230.2 lbs…

… weight gain not a surprise… little exercise yesterday due to rain and intense wind… pasta for dinner… wine for dinner… a precipitous drop from the day before yesterday indicating a water weight shift… still… the broad trend is down…

… the drums of war beat louder… Biden has indicated that he believes Putin has decided to invade Ukraine and will target Kiev… we plunge into the unknown…

… 45 keeps loosing in court…

… John Durham walks a court filing back just a smidge…

… Dinner with M and PW last night… made Bucatini all’ Amatriciana last night… served with an arugula, red onion and orange bell pepper salad… i put a little too much red onion in which also didn’t seem to get less sharp from soaking in cold water…

… PW saying they didn’t understand what Putin gains from a Ukraine invasion… invading and subduing a population that doesn’t want you is bound to be messy, even if your force overwhelms in the early days… i couldn’t think of a good answer… i don’t know what he gains other than a confrontation with NATO and much of the free world…

… yesterday morning H, i and the dogs drove around the island experiencing the storm… i stood for a while at the top of the stairs down to Mohegan beach/bluffs… the wind was blowing so hard the stairs were shaking… elemental… i made some pictures and a couple of videos…

… in an effort to be able to produce an image poem for posting on Sunday, i discovered that images can be rearranged in the photo app that comes with the iPhone… from here until we go home, my efforts will be concentrated in that app, possibly beyond… it is certainly how to keep up while traveling…