Staying at Home

 We look forward to pictures everyday!

Isaac says they have started seedlings and are using the tent as a greenhouse for cold nights.  Can't wait to see their garden this summer!

 New curtains in the bedroom.  And I had my first nap on the new couch today!

It's been chilly all week and we even had a little snow during this  staying-in-place time. We do get out to take walks, to go to the grocery, and Mark goes over to mow V's lawn.   Tomorrow's forecast is sunshine and 60, so we're hoping for nicer spring weather even if we aren't all out and about yet.

Quarantine

We're all staying in because of the corona virus.  We do go to the grocery store, and our bird feed store has curbside service but otherwise, we try to avoid getting out much.  

We have plenty of toilet paper, but the stores often don't have eggs.  Apple Barn up the road usually has nice eggs from a farm in Jacksonville and we like to shop with them.

Every day we hear more scary stories.  More people sick.  More people passing.  More health care workers who are scared to go to work, but they go in anyway.  Even without the equipment they need. 

 This is Skye in quarantine.  She doesn't mind a bit.  

Our facebook feeds are full of creative art

reminding us that love will get us through. 

This makes me cry.  A sight I would never have dreamed of.  Not even on 9/11. . . 

 I've been working one day a week at a little nonprofit that is dear to my heart. Yesterday I was making coffee to take with me and it just seemed like I should take a picture.  Because maybe it would be the last time I go to work for a while? 

 PJ, my sister and super-nurse, modeling the mask that mama made for her.  Another thing we would never have predicted--seamstresses all over the country making masks for our healthcare workers.  Although Grandma would have been tickled to sew those masks.  She and Mammy were used to making do with what we had.

Exactly.

A Different World

So much has happened since that last post when I was  going to yoga classes with Betsy.   The world has become infected with Covid 19 and we're all inside trying to maintain connection through the internet and avoid physical contact. 

 It seems like a lifetime ago that we went out to see Oceanna in California. From her perspective, it has been her lifetime!  If I had realized how serious the virus was, we would not have gone.  I'm thankful we were able to go out and visit and that we all continue to be healthy.  So many people have gotten sick during that time period. 

She is just adorable.  Isaac and Jennifer send us pictures so we can keep up with her.  She's getting to be such a big girl--every day a new adventure to her!

 V gave Isaac her grey mercury several years ago.  It's still running strong :)

 Those moments when your baby sleeps on your chest are so precious.

 She's been to the ocean already!  She looks a lot like Isaac here.

 Bright eyes

My birthday in California.  The Beatles song goes through my mind everytime I think about being 64 now. 

Jennifer and Isaac live close to the river and can go down to hike and swim.  

It's so beautiful, so peaceful.  You could almost forget about the virus there.  

I wonder how the restrictions will affect their visits.

And now it's spring. It's the dangedest spring we've ever seen . . .