Random thoughts:
Yet another item I found in the shed purge. It’s not vintage, but I like it. I also like the texture it adds to this little display.
By the way, we keep all sorts of things in that wooden box; dish towels, kitchen items, all the things that used to be in the drawers of the former kitchen island. It has a lid built into the top.
So…we have another impeachment today. The only *president* that will have been impeached twice.
As this investigation goes on, we’re going to learn a lot more about the insurrection at the Capitol. I predict that some members of Congress will be implicated, as will members of the administration.
We’ve been watching a lot of news but I feel it taking a toll on me again. Yet, this is such an important time and there are huge concerns about more seditious and dangerous activity over the next week and beyond. These people must be rooted out and stopped. And those members of Congress who aided and abetted the lie and the subsequent insurrection must be expelled. We need a clean sweep.
Dollhouse wallpaper? Who the heck knows where it is? It’s ‘delayed’ up in Albany. Heck, I could drive up there and pick it up!
Ah well. Since there’s nothing I can do about it, I watch from the sidelines, knowing it will arrive eventually. I also have a small package that was mailed to me from Spain on December 13th. It dropped off the radar completely as of December 15th. Sigh.
Hang in there, everyone.
We’re off to pick up our groceries.
Stay safe.
Happy Wednesday.
We’ve been watching CNN all day for days. I now find myself yelling and talking back to the TV. I believe I need a break, but don’t want to miss anything. My language has also gone down hill! Strange times. I never miss your blog! Thank you, we feel the same way about most things.
I frequently yell at the TV!
Stay safe, Judy.
Our son mailed our Christmas card from the West Coast of B.C., just one province away from us, on the 15th of December. Still not here …. my blogging buddy in Scotland mailed her card to me the same week and it arrived just a few days after Christmas. Mail system is so crowded at the moment. A gift my daughter ordered for me (from Susan Branch) is still on it’s way ….
Impeached twice. He does like to over do things! Hoping today things turn and he’s done. Then the 20th will soon be here and the celebration can begin. Keep safe. Be well.
Dollhouse query …. I’m finally brave enough to try to create a wood floor in one of my mini’s. Did you glue down the wood with craft glue or a glue gun on your projects? I’ve cut, stained and laid out all the pieces and now just need to secure them to the base. Getting there!
X Chy
I glue the pieces individually, Chy – with glue. I don’t use a glue gun. I use Quick Grip, which is sort of like airplane glue. But you could use anything that works with wood. Good luck!
Stay safe, Chy.
Thank you Claudia! Looking forward to trying to put this together. I appreciate your advice!
X Chy
xo
It is shocking how slow the mail/delivery systems we had in place have gotten. I guess it’s a little because of DeJoy…hope he’s gone soon, and Covid forcing us to shop more online. I ordered two different items on the same day. One coming from Texas, which arrived just 4 days later. And, another one from Massachusetts. That one had travel to Rhode Island first, then Atlanta where it spent several days. Finally made it to Milwaukee…another several days, before landing in Madison, obviously too exhausted to make it to my front door, it had to rest up again, for several days! Lol! All this to say…hang in there.
I’m afraid to turn on CNN or MSNBC for fear I will be glued to the set. It took me a couple days to recover from the last viewing marathon.
Love that basket…great color and texture. And, on that note…I wish you a good day. Stay safe! ;)
Remember that DeJoy removed lots of massive sorting machines. I think it is largely due to his misdeeds.
Stay safe, Donna!
glad there are some goodies on the way (hope they arrive soon, but it’s also nice to have something to look forward to, i think) and, moreso, that you already have some things to enjoy … and distract you, as needed.
i’m needing distraction, too. probably the whole world does. skip the rest of this paragraph if you’re needing a break! just read a couple articles this morning about extremists infiltrating the military and police forces just to stir up trouble (including that of last wednesday) and about someone in congress accusing unnamed colleagues of taking people on a tour of the capitol for “reconnaissance” the day before that awful attempted coup. if true … disgusting! throw the book at them!
break time!
the basket is lovely. you already know i love those faux-wood metal boxes … and that old box with ny advertising on it is cool. i appreciate re-purposing things, the valuing of older things (i am not one bit trendy) and finding creative storage ideas. thanks for sharing photos of your cozy, home-y home!
usual here and that means, among other things, i am blessed in many ways. also, what’s not so good yet is getting better and closer day by day!
happy wednesday and stay safe!
kathy in iowa
to clarify my last sentence, above … things are getting better every day. solutions (like vaccines and impeachment) and even better things are what’s getting closer every day.
i really should preview what i write before clicking on “print comment”. :)
kathy in iowa
Impeachment – Done.
xo
Yes, I’ve read those same articles. It’s beyond frightening.
