Web Log for 3.26.26, with Virtual Shopping Trip

Status Update 

The weather's been delightful at the Cat Sanctuary. Seductive. I've spent time outside. The first butterfly of spring may have been Iryna's Azure; the ones with white underwings are fairly common, and often the first to fly in spring, here. Then came a pair of Tiger Swallowtails, circling each other in the air in a courtship dance, and, minutes later, a small Fritillary, and a little dark Skipper, and on the next day more Spring Azures, some with white underwings, some with pale blue, and some with pale brown. Only two daffodils bloomed, got snow on the flowers; the rest seem to have decided not to bloom for a good long time. Neighbors who get more sunshine had crowds and hosts. Violets have bloomed, and azaleas, and forsythia. 

I had a fairly bad glyphosate reaction yesterday evening. Blood and pains--they weren't in the heart, thank goodness, though some women have said they felt the pain of a heart attack as coming from further down. I've had pseudo-cardiac symptoms that never turned out to be from cardiac disease, occasionally, for years. They all seemed to be reactions to some sort of chemical residue in the air. Not glyphosate, but something else that's sprayed along road verges. I don't know how common this is but want the idea to be Out There for discussion. If you or a family member have had something that seemed as if it might be cardiac disease, but it passed quickly and there are no other signs of cardiac disease, you might want to find out which local roads or fields have been sprayed recently, and with what. 

And the computer had a severe Microsoft reaction yesterday afternoon, and all through the night. I restarted itself once. It restarted itself six times. So when I was paying attention to the laptop it was misbehaving. I did get some butterfly studies done, but very little else. 

Glyphosate Awareness 

Glyphosate may be breeding "super" disease germs that resist antibiotics:

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2026.1740431/full

Virginia Election 2026: Special Vote on the 21st of April

This is the one where we vote on how the votes in November will be counted. The situation is dire. Basically the Ds, who have been advertising so heavily they're making the whole special vote sound sort of wix and like something you'd want to sleep through, want to redraw the election districts NOT to represent the numbers of people in different places fairly, but to get more urban welfare dependents into every district in the Hump and Swamp so that only the Point still maps red--although the property owners of Virginia still do map red. 

This is the way they want to redraw the map:

Don't let it happen, Gentle Readers. The map the Ds are proposing obviously does not reflect the actual views of the electorate. We do not want all those Swamp types letting themselves be misrepresented and misgoverned by people they don't support, and then fleeing out here. We want them to stay and drain their own Swamp. We should all go out and vote NO on the 21st of April.

What say you, fellow Virginians? Is it worth the trouble to do like a group of voters who called on our US Senators this week, and all wear red to the polls?

The one shown above was marked down to $10 at the time of posting, so it's probably no longer available...

Not my style, but it looks cute on her. Tall women who want to look shorter love knee-length looks. At 5'4" I'd wear a knee-length dress if for some reason I wanted to look 4'8"; it's just never happened. I mean, I might be attracted to a man who was 5'2", but the illusion would shatter the minute people actually saw me standing beside him, so why bother.

I would wear that to an office job. Everybody knows I'm more arty than yuppie and like to swish a skirt around, anyway.

Sort of a compromise between arty and yuppie?

I don't think it's fair that the dress with the belted, bloused fit costs so much more than the ones designed to show off a trim waistline. We're going to burn off the winter fat! It's only March!

This one would be comfortable, but for daytime wear I'd want to take a few inches off the bottom. 

There's always the stylish shirt, not a T-shirt, to wear with a skirt, or even with trousers that reach to the top of the shoes.

Or the white, blue, black, or beige shirt or dress with a little cover-up.

And nobody else will ever wear palazzo pants as well as Melania Trump, but for those of us who are in between 5'2" and 5'6" or 5'6" and 5'10", there is something to be said for trousers that look like a skirt, so nobody expects them to reach to the top of the shoes while being clear of the bottom. The line between palazzo pants and culottes is fine. You can wear any length, so long as you're not actually walking on the hems.

Just some ideas. Of course we want to buy locally. But it's always good to dress up a little at the polls, and red is the best color for a lot of us to be photographed in.

Just sayin'!