Good Morning on this March 26

Cold today but not cold enough to make me take my winter coat out of the closet. Things are looking nice in the gardens--at least those showing signs of life. I finally identified the mystery plant: valerian. So far my survivals include two roses, the valerian, woad, chamomile, two mums, three chives, and lavender. Although the peppermint, spearmint, and dianthus have also come back, I am going to take those out and put other plants in their places.

I found this piece at Crooks&Liars and you just know it is going to go on to the Supreme Court. If you are interested in more details this article in Courthouse News should be informative.

And for a good laugh look at Crooks&Liars account of a certain Texas representative making a complete ass of himself in hearings. Satire anyone?

March 27

It has been two weeks since we got our J&J COVID vaccinations so we are considered fully vaccinated. J&J is the single shot vaccine. Just in time this item landed in my e-mail. Every one so wants things to be normal by which they mean normal in the way things were before the pandemic. But every once in a while something comes up that reminds us that there are ways we won't be going back to that normal. We used to go out to eat five or six times a week and haven't been inside a restaurant once since January of 2020. But we aren't anxious to go back to eating out. We can't handle the portions any more and bringing half of our meals home doesn't appeal. We used to go up to a shop that sold bulk tea, coffee, grains, and spices every couple of months. But we don't use any of that the same way any more. We simply aren't cooking or eating the way we did B(before)C(Covid).

We watched a bit of the BBC news this morning. The news readers reported that their vaccine manufacturers are gearing up to produce "booster" shots by September. Parts of France and Germany are locking down with a third wave rising and they have had some violent "protests" against lockdowns. I have read that significant numbers of the EU population are very vaccine skeptic. Mom was reading this morning that QAnon has shifted from charging that the election was rigged to sowing doubts about the vaccines.