Tue., Nov. 24, 2020 ***** I wanted to sleep in today. No not just sleep in - I wanted to just stay sleeping, maybe for the whole day, dreaming, staying warm, avoiding wakefulness and the world outside. There is no special reason for this feeling. Oh, sure, Covid sucks and it's raining outside. But I think it's just an inside job. I just wanted to hide today. Then the phone rings - unknown caller. I HATE unknown callers. There's almost no excuse for that anymore. But I answered it and it turns out to be the Stirling Marathon people calling to say they do warranty the door. Yeah! They will send a new one and send someone to install it, too!  Wait a minute - I have to back up here. The other day Danielle peeked around the sliding kitchen door to say her oven door has just exploded in her hand! The door has been slightly off kilter and never closed correctly (brand new ffing oven by the way, bought in the spring). So she looked up the manual online and removed the door and was ...

 Wed., Nov. 4, 2020 -  ***  Apparently yesterday was the federal election in the States, but I have decided not to watch tv news or read anything online until at least next week, once they have all the numbers for sure. And maybe by then all the suing will have been started, and maybe a civil war or at least riots. I just don't want to know. My family in the States will do what is necessary to stay safe, I am sure. I cannot worry about them, but I do ask the angels to protect them - and indeed everyone in that country. It is harsh watching a country I grew up in coming apart at the seams. I suppose it seemed like it was coming apart during the 60s with the war protests and the black rights movement and women rising up and the gay liberation movement. There was a lot of people in the streets in those days too.  Of course now there are also fires everywhere, and a worldwide pandemic and climate crisis and the rise of fascism everywhere. It seems worse to me than ever, ...