The men in dark suits are on the phone early. Lots and lots to talk about today. What to make of the fact that DJT's won 5 million more votes than he did in 2016 and the highest share of the non-white vote for the GOP since 1960 - not just white rural men without higher education ? Among some Manhattanites a fear that a Biden presidency and a McConnell-led Senate will put paid to any Covid stimulus and drive a recession. We talk about Allegheny County and its uncounted votes. Angus remembers that he used to fly Allegheny Airlines to summer camp in Scranton. Or was it Wilkes-Barre ? I'm sure the summer camp is long gone, as is Allegheny Airlines. It's where Angus first discovered that bane of American life - poison ivy.
Sophie announces at six am that it's time for her to get out for a walk . Now !!!! The call with the men in dark suits terminates .... abruptly. We saunter out onto the lane just as the street lights come on. The village is very proud of its dozen street lights. A sign that the village is a ' happening 'place. They come on for an hour in the morning and thirty minutes at night. After that we revert into darkness.
As the light comes up we head off to the little stream for a drink, some minnow fishing ( still inept ) and a chance to marvel at scores of flitting dragon flies. Overnight the farmer has parked his tractor on the grass path. This requires Sophie to shimmy underneath it. Walking round it is something humans do. I am delighted with the lunacy of my furry companion. You can always count on a PON to make you laugh.
We cross the stream . Having got to the other side we cross back. This is very much PON behaviour. Why miss a chance to get your paws - and your owners shoes - wet ?
After that odyssey of excitement the best thing to do is have breakfast and then position yourself strategically at the front door for a lengthy nap. The number of cases seems to be falling in the UK but remains obdurately high in France. Another 48,000 yesterday.
Thursday morning music :https://youtu.be/4cSLVAZ_830
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It is not only the men in dark suits watching the US - the world has eyes on what is happening.
Miss Sophie is brave around the tractor.
Your description of Sophie's crossing and recrossing the stream as "very much PON behavior" really captured my attention today - there is a tiny pond on the front lawn of the apartment complex across the street from our building, and ever since she was a puppy, Cherry has loved nothing better than to go back and forth across the pond as many times as we have patience for. There is a little stone path across, so she tiptoes across the stones but somehow always manages to fall in on at least one crossing. I never realized it was a PON-specific pleasure but it is perfectly true that I have never any of the other neighborhood dogs do this. The night pictures of your village are striking, looks like the perfect escape from serious conversations about the state of the world. Things seem to be moving in the right direction for Biden but the Senate does seem likely to go the other way and I don't trust Mitch McConnell to become any less partisan going forward. But maybe there will be a miracle and both Georgia races will move to a runoff and both Democrats will win?
If you are going to follow in Sophie's foot(paw)steps Angus, it seems that now is the time start wearing those new Wellington boots you bought recently - no more wet shoes! Perhaps Sophie could do with a set too - or would that spoil the fun?
Well, trump was right about one thing, COVID totally disappeared after the election -- At least it had from the news yesterday, and I imagine it may be the same today as it looks like we'll hear about Arizona and Pennsylvania hopefully today. Go Joe!
So many of those summer camps in Pennsylvania have disappeared. But there's still a number of them tucked in up there around Wilkes-Barre, which is still a pretty part of the state.
I did not know of your Pennsylvania connection. My father was born and grew up in Scranton and there were many trips back to visit when I was a child. We now live in Bryn Mawr outside of Philadelphia.
I'm sure the area is very beautiful but all I remember is the camp having a huge lake that we spent hours and hours paddling Grumman canoes around. We also learned a highly sanitized version of native American culture around interminable campfire sing alongs. Angus also, as the only non American, discovered how to mime along to the pledge of allegiance at start of day flag raisings. There might also have been close of day flag lowerings but time has wiped those from my memory.
Angus is finding that the new fancy wellington boots are remarkably uncomfortable.
Having been to school in Georgia the reports in the media that both Georgia seats might move from red to blue strikes me as improbable. In some respects non-Fulton County is a different world.
Miss Sophie is a 'keep going straight ahead no matter the obstacle' type girl.
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