Living in the Time of Corona

Good Evening my Corona Friends and a very Happy Monday to you all. Today will be my last nightly chronicle of Living in the Time of Corona, and I wish I could say it is over and that is why I am signing off, but sadly it is not the case. We here have of course flattened the curve but because so many refuse to subscribe to wearamaskasshole, it won’t be ending anytime soon. Now we have a fresh crop of Karen’s popping up all over the retail world and having some serious hissy fits about having to wear a mask. I thought the one in Trader Joes was especially hilarious as she was screaming rather loudly for a good long time that she had trouble breathing and could not wear a mask, yet did not appear winded while blowing all that hot air. Then there are the gun toting Karen and Ken just trying to protect their property form the great unwashed, by pointing an automatic weapon at peaceful protestors, as it turns out they are both lawyers, probably have some reason to be frightened. May have given some bad representation. These last few weeks have almost seemed normal, going back to our old routines, just wearing a mask and have the cleanest hands possible. I think back to the beginning of this Pandemic and it was easy to poke fun about the severe shortages of toilet paper, Clorox and for all the newly inspired bakers’ flour. It was much more fun back then when you could share sightings of toilet paper on Facebook or with your posse and really make a game of it. I can’t believe how many people are in the mask business now and certainly no shortage of supply or creativity. Remember when there was thought to be a meat shortage and people couldn’t find chicken?  Or better yet in the beginning people were buying chickens so they would have their own egg supply but not really thinking it all the way through. I wonder what happened to all those chicks.  I would say one of the great upsides of this is how many gardens have sprung up that would have never happened before. I heard today that some former restaurant workers have started a new business teaching people how to start a garden. I can assure you if my lover and I were back in our old house in the burbs, I would definitely give it a shot, except I would just pay someone to do my garden for me. Remember I pay the dry cleaners to sew a button. I am sure I would be posting pictures of my tomatoes and squash and maybe even share a recipe, love the food network.

A month ago all those small inconveniences of living through this pandemic changed with the death of George Floyd and have awakened a movement that was a long time coming, and the frustration of living under lock down gave it the perfect launching pad. People are angry and aren’t going to take it anymore, so we all need to figure this out. I am going to be more patient and tolerant, which will be very hard for me, as there are so many assholes, but I have my techie to support me.  

I know there are a lot of great new things on the horizon and tonight at dinner with my roommate, I asked if we will ever go back to a world without masks, obsessive hand washing, and keeping a distance from friends.  He assures me that yes that time will come and he is never wrong so I am going with it.   Since I won’t be doing my nightly journal, he will be able to go to bed earlier, as he does my publishing and it is often just before midnight, so I know he will be happy.  I am hoping to go to a weekly post and I have enjoyed unloading my often incoherent ramblings as my stress reliever of the day.  Hoping there is a vaccine soon so we can all get out of the Twilight Zone. If you want to know my next adventure with techie just click here.

Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer. Take one down and pass it around 98 bottles of beer on the wall. I don’t know what it is but I had it in my head that if I made it to 99 I was going to do the beers on the wall. Now that I am here it seems so anticlimactic. Sure we use to sing this song on the bus on the way home from sports events and we thought it was hilarious but also we didn’t need to worry about the words, we just had to be able to count backward. Well, I wish it was that easy today and we could just count backward and erase what we have all been through but can’t do it. Hello, my Corona Friends and hope you all had a very nice Sunday, have to say after weeks of sunshine we had some rain today and a bit of thunder. We did manage to get our walks in and a little bike ride before the thunder hit, but everyone who might have a lawn or garden said we needed the rain, so let it rain. Techie and I on the other hand have no yard or garden, so the rain only impedes our walks. I have no problem giving up for the greater good of our lawns and gardens. I am perfectly willing to park my ass any day to watch Law and Order, food channel, or HGTV. Although after my experience the other night at al fresco dining, with a major asshole bragging about growing up with Josh Altman from A Million Dollar listing that I loved to watch, but now has forever lost its luster. I mean come on, I know it is all full of shit but when a major A Hole is bragging in public about being his friend it just ranks right up there with Fox News, you know the Lamestream media channel. I am still trying to navigate all the channels I can watch. I only found out a few days ago that if you have HBO there are all these outlets available to you if you dig deeper. I can assure you that Techie has not provided me with all that intel and I am going to have to start figuring it out on my own. If its something I cared about I would have. I don’t want to get too far ahead of myself like the beer bottles and passing them all around with this Coronavirus. I think I would rather keep it all up on the wall rather than pass it all around, so going to need some help here. I may be tempted to take one down and pass it along to someone I feel worthy of, you know one of those people who feel it’s against the right to wear a mask, but I won’t do it. I don’t want to pass it on to anyone and that is why I hope we can continue in the great state of Massachusetts to keep wearing a mask and preventing the spread as we violate the rights of all those who feel my body my choice, except when it refers to Abortion….
Just sayin

