Election Hangover and Overall Joy

The poetry reading and conversation I was scheduled to do on ZOOM for Revolutionary Spaces in Boston was cancelled at the last minute when Charles Coe, one of the co-interviewers, ended up in the hospital with chest pains.

Now it is scheduled for 2 pm Sunday November 22, the Sunday before thanksgiving.

 Charles is an old friend, a fine poet whom we were the first to publish when we ran Leapfrog Press.  He has even come to Thanksgiving a few times back in the days when people could go to each other’s houses on social occasions without risking illness and death.

 The lovely wet period has come to an end and we have plenty of sun.  I hope that wasn’t the last of the rain, as the water table is still quite low.  We were planting bulbs this week – tulips, scillas, hyacinths and crocuses.  Usually fall bulbs come in September.  These came end of October when it’s harder to plant them.  Many of the perennials have died back and it’s hard to tell what they are.  if they are annuals, they should be pulled.  I’m annoyed: the Fedco order arrived three and a half weeks before the Scheepers order.  it was easy to plant.

 I didn’t sleep the night of the election.  It felt too much like 2016 revisited.  Now I am resigned to whatever the outcome is, but I’m not in the despair I felt Tuesday night when I thought Trump had won.  I don’t think media should report polls any longer.  They are pure fiction.  In trump’s phrase, polls are fake news. As I write this, we still don’t know who won and it looks as if we couldn’t take the Senate.

I’m watching as many of the Breeders Cup races as I can.  I had to dig the dahlias, calla lilies and which of the acidanthera bulbs I can locate.  The frost killed them back, so I have to get them out and dried for the winter before I can’t locate them. that dahlias plants are using because they are big and stand there like blackened skeletons.

 Bonnie and David are coming over for supper tonight. 

We’re going to have a bottle of Korbel champagne tonight to celebrate.  CNN just called the election for Biden. Now I still have to contribute my $25 to each of the Georgia candidates for the Senate so we may have some chance to take it – something that would make Biden’s life easier and his presidency more productive.

Beautiful weekend and hope for rain in midweek.  I’m making a Greek dish – lamb in a tomato lemon sauce with vegetables.  The only way to have a couple over for dinner is to make a one-dish supper that we split into two bowls, one at their end of the porch or living room with the windows open. and out bowl at the other end.  We’re hoping it’ll be warm enough this evening so we can use the sun porch.