But first: how has everyone’s 2021 started? Insurection-y?
So, that wasn’t a fun watch, now was it? Good news here though- they were pretty much all anti-maskers, so it’s been fairly easy to identify them. Let’s collect them all!
I’m glib here- because I’m almost too mad to do anything else, if that makes sense?
But I am more furious than that puts on, too. This is not strength, on their parts. It’s just play acting of strength, but still. But goddamn, who’s the snowflake now, you goddamn snowflakes! How DARE you, we are ALL citizens!
They thought they were so strong- blazing around this town/country, wearing those hats everywhere, and now… poof. All for naught.
Is it a wakeup call, this week, for some of them? Maybe. I think seeing their great leader denounce them and that their storm accomplished nothing may shake some reason loose for some.
I can see that this whole MAGA movement gave them a real sense of identity and community. That they probably didn’t realize how sad and lonely their lives were before, all they realized was how great it felt to be a part of something bigger.
ANYWAY- how was your Christmas?!
HERE ARE SOME PICTURES!
And then this, from a side trip out to Luckenbach for my husband’s birthday. Rest assured I’m on the hunt for a thornless prickly pear so I can recreate this next year!
How steadfast are your branches!
Your boughs are green in summer’s clime
And through the snows of wintertime
O Christmas Tree, o Christmas Tree
How steadfast are your branches!
And that’s honestly all I got for you on the holiday lights discussion… I was terrible about taking more pictures, and I shoehorn these into this post for the sake of using that blog title, if I’m honest.
Yall stay safe, ya hear? T-minus 11 days and counting till we start heading back to normalcy. After all, Trump did give the White House, the House, and the Senate to the Democrats. Make America Great Again, indeed.
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Hi Laura, I watched all of this happening on TV and my mouth was literally hung open… Okay, not hung open in shock because I think one side of each of us so something like this coming; maybe not as bad as that but, something close. The awakening for me was seeing him even voted for and not just by a minority. I was like uh-uh if this fluffy-haired buffon can STILL garner votes after everything that has gone on under him, he has definitely managed to garner all the Idiots of America.
Are you scared for The inauguration? I kind of am! Seeing the lackadaisical attitude of the police at Capitol Hill and the sheer rage of this psychopaths, I don’t put an assassination attempt past them on the day.
Do stay safe though. You’d neighbors sound kuukuu!
I was scared for the inauguration, but I feel the wind was taken out of the rioters sails with the backlash they received from storming the capitol. It hasn’t gone away, it’s now just gone back underground and I worry that’s almost more dangerous. Sorry for the late reply!!!
Some really disturbing behavior taking place in New Braunfels, and I’m sure all over the country, Lauren, you stay safe, you hear? One of the funniest things I read about that whole insurrection event, if there was anything funny about it, was that as Trump watched it on tv from the White House, he told staffers that he thought the takeover of the Capitol was great, his only complain being that the perpetrators looked “low class.” That they did, Liar in Chief, that’s what your base looks like. His supporters were still mouthing that tired old refrain even after that debacle: ‘He did what he said he was going to do.’ And now I finally get it, after reading the book “Caste,” what he said he would do was make it ok to be a white supremacist again, so for all those who think their skin color makes them better than people with darker skin, they felt good for four years and now are very frightened about what the next four or eight will bring.
Love your patio and the holiday decorations!
Val C.