I truly AM feeling much more hopeful about things. Week by week, the quantity of people being vaccinated is starting to greatly increase, and President Biden said that it should open up to ALL people (adults) by May 1st. I suspect it will be sooner than that. I think that the downslide of the numbers (cases, hospitalizations, deaths) illustrates that the effects of the vaccines are already dynamite! We’re still six days out from our 2nd dose, and then about ten days after that, I will bang some pots and pans on the deck to celebrate! (And arrange for Helen to come to visit!)
Nate left today on his underway, for six weeks. Sniff. I have no idea WHERE they’re going; likely out to sea a ways to conduct some exercises and test the ship’s systems. I dare say that Nate was somewhat excited to be sailing again after all this time, but jeeze, what an emotional pull. It’ll be a trying time for Sandra and Quinn, I’m sure. I’m so thankful that their daycare has hung in there and been solidly reliable for them throughout all of this Covid crap.
We finally had our book club this week, once again via FaceTime (which seems to work better for us than Zoom). One of the participants (of us three) spaced and forgot about it, and I wasn’t able to reach her to remind her. It worked out fine with two of us, and it was great to catch up and just chat—we needed that! We could very possibly get together IN PERSON next time (we’ll all be fully vaccinated), but we’re not sure yet about traveling schedules, so we’ll see. But it would be wonderful to be able to get together IN REAL LIFE AGAIN! Heh, except for having to clean house and come up with viddles. (Gotten pretty lazy).
I’m going a bit nuts with my herbs. I have used a good amount of basil and dill in cooking, but I’m beyond being able to stay on top of it all! I have to trim them every day because I swear they grow at least 2” every day! Holy moly. I love the scents on my fingers when I prune them.
Like many people, I’ve been thinking about where we were a year ago. It was when we were taking care of Quinn in Everett when he was sick, and then I caught it (and I was sick for a solid two weeks, with the cough lasting even longer). It would have been scary then, wondering if it was Covid, except that Quinn was diagnosed with Influenza-A, and so it was clear that’s what I was dealing with (since John didn’t come down with it, and he’d had a flu shot while I hadn’t). While the news of the coronavirus was circulating around us, I don’t think we realized how serious it was—until baseball shut down and schools closed. Then it was: GULP. I would have NEVER thought it would last beyond the summer! I honestly thought (as probably many of us did) that it was very temporary. And the thing is, it may well have been if trump hadn’t been such a dipshit. God, what a disaster he was! What a nightmare he was.
Like I said, I’m hopeful now. I tear up often when I hear good news! I’m looking forward to going to our favorite diner relatively soon (if it’s still open…). I am really tired of cooking.
