June 6

Shaping up to be another sunny and hot day. It is early yet so we'll have to see what happens once the sun is fully up. I have a couple of chores to do in the gardens before it gets too warm out there: deadheading, setting up some cages for the chamomile and the valerian, and getting the tomatoes staked properly before they become a tangled mess. And watering, of course--that is a daily task when the temperatures get as high as they have been.

Started off this morning with David Kaiser's History Unfolding blog. He is spot on as far as our political situation is concerned. The evenly split legislature is only a reflection of our society at large. After all a ten million (approx.) vote difference between loosing and winning in a potential voting population of about 200 million isn't a great margin. It reminds me of the scene in Elizabeth where the lords urge her to marry to solve their political problems and she replies "But whom, my lords. Some say France and some say Spain and some can't abide foreigners at all. I don't know how to please you--unless I should marry one of each." As it is she didn't marry at all and I suspect we won't get the transformative agenda Biden and so many on that side of the argument would like because we won't "be wedded" to either and taking "one of each" isn't at all palatable or compatible.

We just turned off the news--very early for us since we usually have it on until about 9am. But the first story was #45's appearance at that South Carolina GOP conference. I refuse to watch or listen to much to do with him. I am afraid the poison he and his sycophants have injected into our political blood stream won't be cured any time soon. I have a stack of DVDs featuring more sympathetic monsters. (the ants of Them! and the graboids and ass-blasters of Tremors 6)