Monday, October 19, 2020

weeks 30 and 31, campaign BS, yardwork, and a leaky sink

 


The sky this morning looking east.

I should be writing my covid post. I have 5 windows open in my browser and other things have come across my scrolling but there's no real different news so here's an abbreviated version. Dr. Fauci warns that deaths could rise to 400,000 and that he will get a vaccine as soon as the FDA clears one but that a vaccine won't start making a difference until late summer next year at the earliest, the White House was blocking stricter guidelines from the FDA for when a vaccine can be released but the FDA stood firm and says no vaccine until all protocols are met, the CDC drafted a sweeping order last month requiring all personnel and passengers on all public and commercial transportation...buses, trains, planes, subways as well as all airports, stations, and depots...with the support of HHS Secretary Azar and the head of the White House coronavirus task force VP Mike Pence would not even discuss it even though most employees and passengers are in favor of it, the CDC finally agreed that yes covid is airborne transmitted, a new study concluded that most hospitalized patients with covid suffer from neurological symptoms, we still have the most cases and deaths per capita, everyone is getting weary and in danger of being foolish but Dr. Fauci says do not despair, the White House is controlling when Dr. Fauci can speak to the media, we're having a third wave and more people are being infected and more people are dying while Rudy Giuliani is out there claiming no one dies from the virus anymore, the living are hanging on by their fingernails because this administration is over it and Mitch McConnell says we can't afford another stimulus package, we still need to carry on with the new reality, current US statistics as of today 10/19/20, 17:24 GMT: cases – 8,397,993; deaths – 224,884.

Trump is over it, if he survived you will too (of course you won't get the level of care he got but never mind that), going for herd immunity except he doesn't understand what that means. It means that enough people are vaccinated so that the virus's effect on the population is minimal, not that enough people get it and the weak ones die until it has minimal effect on the population. I suppose they both eventually get to the same result but in the latter it's achieved by killing off a significant proportion of the population.

Trump is so far down in the polls that his entire campaign is centered around smearing Biden and his son and anyone else who speaks out against him with ridiculous made up slanders that smack of desperation. His latest charge against Biden is that, if elected, Biden will listen to scientists!!! I didn't realize that was a bad thing.

Friday was chilly and wet. 56˚ when I looked, real feel 46˚. Not my favorite. I had to go to the grocery store as it turns out the grocery list was incomplete when I went earlier in the week but that's about all I did. Saturday though was warm and mostly overcast even a little drizzly off and on but it was perfect for weeding so that's what I did and got the end of one of the long flower beds weeded working under the stalks of the tall cosmos. And I mean tall. They're easily 8' tall if they stand straight up but they don't. They fall over so I had to get a stake and tie some of them up first. 


The love-in-a-mist is already sprouting, some anyway and way early. I had to do a fire ant remedial first. The little bastards want to occupy the edges of my flower beds. Sunday more of the same, got the nut grass out of another flower bed and planted two crinum lily bulbs that have been in a pot for several years. I have no idea what color they are, they were in a box of mixed unlabeled bulbs someone brought to a garden club meeting free for the taking, but they finally got big enough in the pot that I think they might bloom next year so in the ground they went.

Also Saturday Rocky finished getting the sink in the studio room hooked up and all seemed well when he turned on the water but this morning there was a lot of water on the concrete floor so there's a leak somewhere. I've just been over there and two of the connections under the sink before going into the wall are wet and the connection from the water line to the faucet is also wet. We went with the hose that was already attached to the faucet and just attached that to the water pipe but apparently that was a bad decision on our part and I think that's where most of the water on the floor came from. I've got the water to the shop turned off and the lines drained waiting for Rocky to come by this afternoon.

One last thing, my night blooming cereus is trying to give me one more chance as it has put out one last bud.






