Some fall photos:
Assembling IKEA furniture. 
A text from a friend that her wife has covid. The positive test rate in NM is almost 14% again--and since no one is really testing, you know it's much higher than that. It's still killing people, covid, but we've decided, as a nation, to treat it the way we treat mass killings in school: We ignore it and scream bloody murder about our rights and freedom when anyone suggests the barest most minimal measures against it.
Welcome to America.
Things I'm glad about this week include:
The election results. I would have been happier had it been a runaway smash hit for the Democrats to have control of all the branches but we need to take what we can get and work with what we have. (I'd be happier still to have the republican party wiped off the face of the earth and my plan for their leader, el pendejo naranja, would have me on every government watch list of I were to spell it out here.)
Other happy things include:
The return of the cranes.
Beautiful autumn leaves, especially the golden cottonwood leaves.
Finding a box of my notes from biology and chemistry classes I took more than two decades ago, including a class I took from Kelly in the late 90s that convinced me that I needed to study biology.
Having my sewing area almost completed. I have stuff yet to arrange but I'll at the point where I'm having to compromise and that takes me a long, long time to do. I have been sewing a bit every day since getting my sewing desk set up. It's nothing serious, just some crumb blocks made from scraps of fabric saved from other projects.
Everywhere I look in the new house, there is something to be done, boxes to unpack, art to be hung, pottery to find homes for. It's overwhelming. I'm glad I can take a bit of time each day to do some sewing.
4 comments:
Lovely photos, thanks for sharing. It's the same here in Australia. Case numbers of the new subvariant are on the rise but the government seems to not care at all. There are no longer mask or vaccine mandates and not even a stay home order. All the while I see the numbers rising and rising every week, and now we are getting on towards Christmas I wonder what will happen....fingers crossed we stay away from it so we can enjoy Christmas. But I really do feel like the world is going to treat Covid like just another flu.
Hi Kelly, how are you and your family doing? I check back on your blog from time to time but haven't seen an update in awhile! I'm so worried about how ppl are treating covid. There is some preliminary evidence in animals that related infections are invariably deadly. Scientists seem to be finding that no animal they've tested for repeated infections survives past 12 infections. The damage covid does to organs is too great over time. I'm especially worried about children who will have to live their whole lives with the consequences of this virus. We've let them down in so many ways. It's terrible. Stay healthy!
Jeez. Not "related infections"-- I meant repeated infections.
That is really scary. We are having another wave of infections in Perth at the moment and I've tried to stay home as much as possible. Friends and their family members have been re-infected but so far we have avoided it.
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