Holy Shit my Corona friends we are into this 98 days and counting and almost time to say goodbye. I thought this journal would be 30-60 days and now I think 100 might be a good ending point, but we will see how it goes. Techie and I had a busy day running around doing errands and a little shopping, well I did some shopping. I must say it was kind of stimulating to walk into a store that wasn’t a grocer, CVS, or take out and make a purchase. Please remember all of you, support your local businesses, and get off the internet. You can carry home your purchases and some of these stores have some very nice bags that you can reuse. How many of you are reusing those Amazon boxes? Not many I believe as I see so many of them flattened near the dumpster every week. I think Amazon should send their cardboard recycling team to pick up all those boxes. I would sure feel better about it. My roommate and I just came back from a very long walk around the city and I can report life is different than a month ago during the height of the Pandemic. We had planned to take my nephew Matt and his girlfriend Eleece, who just moved here out to dinner but looked like rain was coming so no al fresco dining. We are just not ready for inside yet, but then no rain came so techie said we should do some walking, no dinner plans, and no box tonight. Update on the box dinner deliveries, my son and family enjoyed them for a few weeks but tonight told me they have to cancel because there is just too much waste in the box with all the little packets of measured spices and sour cream, way to guilt Mom, just as Dad was getting the hang of it, and now we will have to cancel. Anyway back to my evening walk, the rain never came and we were out a lot longer than expected and I wasn’t prepared, no depends, but things are certainly different. We used to do our daily walks and seldom see anyone but things are opening up here and every restaurant has moved their tables to the sidewalk or street but now they can also have a few tables inside as well. I Didn’t feel comfortable asking to use their bathroom nor did I want to, have to work your way up to that. I read something weird today about toilet plumes when flushing the toilet. This shit is so weird. Please tell me in a time not too far in the future we will be laughing about all of this, please!!! It is a Saturday night so the streets are not as alive as they would be but certainly more so than a few months ago and nice to see. People seem to be enjoying dining in their new barricaded dining room on the street. It seems to be the new normal. I am just happy to see and hear some level of normalcy, so we can all adapt and not go off the deep end. It has been a struggle for so many people, and unlike me, Vodka doesn’t work for everyone. We got hit with a pandemic and then a few short weeks later we all have to face a far bigger problem of systemic racism in our country and how are we going to clean it up. I believe we have some momentum here and we have to find the solutions now and not let it go back to sleep to resurface another day. Wearing a mask will help stop the spread but not what no one wants to talk about, is uncomfortable, so let’s all get on board and work together. First let’s all pledge to say hello, good morning, or whatever but just greet your fellow human beings when you pass them in the street or help you in the store. I am sick of hearing that southerners have all the hospitality when they say “bless your heart” and that means F U, and we get all the bad press about being cold. Hell, I will give you cold, but mostly I like to be nice unless you are an asshole than you get whatever I am handing out that day. So listen to all you Bostonians take the challenge and everyone you pass in the next few days say hello, they can’t see behind the mask so the smirk will wear off, a good time to practice. I want to hear how it all worked out for you all, Bless your heart.

