We had a little snow, maybe 2 inches, and it was a wet snow. But really, we couldn’t ask for anything prettier. Don said it was easy to push with a shovel, and he’s already cleared the driveway and put some salt down. In the meantime, at least for a while, we have this magical wonderland of snow covered branches everywhere. When this kind of wet snow accumulates in amounts of several inches, then it’s a danger for tree limbs and branches. But this amount is perfect.
All in all, the perfect amount of snow, the perfect magical snow kingdom.
You know, when I said not to worry about January 6th, I meant it. But I also must add for clarification that these actions, no matter how fruitless, are extremely dangerous for our country. Make no mistake about it. We are on a precipice here, and I firmly believe that all those involved in this act of sedition should be made to pay for it.
And now we have the hour-long tape of OM trying to persuade the Georgia Secretary of State to ‘find some votes.’ Stunning. But not stunning. You can be sure that he’s had this conversation with other states. He’s a mobster. That’s how he deals with everything. He lies, he spins an alternate reality, he demands fealty, and he threatens. All of which happened in that call.
I despise him. I want him gone. But I want him to pay for his crimes. I want Mark Meadows to pay for his, as well, along with the elected representatives and senators who are protesting the vote of the American people.
And now, we’ll leave that and end on a gentler note.
We watched Elizabeth is Missing on Masterpiece last night, starring the brilliant Glenda Jackson, who, after 23 years serving in Parliament, is back and better than ever. I read the novel it is based on when it first came out and reviewed it on this blog. The protagonist is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and it’s told from her point of view. Incredibly well written. This adaptation was superb. Jackson is fearless in her work. She really goes there, no holds barred. Don and I were stunned by her bravery and honesty. At the age of 84, she’s doing better work than ever.
Fingers and toes crossed for the Georgia run-off tomorrow.
Stay safe.
Happy Monday.
I also watched Elizabeth is Missing last night. Jackson’s performance was so good, so heart-wrenching, so believable. I’m still thinking about it this morning.
As for the crazy man in the White House, the more troubling thing is the supposedly “sane” members of congress—of society—who are standing with him against us—we, the people! Why can/will no one stop him!?! Beyond comprehension.
It is indeed beyond comprehension, Shanna.
I am stunned by the attempts to undermine our constitution and everything we hold dear.
Stay safe!
Elizabeth is Missing was so heart-wrenching to watch. I thought Jackson was amazing in her performance. My Dad had Alzheimer’s before he died and I thought of him often while watching.
Such a sad disease that takes the person away from you before he actually dies.
I will be glad when tomorrow is over and we will see what Biden/Harris have to work with in Congress.
Don’s mother had Alzheimer’s. And anyone who has watched dementia take over the mind of someone they love knows that despair. It was very powerful, wasn’t it?
Yes. We have to get through tomorrow. And Wednesday. And every day until the 20th.
Stay safe, Ellen!
The snow pics are just beautiful. As for the orange man in make-up, he is a fool. He is desperate and afraid for what is waiting for him just around the corner. Can’t wait until he is gone. Have a great day!
Thank you, April!
Stay safe!
I recorded Elizabeth is Missing. After reading your review, and what others have said, I can’t wait to watch it.
Yes…getting through tomorrow and Wednesday will be challenging. But, we must hold on, and stay strong. Ignore the noise, because that’s all that is irritating noise. Designed to make us question our democracy, and our entire voting process. And, make no mistake….it is dangerous. But…it is still noise.
Your snow is lovely. We had freezing fog last night and this morning, and it created a winter wonderland, without all the shoveling. Such beauty! Stay safe! ;)
Yep. I follow Jessica Yellin on IG and she is very good at separating News from Noise.
Stay safe, Donna!
The red shed in contrast to the soft snow and the lovely wreath is next year’s Christmas card (if you send cards).
Don’t send cards and I’ve had a lot of shed and show photos over the years, Nora!
Stay safe!
I don’t think I will be able to get out of bed tomorrow as my toes, fingers, arms, elbows, eyes, etc will all be crossed as I sing Georgia on My Mind….. the stakes are too much to even comprehend.
After hearing that phone call, HOW could anyone get up tomorrow, go into the polls and say “yep, Republican is the sure way to go” ?? I really don’t get any of it. And hearing him say those words “I need you to find votes”….. isn’t that felonious behavior? Or do we just chalk it up to “there he goes again”? 16 more long horrid dead-of-winter days to slog through til the 20th. Waiting 2.5 months to install a newly elected government seems beyond archaic to me.
