Us. At the diner. No retouching. Our hair looks grayer than it actually is because of the overhead lighting. Don has a lot more dark hair than this indicates.
I’m running a little late this morning because we watched the debate last night and were discussing it during our second cup of coffee and then it was suddenly past time to write a post. Good discussion, though, and thought provoking.
I forgot to tell you yesterday – I heard a mourning dove while I was drinking my coffee and I turned around and looked outside and there was Lonesome Dove, perched high up on one of the wires. I can’t tell you how happy I was to see him. Spring is coming.
Other than that, we’ve got errands to run on this gray and rainy day. And I’m having lunch with Rick. Rick has been gone from our little town this winter more than he’s been here, so we need to catch up.
Then back to the house – our tiny little haven.
Happy Wednesday.
Have a good day. Just getting over a sad week. My grandgirls’ granddad died unexpectedly. However, they are strong and are coping. We have snow today for my eldest to fly to England-back to school.
Lots of snow coming down here. Schools are closed (which seemed a little extreme to me — we’re Michigan, not Alabama or Tennessee where snow if less common). But it’s clear winter is raising its head again, and I suppose, since it’s not spring and I DO live in Michigan, it is “allowed” and should be without moan and groan!
I thought last night’s debate felt like a train wreck. It felt like one of those “more harm than good” moments with some well stated points but too much chaos. I just wish the control room would cut the mikes after a certain point. It reminded me of a classroom of very unruly kids with a very bad teacher!
hej, jeanie …
i missed last night’s debate, but my boss said something similar when talking about it today. from what she described, i agree with you … turn off their microphones if they cannot follow the rules!
good luck with the weather (i’d be complaining about it, too).
kathy in iowa
Love seeing those faces!
I read lots of comments saying they didn’t feel the journalists reined them in or coped with the debate very well. It was the first one I have caught most of & live on the radio so I’m not sure about those comments. Each one seemed to have at least one moment ‘in the sun,’ so to speak. Saw the Spin Room after & thought that was a good idea – each could recap or clarify.
Locally, hoping the new forecast of possible rain on Saturday comes true. It’s beautiful here in Northern CA, but soon will be brown if no rain.
nice photo of you and don!
glad you saw lonesome dove yesterday and get to spend time with another friend today.
getting errands and chores done would feel good, too (my to-do list is very long right now).
happy ash wednesday.
kathy in iowa
Respectfully, I have sincerely listened to the debates while appreciating the
distinct personalities and various backgrounds. I keep experiencing the frustration of not hearing true discussion and proposals regarding solutions to the very real issues plaguing our nation. What I am seeing is acute haranguing of one another when given a genuine opportunity to speak to those of us willing to listen. I can only surmise I am stupidly missing the point of the debates which seems to be mostly about the destruction of each candidate’s potential opponents. This seems a sad situation and a predictable decline in voters making
the time sacrifice and effort toward these events.
Love that photo of you and Don.You make a handsome couple.
Marilyn
I liked the town halls on CNN Weds nite more than that messy, chaotic debate! Bloomberg & Biden, in their town halls, came across with much more info than in the debate where everybody talked over everybody else. (I didn’t watch the other town halls with Amy & E. Warren; missed those.)
Such a nice photo of the two of you; easy to tell you were having a nice time.
Something dominating other than politics: My husband continues to be so concerned for his friend/business acquaintance who’s in quarantine with the coronavirus in Nebraska; his wife isolated in another hospital facility somewhat nearby, also quarantined (not even allowed to leave the room, which I think is dorm size), yet not positive for the virus as is he; he is in no way out of the woods and has been in the disease-control hospital unit (biocontainment) but, today, we just heard, like five minutes ago, that he finally got out of ‘ICU’ and is in the same facility his wife is in although of course still completely isolated from anybody else, including her. (He tested positive with fever in-flight on the way back over here.) The couple they were traveling with…she left behind in a Japan hospital (off the cruise ship of doom, Diamond Princess)…are also now not doing well, either of them; she had tested positive and was sick on the boat; now, her husband, who had to leave her and come back to the U.S. (as dictated by the State Dept), has now also tested positive. I say again, a frick’in nightmare, nearly three weeks or more of hell so far for these folks. He never had left Travis Air Force Base near Sacramento and has been of course quarantined but I think 9 there are now all sick, and they think they got the virus when jammed on the busses at the dock in Japan (for hours), waiting to get out to the airport for the flights back to the U.S. Sounds like the bus was an incubator. I’m getting all this secondhand thru my husband, but I think I have the details right. I try to imagine…can’t…what it must be like to have your wife so ill back in Japan and alone, with no family, a world away, and now you’re in Sacramento, also alone and sick without her, and you’ve been away from home in SoCalif for well over a month. And all you were trying to do was just enjoy a trip of a lifetime that you’d waited all your life to do. (Senior-aged people.)
Obviously, knowing people going thru this is making it quite ‘up close & personal’ for my husband and me in a scary way; it’s worrisome although you try to put it in some kind of perspective. Now, they’re mega-sanitizing LAX for someone who went in and out of there, eventually testing positive; I think the evening news said it was a flight attendant. It’s when I think I envy people who live on a remote island! Or in the remote countryside. Instead, I’m basically in the far reaches of L.A. suburbia/greater L.A. region. The virus, if it takes hold, could spread so rapidly to my neck ‘o the woods.
I went to the larger drugstore today and the entire shelf for Theraflu was empty. The only reason I went looking for it was because I heard some official talking about it on the TV news yesterday and how you might treat flu symptoms at home; I could swear it was Dr. Fauci of the NIH; maybe not. He(?) mentioned Theraflu I guess as a general flu symptom-reliever. I looked at the empty store shelf and said to the pharmacist, “Really?” He said, “People heard the CDC loud & clear yesterday.” And I don’t think anything Trump said on Weds nite is believed by anybody. (I could relate to Bloomberg’s comment when he said sarcastically, about listening to Trump’s ‘pandemic/virus’ words/press conference, something like “Gee, I feel so much better now.” Exactly. I’m not gonna believe ANYTHING coming out of Trump’s mouth.) I had a routine doctor’s appointment yesterday and plastered all over my clinic’s front door, before you ever enter, was one warning after another about proceeding into the waiting room (or not) if you have fever. Nothing was posted like that a couple of weeks ago.
My husband and I have given all this a lot of thought; have been modestly preparing for a few weeks now in case we have to do a self-quarantine of 14 days or more (as we both now have respiratory issues and are vulnerable to flu). We needed to do it anyway, for earthquake preparedness. So, like ‘okay’, do a bit of prep; have a plan; and then try to think about something else. Just have to be, in general, mindful and thoughtful (not panicked) but I was dismayed when out in public today at various places, how careless too many people were with coughing and sneezing into the air (my air), like do they read NOTHING on how to try to prevent transmission of ANY virus? Could you cough into your elbow please? We’ve had Santa Ana wind conditions the past few days, temps in the 80s in the daytime, and a lot blows in that wind (besides which, the air is very dry) so, of course, some of that coughing and sneezing is due to allergy; still, people may have to learn very quickly, please not too late, to be more responsible about their ‘condition’ when around others in large-group gatherings, standing in a line near to others, etc.
Hi Vicki, thank you for posting this. You have helped me see how I need to change my actions to protect myself and others.
Great photo, lovely people. Thank you for posting.