13 September—As Donald Trump plots with his faithful flunkies to rescue his equally contemptible bosom buddy Jair Bolsonaro who was just convicted by Brazil’s supreme court of what America’s convicted-felon-in-chief should and would himself have been convicted of had not the U.S. Supreme Court inappropriately and inauspiciously come to his rescue, let’s turn our attention closer to home.

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It would appear an ostrich laid an egg among the South Street shrubbery of the Litchfield Historical Society fairly recently. Just one egg rather than the usual clutch. That may be why it’s rather bigger than the norm; and it’s likely the poor hen strained to get it out. Here’s a picture of it, taken just this past Monday.

Anybody’s guess where the lady ostrich came from or where she went. In all events, we wish her the best and hope she thrives and isn’t eaten.

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Taking two buses to Hartford, then (because there’s no direct route from Litchfield to sorry Connecticut’s sorry capital city), faithful and diligent Monitor readers with good memories will recall that back in February we reported on reasonably liberal First District Congressman John Larson’s vocal virtuosity.

Well, today we’re delighted to report that Il Divo del Primo Distretto once again hit the high C’s a few days ago—as before, he couldn’t contain himself—after he announced his intention to run for a 15^th term in the U.S. House of Representatives, undeterred by the impatient snotty young ageists who have no respect for experience or talent . . .