out, all the house can openers will go silent, and this is the weekend that you will finally get eaten.
It’s been nice to know you, John Cole. May his Tunchness be mercifully quick.
Phoenix Woman
@General Egali Tarian Stuck: Better check with Tunch on that.
Annie
@MikeJ:
Sounds good…What’s Lillet?
rootless-e
I now find myself in the sad position of agreeing with Goldman Sachs that they have been unfairly targeted.
Elisabeth
@beltane:
I’m in Burlington and we’re stuck with rain. I’d be happy for some more snow. Lots of snow. Feet of snow. Just for the weekend, though.
mr. whipple
@rootless-e:
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gogol's wife
@Annie:
It’s what James Bond put in his martinis instead of vermouth. Delicious.
Anne Laurie
@R-Jud:
If you’re hallucinating, it’s time to use your wonderful socia1ized medical services. Who will probably tell you there’s nothing to offer beyond the standard folk remedies, but on the very small chance that there IS something that needs what they can do, the sooner you find out the better!
Gina
@R-Jud: Bleh! Okay, I can relate. I am sleeping better now, but I go to bed at 2-3AM, get up around noon. That’s the perks of setting my own hours…I’ve always been a night person, from toddler age. Going to bed early, for me, even if I’m sleep-deprived, will still have me waking a couple hours into it to be up from 1-3am.
I found that I slept the night through once I started doing a few things concurrently: Taking Vitamin D (2000mg D3 per day), regular exercise minimum 1/2 hour getting heart rate to above 75% max, 3x per week. I also make sure to get as much sunlight/bright light when I get up as possible, and try to turn down the lights starting around 10pm. Varying degrees of success with that one.
I’ve tried Ambien, and it would help at first, but then not. I didn’t have any cool driving or sexy times either, at least my husband says I didn’t….
When I’ve been up so much I feel like I may never sleep again, and the hallucinations start being not so amusing, I’ve found that it can take a while to settle, so getting the world shut out for a big chunk of time helped. This didn’t really work out well once I was married, and when I had kids – they don’t seem to have an “off” button.
Please consider calling your doctor, or getting a doctor, because this is something that can be treated – you may need something like an anti-depressant, or whatever. But even if you can “tough it out” with no drugs, you should get a medical eval just to make sure you aren’t totally batshit insane yet ;-)
SiubhanDuinne
@R-Jud:
Well what the hell are you waiting for? Get out there and run for PM! Even better, cut back on your sleep and win in a landslide!
Seriously? Insomnia SUX. I don’t much care for drugs, so I rely on alphabet head games: mentally list every famous person you can think of with the same first and last initials (Alan Alda, Brigitte Bardot, Coco Chanel, David Dinkins, etc.), or listen to the radio and count each word that begins with the letters of the alphabet in order (President Obama went to *Afghanistan* and *began* a *conversation* about withdrawing American troops by next *December. Everyone* thinks he’s a *fool* but he just says “Chill, I *got* this.”)
Works for me. Most nights. I sure hope you get some sleep soon.
Annie
@R-Jud:
Exercise……..Long walks are good, but make sure to control the “auditory hallucinations.” You don’t want to freak the neighbors out when you start having a conversation with your invisible friend….
SIA
R-Jud,my sympathies. Try L-tryptophan, valerian, and magnesium. If that doesn’t work, Goody’s PM or tylenol PM. Changing rooms can help.
Sometimes I can meditate myself to sleep. Sweet dreams.
rootless-e
@mr. whipple: Maybe I have these deals confused but this is how I understand it
treasury bonds say are paying only say, %1
GS says we have a deal for you that will pay %3 but is just as safe
Here’s the deal:
You put in $x million dollars and we buy treasury bonds with it
The interest goes to you and then someone else will pay you the extra 2% if your money can be used to insure this package of crappy BBB rated garbage won’t go bad. If it does, you lose everything, but it won’t.
Investors moronically gobble it up. And these investors are not chumps like you or me, they are huge banks with tons of brilliant analysts and lawyers and other highly paid workers to check this shit out.