Stay safe, Kathy!
The basket and crate are really beautiful in the wonderful rustic way I like.
Just finished a tour of a couple of your dollhouses on Insta. Nicely done. I don’t think I’d seen (or noticed) the paned front door window on the cottage yet. Nice! Hope your mail comes soon, filled with goodies.
Rick did my shopping last night and finally put away and cleaned. I wonder how long I’ll be doing this?
I think I put a photo of it on the blog, but I’m not sure!
I think I’ll be doing all of this for quite a while longer. Even when we get vaccinated – which will be awhile, given what I’ve read about the process – others will not have been vaccinated, so I won’t feel safe.
Sigh.
Stay safe, Jeanie.
I almost typed “Hello Gloria”. I guess Gloria maybe one of your new dollhouse residents? Or I could just be losing it. :-). I’ve been trying to be better about the news, but I’m just about giddy today waiting for our fearless leader to be verified as the Worst President in History! Almost worth living for. Of course, the other side of the coin is the threat of deadly violence across the country. I imagine it will be another day of rogue wave emotions. But another image cheers me up: the depiscable tyrant huddled alone in his bunker…forsaken by everyone. Probably even Melania has locked him out. I hear he may vacate the premises in the next day or so, which would be great because I think the fumigation job will take a looooong time. Meanwhile, stay safe, hold on to whatever sanity you can find, and know that you and Don contributed greatly to this opportunity for justice.
It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve been called Gloria. It’s even happened on this blog!
Thanks, Nora!
Stay safe.
Well, after starting yesterday and , basically, living since then in online hell…I THINK I have an appointment for a vaccination tomorrow. Crossing fingers, toes—everything right now! None of this is easy. Oh, I hope getting yours is easier.
Congrats, Shanna! I’m sure that receiving it will give you some needed peace of mind. No where around us even has the vaccine even though we are “eligible”. Such a cluster.
It really is, Chris. Here in Daytona people have had to camp out overnight, or, like me, to stay online counting down the seconds until scheduling an appointment is available, only to have it come up as “soldout” the second it is available! We’ll see if I actually get one.
Good for you. It seems like we’re going to have to wait a while, even though we are now eligible.
Stay safe, Shanna.
What a pretty basket!! Do you remember where you bought it, or when?
I can’t seem to turn off MSNBC these days. I justify it by the fact that we are truly living through history. Horrid history, but history nonetheless. Listening to the repubs try to justify it this morning made me wretch a bit, but that has been the case for over 4 years, so no news there. And Listening to Jordan right now really makes me want to vomit. He is beyond words.
Hope your purchases make their way to MHC sooner rather than later. Too bad they can’t tell us about their journeys. Take care.
Have no idea where I bought it!
We have MSNBC on a lot, too, though we took a break last night.
I cannot stand Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Kevin McCarthy, and the two QAnon reps. They make my blood boil!
Stay safe, Chris.
It surely will be interesting to see which republican senators have backbones!
And now for some good news involving the mail – The mail is a mess all over the world. A couple of days ago, I contacted the artist in France about my Etsy package dropping off the tracking radar back on Dec. 14th. She put in a “ticket” requesting them to find it yesterday and low and behold, they did. It is now in the US, in NY, so yay! It was found. I am so happy for both the artist and me!
Most of the Republicans apparently don’t have backbones. Unfortunately, that’s not surprising.
Good to hear you received your package from France, Jane! Maybe I’ll ask my seller if she can check on her shipment.
Stay safe!
I’ve been an ostrich about watching news for 4-1/2 years, emerging near the election and then all the %#£& hit the fan. I obsessively watched since last Wednesday but finally had to back away. My head hurts! I’m selectively watching now (Rachel Maddow is a must see for me, but I’m even skipping her some days). Finished building Sesame Street Lego and will start Titanic nanoblocks soon. The pieces are way smaller than Legos so I have to keep my nails short, otherwise some of the pieces will get stuck under my fingernails! Haha.
I skipped Rachel last night – we had to take a break – but we’ll be watching tonight.
