I am having regular zoom meeting with the chicks, whatsapp meetings with the neighbours, and PP has a zoom account and regularly schedules an hour with a friend on the weekend days. Facetime works with my parents, but in all of them, there are delays that are hard to predict, and it's rarely perfect on both sides.
We talk about ped days and long weekends with a distanced nostalgia that seems surreal.
Our neighbours were going for a 15 minute 2m chat with a lawn chair down the street.
The day starts when we wake up. I do not miss the school week starting at 7 am at all.
We have lunch on the back patio every day.
We can hear a robin land before we see it. The birdsong is wonderful, and the trees are full of interesting buds that I never noticed before.
Cali has stopped ducking at the clouds when she is outside, and actually runs up willingly to get her collar on instead of avoiding it.
Covid admissions and ICU admissions are holding stable with cars back on the street. The number of cases never drop, but they aren't increasing either.
The skies are still quiet, with a prop plane being met with as much excitement as on Fantasy Island!
Animal club was a presentation of animal facts, with Brianne presenting on the true Lemming, PP on the extinct Guadaloupe Caracara, and my unicorn, Glitter, presenting on the Eastern Cottontail, a rabbit that lives in our yard!
We went out to chase the sunset, and found jack pines (2 needle bundles), a block long obstacle course in chalk, neighbours garbage picking for bikes, Venus and a few bright stars (?Pollux and Castor), and 3 bats!
School starts back tomorrow online, and PP is excited.
Elementary schools are NOT starting back after all. A friend in Education mentioned that they may need to use the high schools for elementary school kids to have enough space, and high school might be online next year.
Golf and tennis are opening, but the pool opening is still not clear. I am hope for lane swimming a few times a week, but we shall see.
Our street construction is to start tomorrow, and may go on until August.
PP made currant scones today, from turning on the oven to measuring and mixing the ingredients. I only formed the disc and cut the sticky dough into 8ths. She put it in and out of the oven, and they were delicious!
The trilliums are blooming and the beech trees burst open their leaves.
Every one of the tulips were bitten off, but the one (of 3) that pay homage to Herman at least survived to grace my table with a sunny yellow colour.
Mother's Day was my first all alone. I worked, and PP sent me a puzzle she had worked hard at. I had hoped to walk with her in the trilliums the next day, but she is concerned about going back and forth, in case I have COVID. I am grateful she comes every Friday she does, for a full myriad of reasons.
Screening at work was of everyone, since a resident tested positive and worked the days before. I was negative, now my second screen, this time without symptoms. My nasal congestion responds to antihistamines, was present since March 6th on returning home from Idaho, and is getting better.
Two Sikh brothers shaved their beards (one of five sacred tenents of their religion) so that they could be finally fitted for N95 masks. Smoking HCWs are not distancing, and the arrival of free food seems to be received with pre-Covid enthusiasm, even when sharing seems like Russian Roulette.
We planted sprouting onions and potatoes, pepper and apple seed, and are eating chives on everything. Lemon thyme is more decorative than tasty in water, but the mint and oregano are showing promise.
There are ants under every stone we have to turn up, and pansies all along the fence in the back yard.
Our neighbour John has squirrels directly going into his attic through a hole in the back of his house, and he mistakenly believes that the neighbour that helped him get the tree off his roof caused it to fall over. He still seems in relatively good health, and gets his own groceries delivered, but his paranoid delusions and memory are definitely worsening.
Libraries are supposed to be opening next week for books placed on hold. Their advice is not to touch them for 5 days.
British Bakeoff Season Nine is a current favourite.
A Buffalo 1000 piece puzzle with normal pieces and a calico and a tabby cat was completed with pleasure.
A trip to Wales and Greece are on the bucket list.
PP told an amazing version of Percy from Rick Riordan's Greek Heroes book.
A book I have searched for since Grade 3, To Nowhere and back, came and PP dove right in!
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