Mother’s Ring (with Gramie Ring)
Oh happy day!! After waiting 3 months, my Mother’s Ring has arrived home!! ❤️ The repair end of the company
(in LA County, CA) is still closed down, so the jewelry making part of the company remade the ring!
Best of all, this one has a more beautiful Opal and, it is (finally!) the correct size! ✨💛✨
O frabjous day! Callooh Callay!!
So, turns out family isn't coming to Vermont. We are going to Maine.
ReplyDeleteIt's lots easier to move two adults than for the lot of them to come to us.
Our RN DIL will be just two weeks past having a COVID-19 patient. All good.
We'll be there overnight this weekend. I have posted blog photos through the 23rd, so no worries.
Why The November Election Is Going To Be Even More Effed Than We Realized [Click] Some time back—- more than a month, I think—- I remember an article about the machines that are necessary for dealing with large scale absentee voting, the limited manufacturing capacity, and the lead time for ordering. They interviewed an executive at the [one!] manufacturer, and he said that they don’t begin manufacturing until payment is assured [or was it until they had cash in hand?]. So at that point there were about two weeks left to place and pay for orders for the November election.
ReplyDelete"“We are seeing an overall preference by certain types of voters to actually cast their ballot in person, due to distrust of the vote by mail [process],” Emily Zamora, executive director of the Nevada-based civic engagement group Silver State Voices, told reporters in a call on Tuesday." Of course. They would have known that if they'd had half the brains of an average donkey. Luckily, the proposal to cut the number of Illinois voting sites got shot down. And although no one knows for sure, I can't see any reason why it should be harder to find volunteers and sites in November than it was in mid-March.
DeleteDetroit Free Press: With Biden gaining in polls, Michigan's status as battleground state up in the air [Click]
ReplyDeleteOHIO: As of Friday afternoon, there have been at least 40,424 confirmed or probable cases in the state, 2,508 deaths, and 6,814 hospitalizations, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
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DeleteVT: 1119/55 (+9/ 0)
ReplyDelete157 active cases / 1 death in 6 weeks
Recovered: 907 (+2)
In Hospital = 2 (-1)
Tests 48,634 (+1425)
4.9%
DeleteBolton book claims Trump committed other ‘Ukraine-like transgressions’ [Click] Bolton is surely a very competent adversary.
ReplyDelete'Trump thought I was a secretary': Fiona Hill on the president, Putin and populism [Click] “She was the White House’s top Russia expert catapulted to fame by Trump’s impeachment. She reflects on her journey from County Durham to Washington.” IMO She is going to be able to write a great book, if she chooses to do so.
ReplyDeleteFacebook and Twitter Accounts That Copied Trump Posts Flagged for Violence [Click] Double standards, anyone?
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DeletePandemic Deepens Economic Pain at Trump’s Company [Click] Damn shame. Yeah.
ReplyDeleteWhy will the 2020 Republican platform include serious criticisms of "this administration?" Because the convention will not be in Charlotte after all. "RNC rules dictated that because the party’s business could not be carried out within the original convention site or the original convention city, only a roll call vote for nominating the president or vice president was allowed. In such a situation, the old platform carries over," according to an AP story.
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DeleteI got to give Corey his very first pets since bringing him home on 12/13. He actually liked it and purred like a motorboat. Poppy is still not quite ready, but he *is* curious.
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DeleteTurnout Soared In Georgia Despite Problems [Click] Particularly Democratic turnout. Good.
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DeleteKentucky panel votes to remove Jefferson Davis statue from Capitol [Click]
ReplyDeleteNorth Carolina man threatened to burn down black church after searching for connections to Floyd protests, authorities say [Click] Currently getting free board and room in the Iron Bar Hotel.
ReplyDeleteNew Campaign Prepares Mass Mobilization Should Trump Refuse to 'Leave Willingly' If Defeated in November - Click
ReplyDeleteIn Middlebury, Vermont, a swastika was chalked below the sign for the town’s progressive Congregational Church.
ReplyDeleteSo students made their own chalk message to replace it. “Love lives here.”
Two members of my peer group of spiritual guides wrote a statement (that they would not be intimidated) and all the local clergy signed it.