the last week of a terrible horrible no good year

Happy New Year to all and sundry. Starting the new year as always with brunch and mimosas (I have my black eyed peas for later in the day) and the rest of the day devoted to reading or watching TV under blankets on the couch and naps.

Personally, I'm not relaxing until after Biden's inauguration. Things are going to be dicey between now and then I fear what with the Proud Boys planning protests and violence on the 6^th with Trump encouraging them. And then depending on how that goes, no telling what they will do on the 20^th. Not to mention Trump trying to provoke Iran here at the last so he can use it to somehow stay in office while one Republican senator has already promised to contest the EC votes as well as 140 Republican representatives planning on doing the same thing. Those who supposedly know say that Biden's election is a done deal and this is all just political theater and an excuse for more fundraising. Still, it's alarming that so many elected politicians seem to think that sedition is the way to go because their boy lost by a wide margin. And it is sedition because they have no proof, no evidence of widespread voter fraud and every recount, every audit that's been demanded and done has come up with zero, 60 lawsuits thrown out of courts by judges. Even the Supreme Court has refused to entertain their bogus claims. So instead of accepting defeat they intend to try to illegally get Trump appointed delaying the inevitable (Trump seems to think that Pence has the power to appoint him which he does not) while the Proud Boys rampage outside. This is what Trump and the Republican party have done, the destruction they have wrought to our democracy. This is their end game, what they have been working towards for the last 20 years, to destroy the government by the people for the people and finally permanently transform it to government by the rich and for the rich where all the money and all the power is in the hands of a small group of white men and the rest of us are living and dying hand to mouth.

OK, on to something more pleasant.

I get yard eggs from one of the women who attend yoga class

and when I was making breakfast last Sunday I cracked a sort of gray green egg and it was such a pretty blue on the inside.

I finally got in to see the dermatologist last Monday and now I look like someone poked me in the face a dozen or so times with a lit cigarette. I'll spare you having to see that.

Last Wednesday I did get out there and start on clearing out the last 12' of the barn throwing more stuff on the metal trash pile (it's amazing the stuff that accumulates), raked a bit, but I didn't make much progress for whatever reason I don't remember. Rain, I think, it rained a bit and then that night a cold front moved in with high wind, rain, lightning and thunder. The rain finally quit around noon on Thursday but the high wind stayed. I made a quick foray to the library and so much standing water, ditches full, fields and yards flooded, Boughman Slough almost full and running fast. We got 7” with standing water in the regular spots that soaked in after several hours. The field behind us looked like a lake.

This morning is a beautiful day though still cold but at least the wind has died down. Sitting here looking out my window I saw a little wren investigate the piggy birdhouse, jumped in and looked around, perhaps scouting out nest locations, then flew off. And back it came a bit later. Also took a little foray outside and was surprised by four new sweet pea sprouts and one of them is from the second package so I have hopes that more will come.

Another bit of news...my sister texted me last night that she finally got an appointment for her first vaccine shot on January 10^th and at a much closer location! How is that possible?! Turns out, Memorial Hermann added a new location and new dates, weekends only. So I went online to that location and after three or four tries I got an appointment for January 16^th mid-morning at the location only a half hour or so away. Much better than the place an hour away with a 6 PM time slot and ten days later. I haven't canceled the one on the 26^th yet, want to wait to make sure I actually get it on the 16^th.

Well, I don't usually make new year's resolutions but this year I resolve to make art on a more regular basis.

Love to you all and thank you for being part of my life.