Air temperature 24 F, wind northwest about 4 mph, partly cloudy. Moon low over downhill neighbor's roof when I got up, gone now. Trash out, which completes my obligations to society for the day.
The appointment scheme makes perfect sense when you realize that those people are going to head agencies that he and his ideological team want destroyed.
Downhill neighbor had an old white pine taken down today, about 2' through at the stump. What they call a "wolf pine" that didn't produce a saw log because it grew in the open and sprouted multiple trunks. It overhung their garage, so a threat to civil society.