Wednesday, January 20, 2021

and the sweating has begun




...in January. It got up to the low 70˚s yesterday and since the birds and the spring weeds and the freeze damaged shrubs are convinced it's spring...in January...I decided to go ahead and move the hibiscus to its new location, something I wasn't going to do til next month. I moved it from the circular bed where it was crowded by the plumbago on one side and the confederate rose on the other where it wasn't doing well to the corner of the long daylily bed behind the barn next to the concrete apron in the back. 

It will get plenty of sun there and the most brutal kind, from noon to late afternoon summer sun. I had already pulled the cosmos out so first I had to improve the soil which precipitated a trip to the feed store for dirt and compost and fertilizer and work the compost in before I could replant it. The next thing along in that flower bed is the pink angel trumpet and it does not like that late summer sun but it's probably too big to move.

I also cut back both confederate rose bushes as they were already showing a bit of new growth and then cut up the branches to make a tidy pile. So Tuesday started out nice enough and then just as I was finishing lunch two small chunks broke off one of my front teeth. About two weeks ago, a bigger chunk of one of my other front teeth broke off but on the backside. My teeth are a mess from an accident at 16 that killed all 4 bottom front teeth and damaged the rest. Over the years I've acquired 11 crowns, other cosmetic repairs, and I forget how many root canals. I had an appointment with the new dentist for the second opinion next week but now with this second tooth breaking apart, I called my regular dentist and they can see me today. The second opinion on those other teeth can wait.

And then two  
of the crystals broke that I bought at the Thieves Market in Portugal when I accidently knocked them off my desk.  I had them out contemplating whether to hang them from hooks in the window or  use them to make a mobile so that along with my teeth pretty much ruined what was left of the day.

I spent over an hour this morning on twitter reading the news and people's relief that Trump is gone, a man who ruined his life and lost everything because he couldn't take a joke when Seth Meyers and Barack Obama roasted him at a White House Correspondents Dinner, and a pitiful leaving it was if anyone could ever find it in themselves to pity him. Not me. The military refused to give him the traditional send-off and he and Melania left the White House at 8 AM for the send-off he planned for himself that apparently only his family and a handful of staffers could be bothered to attend.

In just an hour from now, Biden and Harris will be sworn in and the nightmare of the last four years will be over, the promised violent protest to Biden's inauguration folding like a cheap tent with the FBI actively arresting them and Trump started throwing them under the bus. Of course the 25,000 armed national guard troops minus the 12 with links to the far right white supremacy on site might have had something to do with that. Where's all those militias with their big talk of a new civil war? And Q-anon folks who have spent the last two weeks buying up CB radios and stocking up food are mystified and incredulous that they got played, that Trump didn't issue the call.

Biden and Harris have such a big job ahead of them and hopefully they will get some cooperation from Republicans. McConnell, soon to be minority leader of the Senate, came right out and blamed the attempted insurrection on Trump but of course they aren't all giving up as new Senator Hawley has already objected to a quick pass for Biden's DHS pick because Biden wants to allow our undocumented citizens a path to citizenship.

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It's done. We resisted and survived the last four years, our democracy has prevailed. President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are in the house!



16 comments:

  1. Yay! (To the last part of the post, not to your misfortune - that pretty much sucked).

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  2. It's amazing. I've been watching all day and I still can't believe that we have a president that is speaking in complete and coherent sentences. David and I have noticed something else. There was a picture of the White House today and it looked a pristine white as if it was brand new or that a dark terrible black cloud had been blown from DC. Rightnow Biden and family are walking on Pennsylvania Avenue to the WH. I'm a bit scared that he's out in the open like this but if he feels safe...

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  3. new chapter, things have been broken...nationally and personally, all repairable. Onward!

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  4. I kept getting weepy watching the sheer decency of Biden and Harris.

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  5. Yes, it is done. A new chapter has begun. Tears in my eyes all day today. Tears of joy and relief.

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  6. I am absolutely filled with hope.

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  7. Wonderful ceremony with so many uplifting moments. I was impressed with amazing Amanda Gorman whose poem and presentation were terrific!
    Best wishes to the Biden/Harris administration. Peace!

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  8. Thank you for bringing up that White House correspondent's dinner. I so remember the cameras finding Trump, scruched away, while Obama said That's why I'm the president and you're not. The look on Trumps face, and I said to others in the room that it was a good and true line by Obama, but maybe not smart to goad the fat goat. But, it's over. The inauguration today was beautiful.

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  9. I just got an announcement from HEB that they've received vaccine for Wharton. Registration opens at 9 a.m. tomorrow morning if you know anyone who wants/needs to schedule. Here's the link. The 400 doses will be given at the Wharton Clinic on Friday.

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  10. So sorry about the teeth! I hate breaking teeth, long ago I landed on my chin and broke 2 - that was bad enough for me. Today was just joyous. I'm just vindictive enough to be enjoying the people who are getting fired.

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  11. It felt so wonderful this morning, knowing that Biden would be sworn in and Trump would be escorted out! Never so relieved over a change in presidents as I was today. We are blessed!

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  12. I was thinking last night that despite the fact that this great weight has been lifted from us, life will go on as it does with things like...broken teeth.
    Damn, girl.
    I'm so sorry.

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  13. Oh, ugh! So sorry about the broken teeth and the broken crystals! At least you had the inauguration to celebrate. Hope the hibiscus likes its new home!

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  14. Oh yuk, teeth. I hope this will be sorted out painlessly.
    It was great to watch bits of the ceremony and even better, the first press briefing from the WH.
    We from across the pond are all expecting good things to come once the euphoria and the sentimentality (no objections from me, well deserved) has calmed down.

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  15. Dentist .... the very mention of a dentist causes my anxiety level to rise! Hope it will be as painless as possible. Trump lovers are still trying to stir everything up. Unity will be hard won, but I believe the man now in the white house will do his very best. I have high hopes that Trump will want to denounce this country and go live with one of the dictators he loves so much!

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  16. I am leaving this here for you, a great "break down". https://mobile.twitter.com/lesdoggg/status/1350671786287927296?s=10

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