NO Easter egg hunts. NO family dinners. NO joyful gatherings. This year is different from the years most of us have known. Businesses closed. Schools and churches closed. Many people are working from home or unemployed. Lots of fear and panic running through the country. All kinds of rumors and fear mongering and dis-information flying about. Not sure who to listen to or what to believe...
It is finally starting to look like spring out there. Yards are greening up, wildflowers are popping up everywhere and even a few mushrooms showing up. Then the nights got cold again, almost down to freezing. Strange weather. It was almost 90 one day last week and then 50 the next. Never sure how to dress, but it doesn't really matter since I (for one) am staying in my pajamas much of the day. Some days I think, Maybe I'll go out and do some yard work ! And then look down at my pj's and think.. well, maybe tomorrow. lol So, I have ventured out to fill bird feeders and sweep my front porch and stuff a few times, but really no yard work has gotten done.
I'm doing what many people are doing: cooking a lot, reading more, napping extensively, and watching way too much tv. I have been watching a lovely British series called LarkRise to Candleford that has entranced me. And now it has started over, so it must have been a short lived series. Set in 18th century Oxfordshire, a story of 2 small hamlets, one a farming burg and one a bigger town. Marvelous. Watching lots of less marvelous tv as well, some things we generally watch and some we don't.
My son was here for a late midday dinner. I roasted a chicken and made candied sweet potatoes, steamed broccoli, herbed stuffing, gravy, and some giant wheat germ and flaxseed rolls. We ate until we were beyond full and then he left and we vegged out. I cleaned up all the kitchen and dishes, and then took about an hour nap. When I got back up , I asked him if he as hungry and he said not really and neither was I. So, we had some dessert (I made Creme Brulee earlier this morning to have for dessert, but no one had room. I had enough chicken leftover to make another meal, as well as some of the other things too. I am being very frugal about using up all the things in the fridge in one way or another. I saw a recipe for a soup made with leftover stuffing, and they said it was a lot like a matzoh soup, so I might just try that. It's raining really hard again right now. Tonight's temps are supposed to drop into the low 30's again. We talked to my father-in-law up in Wisconsin and they are having a lot of snow again. He is in a nursing rehab place now. It's disheartening talking to him sometimes. He doesn't understand why his wife can't come see him and why he can't go home. A common dilemma I suspect with older people who can't take care of themselves or their spouses. We try to call him a couple of times a week at least. Here is a picture of our table this afternoon...
2 hungry boys over there. lol
OK-- it's time to see how the tediously slow updating is going with the laptop. I've been using it a lot since I've been using Zoom and Jit.si for meetings and stuff. Hopefully it will be done soon. I've been trying to delete a bunch of the crap that came on this laptop and they sure make it hard to uninstall programs. Grrr... I don't have much memory on it and am trying to free up space.
Wish me luck.
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