Now the Feds say, bad GS, you should have told them that the “someone else” who paid the extra 2% also selected the mortgages. But someone had to be on the other side of the bet and that someone had to have a reason for expecting to win the bet. Banks that invested were stupid and deserved to lose their money and have their managers fired and prosecuted for failing to do their jobs.
Anne Laurie
@Ross:
Be grateful he’s not a relative. And look for a less insane candidate to support in the next election.
John Cole
@R-Jud: Drugs. I bitch on the blog when I have insomnia for one night. By day three I would be knocking off pharmacies for the shit that killed Michael Jackson.
Go to your doctor and get some sedatives or sleeping aids or whatever they are called.
Also, melatonin, which Genine recommended to me and it works.
jl
I respectfully request (actually, I unilaterally demand) videos of the three animals tearing the house down.
Fussing over getting good videos of the mayhem will help Cole take his mind of the unfolding disaster, and calm him down.
I most ardently respectfully request videos of Cole’s fatcat overlord.
jl
@R-Jud: Yeah, with insomnia that bad, see your doc asap.
I have bouts of insomnia too once in awhile. Exercise a few hours before bed time helps. Walks, stretching, yoga, something like that.
Getting up and doing a task for half an hour or so helps too. Do some interesting reading, look at nice pics. I think lying there getting upset because I cannot sleep makes it worse.
SiubhanDuinne
@Anne Laurie:
You know what, if you just hang out near an Obama Hospital you shouldn’t have any trouble . . . .
/wing-y nutty
demimondian
@R-Jud: I’d be inclined to respond “So she did. And see what happened because of it?”
Chris Johnson
W.R.T. the wanting Obama to go after war criminals-
It’s called ‘dealing up’. You start with small victories, go after things like HCR, guys like Goldman Sachs and the Blackwater guy, and expand your grasp.
He’s doing it right. You just can’t start talking about who you’ll get next- you stay focussed on the immediate situation.
demimondian
@Chris Johnson: Really, it’s hard to top HCR. And there’s a huge inconsistency in enforcement; the well-connected war criminals have been explicitly excluded from prosecution.
R-Jud
Thanks everyone. Being a regular exerciser with a good diet, this kind of baffles me. I will definitely call the doc Monday morning, and get down to the shops for some of those supplements tomorrow.
Actually, there’s valerian growing in my garden right now. I suppose I could dig it up and make tea. But I don’t feel like digging at 2 am. And the cats would be all over me– they like crushed valerian root more than they like the ‘nip.
demimondian: Mr Jud shot back, “Yes, she ran the country– straight into the ground.”
Apparently MIL’s right-wing bent is a new phenomenon. I blame the Daily Mail.
Annie
@R-Jud:
Where are you?
R-Jud
@Annie: England.
The Main Gauche of Mild Reason
@MikeJ:
The “Vesper”
3 oz gin
1 oz vodka
1/2 oz Lillet
Shake with ice, serve up with a lemon twist.
That’s a man’s cocktail. Also enough to put you on the floor if you drink it too quickly.
gbear
As long as we’re talking sleep disorders, does anyone else have experience with sleep apnea? I was diagnosed about three years ago but the whole process seemed self-fulfilling; if you went to the sleep clinic, you’d wind up with the diagnosis. I sleep with a CPAP machine and full mask (because I can’t keep my mouth closed), but I go through periods where I can’t get comfortable with the mask. I either don’t wear it or find that I’ve taken it off in my sleep. It’s like I’m three months on and three months off the machine and what season it is doesn’t seem to play into it.
R-Jud, Does your SO complain that you snore? Apnea could be a cause of the sleep problems.
MikeJ
@Annie: It’s more or less vermouth, but it’s good vermouth. Good enough to drink on its own. Don’t try that with anything other than Lillet or Vya.
Calouste
@R-Jud:
If there ever was any prove that people need more than 4 hours of sleep per night…
BruceFromOhio
Nine Inch Nails, Foo Fighters, System of a Down and half a liter of cheap vodka while the AVG/linux boot disc hunts a ruthless trojan on the file server.