Just sayin

Good evening my Corona Friends and hope everyone is doing well, TGIF. I just had a fabulous dinner prepared by my own personal chef, who is getting really good with those dinners in a box props. Kudos for techie, broadening his horizons, and I am going to give a little praise to myself tonight as well, as I  managed to get to the right page tonight all on my own to start this blog.  It only took 97 days to make progress, but hey Rome wasn’t built in a day. I want to give a shout out to all my fellow citizens from the great state of Massachusetts for doing the hard work and flattening our curve.  Now let’s not do anything stupid like they are in some places south and west of us and going out before they have control. We have been in lockdown for a good few months and I don’t want to go backward, so let’s all behave. My roommate and I just took a nice long walk and I have to say all the Millennials are out and waiting in line to get into the Beer Gardens. I can’t say I blame them, the weather is beautiful, been cooped up and just want to go out and play, but please wear a mask, and remove only for drinking, as in my case no mask. Anyway, it occurred to me when I look back at what I have been doing these past few weeks, some might get the impression that I am enjoying this lockdown.  I have managed to see friends, take long bike rides, but the best thing is the restaurants are open and I have been enjoying a lot of al fresco dining.  It makes me wonder if I may prefer to live in a different climate, but I can’t see it my grandkids are here and I like living among the lefties or liberals.

Last night I had the great pleasure of spending time with one of my besties, Celia, who I hadn’t seen in many months. I know I speak for most women but there is nothing better than girlfriends and men just can’t get it. I recall once on a trip where there were a few of us, and the ladies were just sitting around blabbing for hours and I heard my friend’s husband ask her later what could you possibly be talking about for so long?  Obviously he doesn’t understand girlfriend culture and we never run out of conversation. It doesn’t hurt that my friend has a great summer home right on the water and we could just sit outside on her beautiful deck and polish off a few bottles of wine. Considering we were sitting out there for about five hours it may have been a bit more than a few.   Celia and I have done a lot of traveling together and I can say we have been around the world a few times together so we have a lot to talk about. Last night sitting out in the dark we could see the flight path from Logan airport, and being the airplane enthusiast she was watching Flight Radar and reporting to me where the plane was coming or going from.  We could start dreaming about past and future trips, and she was giving me the low down on what kind of plane was flying in from Atlanta and what airline.  The one that did give us a laugh was when she read it was going from Boston to Indiana, now nothing against Indiana but a direct flight out of Boston seemed unlikely until she found it was FedEx flight. We both love to travel, and I have been lucky that she has planned so many of our trips and that my roommate always wished me well and told me to go, no problem. I think he was looking forward to quiet time and no TV in the middle of the night.  Although we did once live in a house with more than one room and actually had a lot of bathrooms, it seems like a lifetime ago, and no matter what I still love it here. I am grateful every day that I can expand my shelter in place parameters by mooching off my friends and family. I still have a few people that I haven’t hit up yet so I will have to plan it well.  I just hope my roommate keeps me on as his first mate and I may have to sharpen my skills to see that he does. Meanwhile lucky to have friends with a house on the sea and let me spend the night so I may wake up to coffee on the deck.

