the show

Today was dedicated to the show. I worked on new labels for the show and then we managed to pack every single one into my friend’s Subaru. My car can hold less than half of them. She is now unemployed too and thus could help me even though it is a Thursday. I’m so glad, it was so much more fun with her, such a load off when I realized I could ask her to help me. It was very tricky to get them all in the car, it required a special genius at the Bethesda church. We drove it all the way to Baltimore and placed them and then the two guys working at the synagogue hung every one. I hate driving nails in other people’s walls so I am delighted that they did it and they did it quickly. 

The extra is “the grumpy picture.” On the way there is a street filled with sign after sign saying no playing and no pets and I want to go back and add signs saying, “no smiling” “no joy” “no fun.”  [Had to reverse because blip couldn’t upload the picture of us in the car with all the pictures behind us.]

My friend and I both read an article the other morning that upset us. It is about how hard this period has been on federal workers. Reading it, we both think that, as hard as it is, we are both handling this better than most people, because both of us have been through so much in our lives already. This doesn’t always make you stronger, often it makes you more vulnerable, but in our cases it has made us better able to handle this particular insanity. One of the suicides is the wife of a friend of a friend. I think a great deal of the horror, which is not discussed in the article, is we know the damage this will do the country. 

The newly purchased mansion, $8.6 million, of one of Trump’s appointees, in DC, burned to the ground. When my friend told me I was very quick to say that I was not responsible. 
 
“Ukraine said its drones damaged a Russian semiconductor plant that it said is used to help produce fighter jets and missiles.”


“Moscow is facing a second day of large-scale drone attacks, causing delays for dozens of flights with airports around the Russian capital forced to temporarily halt operations.”


“Finland will supply 90 million euros ($101.35 million) of ammunition to Ukraine by using proceeds from Russian financial assets frozen by the European Union”