The kids are watching “Rent.”
Let it snow, Gaia, maybe it’ll take the edge off the allergies.
Want Apple to be nice and let you sell your app through the iStore? Win a Pulitzer.
Cat Lady
@Chris Johnson:
This.
Also, will all the fucking PUMAs just shut up now? Let’s see who’s giving him his mojo, and who’s backing they’ve been given:
Hillary Clinton, awesomest SOS evah!
Nancy SMASH Pelosi
Mary Schapiro
FLOTUS
Janet Napolitano
Kathleen Sebelius
Sonia Sotomayor
to start.
Bite me Taylor Marsh.
Annie
@R-Jud:
Lucky for you. You don’t have to decide between killing grandma or getting a second mortgage on the house to get treatment….
Hopefully, with HCR, we slowly are moving in your direction. And, as the right keeps telling us, Obama has alienated our closest friends in the Brits, so on behalf of my country, I want to apologize…
Keith G
I’ve come across some reporting on the drop in Obama’s job approval. I have wanted to find someone who drills down into the details of the whos and whys. Is anyone writing about this?
R-Jud
@Annie:
It’s my country, too! I’m an ex-pat. Got lots of handshakes the day after the election.
I’d like to move home. I’m pleased that HCR passed. It’s a start.
BruceFromOhio
@gbear:
SO has bouts similar. Seems like the cpap made it less acute, snoring wasn’t as bad when the mask was off, but she hates the it, won’t wear it all now. Most of the time she’s okay, but when allergies are bad or she gets a cold, its like sleeping next to a poor tuba player. YMMV. Beware of scams.
Kobie
Just got done doing my nightly browsing of Media Matters for the latest in Rush/Beck/Fox bullshit. It depresses me that there are actually people in this country who believe every word that comes out of the mouths of these pieces of shit.
BruceFromOhio
@Keith G:
Whew, lots of digging required. the Great Orange Satan has the Russell 2000 stats they’ve been running since last year, but there’s no context except for the weekly roundup.
538.com has the tagged articles, it just goes on and on.
demkat620
@R-Jud: I have that insomnia where all i do is catnap. Never get to a true sleep. I can fall asleep but I can’t stay asleep.
I take the drugs. Without it I am non functional. And a fucking bitch.
Annie
@R-Jud:
The country is changing — when you come home, make sure you carry a big sign filled with bad grammar and lots of misspelled words…If anyone asks, you can say you moved home to help “Tak the country back.” You will fit right in…
gbear
@BruceFromOhio:
Sometimes the mask is really easy to hate, but then other times I don’t have a problem with the mask at all. I wish it could be like that all the time. I had an SO who had it so bad he’d often just stop breathing for 5-6 seconds while I’d panic waiting for him to start snoring again. I often had to go sleep on the couch if I wanted to get to sleep at all.
Chad N Freude
@Ross: Ask him what proof he has.
MikeJ
@BruceFromOhio: Wow. Congressional republicans came in *under* the crazification factor with a mere 21% approval. Somewhere there’s 6% who approved of Bush but not of congressional republicans.
Liberty60
Re: Confederate History Month, I liked the discussion by Ta Nahisi Coates on the treatment of freed slave
Best line-
I think that incident, as I’ve written before, underscores why the notion that a beige America is a some kind of civil rights strategy is naive. Racism creates races where there are none.<blockquote>
Litlebritdifrnt
R-Jud – a nice bottle of red wine should do the trick.
In other news “Daddy’s Home”
http://twitpic.com/1g491c
There is really nothing more to say.
R-Jud
@Litlebritdifrnt:
Girl, you know I’m working on it now.
JenJen
Go Pens! W00T!
I love hockey, but Is the road to the Stanley Cup a schlep, or what?
Annie
Watching Bill Maher’s “Religulous.” Almost spit out my wine when one woman announced she is Christian because of the Jews, and when Jesus returns she is going to be raptured while riding a white horse to heaven…Poor horse.