Just sayin

Hello my Corona friends an hope you all lived to see another day, happy and healthy. I got a little fired up last night so today I practiced some deep breathing and meditation. Let’s face it there will always be assholes in the world and I have to try hard not to become one of them. I have had a lot of practice, as I may have mentioned I come from a big family and I do have five sisters. Yes that is correct I am lucky enough to have these five terrific women in my life and fortunately we align politically but personalities differ widely.  Ann is the oldest and she can tend to be very bossy, but she is also the only one that moved out of state so we don’t have to take the orders, too seriously. When I was younger she used to say make me a cup of tea, I changed your diapers when you were a baby, trying to guilt me into waiting on her.  She didn’t understand that I can’t be guilted into anything. Of course now when I bring this up she will say I never said or did that, but we know differently. Then there is Judy, oh it would take a lot to explain her, but even though she drives all absolutely crazy, she has a heart of gold. She likes to talk a lot and she always needs the “details“. She can go off track pretty quickly and before you know it she went from a story about her friend and now we have moved on to that friends, sisters, brothers cousin, who once lived next to Susie’s uncle, who was married to Dorothy, and we have no idea what the hell she is talking about. I do love her but maybe because she lives alone, she just has diarrhea of the mouth or as a friend once said working with your sister is like having the radio on all day, but no off switch. Patty would be number three, and she has always been the one we could say was most like Mom. She always hosted the holidays and cooked great meals, even going so far to deliver meals to my two brothers that were bachelors, just filling Moms shoes.  Judy will often say to me have you spoken to Patty lately she hasn’t been able to reach her, I want to say she probably doesn’t pick up because she doesn’t have a half hour to listen, and she won’t know any details. Patty actually retired the minute she found she was having a grandson so she could be a full time Grandma, something she wasn’t sure about as having two daughters who got married late. She is the best Babci to Donovan.  Probably a good thing he doesn’t have any competition. Next in line is Debbie and oh how to I describe her, well I always thought of her as Maude as in the movie Harold and Maude. She is a bit eccentric but so warm and loving. She always took all the nieces and nephews on joyrides and extolled the virtues of her crystals. When my kids were young she even gave each of them their own crystal ball along with a little cloth to keep it covered. She lived with us for a short time years ago and even called late one night, to say she forgot to cover her crystal and please be sure we do because it could start a fire.  She retired a few years ago but she recently went to work at Amazon part time, because she was bored and doesn’t understand why we want to keep her apart when she goes to that distribution center every day. She has become a super great aunt to my grandchildren Charlie and Maisie, and their parents had to put the Kibosh on all those packages, as they try to live a minimalist lifestyle. That is just too difficult when kid is addicted to Legos. I would be next in line, and then there is Kathy who is the baby girl of the family. It is definitely hard to be number eleven out of twelve and you sure don’t get the recognition because we have run out of steam and Judy is still talking. I think she should run for office she is one of the most politically astute people I know and she seems to thrive on it, and I say Kathy it is not too late. Look at the age of these people running they practically have one foot in the grave, give them a boot. We are lucky because we still do talk to each other, and generally like hanging out together. I wished I had kept a better journal of stories from growing up because I notice now that we all have different versions of our family history.  It’s a wonder when you hear these different versions, were these people in the same family?  I can tell you it is a generational thing as they were so much older, that they must be senile and can’t really remember. I on the other hand still think I am twenty nine, but if only my body would cooperate, now it takes a while to stretch and move around in the morning to get all the kinks out.  Now that the time has passed I often wished I had more kids, because they are missing out, but everyone always sys they couldn’t afford it. Believe me my mom never thought if she couldn’t afford it, God know she sure couldn’t but somehow we made it. So I guess my kids better get cracking if they want to catch up to Grandma.

 Just sayin

Good evening my Corona friends and as always I hope you are happy and healthy.  I am grateful for just another day of being symptom free and enjoying life. I was going to be brief tonight as I have been out to dinner with my nephew and it is late.  I haven’t seen Sean since we celebrated his Birthday back in early March and he does live quite close. He has been actually very good about the sheltering in place and has let very few people into his pod, so kudos for that and being safe. We were at an outdoor dining spot on the waterfront and it was a beautiful night, but for a few rainstorms. I got there a bit earlier than Sean and I had the pleasure of listening to a major asshole at a table nearby.  You can’t make this shit up but he was on the phone yelling so everyone could hear him about taking a rental in Beverly Hills for $40,000 a month and don’t worry he is a friend of Josh Altman of Millon dollar Listing in LA so he knows it is a good deal.  Then he proceeds to call Daddy on the phone. Who knows it could have been the weather channel that is what we would have done.  I kid you not he is yelling on the phone to Daddy that we own half this restaurant and I got a shitty table.  He is taking a picture of the host telling him he is going to lose his job. I have no patience for this and I go take a picture of him and when he asked what I was doing I said just going to post what an asshole looks like.  Now normally I wouldn’t bother with this but since he treated everyone badly. host, waitress and busboy I felt compelled to call out any assholes. Just stay home and tell yourself how important you are, and someone may believe it.  Remember we are all in this together and renting an expensive house is not in the cards for many people and who knows probably not in your cards either.  NAMASTE!!!

