Thank You, Ms Streep, for Speaking from Your Heart to Mine

Meryl Streep took her opportunity on the world stage to express her sadness and outrage at the actions of the President-elect after he publicly mocked a reporter with a disability.

These are her words:

There was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank its hooks in my heart. Not because it was good. There was nothing good about it. But it was effective, and it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth. 

It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter. Someone he outranked in privilege, power and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it. I still can’t get it out of my head because it wasn’t in a movie. It was real life.

I have spent much of my life working with people with disabilities, including ones like the reporter appears to have. There is no doubt in my mind that the mocking was intentional and the denial prevarication of the highest order. Denial-we're going to be seeing a lot of that coming up...

Michael J Fox has been publicly mocked for his disability too. Same type of person doing the mocking, remember? Wouldn't want that asshole to be my president either.

Thank you, Ms Streep, for saying in a public forum what so many of us have felt in our hearts.

You have become an even bigger hero of mine.

Cat Blanket Makes it to the Big Bed

The Cat decided that she wasn't so fond of the blanket.

So, Ormond bought six more skeins, I crocheted for several more days and now it's big enough to cover our queen-sized bed. I have slept under it for the last few nights and it is glorious. It breathes due to the extended Single Crochet stitch that I used thruout. It is warm and conforms; fabulously different from the fleece blanket I have been using since 2012.

CatCat's loss is my gain.

Silly kitty.

Wyatt practices with his hammer. I miss you, Little Guy.

Crocheting a New Blanket for CatCat 2.0

First time I have used fuzzy, thick blanket yarn, I am falling in love with how quickly it works up and its softness.

Bernat brand, variegated browns with an olive green accent it is so much the color of the cat that I couldn't do anything with it but make her a blanket for the Pooh couch which she shares with the Littles.

At present she is asleep on the table here in the living room window; I prefer she not get atop the tables but since her couch is being manipulated by me every few hours as I check blanket's size, I guess she can get away with this behavior for now.

Last evening just before sundown I began to crochet.

Here it is completed covering the small couch she likes:

Will she use the new bedding or continue to sleep elsewhere !~!