More sadness from Minneapolis

~ Last Saturday ICE agents in Minneapolis murdered another US citizen who was observing and filming their illegal activities. He observed the agents shove a woman to the ground, and when he leaned down to help her up and shield her from further mayhem, the agents gassed them both, took his legal fire arm and then proceeded to fire 10 TEN!!! bullets into his body. Another observer filmed the murder and has since come forward to self-identify to CNN. I cannot imagine the hell she experiences every day after witnessing that. Of course, the Trump administration spun it six ways from Sunday, saying he was a hired assassin and a radical terrorist, that he drew his gun, and all sorts of other lies. The only good to come out of this is that Trump's head of ICE, Greg Bovino, has been removed, but sadly replaced by Tom (Bagman) Homan, the "border Czar". He has vowed to reduce the amount of agents in town - we will see. In the meantime, ICE presence in Maine increased last week, although Susan Collins claimed today that ICE Barbie has promised her that their work in Maine is done. They dubbed this action here as Catch of the Day. They love to troll us with what they perceive as clever names for their programs. ~ Locally, we were walloped by a storm on Sunday night/Monday that left us with 15+" of snow. Thankfully it was a dry light fluffy snow so clean up was not as onerous - but it went on far too long. We had finished the front 2/3 of the drive and took a nap break. While we were napping, neighbor farmer Bob Campbell finished the job for us and even came back Tuesday morning to deal with the 3" we gained overnight. And he did a better job than any of the guys we've paid the entire time we've lived here!!! Neighbors helping neighbors - one of the things I love about this town. Now to figure out a way to thank him. ~ I'm on the home stretch of the mystery quilt I've been working on since Christmas. Just 10 more blocks of one kind to finish and 25 of another and I can start assembling it. It will go to be professionally quilted , then I'll bind and likely gift it to Linda Turner to help her heal from the loss of her son, Derrick, who committed suicide 2 weeks ago. There's a celebration of his life a week from Sunday at the Belgrade Community Center.