Anyway a nice night out on the patio and sat through a few rain drops but just felt good to be outside and we were rewarded by this beautiful rainbow…………….

Just sayin

Good evening my Corona friends, another rocking Tuesday and hope everyone is safe and well. Apparently we have done all the hard work and our state is continuing g to trend in the right direction.  Probably the only time that we like to see a downward trend because we are so competitive we can only see results if we trend upward.  Well the good news is that I read today that for the last three months most people have avoided going to Doctor appointments and avoided any kind of medical visits. Well the news was I think pretty darn good, there was no alarming stats about not having the care or visits. I have always avoided as much as possible to have a Doctor visit and as a result, most anything serious had to be handled in an ER visit when I couldn’t avoid it any longer.  I learned this from my dear departed Mother who I knew went to the Doctor at least twelve times as she had twelve children and didn’t visit again for almost forty years. Ok so that last visit wasn’t a good thing but I doubt it would have made much of a difference. Think of all the time you saved by avoiding these visits. I got to thinking about when our kids were little and if they spiked a fever you wanted to take them to the Doctor, but thankfully I had my techie who always went along and questioned the reasoning behind the pink medicine for whatever ails you, ear or fever.  He was always more of the ilk to let it goes the course, unless deemed extremely necessary. Personally I know the Docs found it refreshing, because according to them parents were demanding the pink stuff so they felt more obligated to give it out. So now it must be a real dilemma because there is no pink, green, red or orange that they can prescribe for Corona so best just stay away. They are doing a lot more tele-visits, now this is something I could get behind.  I used to use WEB MD to solve all my maladies but I guess I could have a quick call with a nurse practitioner and she could write the script for my Cipro should any flare ups occur. Ok I am sure there is too much information here and we should move on to a more important subject, like deodorant or antiperspirant?  Like everything during this shutdown I have begun to question my grooming habits or lack thereof?  I am not sure if I was forgetting to use deodorant as a lot of the time during lock up I wasn’t even getting dressed, and thought nothing of going to Traders in my jammies.  Well now I am out and about and back to work but unfortunately I think I may have been giving off some body odor. I am going to have to make sure it is a part of the daily ritual of grooming. I was playing hooky today and went to the beach, where I detected I may have been a bit stinky. This started a discussion of what is best a deodorant or antiperspirant, one stops the sweating and the other the smell. One has aluminum, which I guess is bad for you but I forget which is which. Anyway just like your mask is something I can’t leave the house without I will add deodorant to the list.  So yes I had a bad day and went and parked my ass on the beach for a long time today and then topped it off with a trip to Kelly’s ice cream at the end of the day with a nice twisty cone.  Julia [Ferris’s sister] previous blog, was visiting out of NYC, where she had been in a much tighter lock down than we have been experiencing. So a proper beach day was in order and I was happy to oblige. I don’t know about anyone else but getting a bit of a tan, I do feel at least 10 or twenty pounds lighter. I know getting to much sun is bad for you and my kids get upset with me, but they don’t need to tan to appear thin, they already are thin.  People will tell you that you look terrific and healthy because you got some sun, when we know that skin cancer is on the rise, but dam it feels thin, at least for a few days. Well now that I am looking a bit closer in the mirror I see I am once again beginning to resemble a Billy goat with my chin hairs.  It’s been five years since Sarah left me high and dry, to start her own business and taking care of the Billy goat was job security, I guess it just became too much for her. I am going to have to ask my roommate for assistance but between the two us we don’t see as well anymore.

 Just sayin

P.S. getting close to 100 days and I am putting the word out if anyone wants to write a guest blog one day, I am game.

