Happy Anniversary to us!

Current Corona Virus Deaths in the US - 103,344

                                            Yesterday - 102,114

Wisconsin saw a record number of new coronavirus cases and deaths reported in a single day on Wednesday, two weeks after the state’s Supreme Court struck down its statewide stay-at-home order.  Read the full text 

here: https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/05/28/wisconsin-reports-record-number-of-new-virus-cases-deaths/24458800/

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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO US!!!!  It was a significant anniversary for us….15 years!  It was also a scary anniversary for us because those 15 years went by literally in the blink of an eye!  We still feel so blessed to have found each other and so blessed at how well we agree on the important things in life.  Our life here in South Carolina is so much more than we could even have hoped for…..this pandemic is a little blip on the radar, but (in my opinion) nothing compared to what many people have been asked to sacrifice in previous times.  

We were up and out at 9 AM on Friday (5/28) for our eye appointments.  The doctor seemed pleased that our eye pressures were reasonable, although she thought the laser surgery Michael had last year (to help with the glaucoma), didn’t really have much of an affect.  We were finally home after stops at the chiro, liquor store and ALDI’s at 1 PM and after Michael and Cookie left for a walk, I left at 1:30 for my hair appointment (YAY!!)  I had a wonderful time talking to Lisa, who has moved to a new shop, but was very glad to be home by 4 PM.  Since it was our anniversary….of course we had champagne:

with frozen strawberries I  bought at ALDI just for this!
SO very much better than ice cubes to keep it cold.

and our favorite puffy things: 

for dinner.  Our puppy:

was just chillin' while we settled in to binge watch our show ‘AS TIME GOES BY’ for the rest of the evening.

You remember those men’s quilts I completed rather recently?  

Well, I found out an acquaintance has to have a kidney removed due to cancer and I thought he deserved some love in the form of a quilt.  It was delivered yesterday (yes, we mailed it with a little note) and we immediately got a call.  I think he was overwhelmed and said it was very beautiful and he was very grateful  :~).  And I believe I have a home for the second one…..my friend’s husband, who recently had a stroke.  He has moved to rehab and gained back some of his verbal ability.  Pam still has not been able to see him in person (how frustrating and frightening that must be), so I don’t know if the quilt can be delivered now, but surely once he is home I can take it over.

The man who would be king: Donald Trump has a very poor grasp of how democracy works…or rather he doesn’t want it to work the way it does…he wants absolute power to do whatever he wishes:

Threatening to shut down Twitter for flagging false content. Claiming he can “override" governors who dare to keep churches closed to congregants. Asserting the “absolute authority” to force states to reopen, even when local leaders say it's too soon.  As he battles the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump has been claiming extraordinarily sweeping powers that legal scholars say the president simply doesn't have. And he has repeatedly refusing to spell out the legal basis for those powers.

“It's not that the president does't have a remarkable amount of power to respond to a public health crisis. It’s that these are not the powers he has," said Stephen Vladeck, a University of Texas School of Law professor who specializes in constitutional and national security law.  First it was Trump's assertion that he could force governors to reopen their economies before they felt ready. “When somebody’s the president of the United States, the authority is total,” he claimed.

Trump soon dropped the threat, saying he would instead leave such decisions to the states. But he has revived the idea in recent days as he has tried to pressure governors to allow churches and other places of worship to hold in-person services, even where stay-at-home orders and other limits on large gatherings remain in effect.  Asked Tuesday what authority he had to enforce such a mandate, Trump was cagey.  “I can absolutely do it if I want to," he said. "We have many different ways where I can override them and if I have to, I’ll do that.”  

(You may read the full text of the article here: https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/05/28/president-trump-continues-to-claim-broad-powers-he-doesnt-have/24453769/).