We\u2019ve had about a week of night time temperatures slightly below freezing but I went out this afternoon and found activity.\u00a0 Tiny midges and Asian ladybugs were flying round.\u00a0 I found a salamander in a mouse nest under a tin that I put out to find snakes.\u00a0 The only vegetation (other than the pines and other evergreens) that\u2019s still green is the grass and two metasequoia trees that stand at the edge of the forest.\u00a0 There\u2019s no ice on the pond yet.\u00a0 We stand suspended at the edge of the precipice of winter.\u00a0 And it\u2019s supposed to warm up for at least a week coming up.\u00a0 With above freezing night time temperatures and daytime temperatures flirting with sixty!\u00a0 As much as I am a devotee of summer, I have to admit that this year, fall is mellow and very pleasant.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if New England is trying to make amends for what will follow.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll be celebrating Princess Sack of Potatoes\u2019 third birthday with a party here and it will be a very happy occasion.\u00a0 And then in two weeks there is Thanksgiving with all the grandkids coming here and that will be Camera Girl\u2019s magnum opus for the year.\u00a0 Turkey and all the fixings and pies and traditional holiday movie selections.\u00a0 The March of the Wooden Soldiers, Gulliver\u2019s Travels and I think I\u2019ll start my annual Christmas Carol marathon.\u00a0 All wonderful things to make this a bright and happy time of the year.<\/p>\n
And now I\u2019ll admit my evil nature.\u00a0 The fact that Dementia Joe\u2019s popularity has tanked and there is a good chance that his America demolishing legislation will stall out long enough to be finished off by the 2022 mid-terms has triggered a wonderful case of schadenfreude in me.\u00a0 I\u2019m taking enormous joy in the misfortune of these reptiles.\u00a0 My whole attitude has improved and there\u2019s a spring in my step that\u2019s been missing since last year\u2019s election fraud debacle.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve found myself reading those articles in the Atlantic and Slate and even the New York Times where they try to make the case that Joe Biden is really much more popular than believed and that once they pass the \u201creconciliation\u201d his poll numbers will skyrocket into the stratosphere.\u00a0 Of course, they don\u2019t explain how exactly they\u2019ll do that while two of their senators refuse to sign on to the absurd agenda that this bill represents.\u00a0 And they further state that the runaway inflation and broken supply chain aren\u2019t things that Americans worry about.\u00a0 Apparently five-dollar gasoline isn\u2019t a problem (when you work for the Atlantic) and anyone who says it is must be a liar and possibly an insurrectionist.\u00a0 As far as these writers are concerned if the economy isn\u2019t good enough for these deplorables let them eat cake.<\/p>\n
So poised for the Holidays the photog clan is looking forward to a jolly Thanksgiving and a merry Christmas.\u00a0 We will pay the exorbitant prices for food and drink and buy whatever presents are still available on the bare shelves of Walmart and Amazon.\u00a0 We\u2019ll go into the new year with the hope that the Supreme Court will finally tell Dementia Joe that he can\u2019t force us to take the vaccines or wear masks for the rest of our lives.<\/p>\n
So, for this week at least I\u2019m all optimism.\u00a0 How about you?<\/p>\n
Update:\u00a0 8:31 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n So, tonight Camera Girl and I watched the season premiere (two hours!) of our favorite night-time soap, “Yellowstone.”\u00a0 It’s our secret shame.\u00a0 It’s a ridiculous hot mess almost totally devoid of any acting.\u00a0 But they do have some good country music on from time to time.\u00a0 Tonight the first hour ended with Colter Wall’s “Plain to See Plainsman.”\u00a0 So that did lessen the pain of watching Yellowstone so optimism still intact!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We\u2019ve had about a week of night time temperatures slightly below freezing but I went out this afternoon and found activity.\u00a0 Tiny midges and Asian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1263],"tags":[1011,94,2856,84,1511],"class_list":["post-16532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-stuff-that-personally-interests-me-miscellaneous","tag-a-christmas-carol","tag-christmas","tag-dementia-joe","tag-holidays","tag-thanksgiving"],"yoast_head":"\n