Your picture this morning is lovely!! Christmas card worthy for sure! Glad it was less rather than more. We had some freezing fog for the past few days. A few minutes ago we had sleet coming down. Oh, what fun it is!! But I am greatful that we have no where to go and nothing to do outside. Take care.
Yes, it’s felonious behavior and if he’s charged by the state of Georgia it will hold as any pardons don’t count for state crimes.
Yes, grateful that we didn’t have to be anywhere today!
Stay safe, Chris.
The OM is dangerous to all of us, our constitution, our freedoms. He is on his way out. But, even more dangerous are his non-thinking followers.
I love the red shed with the white snow cover. It looks like Santa’s workshop.
This morning brought plumbers in to fix, well a plumbing problem. This afternoon brings the gas company to check for a gas leak or gas tank malfunction.
Enjoy your snow and stay warm.
Hope that gas problem was resolved, Trudy.
Stay safe!
I found Elizabeth is Missing difficult to watch, but compelling at the same time. Glenda Jackson, what can I say that hasn’t already been said here and elsewhere?
Pleased your snowfall wasn’t bad enough for damage yet heavy enough to leave a snowscape. Rain all day here… doesn’t help my anxiety about tomorrow and the next couple of weeks.
It’s all melted now! It didn’t last long, but it was pretty while it was there, Wendy.
Stay safe.
Elizabeth is Missing was a too real for me. My wonderful, creative, talented, brilliant mother went thru this horrible disease. It changed both of us.
Pretty to look at but I moved away from Hudson Valley …..too much snow.!
I agree with everything that has been written about OM on this blog. I am apoplectic thinking of all the abuses and corruption. I hope Joe Biden will be forceful when he comments on this today. For now, I have to bundle up and go for a walk while the sun is out. I have managed to gain 16 lbs in 10 months on an already plump frame. Stress, boredom, lack of motivation has taken its toll and I have to get some sort of control of my self.
Will limit my news tonight to Rachel Maddow.
Yes, my grandmother had dementia as did my mom. It’s very hard to watch, but it was so powerful.
Yes, we snuck in some Nicolle Wallace. I’ll see about Rachel. I might need some peace at that point in the night.
Stay safe, Maria.
Elizabeth Is Missing was riveting. Jackson was beyond a revelation. I’ve seen a lot of her work — I’ll never forget this one. It was so well written and acted and boy, did it touch the heart and soul.
As for Georgia — it stuns me that I am not surprised. One should be surprised at such criminal behavior, shouldn’t they? Yes, they should. And I am not. I want them all to pay.
And your snow is dazzling. I love the shed photo especially! Happy week.
I know. Nothing about Trump surprises me anymore. He’s a mobster. He’ll do anything.
Stay safe, Jeanie.
wow … love the contrast between your shed and the snow, the branches outlined in snow. such beautiful snow and photos. thank you.
glad you didn’t get too much snow, but just enough to enjoy.
i haven’t seen many of glenda jackson’s movies (only house calls and a touch of class, as i recall), but enjoyed them. didn’t know she served in parliament at all, let alone for twenty years following a big career. i respect her willingness to serve when she didn’t have to. i’m going to choose not to watch “elizabeth is missing”, though … too sad.
so ready for the election stuff to be done and for valid problems (like moving up inauguration day post-election, the need for term limits and stand-alone bills, the need for presidential candidates to pass fbi background checks/show their taxes, campaign finance reforms, etc) to be put into place! and that tomorrow is election run-off day in georgia and the 20th is fifteen days away. feels like fifteen weeks to me … but we’re going to make it!
reached 40 degrees here today and it was sunny. even with huge piles of snow everywhere and parking lots and sidewalks still messy, it seemed like spring and that felt good. :)
a little update … my back pain is constant, but it’s less. :) i’m still moving cautiously, but now i can get off a chair or my bed in one or two tries, not the five or six it was taking a couple weeks ago. and i am not afraid to go to bed (when pain’s been the worst for laying down) nor yelling, crying and cussing about it. that and some serious potential side effects make me think i will decline the vertebroplasty (cement injections to create internal casts in the four fractured vertebrae). progress!
hope you and don and everyone else here have a good night. stay safe and warm!
kathy in iowa
I didn’t think it was sad. I thought it was moving and powerful and full of love.
I’m glad to hear your back pain is a bit less. Best to avoid anything that might have bad side effects, Kathy. Slowly, but surely, you’ll feel better and better.