Good evening once again my Corona friends and I trust everyone had a good Monday.  It’s nice to be approaching the other side of this pandemic, where now it is starting to spike in other states. I don’t wish them any harm but I can say right from the beginning the first few months, if you weren’t in the thick of it, you just couldn’t relate. I have friends and relatives in different parts of the country, and they always said it is not the same here as where you are, but now they may be feeling the pinch. I think it may be hard for them to go into the lock down we had to do after they have done it half ass, for the past few months. What do they always say it is far easier going from poor to rich, than rich to poor?  Anyway we are all in this together and I want nothing less, than for all this to just disappear, so we may all go back to living before the time of Corona. Speaking of which, nail salons opened today……………I am know now that I am a much shallower person than I ever thought possible, but I literally had tears in my eyes this morning when I called a salon I like to frequent, and got an appointment at noon today. Yippee nail salons reopened.  I can do without the hair and I don’t have roots yet, so that has not been my problem, in fact now I can just tie it back in a ponytail, so problem solved for the summer. I think I may have mentioned the toes have been the problem, right from the get go, maybe it was the reach and the fact that some of my toes are really F’d up but they were really grossing me out. I even had to beg Techie do cut them for me, and because he is so awesome he reluctantly did it.  In fact a few days ago I asked him to do it and he said I am pretty sure they are opening on Monday, his really nice way of saying please don’t ask me. It was like I died and went to heaven just to soak my feet and get all hot stoned massage and all that today, I know truly first world problem, but I will completely own it. I am judging by the amount of people that kept stopping by today to ask for an appointment that I am not alone in my desires. After all it is summer. I even had both my kids’ remark recently that my feet looked pretty gross. For them to notice it was bad. I even took a picture so I could look more closely at them recently and yes it was hard to look at them. I considered putting a before and after picture up tonight but my roommate advised against it, the before were really tough to look at. OK enough about the feet, problem solved and I can’t wait to go again.  My new thing is watching Yellowstone, just came upon it and just about done with season 2 and holy shit they are evil. They have blown up my whole idea of what I had imagined the pristine beauty of Montana would be and replaced it with the Godfather meets Scarface.  I just can’t imagine who dreams this up and it is a few years old so can’t blame it on the Pandemic twisting your mind. I am sure we all think at some point our families are a bit fucked up but these people are really deranged and I can’t even tell if they like each other. I am hooked and I am still hoping for redemption for any of them so I need to sign off and watch a few more episodes.

Namaste!!

Just sayin,

Good evening my Corona friends and Happy Father’s day to all those dads out there. I trust everyone had the opportunity to do something nice for the Dad’s in your life. I have to say that I feel like Father’s day gets a bit shortchanged from Hallmark and doesn’t have the same gravitas as Mother’s Day. I know that Mother’s day is one of the busiest days for dining out, where as I am pretty sure Father’s day we give some new grille tools, and Dad does the BBQ.  I am sure it doesn’t apply today with the new wave of Dads being the culinary stars of today, but in the past it may have been to give Mom a break from the kitchen and cooking every meal. Now if you have been reading this blog you know I have not always been the one doing the cooking, when we could avail ourselves of so many wonderful eating establishments, and the fact that I have no place to grill at our living space. When people ask what I miss most about our old house, other than the multiple bathrooms, it is definitely the grill which I did use year round. Just shovel snow around it on the deck and go to go, no messy clean up.  Grill pan is not the same and honestly it can smell up the place fairly quickly. My daughter lucked out with her husband, as Hugh does most of the cooking, if you call roasting kale cooking.  Seriously he is a bit of a show off baking bread and making his own pizza dough. I mean there are a lot of terrific pizza shops, well yes only one Regina’s, but others that will do in a pinch.  My son Max loves to cook and does a pretty decent job of it, and I would say his wife Alana got pretty lucky as well with a chef. Funny how cooking skipped with Erica, and not with my son, but I would say she is pretty smart about that, and let him take on that job. Let me tell you one thing about my roommate, Techie, MacGyver, and my lover he was and is one heck of a Dad, and those kids really hit the jackpot with this one.  He always encouraged them to try new things and follow their passions, which he always supported. I am pretty sure he is the one responsible for keeping them on the straight and narrow and taught them how to be the wonderful parents they are today.  I didn’t have the luxury of having a decent Dad, and yes I do think it is a luxury that should be more appreciated, because it doesn’t happen for everyone. I am telling you when I see my son with his daughter and how wonderful he is with her it blows my mind. As parents there are many times of the year you are tested and right from the beginning you might fantasize about leaving that kid among the lettuce in the supermarket. The teenage years could be very trying and living in the suburbs. The local constables would not take a liking to shooting your paint ball guns at public property, but we made it through. My mother always said to me when I was growing up, I only hope someday you have a daughter just like you, but I was lucky and my daughter turned out more like her Dad. We grew up watching Leave it to Beaver, but we didn’t know any Ward Cleavers. The Dads in our generation never changed a diaper, didn’t cook or do a show and tell at school.  Techie here was often the one going to do something in the classrooms, and even attempt to coach a team. I can say that if he could, he would try and avoid diapers, but I let him have that one.  Today’s Dads are trying as much as possible to be fully participatory in their kids’ lives and it is wonderful.  What has changed these past three months I am sure both Mom and Dad are trying to hide from these kids some, as both working from home and kids schooling from home? I know Techie wouldn’t have, but I probably would have let them watch a lot more TV and whatever else they do on their screens today. I just wouldn’t let them watch the twilight zone because they may get freaked out, and think it is a reality TV show.

