EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN...

 

Happy Labor Day!

You are reading this post today 

instead of the usual time,

 as we will be losing our power

 sometime between 9:00 PM and 1:00 AM and 

it will not be turned back on

 until Wednesday after 7:00 PM.

 (If we are lucky).

Last week's star of the show with added autumn touches

Everything old is new again. 

 What a cliche.

  How many times will we hear that phrase

 used over the course of our lives? 

 Too many to count but never, 

I repeat never,

 has it been more true 

than at this time, at least in my life.

 

 Staying in, 

as the Coronavirus is beating down our doors,

 I have not been out to a store 

since last March. 

 I even looked back 

at my blog posts 

to find the exact date when 

that happened and that was March 8 

when I bought 

the plain green wreath.

As summer is wearing down 

it seems to be taking 

my ambitions with it. 

 Last week, I straightened up the entry hall

 but that is the first real cleaning 

I have done in the Cottage

 for awhile now. 

 Outside of making the bed and 

doing dishes, 

very little attention has been given 

to this sweet Cottage.

  Even though I talk to myself every day 

to get up and get going,

 I haven't felt that urge 

to accomplish much.

  I am hoping 

that the hot weather is the reason and 

when the cooler days

 of fall start happening,

 I will get back to what 

I actually love 

to do.

  What is a good thing though,

 is writing my blog, 

 It is something I love to do and

 what it mainly boils down to is 

I need photos to accompany the writing and 

I would rather use ones 

that I have just taken

 over older ones. 

 Therefore,

 since I am stuck in the house,

 there needs to be things 

in the house to photograph.

  And those things in the house 

need to be photo worthy. 

 So, therefore, 

the house needs to be clean!

 

 I think that was pretty smart of me

 to give myself a kick in the butt 

to get me started...

 

Even a tiny little bit of Moonlight and Magic has creeped in

...and that brings us back to 

that old cliche. 

 Everything old is new again 

when it comes to fall decorating this year,

 so I looked back at one year ago 

to see where we were 

when all our troubles 

seemed so far away...

...in the first post

 of September, 2019, 

I wrote about our new

 little kitchen island and...

...the fall decorated garland and 

wreath to match 

on the parlor mantel, 

so that just seems like

 the logical place 

for this week's post to go. 

(Both here) 

With a little glass cleaner and

 a squirt of lemon oil, 

the parlor mantel is again ready for fall.

  I was going to use 

the same garland and wreath like last year,

 with a small change up, 

but the Captain was busy and

 couldn't get the boxes down for me 

so I decided to go with 

whatever I could find around the Cottage

 that would fit in with fall.

 Of course,

 blue and white is always appropriate and

 with a little strand 

of autumn leaves and dried hydrangeas 

from last year,

 it worked out quite well.

 Taking photos of the parlor mantel 

does not always turn out great.

 With the big mirror

 reflecting the doorway across and

 the entry too, 

it seems a little busy and 

takes away from the actual decoration.

 I split it up in two or three parts

 so you can still get the idea 

of what it looks like

 all together.

You might also notice 

that the blue chairs

 from the Sitting Room

 are now in the parlor. 

 What happened to the other chairs?  

That is another story 

for another fall day. 

 Obviously, 

that burgundy carpet 

is still there also.

 Will that be gone 

on another fall day?

One can only hope!

The little Ikea island 

is really one of our better investments. 

 It takes up

 just the right amount of space 

in the kitchen and 

works well for 

some vegetable and dish storage and 

for the cutting board. 

 It is really 

the working part of the kitchen. 

 I have spruced it up and

 made it look a little more

 autumn presentable.

Thank you, Gold Country Cottage,

 for giving me some encouragement

to getting back on track. 

 I didn't plan on being 

so neglectful of you but 

sometimes things just happen 

that are out of our control 

but little by little 

we will get back to being

 right side up.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

FYI:

 The following is not a political statement but there are ones

 who might see it that way. 

 I can't help how you see it,

 I can just know what I mean 

when I say it. 

I just wanted to make you aware

 of the possibility and 

to give you the choice

 of whether you wanted to 

read any further.

 

It is just a

 summery of the facts 

of the world we are

 now living in and

how I view it.

I have written from my own memory 

so some of the numbers may be off 

but the events in question

have been fact checked.

  

  

As you know,

 I am a huge advocate of wearing masks and

 from the comments I have been getting,

 I know that most feel the same as I do. 

 I just heard a story 

that maybe some of you have heard too. 

 But, just in case 

you might not think that

 masks should be

 an important part of our lives now,

 think again.

There is a 

very small town in Maine 

that had no Covid-19 cases 

from the very beginning. 

 They lasted a long time that way 

until a wedding was held 

on August 7 with 62 people in attendance.

  It was a wonderful occasion 

as most weddings are. 

 They celebrated, drank and made merry, 

all without masks and social distancing, and

 the fun lasted 

until 30 of the 62 guests

 came down with the virus, 

ages 4 through 78.

After the celebrating was over,

 they all traveled back to their homes and

 infected 123 people, killing one.

 

 A nurse went back to her 

Senior Rehab agency that she worked at,

 a guard went back to work at the jail, 

a number of employees

 of the host venue became sick,

 a teacher went to her class 

on the first day of school and 

infected a number of staff 

along with the Superintendent of Schools, and 

an 83 year old woman,

 who wasn't even at the wedding,

 contracted the virus and died 

while her husband, a WW11 veteran

 went into the hospital 

a week after she passed.

The pastor who officiated at the wedding

 is a pilot and flew his own plane

 to the destination from a neighboring town. 

 He was diagnosed on a Saturday and

on Sunday held services at his church 

with a large number in the congregation and 

 a fifteen person choir  

all without wearing masks. 

 A number of firemen

 who attended church services became ill.

  The church is now known

 as a Super Spreader.

 

 The pastor went ahead

 with his church service

 because he doesn't believe any of this.

  He says the Coronavirus and 

all that it involves 

is a made up situation by Democrats.

  He says that his church 

is in the front line of a culture war and 

they are battling against

 a "socialistic" platform 

that mandates mask wearing and 

distant learning in schools,

 all so that the religious communities

 can be stopped from the advancement

 of the gospel.

At a rally 

in New Hampshire recently, 

 it was said that Democrats 

don't believe that 

law abiding citizens 

can go to church together.

 

 Not only 

are those nonsensical statements to make,

 no matter what party you are affiliated with,

or who you are,

 they all are blatant untruths.

  The concern is that 

large groups congregating,

 without masks and without social distancing, are spreading the virus and

 190,000 and counting

 have died.

 It is only as simple as that.

  I hope you know me

 well enough by now 

to know that I am not an hysteric and 

that I try to be 

a logical thinker.

The election is coming on 

fast and furious.

  Whether you are a

 Republican, Democrat or an Independent,

 we are all in this together, and 

it is imperative 

that we use common sense,  

good judgement and good intentions 

and pick whom we vote for

 very carefully.

  Anyone who promotes

this type of misinformation

 or who believes it as truth, 

should be given hard scrutiny.

 It is very important

 who we choose as our leaders.

 The outcome could be 

 devastating and 

even deadly.

 

This is not a political statement

 or a recommendation for 

any one candidate running for office

 over another. 

 It is not an attempt

 to throw anyone under a bus

 for their beliefs,

 as your beliefs are as important to you

 as mine are to me. 

I welcome your comments 

whether you agree with me

 or not.    

Stay smart,

 stay well and 

wear your masks.

...Judy...

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