Having Fun

I have been making the Delectable Pathways quilt from many decades ago. I used the applique strips' designs as the basis for a quilt I made also years ago but mine were borders with corners rather than strips (Go to Quilt Gallery 2 on the Pages section of the blog and scroll down and you will find that quilt). I finished the mountains last week and sewed those strips together and today I finished the applique on one of those strips but that still leaves a bunch of handwork because there are embroidery accents up and down the strip plus your own incentive to add more--more birds, bugs, embroidery, etc. It has been fun since I haven't been working in more earth tones for a while now. I find the designers' method of changing the strips interesting because it reminds me of half-drop knitting.

What has Trump been doing? He's been praising himself, firing people, and accusing Obama of crimes. He's been calling people names and taking hydroxychloroquine. We have more than 92,000 deaths in the US and Trump wants to take a victory lap, claiming that his actions alone saved many more lives. Any thinking person knows that is utter nonsense but unfortunately, as Adlai Stevenson noted in the 50s, the number of thinking persons is much smaller than the number of reactive persons.

Enjoy Memorial Day but do so with caution and care for others. My father is buried in Ft. Sam Houston cemetery in San Antonio so I know he will get a flag. He wasn't much in to flag waving, found it jingo behavior but he will still get a flag. My brother-in-law whose name is on the Viet Nam wall will get a flag as well though he is buried in a churchyard in Massachusetts. He was big in to jingo behavior so that's okay.

And by the way, humans have never developed "herd immunity" to any corona virus; not to common colds, not to flu, not to any of the corona viruses. This one seems to be even more pernicious in that having antibodies to the virus being tested for does not seem to grant all people relief from acquiring the virus again. That indicates that this virus mutates faster than previous corona viruses which is not good news for anyone. That also means that even developing a vaccine will only provide a brief window of relief after which a new vaccine will be needed. Welcome to the brave new world.