Day 68: The Day After My Birthday.
So, when I write my stories, I typically write them after midnight, so today’s date will show April 5. I consider the day over when I go to bed. I was reminded by a person in California, it’s still my birthday there…. and in Hawaii. When I wrote yesterday, the same was true and it was after midnight, so it will say April 4, my birthday. That’s Day 67 (this one is Day 68 of my 365 day challenge to write something every day) and Day 67, written on April 4 (which is technically one day off on my writing), is the age I became. So, written on April 4, my Day 67, and I turned 67. A bit ironic, don’t you agree?
A month ago some of my kids and I were going to go to a Brazilian steak house where they come to your table with slabs of meats. I hear its a great place to go if you eat meat, and I do. With restaurants closed to indoor eating, we didn’t get to go — a rain check for later. Instead I raked the long boulevard and bagged about ten bags of leaves. It was so beautiful out today. Perfect temperature for being outdoors, the leaves were so ugly and hiding the plants that are trying to come up, and once I got the leaves off them, they stood tall, like they were ready for the sun.
I love Spring. I love the newness of plants coming back to life. The trees are budding, there’s an active bird family living in the corner of my house by the roof. They’ve been there for years. I see their nest and their eyes peeking at me from inside. I don’t have the heart to patch that part of my house because I know it is a great place that they call home. Since we had to send our dog, Kyp, back to his family in Heaven last August, the squirrels have figured out that they can come into my back yard again. And, soon, I will be able to power wash my stucco as it is full of moss-colored green, and other dirt like ‘stuff’. We will practice on something else, first, because I hear you can rip the stucco off it it is too strong.
I’ll have time because I think I have at least this month at home, maybe more, if we have to continue in our quasi-quarantine. People were all over the streets today. I saw that next week they will be shutting the road to the airport, Terminal 1…hmmm. That seems a bit odd to me, unless there is going to be construction, but none that I noticed was needed. As I see it, then, the only way in and out of there is via the Light Rail. I guess we will have to wait and see what that is about.
I know that President Trump is expecting a slew of deaths in the next couple of weeks. I wonder if we are peaking and will be on our way to being done with the virus, at least in our corner of the world. It will be hard to know, for sure, when it is safe again. But, a virus wears itself out, somehow, and lies dormant (while it’s doing its mutation thing under wraps) and will show up as another mutation in a few years, or so. I hope we don’t have to go through this all over again.
I’m still trying to figure out the financial part, as I ran into a bit of a challenge with unemployment .. which I am appealing (already starting out icky…), but don’t have an appeal date until 4/22… Hopefully, shortly after, May 1, I will be back at work. So, I am happy to have some much needed time off, but I was used to getting a regular paycheck, and that was nice, too.
I hope that everyone is handling their situation with some ease. Enjoy your time off, or at home. Get things done that were on hold because you were at work. Make masks, if you sew. The hospitals still need them. Cotton, two colors so they know which side was against their face. Make ties if you can’t find elastic. I’ve noticed more neighbors are saying hello to each other. It’s almost better than a National Night Out. Do you think we will do that this year?
