Today's advent calendar day opens to what might be an ammo dump of snowballs ready to pelt the other elves and gnomes. Or maybe a lighted Christmas tree. Either way, the white rabbit, probably really a snowshoe hare, for the season, keeps her back firmly turned
And I got this weekend's royal viewing, it's not a weekend without royal scandal, including the hats, which are often the greatest scandal of all.
Here's what we always suspected, and now it does seem to be true. Not surprising since they were a security risk, what with his having access to all the secret papers as King, leaving them lying around unlocked, with dodgy people galore in the house, well, mansion, really, and being great pals with Hitler and other chums.
So this will be good.
Meanwhile back at the fence: after all the alerts, warnings, threats about trees and that, they now tell us that, after all, they still don't know when they can start. I guess the supply chain for fences has been yanked around by covid-19. Unless the fencing people have retooled to make vaccine, who knows. No, that was definitely a joke, in case anyone wonders.
What I wonder is if people who can't take the flu shot will be able to safely take the covid vaccine. Or if once again we'll be begging everyone around us who can take it, to do so for all our sakes. It's a while before I need to know that, since I doubt if the general population is going to see supplies before next summer earliest.
So this morning, walk done, more of a chore than a pleasure at the moment, what with the low winter energy, library done, therapy lamp session done, check, check, check, blogpost about to go out, that part is fun, I'm about to have a bowl of vichyssoise for lunch.
Then bake cornbread muffins this afternoon in anticipation of a visit from Handsome Son.
"Spying on the Royals" sounds fabulous! I might have to watch that.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like it will be months before we get the all clear here as well. We’re settling in for the next several months at least.
ReplyDeleteGlad you're heaving yourself outdoors for that walk despite the winter glum. You've earned your vichyssoise.
ReplyDeleteReally enjoying your Advent calendar, by the way. Thank you for sharing it.
Chris from Boise
Retooling is something I think we've all been doing in one way or another, mostly another. Have a good week-end
ReplyDeleteYou couldn't pay me enough to get me to set foot in an airplane these days (hard enough during good times!) much less fly that distance. One wonders if they will be able to return home again when the time comes...it will depend on the virus.
ReplyDeleteYour fence debacle sounds like what happens here in our building all the time. There's a huge scurry and flurry about 'something' being done and then it all fizzles out and we never hear about it again. There was some sort of 'update' to happen with our toilets three weeks ago and we had better be sure we were home and that we were appropriately masked when they entered the unit. Never did see them. We've been waiting over a month for a 'person' to come to fix our closet door that has come off the moorings one too many times for me to fix myself....been assured, several times, that the repair is imminent. Funny how their definition of imminent varies so drastically from mine!
I think the problem with the fencing is that it's a huge amount of material, to replace all the fencing for this entire development, and the fencing world has pretty much crashed with the pandemic. They keep on promising a delivery date and it doesn't happen. I was talking with my neighbor, on the other side, not the Indian travelers, and he was wondering what was up. When I told him that as of two days ago, they still don't have a delivery date, he wished fervently they'd leave it all alone till spring, because he doesn't fancy digging up and potting shrubs in the dead of winter, and he doesn't want to dig too soon, in case they never show up.
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