Signs of Spring

One advantage to this 35 day and counting quarantine is all of the time I get to sit on the porch. Life has slowed down, and I get to enjoy, truly enjoy, watching my favorite season emerge. The cherry tree blossoms, the daffodils, and the tulip trees were the very first to prove spring had sprung. The dogwoods bloomed next, and every day I got to see them slowly unfurl in front of my eyes. 

Then the forsythia on the fence line bloomed a bright yellow. 

This week the irises opened and the azaleas bloomed bright pink.

Then I noticed my thornless rose bush bloomed. 

Next should be the red bud trees and the crepe myrtles. 

I don’t know if I’ll ever experience a more enjoyable spring season. I’m trying to soak it all up before the rush and exhaustion of our normalcy resumes.

K and His Girl

Keagan broke quarantine on Monday to help Madi celebrate her 15th birthday. They swam, ate Mexican food, had cake, watched a movie, and watched a parade of well wishers.

He was gone from the house almost twelve hours. When he finally got home he told me, “that many hours with that many females was too much. I need a break; it’s going to be a while before I see her again.”

Today is Wednesday. He’s already making plans to see her again tomorrow. 

Funny

Keagan continues to keep us in stitches. Today I showed a picture to Wes of my vision for the kitchen project. I mentioned I wanted subway tile as the backsplash. 

Keagan pipes up, “Subway? Well, we’d have to have an Indian then!” 

Teaching Online

I’m still working from home. I’m upstairs in the loft at my computer at 7:30 and I’m back downstairs at 4:30. It’s long and exhausting to just sit and learn how to navigate dozens of online platforms. However, my commute is only 10 seconds. I can cook dinner during my lunch hour. I can wear yoga pants or work out clothes every day. Make up is optional and my one eyed cat is my co-worker.

Staff meetings exist through Google Meet - all 80 of us!

We send pics and videos to our students through Facebook. 

I teach my daily lessons through videos posted in Google Classroom and through live classes in Meet. 

These are strange times; I never expected this and certainly never thought quarantine would drag on for more than a month. At this point, it looks like I have at least a month more of working from home. 

Happy Easter

The Easter bunny arrived last night. With the Covid19 virus peaking in our area, it was doubtful that he would make it on time. Amazon and UPS came to the rescue just in the nick of time. 

We had a pancake bar for breakfast.

We watched our pastor’s sermon on YouTube and took communion. It’s the first Easter I have worn yoga pants wrapped up in a blanket on the couch.

We had a late Easter dinner with ham, deviled eggs, scalloped potatoes, green beans, and rolls. We had coconut pie for dessert. 

He is risen! He is risen indeed.

Which Year Is It?

Today I came back from grocery shopping with two pounds of ground beef. Wes asked, “Is this all the meat you could find? What will we eat this week?” The first week of our quarantine I expected shortages due to the rush, but we are heading into week four now and everyone has meat but me. Why are they all still buying it?

 I couldn’t help but think we are reliving events in our recent history, the events we learn about in high school related to WW2, with long lines, food shortages, purchase limits, and fights over the last of anything. (This week it was a fight over the last parking spot.) We are experiencing today what will be in my grandchildren’s history books. The boys and I have been volunteering with food distribution to hungry kids in our community. The lack of proper nutrition and just food, in general, is real.

While we wait for this mess to end, the boys are still training at home. 

I’m spending money. This week I bought two rugs and new stools for the kitchen. Evan can now sit on a stool and eat at the bar. 

Wes has a making music at all hours of the day and night. He’s officially become an old man rising at 4:45 every.single.morning and drinking coffee all hours of the day. Now if his hummingbirds would return he’d be occupied all weekend long.

Skills

https://youtu.be/TjLT5US4c0c

Keagan’s been training. He told me he needed a volley net, but then he created his own “net.”

Love the ingenuity!

(And he approved of tonight’s meal. Mexi-Melt for the win!)