BruceFromOhio
@MikeJ:
The ebb and flow is fun to watch. Dems may lose seats this fall, but lacking any significant course change between now and then, it’s going to be status quo to 2012.
It’s also fun to note that the Confederate Party’s strongest numbers are +60 southern men. I think mistermix has it nailed.
Litlebritdifrnt
@R-Jud:
Proud of ya!
Kobie
@Annie: There’s some funny shit in “Religulous.” I watched it a few months back.
Liberty60
@Liberty60:
blockquote fail
the line from TNC was:
” I think that incident, as I’ve written before, underscores why the notion that a beige America is a some kind of civil rights strategy is naive. Racism creates races where there are none.”
This resonated with me- that people like the KKK don’t ONLY target dark skinned people; the implication being that if there were no black people the KKK wouold disappear.
My family was Eastern European Catholic, in the upper Midwest, and yet in the 1920’s were terrorized by Klan night riders, to the point where Grandma demanded my uncles avoid going out on certain nights to avoid trouble.
This is why people like Bob McConnell are so disengenuous- hell dishonest- they are always walking around with a chip on their shoulder looking for a group upon whom to vent their suppressed rage.
Skepticat
@Anne Laurie: Last weekend, before a real estate open house, I plonked 108 pansies in the ground around the front steps. So far they’ve made it through the two frosts this week, and I’m hoping that the snow they’re talking about is going to be only very chilly rain. I’ve had pansies survive Mother’s Day snowstorms, so I’m crossing my finger for these. Life in New England; we’re never bored.
Keith G
@BruceFromOhio: Thanks. I was just at 538. Could not find any not about the numbers I have heard a few bobble heads toss out today.
IIRC….approval around 35% lowest since Aug. Sounded pretty extreme so I wanted to track it down.
Annie
Can I admit that the Tudors is starting season 4 on Sunday, and I can’t wait…I do love all the power and lust, and lust and power….
Litlebritdifrnt
@Liberty60:
THIS. It is a huge chip on their shoulder, that is what they are carrying around, they are the superior white male, they should be in charge, it grates them that they are not. And yes, if they could scream “there is a f**king n**ger in the whitehouse” they would but they can’t, as (I think) Mahr said “it is sticking in their throat and they can’t let it out”
demimondian
@gbear: I have severe sleep apnea — the doctor looked at my numbers and wondered, out loud, “Why aren’t you *dead*?” — the answer has something to do with polycythemia. For me, the mask is a godsend.
Litlebritdifrnt
@Skepticat:
Pansies? Good FSM. I went out this week and spent like a woman with no arms on marigolds, petunias, impatiens, verbena, coleus, dianthus, and my absolute favorite tourina, I am going to put on my straw hat, dress myself in shorts and a t-shirt and do very lady-like gardening this weekend tending to my containers, none of that brutal yard work from last weekend. I may even make myself a mint julep.
Litlebritdifrnt
@demimondian:
DH heard the same thing from his doctor after the sleep study, however he couldn’t stand the mask, he got LESS sleep with it than without it. We are working on a “sweety turn on your side” routine, when he sleeps on his back he stops breathing, when he is on his side he is fine.
Skepticat
@Litlebritdifrnt: Fiscal constraints, m’dear, fiscal constraints. However, it does seem very strange not to be buying every perennial I can get my soil-stained little fingers on. I miss that, but the fortunate person who buys the house is going to have spectacular perennial gardens–to which I’m not going to add now.
BruceFromOhio
@Litlebritdifrnt:
SO & I tried that for awhile, bad hips make it impossible for her to endure. Hope it works for y’all, we’re about out of easy solutions! This month its new ear plugs and benadryl with copious measures of alcohol thrown in. Winter seems to be the toughest time.
R-Jud, I got the opposite experience, if I sit still quietly for more than five minutes I fall asleep! I hope the wine helps.
BruceFromOhio
@Liberty60:
The Irish, the Italians and the Poles have similar tales. The Klan is built on equal opportunity hate, fear and lies. So-called “Post-racial America” is looking and sounding a lot like America all along.
