I uploaded a photo, edited it, and was ready to insert it in my post when I realized I just used it two days ago. Life is a blur, my friends, in these days of viruses and the insanity of the leadership of our country.
I didn’t watch the convention but I did do some reading this morning. It sounds horrific and I’m not at all surprised. They have no platform, they warn about what the country will become under Dems and the video they use is what is happening NOW under the Orange Man. Still using “Make America Great” when they’ve had four years in power in which to do that very thing. They’ve failed on every level, so they have nothing to tout, nothing of hope, nothing of compassion, nothing of good.
You know how I feel. I despise the current GOP and everything it stands for. We are witnessing the last gasps of a party that Lincoln, if he were alive, would have absolutely nothing to do with. As Rick Wilson says, Everything Trump Touches Dies; #ETTD
Okay. Enough of that.
It’s humid today and we’ve been told we might have rain and storms. I’ll believe it when I see it, of course, but we sure could use it. Right now, as I write this, the sun has come out, so I’m getting more doubtful about the forecast by the minute.
I did a little work on the the dollhouse yesterday, sanding some of the interior surfaces and adding trim to the roofline. Today, I’ll paint the downstairs ceiling. Then I’ll have to make a decision about wallpaper. For some reason, I’m having trouble making a decision this time around. So it’s back to the drawing board. In the meantime, when I’ve finished painting the ceiling, I’ll start in on the wood floor downstairs.
I follow a lot of miniaturists and dollhouse enthusiasts on Instagram. I love seeing everyone else’s imaginative work. Though there are a slew of dollhouses that look exactly like the current white interior, subway tile, wood and white sofa craze (I tune out, just as I do when I see yet another feature in a magazine showing the same thing) there are a lot of original and funky and wonderful designs. It’s inspiring to see the work that others do. It keeps me very, very humble, to be sure.
I’m reading James Lee Burke and Don, who just finished The Underground Railroad, was so intrigued by my description of Hamnet that he’s now reading it. Don usually reads nonfiction but the last three books he’s read have been fiction (with a historical reference).
Other than that, my friends, we’re hanging in there, giving ourselves chores and errands to run and books to read and meals to prepare in order to provide some structure to each day.
Stay safe.
Happy Tuesday.