Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Not too much to report since my last posting.

We did a trip to Delaware for a couple week that also included a weekend up in Philly, a few hours at Hawk Mountain, and a night at my sister Lynn’s house in Jonestown, Pa.

In Philly, Molly and Mitchell have moved into a new apartment. It’s a nice third floor corner apartment on South Street, the southern border of Philly’s historic Seventh Ward. The Seventh Ward is where W.E.B. DuBois did his pioneering sociological study titled “The Philadelphia Negro”. The area is now very integrated, and the term gentrified might be appropriate. As an added bonus they are right by the childhood home of Larry Fine, famous as Larry of the Three Stooges.

Seventh Ward mural
He could actually play the violin.
A street in the neighborhood.
Mural in the neighborhood.

One night, Molly and Mitchell asked if we wanted to see a great view of the nighttime Philadelphia skyline. Who wouldn’t? To get to the view you have to crawl out a bedroom window to a ledge, scuttle across the steep roof of the building next door, grab onto a chimney, use the chimney to swing up onto a less steep roof, then go across that roof to a flat roof. If you go along one side of the steep roof, it’s a three story drop to the street. If you along the other side, there’s only about a 20-foot drop to a neighbor’s deck. Falling to the deck would be bad enough. Then you have to explain to them how you happened to fall from heaven and land on their deck and ask them to let you go through their apartment to get back to the street. Molly and Mitchell do this jaunt with chairs and drinks to enjoy the view. Who wants life to be boring?

Their apartment is top right. You go out a side window to the ledge, cross the roof in the middle, then use the white chimney to swing onto roof of the brown brick building, and cross it to the flat roof on the gray building to the extreme left.
The view from the ledge just outside the window.
The view, which is much nicer than this cell phone image.

Not too much to report from Delaware. We got new a floor laid in the trailer. And, we had a midnight visit from two baby opossums in our bedroom closet. Run of the mill events in a Delaware trailer park.

Cute, but not when they’re in your closet at midnight.

I did something today that I have never done before. Today was Indiana’s early voting day and Lise and I both voted. For the first time in over 40 years of voting I voted a straight ticket. And it was not for the party of tRump. I never thought I would vote a straight ticket in my life, but I am so disgusted with the Republican party that I can’t in good conscience vote for anyone running as a Republican. After this election Democrats do not have a lock on my vote, but I seriously doubt I will ever vote for a Republican again.

The line to vote. As fast as the line moved I don’t think I was the only person that voted a straight ticket.

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