Tuesday Reading Kaffeeklatsch: 6/1/21

[Book Concierge]

Booknblues wrote: "I am currently retired! My last day of work was Friday, June 11. Not doing anything major upon retirement. Taking it slow to figure things out.

Have several small around the house projects, includ..."

Congrats on your retirement. It IS an adjustment, but you'll get into your new groove in no time.

Enjoy!

[Karin]

I've heard of dogs running deer, but never of a deer chasing a dog (but when and where I grew up, neighbourhood dogs roamed free)! I wonder what set it off?

I am glad your new dog is doing well, but am sorry to hear about your 15 year old one :(

[Karin]

Theresa wrote: "Joanne wrote: "@ Theresa-I was going to message you and tell you to update...staying here is all good"

In some ways I feel like this week I've sunk even deeper into Pandemic Confusion, Malaise, Fo..."

Linen--I love it, but haven't worn it in years. After I started having kids I slowly stopped ironing. The men in our house are on their own if they need a shirt ironed--not so bad for my son, but my husband grew up with older parents, especially his dad, so he had thought I'd be doing the ironing for the rest of our lives, I guess, but he has moved past that now.

It's hard to get back into pre-pandemic habits, isn't it?

[Karin]

Bras--I am chuckling over all of this, because I am backwards. Not being "well-endowed" and being a teen in the later 70s, I didn't start wearing them regularly until I was in my mid-thirties and I am definitely now attached to wearing them to help balance things out now that I don't have the same body I did when I was young. All the abdominal toning in the world will never put things back as they were, even when I lose weight.

[Theresa]

So...I am taking it as a sign that I need to take advantage of early voting for our Democratic Primary on Tuesday. Why? My early voting location is an empty storefront up the street from Mondel's Chocolates (handmade) and two...yes TWO ... branches of a fave indie bookstore, Book Culture. That is my plan for tomorrow. Might hit the greenmarket on way home as it is enroute.

That is the busiest shopping plans I have made in over a year.

The primary election... this is year we finally get rid of DeBlasio with election in November. A veritable horde are running in the democratic primary in hopes of getting the nod ( no clue who is Republican ticket - separate primary). None are stellar, and the half that are coming out of the DeBlasio government are immediately out of contention. Other interesting campaign is for Manhattan DA which of course plays a big role in prosecuting the Trump family and their flunkies. It is also first Manhattan DA election with a contest since 1975. From 1975 to 2009, Robert Morganthau had a lock on the position. On his retirement, Cyrus Vance Jr., handpicked and endorsed by Morganthau, won with 91% of the vote...basically no contest. Vance is a one-term DA, retiring. The Manhattan DA is incredibly powerful, influential, deeply entrenched in the Democratic political machine, and key to the Trump prosecutions in NY. It is going to be quite an election I think. For the Democrats, Tali Farhadian Weinstein is controlversial, with strong Democratic party support and funding. No idea how it will shake out or who the republicans will ultimately put up. Trump's influence on NYC republican politics is negligible.

[Joanne]

Two book stores and chocolate! Sounds like a great day to me! Have fun