January 21

 Sunny again and, again, bitterly cold-- -4F right now. And not expected to get out of the single digits. Will be cold tomorrow also but there isn't much difference in the temperatures expected over the rest of the week. I got back to the filet doily and finished another three inches or so. I finally stopped because my hands were stiffening up and a couple of joints were aching--besides we needed breakfast. We might have frigid temps but at least it isn't snowing and we aren't under blizzard warnings like New Orleans and other parts of the Gulf (of MEXICO) coast. The entire southeast is getting the unprecedented cold and snow. A reporter on the Weather Channel said that the white sand beaches of the Florida panhandle are still white but with snow. The weather conditions they are experiencing is likely to set some records.

This morning on MORNING JOE they showed two New York City newspapers one had a headline about the "Grim Speaker" (a.k.a., Trump) while the other took off on Trump's promise that America's Golden Age has begun. In my mind the question formed "Golden Age or Gilded Age." I expect the latter.

I noticed that the U.S. media, at least in the early editions, focused on the pardons Trump issued for the 1500+ rioters (sorry I refused to call them patriots or in any way excuse their actions). I expected and I wasn't surprised when he issued a blanket order after hinting that he would consider them on a case by case basis. I noticed last night that one of the orders he signed withdraws the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement and included the letter to the U.N. informing the of that. It wasn't covered by any of the media I saw until I shifted over to BBC this morning. They did mention it along with the order taking us out of the World Health Organization.