Good evening my Corona friends and I trust you have all enjoyed this beautiful Saturday, and have stayed healthy and sane. We would all have to agree that this one of the perfect early summer days, 70ish and really dry, perfect weather for biking, hiking, running or just parking yourself to watch the world. I find that techie and I have become a bit complacent, and not chomping at the bit to get out the door for our daily exercise. Early days we knew it would just be the two of us and would wander the city, exploring and putting in 4-6 miles of walking, but now we struggle to get in half of that, and we need to make some changes. It occurred to me on our bike ride this morning that things are returning a bit more back to normal. By normal I do admit that there are a lot more people moving around, but at least they are all pretty much wearing masks and trying to distance themselves.  I had been thinking of the movie Jaws, as it was well over 40 years ago, but dipping my toes back in the water was a phrase that came to mind. I know people are anxious to get out and live a little more than they have been lately. Just trying to decide just how much we can dip our toes.  If you recall that scene in Jaws, when no one would go in the water, but the mayor or someone comes through and asks his family to get in the water, so they all start going in the water.  I feel with so many venturing out now, that we are all unsure of just what is safe. If you recall, that shark was still in the water.  So we each have to decide if we can’t outswim that shark or at least keep the coronavirus away, as we venture back out into the world. We are lucky in that we had some good friends that invited us to their patio for dinner tonight. We didn’t have to decide about getting an outdoor table where they might be nipping at your toes. It was definitely a much more enjoyable evening and you don’t have to worry about your wine pours as you can make them as heavy as you would like. Back home tonight I find that our neighborhood is coming back to life after having been silent for three months, and I find I don’t mind the noise outside my window. In the past if it was past midnight on a weekend there would always be some commotion on the pathway outside the window. There is a bench for a lovers quarrel, or some drunk I love you man shenanigans, going on into the early morning hours. It doesn’t happen obviously in the winter, but tonight for first time but it was over by ten so it is a start. We live very close to the airport as well and as we all know nothing has been happening there for the past few months. I actually went the wrong way the other day and ended up at the airport before I could turn around, and just decide to a little drive by at some of the terminals. I am usually going to terminal C as I mostly fly Jet Blue and since I am always late it is very annoying to see the back up trying to get in. Not any longer! You may zip right up to the door. If only I could go somewhere, it would be a very pleasant drop off. I want to start dipping my toes back in the water and take a trip somewhere or anywhere, but it doesn’t look like that will be happening anytime soon. I guess I will have to settle for National Geographic to take me away to some exotic place, because my roommate won’t be taking me anywhere anytime soon. I guess we are going to have to get out a bit earlier and longer every day when we mount those bicycles, but with no public restrooms, depends can only take you so far.

Just want to say that I heard from a friend Donna#2, as I have more than a few Donna friends and she observed that I had few typos and wondered if I had a new editor. Well my editor has always been my Techie and I was upset to know that I had a lot of typos. I am a catholic school girl, hence the potty mouth, but was always the Queen of the spelling bees so was sad to hear about the mistakes and we will try harder.

Just sayin…..