flowering hosta

Lovely day at work. 

amandoAlentejo let me know that, while I was on vacation, Ukraine did a cold shut down of their nuclear power plant! Thank you! This is great news because who trusts Russian soldiers not to blow it up and create a nuclear catastrophe for all of Europe and beyond? Ukraine's nuclear energy agency said it put the last operating reactor into a cold shutdown because it was at risk of flooding thanks to Russia bombing the dam. Nuclear reactors need a lot of water for cooling. 

And now I'm off to dinner. My friend who moved off to Mississippi is in town.