and today it is 47 degrees again.
Global, the gas station at the Crossroads convenience store almost across the street from us (where our street, Birch, continues and becomes Broadway, and is crossed by Main Street and Cedar Street, hence "Crossroads"), raised the price of gas again for the second time in 10 days, from $1.9599 to $1.9999, after hitting a low (for only a day or two) of $1.7499, and spending about a month at $1.8599.
I've been driving our "new" car, learning how to use a stick shift again. The car is so clean, and the fabric on the seats is black. If we let Ella in there, even once, her beautiful blond fur would be everywhere. So we bought a "hammock" for Ella from Orvis. It has four straps, two attach around the front seat headrests and two attach around the back seat headrests, and the "hammock" covers the back of the back seat, the backseat and the backs of the front seat. We haven't yet taken Ella for a ride in it. (The snow is still melting and we are well into Maine Mud Season, so we're hoping for a sunny dry day.)
The upstairs hall, stairway and downstairs front hall are painted and we've begun hanging up photos and art again. Three of Sam's Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival posters went up in the front all today:
My daughter is in Puerto Rico for 10 days or so, working on a farm of a woman she met in Haiti. She may take a job on a farm in North Carolina when she comes back.
Yesterday we woke up to learn of another terrorist attack, this in Brussels, which immediately unleashed a wave of nativist and racist outrage in the U.S. I was disappointed in CBS News last night, which was fanning the flames of fear, predicting attacks by ISIS here in the U.S. Maybe they WANT Trump to be the next president (although it was Cruz who advocated cracking down on Muslim communities in the U.S.)
Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders won big victories in Idaho and Utah. Who knew? Clinton won in Arizona. Arizona has more delegates. Bernie isn't giving up, notwithstanding Obama's suggestion to a room of big shot $33K donors that he should step aside.
I just finished reading a "new English version" by Ursula K. Le Guin of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way. David had purchased it some time ago and had taken it out to read. I swiped and read it. (A little woo woo for Laurence Anne, I hear you ask? Well, how much woo woo is too much woo woo? Google that and you'll be surprised by what comes up!) I'm going to quote here:
46 Wanting less
When the world's on the Way,
they use horses to haul manure.
When the world gets off the Way,
they breed warhorses on the common.
The greater evil: wanting more.
The worst luck: discontent.
Greed's the curse of life.
To know enough's enough
is enough to know.
Peace, peace, far and near.
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