Anne Laurie
@Litlebritdifrnt:
Sleeping on a 45-degree-triangle pillow (with a roll tucked under my neck) has mostly “cured” my snoring & morning headaches. Yes, it took a few days to get used to, but the relief was well worth the effort. Piling up multiple pillows of various firmnesses didn’t work, I eventually had to go to one of those as-seen-on-tv sites and buy the bolster, and even my devoutly cheapskate Spousal Unit agrees it was worth the expenditure.
gbear
@Anne Laurie: Do you have a link to the wedge pillow? I’d like to see what it looks like. I’m still stacking up the feather pillows. I’m a side sleeper so I’m not sure a wedge would work.
CynDee
@SiubhanDuinne: What you said. The thunderstorm may be some excuse to shut down, but it won’t last the whole weekend and we want our pics. On this subject our sense of entitlement is ENORMOUS and it ain’t gonna change.
Anne Laurie
@BruceFromOhio:
That’s the indoor dryness, which further shrinks those delicate pharyngeal tissues, sigh. I sleep like an astronaut now, with my head & shoulders elevated on a right-triangle bolster (for snoring) and my knees over an isoceles-triangle bolster (for back/hip issues). Yes, it took some acclimating, but now I can flip onto my side & move the pillow between my knees without waking up. Waking up without a backache and a headache makes it well worth the trouble!
Has your wife tried sleeping with a pillow between her knees? I have a congenitally weak hip, and when I first tried this for sciatica I was afraid it would make the hip hurt worse, but it actually helped the hip as well as the back…
demimondian
@Litlebritdifrnt: Hmm. Let’s put it this way — I’ve had severe apnea for thirty years. I had “hated the mask” several times; the thing which got me to wear it all night, every night, and whenever I take a nap, was the sudden rash of complications I started having about two years ago.
Seriously, my family was to the point that they were talking about my funeral both with each other and with me.
In my case, the mask isn’t optional any more.
Anne Laurie
@gbear:
Believe it or not, thisis what makes me comfy at night & lets me get up in the morning without staggering. Now you know my shame. That site, and goldviolin.com and a host of other mail-order sites catering to us aging boomers, also have a plethora of less extreme ‘sleep wedges’ and specialized pillows. I used to be a side sleeper, but now I usually drop off & wake up on my back… I think side-sleeping was more comfortable for my sinuses even though it wasn’t great for my back/hips. There’s a little ‘neck roll’ attached to the shoulder wedge, which really helps when I flip onto my side.
Phoenix Woman
@R-Jud: Is the MIL a Harry Potter fan? If so, you should share with her Jo Rowling’s exquisite takedown of Toryism in general and Cameron in particular — but only after you GET SOME SLEEP!
gbear
@Anne Laurie: LOL. Cole needs that to replace his La-z-boy so that Tunch can jump on his head without toppling the chair.
More power to you if it works for you.
I went off to read about Apnea and the stuff I was reading said that side sleeping was better for me. I also found some newer style masks that look more comfy. Hmm. I’ll look around your boomer site for a side-sleep pillow (I’m a late boomer, turn 56 this summer).
Gina
@gbear: Late to the party, but there is a type of cpap that has little nose insert thingies instead of the giant mask. It may not work for every case, but you can ask the sleep docs if it would be doable.
The Succubus
@R-Jud:
Melatonin (sleep hormone, comes in timed-release) can be helpful, but you can’t take it every night, as it will decrease your body’s own melatonin production. Back when I was gainfully employed, I took it three or four nights a week. Helped.
Five nights…stress or mood disorder?
Or you can sit back and wait for the visual hallucinations to start. Don’t see lime green poodles, don’t see lime green poodles, don’t see lime green poodles, don’t see lime green poodles…
BruceFromOhio
@Anne Laurie:
That’s the combination that is tough to crack. Seems you’ve found a good solution, judging by the link to that wedge pillow.
Thank you for sharing!