Another friend of mine – a former student – is building all sorts of Lego buildings at the moment. He’s having a ball!
Stay safe, Wendy.
I love the basket and the wooden box! I just did a grocery order to pick-up Friday morning. Our county is red again so we are trying to stay safe. I declare, I go to church (on zoom) in my pjs, I order almost everything we need, I never wear makeup, rarely do my hair except to throw it in a messy bun ( I do need a hair cut!!) and the bra comes off late afternoon or early evening. I don’t know for sure but I think I may have to be re-programmed or something to get back into normal society when this is over.
Indiana went to 70 and older today to get the vaccine. Ed is 73 but I am 68. He is going to wait until we can both get it. Hopefully it won’t be long.
We have been working on walnuts again most of the day. Ed cracks them in the garage and then brings in a five gallon bucket full of cracked walnuts to pick out the kernels. We sit at the kitchen table to do this and while we are working, we listen to MSNBC on Sirius radio. We watch Rachel Maddow every night.
At some point during the day I take a walk…..either outside or on the treadmill. I watch old movies, crochet, read or play the piano just to turn the world off for a little while. Otherwise I would be a pure basket case by now.
Hope your mail arrives soon. We have also had trouble with late mail but I think finally everything arrived. Take care and stay safe.
I never even wear a bra! It’s come to that, Lorinda.
I’ve secretly always wanted Sirius radio. How do you subscribe and do you have a special radio?
Stay safe!
It has been a few years since I got it but I think I just went to shop.siriusxm.com and then signed up. They sent me a radio. If I remember right, there is more than one option to choose from. I the SiriusXM onyx EZ radio and then got the portable speakers dock in the accessories. We also have it in the car and I can’t imagine not having it now. We listen to it quite often and really enjoy it.
I believe you can also stream it online, smart TV and other things. We don’t have enough internet data to do that. We have to do satellite internet where we live. We are way out in the country with lots of hills and valleys and no other way to get internet……yet. Anyway, hope this helps
Have a good day and stay safe!
Thanks for the info, Lorinda. The few times I’ve listened on airplanes, I’ve really enjoyed it – especially the Broadway station. Musicals were my first love and they still resonate so strongly!
xo
Beautiful basket and box. The texture, the color. So very nice.
Thanks so much, Joan!
Stay safe.
Four years ago, I experienced so many sleepless nights pre-inauguration. And post-inauguration too. Waiting for the 2020 election results was excruciating.
After Biden’s win and the joyous results of the Georgia special elections, I never expected those nights when my mind could not rest to return. As bad as the events a week ago were, I am beginning to suspect that investigation will continue to turn up some very disturbing information that will make them even scarier. Just recently, a few details have begun coalescing into some dark suspicions circulating in my brain. Maybe they are just coincidences, maybe not. Either way, these are perilous times.
The number of Republican legislators who still will not commit to upholding democracy and our constitution is staggering. When I heard that they feared for their families and themselves, I thought 45 was the threat. Then I realized they were referring to his cult.
My sanity-saver is Prof. Heather Cox Richardson. Her daily Letters from an American and her Tuesday/Thursday Facebook Live give historical perspective and calm analysis. Her hopeful optimism that America will get through this chapter and evolve toward that more perfect union is just what is needed, along with her no-guarantees/stay-involved pragmatism.
Staying safe, hopeful and away from too much news! At least we’ll have a new president in less than a week; so there’s that. Hang in there!
I think we’ll learn a great deal more. My prediction, for what it’s worth – we’ll find out some members of Congress aided and abetted the attackers. I hope I’m wrong.
Stay safe, Roxie!
It is great to discover a hidden treasure that you already own! Shopping the house (or shed in this case). Goes well with the crate.
Thanks so much, Ellen.
Stay safe!
I am going to re-read “Little Women” and if that doesn’t take my mind off of politics, I have the complete set of “Angelina Ballerina” waiting in the wings.
Good for you. Excellent choices!
Stay safe, Tana.
Answer to prayers…vaccine Monday…then 21-28 days for the second one…then two weeks wait…couldn’t get in hospitals close-too full in Indianapolis, so I have to go to one downtown…several miles from me late Monday…prayers please…daughter will mask and take me even though we have not been together forever. Just trying to stay alive a little longer…what a mess this vaccine has become…I have friends getting it in other states…and now they are giving to those who were supposed to wait…alas…prayers to you guys…also
So glad you’ll be getting the vaccine soon, Brenda.
