Thanksgiving Challa

Celebrating Thanksgiving with the in-laws this afternoon and evening.  I am the official bread maker for the dinner.  I made a loaf of herb-onion bread, which uses fresh minced onion, rosemary, and dill weed.  As you can imagine, it makes for awesome day-after turkey sandwiches if there is any left over after dinner.  But the high point of tonight's dinner is going to be the awesome challah that I made this morning.  Check this thing out.  It's well over a foot long.

I was so wrong about who would win the election (electoral votes, not the popular vote), but then I'm certainly not the only one.  Welcome to our dystopian reality.  Things are not going to be pretty for the foreseeable future, so I'll just leave you with some simple beauty: a photo of one of the blooms on our Bird of Paradise plant that I took on Saturday.

I'm gonna try to keep it simple for a while and look for love and beauty wherever and whenever I can find it. 

A Final Word

Well, here it is, the eve of the election.  I will be glued to the tube all day tomorrow.  The Huffington Post forecast and the Princeton group forecast both predict a Clinton win in the 98-99 percentile.  They both discount Nate Silver's forecast for reasons they explain in detail, but even Silver is forecasting a 65 percent edge for Clinton.  My main worry at this point is liberal protest votes for minor or write-in candidates, or liberal protest by way of sitting out the vote entirely.  This should not happen for a lot of reasons, all of which are well-put in the following article.  Mary Elizabeth Williams hits it right on the head.  So wise up Susan Sarandon!