Stay safe!
yes …
i understand many people are helped by that procedure and that is wonderful, a Godsend!
others get no pain relief or have increased pain. it’s relatively low, but there’s a chance that cement could leak and cause nerve damage, embolism, paralysis or death. and a big likelihood of having fractures in adjoining vertebrae in less than a year. no thanks.
happy tuesday. stay safe!
kathy in iowa
xo
I love this picture…I have another friend starting Louise Penny. I am excited for her August book, although so far unnamed…it is on preorder for Amazon…I have been reading her books for review on Netgalley quite early…hope this one is on there soon. I never spoil it for you though. Claudia, I am still thankful for you…you keep us going sometimes…as to the politics this week…I have never-we have never-experienced any thing like this voting over and over thing…today Georgia…then tomorrow Congress-really? I would have hoped that November would have sealed it. Prayers that we get to Jan 20 with B and can go on with life…with so many other things going on in our lives and Covid…really??? We don’t need this. I am praying the vaccine will be available soon-here in Indiana looks like not too soon for me…and I can move to the other family…will miss the ones here, but as I said, Allegiant is so cheap to fly…my friend in Iowa believes it is available for her and her husband already…in Florida, I could go get it…in WV, one must be 80…and so on and so on…what a real mess this is…oh well…keep writing…take care dear one…prayers…
I don’t know when it will be available for Don and I. We’re supposedly in the next round of vaccinations, but when that will be is the question.
Stay safe, Brenda.
I’m feeling a lot of anger. The botched vaccine rollout; all this worry about the Georgia election and what’s going on Weds with the electoral college. I just have to turn off the TV news and not read online. It’s not that I’m not interested but I’ve again reached ‘that point’. Except that I think Wednesday’s news coverage will be a learning thing and history in the making of which we should be witness to since our democracy is under threat. I’m praying for inauguration day to get here soonest; I know Biden’s teams will get a handle on EVERYthing. I will be so relieved to eventually purge the word Trump and the word Covid out of my vocabulary and out of my brain and out of MY LIFE. So many of the bright minds have continued to warn that “elections are important” and, wow, will we ever have doubt again, because look who got elected in 2016 and look at our suffering country, north and south and east and west, just pick a topic. Cannot take ANYthing for granted.
Your snow photos are so lovely; gosh I enjoyed seeing it. Stay warm, stay safe.
I want him out of DC and in prison.
Thanks, Vicki. Hope you’re feeling better!
Stay safe.
Yes, he needs to be prosecuted for criminal activity, absolutely. What’s so staggering, though, is the complete dearth of moral accountability. Trump is a soul-less human. Dare I call him human. Sub human.
Thanks for your well wishes. Better yes, although I only got two hours of sleep last night, but I know this week will be good! The ‘ol body just needs to heal.
I feel so badly for my cousin. She took on the responsibility of looking after a co-worker who’s dying from cancer and who has no family (they’re both teachers at the college level). I’m worried for my cousin because she’s going thru menopause, has herself successfully recovered from cancer, is valiantly coping with trying to teach classes virtually with two college-age kids back at home trying to do the same thing with LEARNING virtually (plus my cousin has also been experiencing some anxiety and insomnia as time has gone on with Covid, like a jillion other people). I tried to think of how I could possibly send her, direct from a vendor since I have no safe way to ship anything right now, something for comfort (aromatherapy candle .. ? .. flowers ..?) as she suffers right along with her dying friend (although it’s of course a different kind of suffering; just so much sadness and stress even though Hospice stepped in for the friend which gives my cousin a lot more space to get other things done, but it’s hard to watch this go down with someone of whom you’re so fond). So I got this fuzzy throw with a matching soft and ‘weighted’ pillow and also matching warm socks, all in a sort of fake mohair/cashmere. Just curl up, feet up, take 10-20 minutes and recharge out of challenging times, since she’s also in Pennsylvania and the weather has been snowy like yours; cold and dreary, and she’s back and forth in it. Anyway, that’s what I’ll do today, although my circumstances certainly aren’t like hers and the friend. But so that I can be more awake and alert to what’s happening in Georgia as the evening comes on; rest and reboot.
I saw a squib where Amy Klobuchar was being interviewed (maybe by Rachel) and she was explaining how Weds will go down with the electoral college stuff but she was all smiles and saying she was really looking forward to the showdown. Like relishing to be part of it. So, there’s that…
Good for you. Your kindness will be remembered by your cousin. Bless her.
Yes, that was on Rachel. We watched it last night. I love Amy Klobuchar.
Stay safe.