Stay safe!
January 20th…prayers for peace…a new year…a new President…Vaccine for all friends and family…my move to be nearer little boys…bittersweet leaving the family here…
xoxo
Yeah, I can’t pull away much from the news; too much going on, too much to keep learning about. But, yes, as I write this; impeached again, and that’s good.
Then there’s the vaccine. My husband called our primary-care physician’s office today and they can tell us nothing … NOTHING … about the vaccine; only that they, in their clinic, ‘are not equipped’ to give out the vaccine. WTH????? It’s a clinic with five physicians specializing in internal medicine! Said we should keep checking with the County, which is another dead end. It’s all just inexcusable. The doctor’s receptionist/manager said to check in with them in two or three weeks and they might have another answer, specifically for moi, if it’s deemed I can even GET the vaccine due to my allergic past, and just where I can go with a medical team nearby who could get me out of anaphylaxis if I have a reaction after injection. She actually said we’d probably get the vaccine sooner at CVS Drug store before we could get it from our own doctor.
I’m really, in my dark mood, losing a lot of hope about any of this; it’s a real challenge to keep the faith. This is my same doctor who when I tried to probe her about Covid last February, kept saying she didn’t know much about it. She gave me NO info. How could I know more than HER? (I did!) And her RN said to me that day that she thought it was all overblown. Famous last words which I’m sure have come back to bite her in the you-know-what.
And back to impeachment, to repeat, GOOD, but it still leaves him in office right up to inauguration and what bad stuff could still happen with ‘him’ as head of the executive branch of government between now and then. They still couldn’t remove him. There has to be some kind of new law or Constitutional amendment to guard against this in the future. It is hard not to feel we are very, very vulnerable until Jan 20.
My husband and I tried to get away yesterday. I again didn’t want to leave town after an early-morning errand (staying closer than ever to home due to huge escalation of Covid in SoCalif) but sometimes you just have to put a curb on fear and hesitation; find a perspective. So our go-to is the beach and, wow, the waves were SO high; big; thundering. And a deep, high tide. Haven’t seen the surf like that, in the area we like to go, in many years. But people were even fishing from the two-lane beach road that parallels the U.S. highway/freeway; usually, they’re knee-deep in the water at high tide or on what sand is still there to stand on. But this water, right at the road, was probably five feet deep, or so estimated my husband. Our car got wet; we got wet; the beach bungalows had waves crashing against their seawall/retaining walls, up into their yards and under their houses and out onto the paved road. Wow. Wow. Wow. Was really something to witness. And the sea mist was so thick from all that wet, that it clung to the beach cliffs as if it was fog. This was all around 9am, and the sun sparkled on the water like diamonds.
Anyway, the beauty and masterfulness of it all did stay with us for a little while, but not as lingering as we would have liked because, of course, we turned on the TV news as the day went on, which sets you right back to despair, questioning, alarm, anger. It’s just the way it’s going to be for awhile. We found ourselves actually going over in our mind as to what danger if any we have right where we are, in light of all the warnings of U.S. unrest in the next two weeks starting on Saturday. Chilling to hear members of Congress acknowledging that they are feeling like there’s enemy from within and that they can’t even trust each other as colleagues right now in the workplace.
My husband and I have been visible as Democrats in the last election (big sign on the lawn for local Democratic hopefuls, etc.) and we’ve got some strident Republicans in our neighborhood, like two doors down, which are what you saw in the mob at the Capitol a week ago; like one guy who’s militant, ready to fight, could’ve punched my husband a year ago when my husband yelled at the guy’s teen for driving over and over again at a too-high speed around the block (on a motorcycle) with small children and pets playing in their front yards at the sidewalk (my husband hadn’t realized that the boy’s father [a major Trumper], this Neanderthal with the shaved head and tattoos who smokes weed in his garage, was egging on his son, encouraging him to ride as fast and as loud as possible). Don’t want to give in to any hysteria or anything, but we plan to get the rest of our errands done by Friday of this week and we’re planning to stay inside and the rear of our house in an abundance of caution; keep a low profile when who-knows-what heads will go/may go nuts around us, if there IS more insurrection and those types of people are spurred on by it.
Can’t believe this is happening. That I’d ever be at this place in my life. With so much lack of certainty, the guardedness, concern, disappointment, melancholy. It’s been such a horrible 4-5 years on the national front with Trump, seeing so much disintegration of society; the virus only getting worse before things get better. I go glass-half-empty, so it’s a good thing I have a few friends and my husband who are positive with glass-half-full. Let’s take our lead from them. Find our balance.
