I think it's Sunday

"You are not stuck at home, you are safe at home." 

So far me and mine are safe and mostly at home.  Only a couple are still out working. The rest are now on unemployment or working from home. I live alone therefore I have no one to irritate at close quarters.  Since I no longer have grandkids 2 or 3 times a week and everything is pretty much closed I have to look at my phone to see what day it is.  I do have a large patio with my condo and early on I put most of my lawn furniture by the gate and one seat for me at the other end about 14 feet away. My kids come to visit with the grands and at least we can talk in person that way.  Yesterday my sister Susan helped me get on Zoom and I got to see her face for the first time in ages.  I spent two hours talking. She's a furloughed teacher.

BE WELL ALL OF YOU.

Life with Corona-19

First let me say I hope you are all well and stay that way. I'm praying for our country and people and especially am grateful to our local governments since the head of our country is so incompetent and dismissive of the problem.

Our Washington State has become one of the poster children for the Corona-19.  My little town Walla Walla has several patients in our hospital. Last week it was one patient, who is doing well thank goodness, and now perhaps 6-7. The hospital is now restricted to staff, vendors and patients, no other visitors.  My pulmonologist is there. They told me to come in (I have COPD and a heart problem) so me and my little bottle of hand sanitizer went. I confess I felt like I was entering the dragon's cave. I do have a bit of an imagination.   It seems so strange that this is one of the first places the darned stuff popped up.

Meanwhile my son David and daughter-in-law Heather have set up arrangements to keep what they called "our dear old people" out of public and staying at home. They called off our Tuesday night family dinner that has 20-25 people usually there, we are a crowd and besides the elders there are a couple of kids with asthma so we are a little more cautious than some. There are five of us here 74 and up. I was quite touched. Turns out you can get groceries delivered from Safeway and the local Walmart will shop up your stuff and put it in your car at the curb. It's an adjustment as I usually shop every day or two for fresh stuff.  The kids will pick up odd things like stamps.  My last week shopping groceries they were indeed out of hand sanitizer. I got the last large bottle at Safeway and one at Bi-Mart. Still they were all out of water, even distilled water which I use for my CPAP. And they really were out of toilet paper, eggs and bread.  Good Lord, toilet paper? That seems nuts.

Meanwhile I gave the kids my season theater tickets, no plays or movies for awhile. I'm skipping church. I get out by going to the park and walking around in the fresh air.

I found this on NPR Golden Age of Hand Washing.  Teach your kids to wash their hands and dance. May you all stay well. Love and hugs.

This has sub-titles. I love it.