Doings on the home front

 Since I can't be out saving the world all the time, there's stuff happening at home too.

The Tank Lid Caper

Early this morning my neighbor who's getting the plumbing overhauled, was at the door with the promised tank lid, which looks like a match for the broken one at the condo.

I texted Handsome Son to come and get it, since he's off today, and get a cup of tea.  Both of which he did, and graciously let me take a pic.

Final Garden Clean up for the year

The flowers are done, so the pollinators are gone, and I can cut and toss.

Russian sage and Montauk daisies

Thyme and Autumn Joy sedum

News of the indoor garden

The weather's suddenly mild, so I finally, years late, got to separating and repotting the aloe previously hopelessly squashed into too small a container. The pots and soil are out in the outdoor closet, so the weather's a factor, not wanting to chill the plants being moved.

One section now lives next door in my friend Amitha's rapidly growing collection. She had seen me at work on the aloe out on the path, came to ask a few plant questions. That's why there aren't any pix of the process. People first. So my attention was on her. And while I was at it, I offered her a division of aloe. She has one,but a different variety, so she was happy to house it.

Back home I now have a working kitchen aloe 

And upstairs a leisured aloe chatting with her friends. Once her shape has recovered from the overcrowding in her former housing, I'll see about another repotting.

Also downstairs, I noticed the sudden eruption of a long stem and buds from the spider plant I moved and repotted. First in years, so I think the repotting was a Good Thing tm.

Then a cabbage onion wrap, and a longish walk in the sunshine to prevent kinks in my back from the garden cleanup. 

And it's still early afternoon. I attribute this cheery energy to the sunshine, the neighbor coming through with remembering the lid, and with some political news, to wit:

Bucks County, Pennsylvania, home of the wealthy one per cent, reliably republican since the dawn of time, turned blue!! Overnight news.

Also georgia Dem Ossoff appears to be so close to the appalling Perdue in their senate race, that he might, just might, force a January runoff.  And also in Georgia sen. Loeffler, who enriched her enormous portfolio using inside knowledge about covid, is in a January runoff against a Dem.  Two more bites at the Senate cherry! We may yet get this, friends! 

Unusual to have both State senators up, but Loeffler was appointed, not elected and must run in order to secure the seat. And, as the count goes on, Biden, too,  is narrowing the gap in Georgia.

We should warmly thank Stacy Abrams for a lot of groundwork that brought us to this place. Her endless work to preserve the vote and fight vote suppression is a big part of why Loeffler and Perdue didn't just walk away with the seats.

Suppression is the reason Abrams is not currently Governor of Georgia.  Their actual governor, in an interesting bit of karma, is quarantined for covid-19, and because of the draconian voting rules he put in place, in continuing vote suppression moves, can not vote! Snookered.

The first of that man,  you know who's, lawsuits trying to void uncounted ballots has been thrown out this morning on the grounds of no evidence.

Pretty good day, all in all. From humble toilet tanklids to the future of our republic, you get it all here! 

Keep breathing, keep watching, keep calm.