As my husband and I mulled a few things yesterday, I was remembering when another neighbor of ours (taking a walk) absolutely ACCOSTED me (no other word for it) while I was up into my front yard some months ago, minding my own business, as to why I was wearing a mask. I hadn’t seen that woman for a long time, I don’t like her, I put up with her; she’s been in the neighborhood for 20 years. I realize that sometimes her words, phrasing, posture might seem ‘different’ as she struggles with English, having come to the U.S. from an Eastern European country, apparently in a bid for safety from tyranny. I don’t know anything about her and her husband, not really; except that he has sent a few too-blunt Letter to the Editor stuff in the newspaper, raising some eyebrows. After this wife verbally berated me, out of the blue (and then she told me to have a nice day, but this isn’t how neighbors treat other neighbors!), it made me mad later than I felt I even needed to answer her, after she didn’t even say hello, but I defended myself by saying I choose to wear the mask because I have health issues and I don’t want to get the virus. But she continued to lecture me on why I didn’t need to wear a mask as I inched my way to my front door to get away from her.
(I saw this same annoying woman yesterday, walking up from the city sidewalk into my other neighbor’s yard and close to my neighbor’s front door which is well off the street, helping herself to my neighbor’s ripe limes off a tree; can you imagine the gall, that you’d walk into someone else’s yard in plain daylight and steal their fruit? She was picking multiple limes which I know my neighbor, who ‘owns’ the tree, enjoys for her own use! I probably won’t tell my neighbor because it would stress her out too much to know that this other neighbor stole from her; she’s almost age 90, having enough of a hard time trying to live alone and get things done without contracting the virus. But, seriously, talk about taking advantage!)
Anyway, it came up in conversation with my husband that he thought this bold and aggressive woman and her husband, around our same age, could be a potential problem with this reported prospect for national unrest; of course on a smaller scale, but that it might be better to avoid people like that in these next couple of weeks. I asked him why and he said he’s had more than one ‘encounter’ with them when he’s gone back and forth to our parked car, or when he was working in the yard; times when he had on his mask. He said they both were ready to ‘engage’ and talking him down for wearing a mask, to where he tried to neutralize what should have just been a walk-by ‘hello’ from them and not a near-confrontation … he called it hostile … by saying, “Well, for myself, a mask is my choice and we all have to choose our own path.” (It’s what I’ve noticed with people I’ve called ‘friend’ when we’ve been on the phone in recent months, what I see as an increasing defensive and threatening dialogue from those who are pro-Trump. They can be rabid.) My husband said this other couple has tried to lay out their opinions with him, getting in his face, saying that the pandemic is a hoax and then, as time goes on, that it’s blown out of proportion. Really unbelievable. What if people like this have a gun? Would they be forced to the limit from all that’s in the news, then use it? Who knows? I’ve never had to think of such things.
My husband had to get on Facebook … sign up for it, or however it’s termed … associated with his workplace (how people communicated) before he retired, otherwise…at the time… having no interest in social media and would rather have not. He’s since acknowledged he’s become ‘way too friendly with his phone and has tried to curb his attention to it. But he eventually wound up with hundreds of ‘followers’ (I guess that’s the word; I don’t know anything about it; I don’t do Facebook) and when he started ‘arguing’ with some of them (obvious Trump supporters; the true colors are revealed) after last Weds, based on their comments about the assault on the Capitol, he had 70 people ‘unfollow him’, and these were former classmates, neighbors, co-workers, relatives, etc. I’m tell’in ya, it’s bad out there.
These people are true cult members who are aggressive and insulting. Stay away from them as best you can. I know it can be frightening and overwhelming.
xo
Same here. It’s available for us but we have no idea where to get it or how to get it as most pharmacies do not have doses on hand. I’ve registered with the County.
I, too, worry about those around us. But to be honest, much less than those who will created upheaval at our capitols. We definitely have Trumpers around here, though.
Stay safe, Vicki.
I’m trying to ration my TV news time but I want to know what is going on. So many new facts coming about the attack on the Capital and those involved. We will be learning more about this for a long time I believe. Reading is helping me escape for periods of time. Take care.
It’s a tricky balance, isn’t it? Hang in there, Linda.
Stay safe.