There is no way to sugar coat the way this year has begun, both for us and for our nation.
We don't usually get sick but we are. Johnny has had a coughing virus for a month. Now I have it. Just about everyone we know locally has or has had this bug. On top of that, I injured my back the first day Johnny was up in Seattle and have had painful sciatica down my right leg ever since. Fortunately, our electric EZ Go golf carts are very comfortable on my sore hip and so I've been doing chores via EZ Go for a month. But the relief is only while I'm in the cart so most of the time, I'm in pain. I don't do pain well. I do think it is slightly better... at least I'm not slathering it with pain relief salve constantly.
But worse is the state of our nation, now in the charge of a lunatic with a band of self-serving, wealthy lunatics carrying out their plans to gut the government of laws and any official that doesn't carry out their cruel directives. They have managed to buy the news media so most Americans apparently don't realize what's happening. That may change as soon as prices skyrocket, as they will have to do with the tariffs being imposed and all the seasonal workers being shipped out of the country. I doubt the fat cats in Washington will be picking produce in their places. Not that high prices mean anything but higher profits for them and their companies. It's only ordinary, non-billionaire Americans, who will pay the price. And, so far, they are mostly clueless.
So what's a person to do? I write letters to my congress folk, sign petitions, try to educate the people who are willing to listen (of whom there are precious few), and mostly just associate with and support our friends who are as outraged as are we. And that includes all of our left-leaning, progressive, college-educated friends... a group that includes nearly all our friends. If and when the tv addicts and Elon Musk worshipers will figure out there's a problem, I don't know.
Meanwhile, back on the farm, we just keep keeping on. This morning the ground is covered in snow. The world always looks so fresh and beautiful in snow. I am trying not to worry about how my hip-saving EZ Go will perform in deep snow. And what I will do if it won't. The goats should be worried, too, but they have the advantage of living in the present and trusting that their slave (me) will get to the barn to feed them.
So I will take a clue from our supposedly less intelligent livestock and just enjoy the beauty of our newly-white world for a spell... and take photos... from inside my EZ Go, while it can still navigate this lovely, white world.
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