Month: November 2020

Continued weeding the vegetable gardens, did a transfer station run yesterday.

Ron removed the last of the old window boxes, and I painted underneath. We put up a sheet of heavy plastic between his shop and the laundry area.

Put the un-useable hanging lamps in the attic for now.

Turns out, Jo Jorgensen may have thrown the election to Biden: her vote total exceeded his margin of victory in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania. I tried, unsuccessfully, to explain this to the Move to Removers.

Geri treated us to a fine lunch yesterday: crudities, fruit, salad, soup pizza and tiramisu.

I got to visit with Free while Geri and Ron visited the horse farm.

Afterwards, we exchanged ROKU streaming sticks at Target, and I set up the new one: big difference!

Did more veg garden weeding.

Over the last two days, I made two kinds of soup and other vegetable dishes.

Ron drove us to Falmouth for errands yesterday. He wanted to buy CD sleeves and to make a deposit to his credit union account, and I’d hoped to find glass “jewels” at Michael’s to repair a wall ornament that I’d knocked over at Geri’s. Made a stop at the Dollar store for cumin but finding none, picked up birthday cards and nuts anyway.

Started cleanup of the oldest vegetable bed.

I also washed the bathroom floor yesterday. Had knocked over the mouthwash in the dark the night before. Did a white wash of the towels and we changed out the shower curtain.

Slept for 10 hours last night.

Picked kale, turnips and carrots at the farm on Tuesday morning.

Rented “Antebellum”.

Yesterday, I did a fine walk with BLT at the Danforth Conservation Area. Went to Captain Scott’s for lunch with Geri and Free, then to Stop & Shop.

The Cape Republican delegation lost two seats, including Will Crocker’s.

Disappointed that Mashpee voted down a 2% property surcharge for water infrastructure investments by only 4 votes.

In Florida, Trump was successful among LatinX voters because of fake fear-mongering that the Democrats want a socialist government and a belief that Biden was more invested in stopping COVID19 than in encouraging business growth.

Trump supporters want the US to remain White and misogynist. When asked why Trump, they will offer two excuses, abortion and their 401(k)s, as “cover” for their racism and sexism.

In a way, Trump has done us all a favor by blasting to smithereens the American myth that success comes from hard work and playing by the rules. It all comes down to luck: being born good-looking and to a favored social and ethnic group.

Andrew Yang’s proposal for a minimum guaranteed income makes the most sense of any policy thrown out in this entire campaign.

I found Ron’s iPhone, plugged in to a powerless power strip in his “shop”, and the saw stand accessories, in a metal cookie box.

Picked up a prescription for Ron that he thought was expired (one refill left), then he remembered he needed to refill another, which he picked up later.

The registers were down at Stop & Shop, a 4-day old problem which Verizon failed to fix. Nightmare for the cashiers.

Made a big lasagna with zucchini and homemade sauce.

Dropped off a check for property taxes at Town Hall, which is still closed to the public.

Drove Robert to and from work, and he was nice enough to treat me to lunch from the barbeque next to his branch. Did a short stint at the farm.

Spent the afternoon with Em! We had lunch and tea with Robert and Ron, then candy shopped at Nancy’s in Dennis and toured a few Halloween decorated houses in Harwich.

We had a handful of trick or treaters at our place. Watched Rocky Horror, which I still think, even with the superb Tim Curry, Charles Gray and Richard O’Brien, is not an especially good spoof of Grade B horror and scifi films, but who am I to judge?