Day 82

Good evening my Corona friends. As always I am hoping you are all well, happy and safe. I noticed that it is less than two weeks away and I will be at 100 days and I never thought possible but I am beginning to feel like Charlie on the MTA. If you are a Bostonian you know the song, he could never get off because he didn’t have the nickel for the subway.  My intention was to write a daily blog about the lockdown, never thinking it would ever get to 50 or 60 never mind a hundred. I am going to need someone to spot me the nickel to get off or otherwise I am going to need another bottle of the goose, Donna are you listening? Here we are the first week of retail opening and outdoor dining, and I applaud all the restaurants that threw caution to the wind and opened up their own version of outdoor dining.  Give me a little time and I will get to them I did scale back on my dinner box for next week.  I just want you all to know that I cooked the quesadillas tonight as my roommate was a bit late to the table and they were delicious, probably the easiest one out of the choices so far, but really good. I have to say not even much cleanup so techie had an easy night, and that is a good thing because he had a lot on his plate today. Imagine a lot of old ladies like me, that all suffer from CRS, (can’t remember shit) needing him all day to help with passwords and the like, can be exhausting. Luckily for him I was able to deliver on the box dinner, and the cleanup, so we are all good. I heard from my daughter-in-law tonight that they have begun receiving their boxes and really enjoying them. They actually bought for 4 people so they would have leftovers to take to work the next day.  Those young people always thinking ahead. The problem with us doing something like this, is I guarantee that we eat it all at the same seating, just because we can. We do have a restock on the mini cones from Trader Joes tonight so dessert is on the horizon.

We took a walk in the rain tonight so we could see what was happening for outdoor dining and was happy to see so many places taking over space for dining. I know it is a learning curve so probably a good idea that the rain slowed the whole implementation of pop up dining. I couldn’t help noticing on our walk all the attractions that we take for granted to be open in a city that has always welcomed tourists year round and now they are shuttered with no visitors. The trolley and double decker bus stands are empty. I always thought that would be my retirement someday, I would ride around on the bus with the microphone and talk about our fair city. Probably would have never worked as no one wants to ever give Peggy the microphone, as that is an accident waiting to happen. I would sign a waiver but I could never guarantee what my interpretation on the history of this fair city would be on any given day. We did take the head off Christopher Columbus the other day in the north End and no telling who is next but I guarantee I could come up with a good narrative. Perhaps there is hope as I would never use their handbook.  We did stop by and visit with the sea lions at the aquarium. I can’t help feeling that they are lonely and sick of barking at just each other.  The boats that tour the harbor or the islands are all buttoned up and not sure if they are going anywhere this summer, but I predict they will. So many people won’t be taking a vacation this summer I suggest they explore their own city and visit all the tourist places you would only normally visit, if you had out of town relatives.  I guarantee it will be an adventure for all those involved and a way to help all these businesses who have been shuttered for so many months. Let’s all get off our butts and make it a point to do a tourist thing wherever you live that you have never done before and I expect a report on it by Monday morning in less than one hundred words.

Just sayin……..