Woden's Day

Autocratic Legalism by Kim Lane Scheppele is a 2018 essay in the University of Chicago Law Review.  In it the author presciently describes what Trump and his cronies are doing to our democratic and constitutional system.  Basically, they are overthrowing the government, not with an army of soldiers or revolutionaries, but with an army of lawyers.  

So for now, I minimize the news I'm watching and concentrate on more pleasant things like repairing the damage from last week's heavy snow storm.  Baldo and I under Caro's expert supervision cut out the broken and split branches in the desert willow and the sand cherries.  Then we shaped them as best we could to regain some semblance of their shape.  Finally, we topped the elms growing in the no-man's land between the Candelaria Village wall and the Matthew Meadow wall.  In the end, Baldo's truck was overflowing with cut branches and the trash barrel was completely full.  

In the end, the result was pretty good, considering how much damage there was.  

Then while Caro was off to the St. James Tearoom, I cooked up a batch of Spam Mutsubi.  Looking forward to that for dinner.  

It's amazing what you can do with an old Spam can.  I'll have to post the detailed process in a follow-up item.