Busy week!
It is all over for me...except the counting...returns...and Congratulatory or Concession Speeches on November 3rd/4th.
(...and of course the celebratory champagne or commiseratory drinking...depending on various outcomes...)
But otherwise, it is a done deal.
Actually, mailed mine on Tuesday, so that I could accurately say I was giving Trump his two week notice.
Politics...it is a sickness...lol!
Watched the final debate like someone might rubber-neck at a bad accident.
Not for any real purpose...more out of morbid curiosity, than anything.
The muting of the mics did lead to a more civil discourse...if not more factual. And the difference in the two candidates could not have been show-cased more clearly.
(I was rooting for shock collars)
So, here we are...the ten day count-down.
Feeling very confident.
Photos of early voting lines everywhere today!
Massive mail-in response already.
Know what else has been massive this week?
The Covid-19 Surge across the USA.
The Past 3 days:
Wednesday: 65,000 new cases.
Thursday: 71,000 (additional) new cases.
Friday: 83,000 (more) new cases.
For a total of 219,000 newly infected people.
8760 of those people WILL die (4%)
Not speculation...Covid Math.
And when I see Trump still doing the "...balls to butts..." (thank you, Steve) mostly maskless rallies...multiple rallies a day each day this week through so many states...I am appalled...but mostly just saddened.
In ten days you people will mean nothing to this man.
In ten days or less...some of you will be quite ill.
In a few more weeks some of you will be dead.
And the rest of us out here that are unwittingly exposed to you will continue the cycle...quarantine...hunkering down...with no end in sight.
I miss hugging my Grandchildren.
~sigh~
The end of Fall is coming, though...
The leaves falling and getting more muted oranges and yellows...that will soon be the rusts and browns of November.
Have to make an executive decision soon as to whether I am going to over-winter my Bay, or just pluck and dry the available leaves...and start a new one in Spring.
Decided against mums as it turned cold early this year. Still doing pumpkins.
Huge undertaking this week as soon I will have all new cabinets!
(...which sounds great until you realize you have to empty every cabinet and drawer and pantry you own...)
Oh...and you haven't really done that for almost 10 years.
It has been a bit like a treasure hunt...with trash bags.
And boxes.
And phone calls to friends...
"Do you want this red Japanese Tea Set...I don't even know what I was thinking!"
Yeah....
But at the end it will be beautiful!
The Grands school closed until at least November 3rd...James and Nicole tell me a teacher at the school ended up with Covid.
Otherwise they are all doing good.
I miss our Annual Orchard Outing.
Chris and Tina are fine.
Chris has started his new 8 weeks...aced his finals and made honor roll again.
He is tying wet flies and nymphs...as well as dry flies now...and even sold a few.
And I'll catch up with Lennon later. I am anxious to hear his assessment of DeSantis' newest order to open the nursing homes down there to visitors, now.
How could THAT possibly go wrong, eh???
We have taken to referring to him as DeSatan, and lament that Florida is stuck with him for at least 2 more years.
Don and family now infected with Covid...thinking maybe they ended up with it from their grandson. For now it appears to be mild.
Loretta still fine...but scary news as her assisted living that has literally been on lock-down since the end of February...now has 3 residents infected after an asymptomatic employee had been working around them...when the employee became sick...the residents did also, soon after.
Now they are all confined to rooms...even at mealtime...until a handle can be got on this...
And I am still scared for her.
John and I looking forward to November and Our Time.
He has been doing a lot of biking before it is winter.
and sending me shots from the trails he rides!
Can't wait to share a walk with you here...(well...roll)...and maybe some of that DQ you are always telling me about...lol...
Still waiting on Woodward's new book RAGE.
Caught a new (2020) movie last night:
(The Great Silence)
This film was a great film in search of an ending...that just didn't quite happen.
When the credits appeared I actually said out loud
"SERIOUSLY????"
(..yeah..scared the hell out of the cat...)
Not well known cast but well acted.
Good story-line and back story.
Good cinematography.
Edge of your seat film....until it wasn't.
Almost like maybe the plague in the film took the scriptwriter right before he wrote the ending...lol.
Very frustrating.
You have been warned.
Back to the cabinets and drawers, now.
Have a great weekend...