17 comments:

  1. I noticed you have bluebonnets coming up in the front.

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  2. Now you reminded me that I should get out to finish up some weeding before winter hits. Maybe if I can yank enough weeds out now, they won't come back in the spring? Seems like they always do tho. I never get ahead where weeds are concerned. :(

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  3. Did you see him when he said that? "Listen to the scientists?" He made his mouth into that little puckered asshole he manages to create with it and his tone was like a bully on a playground. "Ooh, your mommy will get made if I tear your shirt, won't she?"
    He is vile and disgusting and everything this country was created to fight against.
    Best to think about weather and flowers and plumbing leaks. And to listen to scientists.
    Stay safe, Ellen.

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  4. Set an alarm on your phone for the cereus. We want pictures, please.
    The orange man stopped in Phoenix for 10 minutes (screwing up air traffic for the entire region) wherein he yelled at a female reported for not understanding anything, and called a male reporter a criminal for not reporting Biden's crimes. His tone was even more vitriolic than usual.
    Also, he's asking the Debate Commission to not ask anything about Covid19, race in America, climate change and other topics that he has totally screwed up. He'll be in Tucson today at 3:00, it will be 90 degrees, add 10 more for being on the tarmac, and more heat for wearing a dark blue wool suit. He should be really hot and sweaty.

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  5. So done with anything republican dumpster- I voted, that's it. done.
    As they used to say "get your mind out of the gutter" and so I have, blue pill and blue vote helps.
    I have never imagine that cosmos could be giants!

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  6. Two weeks tomorrow may we have it done so we can just talk about what a waste this four years have been. I wonder how much down ticket goes down the drain.

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  7. I finally did my annual "let's sit on the fire ant mound" on Sunday. I came out of it with only nine bites that I'm aware of, but they're not bad. For one thing, they aren't itching, and they didn't sting too badly. The only good news is that I was out at the Attwater Prairie, and there was no one around to see me strip off my jeans and socks lickety-split. I usually wear knee-high boots to protect against them, but there was the flower low to the ground that I wanted a photo of and... well... I need to be better about looking, although those little critters don't make mounds in that sandy soil.

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    1. done that. cleaning out the gutters in the backyard once and scooped out a fire ant nest. I was off the ladder and stripping off clothes as fast as I could. good thing the house mostly hid me from neighbors.

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  8. I weeded and transplanted in the railroad today. I have one plant whose name I can't remember that is growing by leaps and bounds, spreading like crazy. I pulled out several clumps with roots and transplanted them to bare areas. Hoping they take before the first frost sets in.

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  9. Only two more weeks to go and I get more nervous by the day.

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  10. We had zinnias grow almost that tall one year. We should plant some again to see what happens! And YES - put a reminder on your phone.

    I am trying to tell myself that the Braves losing on Sunday & not advancing to the World Series is NOT A PORTENT OF EVIL TO COME. Sigh.

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  11. Fingers crossed for the cereus! I had to laugh at the "he'll listen to scientists" comment. Good Lord, that man is an idiot.

    Has anyone ever mentioned that your page often finishes loading while they're typing a comment, and in doing so erases the comment? I'm not sure why it happens. Something about the items in your sidebar, I think. It happens with my browser at work and at home. I have to remember to wait until the page has finished loading or I lose my comment. Anyway, for what it's worth. :)

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    1. hmmm, no, no one has mentioned it. I have noticed that my blog loads a lot slower in the new blogger. a lot. and it's not like I have so much on my sidebar. I'm not noticing that blogs I visit load slower though so I don't know what the problem is. I did remove all the links connected to the pictures but it hasn't seemed to make a difference.

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    2. fixed it. there was an inactive link gadget at the very bottom causing all the trouble. I deleted it and now my blog loads quickly.

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  12. These next two weeks and all the days it's going to take to count the votes are going to be grueling and hellish. I can't wait for all of this to be over with a clear indisputable landslide of a victory for Biden. Absolutely love that cloud photo with the beautiful crepuscular rays.

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  13. I'm not counting on a Biden victory, I daren't. I think there will end up being a SCOTUS fight. If so I pray that Gorsuch and I Love Beer will vote for democracy if Biden has a win and Trump lies and litigates. We need him out promptly. Heck, I doubt if the new admin could even move into the wh until it's fumigated.

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  14. I really don't know how the world could cope without the mystery of plants. The orange cosmos is gorgeous.

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I opened my big mouth, now it's your turn.