Wine advent calendars

 

From the web: where I run there are few people to observe me and no thanks to the cold, not much is exposed but I've run in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in NYC during the summer where even my exposed hair is taboo much less my legs which attract dirty looks

A nice sunset through a screen as I was too lazy to go outside

How to amuse myself when Covid continues to rise (thanks to trump and his superspreader events and those who worship him by steadfastedly refusing to mask up)? Family dinners are out Meetings with friends are out except by zoom which I really don't find satisfying. I continue to learn languages, two thirds through Spanish. Netflix and its ilk at night. Just finished The Queens' Gambit, Biohackers and The Crown during the past two weeks. I have been buying wine advent calendars where you are given 24 bottles of different wines to open up each day. I missed out on the best calendar, the Costco2 which features obscure wines from around the world so I settled for the Aldi one, which are all California ones. This is by no means a cost effective way of buying wine, costs at least twice as much per ounce as the 'good' wines I usually buy but you can try stuff you normally do not and if you limit oneself to one little bottle per day, portion control.

We had our first snow Sunday which part of it is still on the ground. I tried to run in it but too slippery. True we now have a treadmill but they make me dizzy. I ran for more than 90 minutes the next day up and down very muddy hills to make up for my sloth. Once it gets above freezing, maybe at noon, I will bike. My toes are the most vulnerable. I have thick wool sox covered with baggies but still they are numb if I am out for more than an hour

I did get my covid hair chomped off. It hadn't been so long since Shanna was a baby and it was tangling too easily. I hadn't got a haircut since my stylist died. I tried a student from a high end school. She was nice and the hair looks ok.

How fast can we get those vaccines? At least Trump seems like he is conceding especially after his lawyer ranted like a crazy man in a press conference with his do it yourself dye job on his sideburns melted under the lights leaving black rivelets down his face. And then he blew his nose into a handkerchief and then wiped the snot all over his forehead. Trump's wining and dining of our top officials didn't buy him anything as our state certified the results yesterday.

So things are looking a bit brighter

covid continues

 

A covid activity of a friend copying Monet. Never knew my friend could paint

the girls out for a ride

Woodpeckers are back. This red breasted nuthatch is much smaller than the its white breasted cousin

still get nice sunsets and sunrises during these otherwise gloomy times

cow poop sculpture

mums are the last to die

Cases go up and up. Our governor just announced more restrictions for the next few weeks. Trump's 'medical' advisor urged Michiganders to protest (with their assault rifles and definitely no masks). What a crazy world we live in!!!!

If only we had a true leader back in February who was capable of understanding science. Of course he demanded the best medical care for himself. And he still won't concede the election, just encourages his cult followers to take up arms.

One of his ardent supporters did die recently, an old boyfriend of mine. Talk about the road not taken! He was one of the most intelligent people I ever met ( in understanding quantum mechanics and very advanced math) and has numerous degrees yet he loved Trump. I would read his diatribes and shake my head. What happened? He did think Covid was a hoax and less deadly than the flu (not true) I don't know how he died. I did know he had bad lungs and a few other comorbidities. He was so irritating, I was considering defriending him but recently I wondered how he felt about the election. He must have died the week before the election.

I recently had a physical and had one of those annoying dementia screens consisting of memorizing three words and then being distracted by having to draw 10:45 on a clock. Didn't want to forget those words and then being classified as dumber than you know who who actually bragged about acing his Alzheimer's test. Should have just drawn a digital clock. At some point, we will have a population that has no idea how to read an analog clock. I did get my flu shot, which my insurance company actually paid me to get though theoretically, if everyone is social distancing, how is it going to be spread.

So there is a vaccine that should start being used in a few weeks for at least health care workers and maybe the elderly. We shall see.

Meanwhile it is a bleak November. Not having the whole family over for Thanksgiving.

Hate the maskholes.

Hate the stupidity and blind loyalty to that tyrant

Happy Zoom Halloween

 

Cat faced Naomi

Maya Bo Peep

Josh's family

Steve's cousin"s granddaughter as Malala

Oliver

Tessa and Daniel

Halloween graveyard on my bike ride

Real graveyard adjacent to our subdivison

New sculpture over my 'bar' area

aster

skull cookies by Maya and Naomi

Who are these characters that my grandchildren were for Halloween  Just had heard of Bo Beep which I  am surprised that any kid knows about these days. I reread the nursey rhyme recently. It has a part about Bo Peep finding the missing sheep tails bloody hanging in a tree. Sweet dreams children

Little Bo peep fell fast asleep
And dreamt she heard them bleating,
But when she awoke, she found it a joke,
For they were all still fleeting.
Then up she took her little crook
Determined for to find them.
She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed,
For they left their tails behind them.
It happened one day, as Bo peep did stray
Into a meadow hard by,
There she espied their tails side by side
All hung on a tree to dry.

Speaking of nightmares. The elections are very close. Again the polls were wrong. Trump called the election for himself late last night saying no more need to count the ballots. But Biden could still win the electorate. Trump will try to seize control any way he could. Why did anyone vote for him?

We have Indian summer for the next week but most of my flowers are dead to a killing frost last weekend. Not a fan of November with its drabness but at least I will be able to bike comfortably a few more times