a nice surprise, spring, and a most despicable person

I successfully made my returns, got the board and the 3-light fixture. They gave me a handful of cash at one end of the store and I handed almost all of it back to them at the other end of the store.

I have a small collection (6) of antique glass shades that I've picked up from antique stores and estate sales from time to time. Three of them are on the ceiling fan in the living room

  

and the other three have been sitting on a shelf waiting for me to grind down the small rim some so that they would fit in the ceiling fan in the back bedroom but when I got home with the new fixture I wondered if they would fit and they did!

  

So the plan now is to use them in the bathroom and return the other three shades. Other than that, Rocky showed up Monday and got the last pencil tile up edging the outside edge of the wall tile, took down the 4-light fixture, and primered all three doors so some progress but baby steps.

So it's spring, has been for weeks, that little nose dive into the 20˚s notwithstanding. The birds have beed active and a wren built a nest in one of my birdhouses. She startled me when she burst out of it when I got too near. I think I mentioned that I cut all the dead fronds? leaves? off the banana trees about mid-February and new growth was starting to emerge which was summarily burned by the freeze that followed.

halfway through

done

I uncovered this little tree frog

and this one jumped onto the ladder

So the coronavirus is still expanding exponentially and what is top on Trump's and his ignorant (because no way will Trump appoint anyone for anything that he thinks is smarter than he is) sycophantic ass kissing administration's plan for combating it? A billion dollar financial relief package for those most in need like laborers and other workers who can't afford to miss a day much less two weeks of work, hospitals and healthcare workers? Oh hell no. He wants to give this financial aid to industries that have had a decade of record profits and can weather this downturn just fine, thankyouverymuch. Because Trump's only concern is buoying up the stock market which he sees as essential to his reelection. People getting sick? People dying? People who are one or two paychecks away from homelessness? Fuck them. And stop reporting new cases and deaths, stop warning people, stop canceling events cause you are making Trump look bad. Sanders and Biden have canceled rallies, Trump refuses to because then he'll have to admit that the pandemic is really happening. Does it make me a bad person to want all those Magats to get sick from his rallies? I don't want anyone to die but I wouldn't mind if they got sick.

If we can't get any real justice at least we could get some poetic justice.

Edit: Well, I see this morning that Trump did cancel his two upcoming rallies.