Spring sunset, cherry logs, and experiment

Last evening there was a succession of colors at sunset, rapidly changing and filling my house with pink light.

 And today was warm

The walk to the pond gets easier each day, less exertion needed to get there, making it look nearer. I wanted to get pictures of the fallen tree to show Chris the bark better.

They do look lenticulated, don't they? Old and weathered but I do think cherry. Around here trees are of long standing and some have hybridized.  But I think this is probably cherry, no? If you know better, please say. I like to know stuff.

Also the daffodils continue unabated, and quite a few that we planted long ago as a 9/11 memorial are coming up again now.

And I did an experiment with the spiral knitted stitch pattern, casting on the same number of stitches as before.  The pattern is k3p1, half the stitches of the other spiral,  still keeping an even number of stitches in the repeats, and an odd number total.

As you see, the spiral still works. 

And resistance continues, this time to send comments to the CDC about making the COVID vaccine available. There are three more days to comment before the window closes. Mine has been acknowledged, and here's what you need to know to comment.

You go to the gov website and they'll ask you to identify the docket, with the report number. That's the last line above. You'll get a drop-down menu to click on the COVID link and go from there.  Please do this. Takes a moment and you might help save lives. Every comment adds to the pressure to make it available universally again.

They do respond to numbers. The ballroom is held up because of the huge pushback of comments. Many of them, like mine, demanded he be forced to rebuild the East Wing! Not just me, then.

I also wrote a firm email to the nyt demanding fact checking, and retraction of the recent transphobic essay by Jesse Singal, full of inaccurate claims about trans healthcare.

Now drinking my tea, after nature study, cooking, designing, bit of gardening with Gary.

He wanted help in mourning the snow damage to his shrubs and I suggested ways to cut and prune a bit.  He hates to prune, and I refrained from pointing out that he'd have done better in snow if he had pruned. 

Anyway, he assured me that when he moves, maybe May, he will be my permanent neighbor, to call on! Such a good guy. He'll be twenty minutes away and since a relative will be his tenant next door, he'll be over here often.  So the friendship will continue to be a source of entertainment! NADM rules.

Happy day everyone, mine was pretty full.