Cows in Greece, textiles and tea, organ recital

 About Spanish cats, there's more. IYKYK.

After a couple of days, maybe it was weeks, of wipeout, where I literally staggered from kitchen with tea, to sofa and back, largely sleeping and coughing, not even energy to shower, I think I'll live. 

This virus is going around and it's very nasty. I also have the Freedom to Get Sick theory. This holds that you stay well as long as you have to, for me this time,  working for GOTV. Then, if you get good results, you finally lose your resistance against illness and it gets you.  

Consider this my Blue Tsunami Cold, and the makers of tissues are blessing me now.

I finally managed to shower and do laundry and get garbage out. After this kind of virus, you need to get its traces out of the house quickly, another theory. 

I also made a quiche, though I had to rest in the middle of the prep. Dandelion greens, carrots, several kinds of cheese, many eggs. Turmeric, salt, pepper, garlic, onions.

lunch is served.

And I seem to have made over 100 short videos, clever me!

This one's several videos ago. I do them daily and had banked a couple ahead, so when I wasn't up for it, I still posted. I've been making them since late July. 

Not sure if this is good prioritizing, from someone who couldn't face showering, but moving right along.

I  can finally show you Textiles and Tea from last week, late but who's counting. Disregard the weird formatting, blogger is annoyed I hit the wrong key 

Last week's Textiles and Tea was exciting. It presented work from a gifted artist who has experienced a lot of hardship. It has never dimmed her narrative edge, with large scale tapestry as her medium. 

She's very generous in sharing and in acknowledging earlier fiberartists whose brilliant work was dismissed by the art world. She honored Magdalena Abakanovich, and if you don't know her, check her out.

Just look.

There are many references to events, people and other art, but even if you're not familiar, you can appreciate the inpact of these works and their emotional force. Dance is herself a force of nature.

Happy day everyone, it's so great to have the luxury of resting till I feel well, a luxury I never had earlier in life. Gratitude abounds.

Next step starts, Misfits and marigolds

Thursday was about continuing to follow election results, senator races from Mississippi and Alaska still counting. More and more Dem wins are coming out now, as counts are completed elsewhere.

So back to active tasks. There's a Continuing Resolution coming up in Congress in early December, that's the budget decision that keeps the gummint open for a specified period while issues are being worked out. 

I've messaged both my senators and my House rep asking that they refuse to sign off on it if it contains funding for the war against Iran.  

I reminded them we've given them a mandate and we have high expectations that they will resist the felon's demands.  I also congratulated the reelected senator and thanked the retiring Rep. Bonnie for her years of terrific service to her constituents. 

And I made one of the best meals I've had in ages, Andalusian seafood rice. It's from Alberto of Spain on a Fork. He used squid and shrimp. I don't eat squid, but I had shrimp.

It has rice, garlic, parsley, lemon juice, red pepper and a great fish stock I had in the freezer since I last had shrimp. Squeeze of lemon juice at the last minute. Just great. 

Later Misfits arrived, missing a couple of items, but we'll live. They're struggling with inventory and I'm hoping as we recover from the felon in the White House, the food supplies will improve again.

See my optimism -- I'm buying green bananas. The apples are small Gala, too small for supermarkets but very good anyway.

Potatoes for roasting, diced and served with vinegar. Plenty of yogurt, dates for some baking tbd, cream cheese for breakfast toast, beautiful eggs and grated Parmesan for an upcoming quiche with the cheeses in the freezer.

Also with the frozen dandelion greens, and today's carrots, now steamed.  Fresh garlic likewise. I do like garlic, and add it in everywhere it works. 

Scallions to add in, too. These were very fresh and pungent as I chopped them ready.

I'm currently following the TV series Professor T,  full of quirky characters, really well written, set in Cambridge, so plenty of ancient architectural and fen vistas.

It's good I have it to watch, since I've come down with the cold everyone's got, endless coughing and self pity.  

I had an echocardiogram a couple of days ago, so no doubt was exposed at some point. This too shall pass. But the echo results are fine, valves all stable.  So my Democratic little heart is fine to continue whatever activist shenanigans I want to continue.

I case you wondered, Gary is back from Florida and called me with urgent questions.  About raccoons. He's got some around the house, are they dangerous to his little dog, etc. I think, knowing  Billie the Pup, they'd need protection from her.  I cautioned him to keep the garbage secure and the garage door closed. 

Did I mention the parathyroid issue and my new doctor encouraging me to see an endo, no urgency. I asked for an appointment, not feeling in a mad rush. Just as well. First opening is next February.  That's fine, I'm tired of doctors just now, all telling me I'm fine anyway.

The weather has turned wet, good for the plants after a wonderful string of perfect sunshine, low humidity, days, with flowers still going strong in sheltered yards.

There were a lot of what I thought at first were those little brown butterflies, but turned out to be multi winged insects, clearly great pollinators. They're all over these marigolds but hard to detect here. I need to find out what they are.

Happy day everyone, so much hope now and such a relief. Everyone's exhaling, but still alert just in case. Flying my flag proudly again. 

Morning in America. We did it.

The extent of the blue tsunami is not completely known yet, but we know we did it.

Take a victory lap, everyone who marched, wrote, phoned, urged, encouraged, protested, demanded, and VOTED. Everyone who did more than wring their hands. We did it.

I'm so happy I lived to see that dreadful man and his minions go down. I wondered if I would, because nearer 90 than 80. I did it.

We've retrieved our flag, a bit battered, aren't we all, but ready to get back to work for all the people.

And thank you all the nice people who personally messaged and e-mailed and generally shared the joy with this old lady. We did it.

Thank you, Canada 

You kept faith in the people despite the  evildoers in office. 

And here are a few historical notes, just sayin.

Thank you everyone who voted these great candidates into office.

TEXAS! It's more than bluebonnets 

Lot of work ahead, but today's a victory lap.

Fall colors, pbcc cookies and high anxiety

The leaf colors this year have been the brightest in years

And Misfits now and then reminds me of what I'm saving and how kind this is to the planet 

Some of my Misfits box went into a few peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. 

which look as if they're talking back 

And the flowers I was given, some of which I don't recognize but which might eventually become dried for the winter 

Filling both my Lenoxes.

I did a bit of painting Monday partly to cope with the high anxiety about the midterms. Chances of a blue wave are good, and chances of an orange retaliation equally so.

The box of painting supplies came out with a flourish, and as usual I used very few of them. But it's nice to have then there just in case.

I need to get back in practice, but it was a nice interlude. 

Happy day everyone, keep breathing.  We've got this, and whatever the results, much more work to do.  Let's hope for a Congress on the right side of history this time.

My mom was an English suffragette. Go vote if you haven't yet. Do it for Lizzie!