We got to bring Free to the house while Geri had dental surgery in North Falmouth. I was impressed with the doctors.

She stayed with us for a couple of hours so she could eat and get her bearings. Free devoured treats and eggs with cheese! Ron did a good-sized shop for her and drove the lot of us to West Barnstable. We stopped at S&S on the way home.

I didn’t do a whole lot else. Dropped off kale to Cindy’s car at work and washed/prepped/stored vegetables from the prior day’s CSA.

Roasted a pile of vegetables this morning: carrots, turnip, brussel sprouts, cabbage, spaghetti squash, broccoli. Baked potatoes. Made a medium-sized salad.

Brought in the new chair so Ron could put rust preventative on it. Stupidly, I’d left the wheelbarrow and a hoe outside, so put them in as well. The wheelbarrow needed a brief wash. Unpleasant, it’s been raining all day.

Spent yesterday morning at the farm harvesting kale and carrots and bagging potatoes. Final box was a very good one, including two stalks of brussel sprouts, which I cleaned and washed this morning along with kale for us and for Cindy.

Stopped at Job Lot and CVS and didn’t do too much else yesterday besides eat and watch tv: dog tired.

Did a little home gym, dusted, paid bills, and helped Ron reconcile his checkbook with the bank this morning.

I’d received a full credit earlier this month from the lamp people. They emailed that we can keep it.

Also received three gift cards from Harvard Pilgrim yesterday: $125 for reporting preventive care activities, like annual checkup and flu shot!

Continued weeding the vegetable gardens, did a transfer station run yesterday.

Ron removed the last of the old window boxes, and I painted underneath. We put up a sheet of heavy plastic between his shop and the laundry area.

Put the un-useable hanging lamps in the attic for now.

Turns out, Jo Jorgensen may have thrown the election to Biden: her vote total exceeded his margin of victory in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania. I tried, unsuccessfully, to explain this to the Move to Removers.

Geri treated us to a fine lunch yesterday: crudities, fruit, salad, soup pizza and tiramisu.

I got to visit with Free while Geri and Ron visited the horse farm.

Afterwards, we exchanged ROKU streaming sticks at Target, and I set up the new one: big difference!

Did more veg garden weeding.

Over the last two days, I made two kinds of soup and other vegetable dishes.

Ron drove us to Falmouth for errands yesterday. He wanted to buy CD sleeves and to make a deposit to his credit union account, and I’d hoped to find glass “jewels” at Michael’s to repair a wall ornament that I’d knocked over at Geri’s. Made a stop at the Dollar store for cumin but finding none, picked up birthday cards and nuts anyway.

Started cleanup of the oldest vegetable bed.

I also washed the bathroom floor yesterday. Had knocked over the mouthwash in the dark the night before. Did a white wash of the towels and we changed out the shower curtain.

Slept for 10 hours last night.

Picked kale, turnips and carrots at the farm on Tuesday morning.

Rented “Antebellum”.

Yesterday, I did a fine walk with BLT at the Danforth Conservation Area. Went to Captain Scott’s for lunch with Geri and Free, then to Stop & Shop.

The Cape Republican delegation lost two seats, including Will Crocker’s.

Disappointed that Mashpee voted down a 2% property surcharge for water infrastructure investments by only 4 votes.

In Florida, Trump was successful among LatinX voters because of fake fear-mongering that the Democrats want a socialist government and a belief that Biden was more invested in stopping COVID19 than in encouraging business growth.

Trump supporters want the US to remain White and misogynist. When asked why Trump, they will offer two excuses, abortion and their 401(k)s, as “cover” for their racism and sexism.

In a way, Trump has done us all a favor by blasting to smithereens the American myth that success comes from hard work and playing by the rules. It all comes down to luck: being born good-looking and to a favored social and ethnic group.

Andrew Yang’s proposal for a minimum guaranteed income makes the most sense of any policy thrown out in this entire campaign.

I found Ron’s iPhone, plugged in to a powerless power strip in his “shop”, and the saw stand accessories, in a metal cookie box.

Picked up a prescription for Ron that he thought was expired (one refill left), then he remembered he needed to refill another, which he picked up later.

The registers were down at Stop & Shop, a 4-day old problem which Verizon failed to fix. Nightmare for the cashiers.

Made a big lasagna with zucchini and homemade sauce.

Dropped off a check for property taxes at Town Hall, which is still closed to the public.

Drove Robert to and from work, and he was nice enough to treat me to lunch from the barbeque next to his branch. Did a short stint at the farm.

Spent the afternoon with Em! We had lunch and tea with Robert and Ron, then candy shopped at Nancy’s in Dennis and toured a few Halloween decorated houses in Harwich.

We had a handful of trick or treaters at our place. Watched Rocky Horror, which I still think, even with the superb Tim Curry, Charles Gray and Richard O’Brien, is not an especially good spoof of Grade B horror and scifi films, but who am I to judge?

What a fine visit with James last evening. We didn’t get to bed until 11. He’s a fascinating conversationalist: brilliant, urbane, knowledgeable.

Where did this person come from and do we get any credit for his existence?

The layered casserole was good: homemade sauce, black beans, corn, cheddar.

To my joy, grandperson #2 is back!

Raining again today, thank goodness. It’s predicted to get cold, and glad the hibiscus and olive tree are indoors. Sprayed them today.

Ron panicked twice today, once because the “cold water isn’t working” in the washing machine (the dial was set to “hot”) and his computer’s “alarm was going off” (it was his phone).

We’re working on laundry. I stopped by Cumby for gas.

Shaw’s customer support graciously credited my account with $7 to make up for the specials I’d missed by not preloading them. I also got $1 off at Walgreen’s.

I volunteered yesterday at the Farm and picked carrots and turnips, and bagged 40+ bags of potatoes.

Brought home a pile of carrots that either looked weird or had no tops (easily broken when harvesting), our produce box and some bittersweet.

I did a big shop at Shaw’s.

Washed and peeled about 90% of yesterday’s carrots. Made carrot cake and carrot soup. Also made a tomato/onion/garlic/pepper sauce for tonight’s Mexican dinner with James.

It’s been raining all day. I ran out to Andy’s for walnuts for the carrot cake and clipped some more bittersweet that we spotted yesterday in our walk around the neighborhood.

There’s a Libertarian on Winslow Drive. Their yard has a Jorgensen/Cohen sign and a Pine Tree flag.