What’s Happening Now
It’s 73 degrees outside, and we’ve got a 24% chance of rain. Seems like it may be more than that, as the humidity is 79%. Sandy asked me to water the plants in her outside buckets, and that’s been done along with adding water to Adams Pond. The waterfall is dutifully sending cascades of water down to splash on the fish. They’ve also been fed.
But those were the easy chores. We are having trouble with the air conditioning system, and Sandy’s scheduling a technician to come by and look it over. You may remember I talked about getting your air conditioning system tuned up not long ago. It’s better to get it done before hot weather hits.
I’m including a picture of one of Sandy’s newly blooming plants in today’s entry. She says it’s called Transcendentia. It’s nice to know things like that. Otherwise, I’d just call it purple flower.
The world of politics continues to revolve around Donald Trump. His arraignment is today, but he’s got other worries down the road. The likelihood of further indictments from both the attempt to falsify voting numbers in Georgia to the insurrection attempt he instigated in Washington on January 6, 2021 are looming on the horizon. He may even get pulled in on the lawsuit moving forward by the Dominion lawsuit against Fox News for their lies about the 2020 election. They’ve all admitted they were lying about the “stolen election” in order to keep their viewers from switching to another ultra-conservative news source. Of course, lies are at the heart of everything GOP these days.
One of the super-conservative counties in Northern California has voted to totally eliminate voting machines based on the Great Lie that the election was stolen. Everything’s going to be done on paper now. Paper ballots only and hand-counting. (Easy to lose ballots you don’t like, and easy to miscount if the numbers are too close. The GOP right-wing has elected to ignore election results if they don’t like them. Their reasons are clear. They can’t win in a fair election.
Okay, that’s all out of my system.
Entertainment
I don’t know about you, but I thoroughly enjoyed reading the Harry Potter books, and the movies were like icing on the cake as far as I was concerned. I remember waiting in line at Wal-Mart when one of the books was released (there were LOTS of people there). Wal-Mart even had them in a secure location so people couldn’t walk off with them. Then, sitting in the theater as the first movie hit really was like magic unfolding before my eyes.
So, here’s the good news (maybe). HBO plans to adapt the series to television. Eash season will cover a book, and the stories will be told so they include a lot of material that didn’t make the movies. Casting will be difficult, but they did a good job of it in the first. We may have renew our subscription to HBO if this actually occurs.
Books
I’m reading a book now that’s entitled The Mystery of Julia Episcopa. I was drawn to it by an ad on Facebook. The story revolves around a woman who lived in Biblical times. Her name is Julia, and she lives in 57 AD (or CE depending upon which system you adhere to). So far, she has been married, had two girls (much to the serious disappointment of her upwardly mobile Roman soldier husband), and she’s fighting a system that makes women as much like property as slaves. In the last chapter, she’s in Ephesus, and she has met and listened to the Apostle Paul (whose message scares her quite a bit because it goes against everything she’s been brought to believe in life). The other part of the story centers around a serious archeological study to identify her impact (or lack of it) on history. The intimation is made at the very beginning that she eventually becomes a bishop in the Church. The study is funded and overseen by the Catholic Church, but the Cardinal watching over it all doesn’t want to release the results if they are confirmed. I’m a third of the way into it, so it still has a way to go.
That’s enough for now.
Let me know what you think.
Take care. Stay Safe.
cma
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