I am lucky that today I do have some great Dad’s in my life and Techie, Max and Hugh just keep on doing what you’re doing, and maybe show Dad a bit about the cooking. I can’t help giving a shout out that I do believe I have the three most amazing grandchildren and I guess their Dad’s had something to do with it.

Just sayin

Good evening my Corona friends and hope everyone enjoyed this beautiful day. Summer has definitely arrived. Techie and I just came back from a nice long walk and ended up dining out in the streets of the North end tonight. There were just so many choices we had to stop. Besides we knew there was no dinner box at home, and haven’t had a trip to Trader Joes this week, only for the mini cones, for grandkids. We just wanted to get our steps in and walking the Greenway we were very thrilled to see that the water fountains that spray, and cause you to do a little dance to avoid the spray. I always love the run through this with Charlie, and I remember to bring a towel in the stroller. Can’t wait to bring Maisie. I was afraid that under Covid they wouldn’t be operating and tonight there were more than a few adults running through it. Everyone just wants to cool off.  Signs of life, and almost normalcy is coming back to our beautiful city. The plan was just to do a stroll and then maybe grab a slice of pizza, but the allure of sitting down at a table with a proper cocktail served to you by someone other than yourself was just too hard to ignore. We ran into some friends at a table next to us, well actually the Maître D asked these young women if they wouldn’t mind moving as he saw that we knew Rick and Colleen. Talk about service. It is really nice to be among the living and seated at your table no need for a mask. I have to give a shout out to the servers as they really hustle running in and out of the restaurant to serve their patrons, who are literally in the street. I don’t know if they are going to give up this patio space, when the time comes because it sure seems like people are enjoying al fresco dining for sure. Walking back home the city still is buttoning up early as it was 930 and the Barking Crab was already closed, not sure about the Cisco Brewery beer garden that opened up yesterday but pretty quiet on the streets. Trillium closes at 9 so I guess we are collectively still trying to maintain some semblance of keeping everyone off the streets. I am happy to turn in earlier if that is what it takes to keep flattening our curve. My roommate and I both agree that we are happy that we had such strict guidelines for the shutdown and more importantly people followed the rules. It wasn’t always something people could agree upon, tough to close businesses but now we are seeing the results and feeling safer, every day. The Dude Abides. I am not going to lie, I am feeling just a bit giddy tonight, when I turned on CNN to hear about Tulsa and the brief bit I watched showed a much smaller than expected crowd. I am doing a happy dance but not going to gloat too much, but definitely want to give a shout out to the youth of America who apparently flooded the campaign for tickets tonight with no intention of showing up. Please kids keep it up and please show up to vote in November.

Just sayin……..