One heck of a 48th wedding anniversary celebration

[Note: Apparently, the only way to format a simple post these days is to use HTML, which I don't know. Excuse me, Google, but I'm a blogger, not a coder. I've always tended toward long-format writing, which is why I'm here, not on Bluesky. But now, Google is making it impossible to publish any post that's more than one paragraph long, and I don't appreciate it.]

Update: Okay, I'm trying some basic HTML that I just picked up on an internet search: < and /p and > to make a paragraph, < and br and > to create a blank line between paragrahs. Skip the "and," of course.

I met my husband at the local dermatologist office, where they were following up on a growth that they'd carved off and sent for biopsy a couple of weeks ago, and we were supposed to go directly from there to our anniversary dinner. Not so fast. It turned out that the growth was a basal cell carcinoma--skin cancer. Should they remove it right away, or wait a week or two? I said, "Just get it over with," thereby giving new meaning to the saying, "Take it off, take it all off.) 🙂

Forty-five minutes, some local anesthesia, some surgical carving by the dermatologist, and some self-dissolving stitches and a surgical dressing later, we were finally off to a very fine dinner at ye friendly not-so-local glatt kosher Japanese restaurant to which our son had taken us for Mother's Day. A short stop afterward at the kosher bakery near the restaurant worked well for my husband, but the only gluten-free cookies they sell were not available due to the hot weather--all the chocolate in and on the cookies would have melted after five minutes out of the refrigerator case. Oh, well.

We hopped back on the subway and walked home from our station, stopping off to buy my first cherries of the year (my annual anniversary treat). We watched some dumb movie on the tv. Then our son informed us that it was time to turn on the news, and this was what we saw.

~Senator Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's press conference and hand-cuffed, but was later released.

~A judge handed control of the California National Guard back to the governor of California. [Update: Naturally, this ruling was appealed and has been stayed. A hearing is currently scheduled for Tuesday.]

~Israel attacked Iran.

We go out for an anniversary dinner, but first, my husband has a cancerous skin growth removed, and then, we find out that the news has gone nuts while we weren't looking.

It wasn't exactly the celebration that we would have wanted, but that's the way life is, these days.