Since house sheep don't get Covid, Brian invited his sister Lavinia and her lambs Clifford and Hortense over for the holidays.
Any errors found in this blog are due to my unfamiliarity working in only three spatial dimensions.
03 December 2020
02 December 2020
High Holy Day
As you may have perhaps noted, today is a double high holy day for us monarchists: the anniversary of Napoleon's coronation in 1804 and Franz Josef's accession to the Austrian throne in 1848. Happy Holiday!
--- The "Vivat" from Napoleon's coronation, which became the unofficial imperial anthem.
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"Gott Erhalte Franz Den Kaiser," the Habsburg imperial anthem, written
by Haydn long before anyone thought of that Prussian abomination they
called the German Empire.
01 December 2020
Doing the Good
I just donated, for the first time, to Washington National Cathedral (Episcopal). I don't mind donating to a church that actually tries to practice Christianity.
--Judy and Dennis Shepard watch as the ashes of their son, Matthew Shepard, are brought to the Washington National Cathedral for interment Reverend Gene Robinson in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 26, 2018. Photographer: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images--
28 November 2020
Dido's Lament - Annie Lennox
So beautiful, so emotional...
The words, from Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (1688):
When I am laid, am laid in earth,
May my wrongs create
No trouble, no trouble
in thy breast;
When I am laid, am laid in earth,
May my wrongs create
No trouble, no trouble
in thy breast;
Remember me, remember me,
but ah!
forget my fate.
Remember me, but ah!
forget my fate.
Remember me, remember me,
but ah!
forget my fate.
Remember me
but ah!
forget my fate.
26 November 2020
Yay Sports!
OK, I think we've got to get serious now about finding a name for the DC NFL team; the cheers of "Go football team!" are beginning to sound silly. Here are some obvious, and quite good and catchy, choices:
-- The Washington Bureaucrats
-- The DC Deep-Staters
-- The Washington Establishment
-- The DC Swamp
-- The Washington Fighting Lobbyists
-- The Waste Fraud & Abuse
-- The Embattled Political Appointees
-- The Washington Unnamed Sources
23 November 2020
22 November 2020
Thanksgiving Jitters
Wilson, our darling little house-turkey, always gets a bit nervous this time of year and requires additional attention and soothing.
21 November 2020
19 November 2020
18 November 2020
Allaying Any Concerns
Just to let y'all know, all is well here in HamsterLand, except that my blog muse has gone on vacation. Can't think of anything to write. Oh well... no cause for alarm, merely a case of blog block.
12 November 2020
11 November 2020
Weather
We're having a bout of that lovely DC weather. It's 69ºF, dew point is 68º. Cool, clammy, and you can't help but sweat, despite the temperature. Blech!!!
10 November 2020
Normalcy Begins to Raise Its Ugly Head
I am most pleased to announce that I have now started reading and watching the news again! It's been about 2 years, I think. I just couldn't take it anymore. Now Trump's pathetic floundering only makes me giggle.
07 November 2020
Birthday
Much to my delight, I have managed to avoid plagues and assassins
for yet another year. You may congratulate me on this achievement. ❤️
05 November 2020
03 November 2020
01 November 2020
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