Sunday, August 2, 2020

Weight 123.4. Up another .2, but probably still a result of Friday's eating and drinking with abandon. Yesterday I mostly stuck to plan with just a few almonds thrown in.

This morning DSD and I are going kayaking. It will be another hot one so we want to get out early. We had talked about going later in the afternoon yesterday when it was cooling down but not surprisingly based on the usual I was in slug mode by then. For active stuff I need it to be in the first half of the day usually.

Nothing else on the agenda except that I am getting depressed thinking about not going to Florida this fall. Maybe I will rent a car and drive. Or drive to Jacksonville with DSD and rent from there.

Stay cool and healthy! I'm off to FB to look for Ann.

I fell back asleep after feeding the dog and had the worst dream! Serves me right. I should have just gotten up.

Puzzle progress is steady. Still hot here. Need to vacuum and wash floors today. And set the trash out.

But first more coffee...

This morning DD and I attended a bridal shower via zoom. Of course we had some technical glitches, but all in all it went well.

Cecily, I had a weird dream the other night, I dreamt that my surgeon called and said, you need another surgery to remove your tearducts. After all, you had ductal carcinoma. (Rim shot please).

A friend just dropped off a blueberry cobbler. Sorry, not sorry, to say I'll be eating some momentarily. I am just ravenous today!!! Maybe it's the post surgery increase in metabolism that sometimes happens.

Nothing else much happening here. The temp is only in the 70s with big wind gusts. More like the end of September than beginning of August. I'm reading the Sunday day paper indoors. Too windy on the porch. :)

Ha! Your subconscious has a vaudevillian sense of humor!

Good Morning from Stage 4 lockdown sigh

Well it happened, not surprisingly due to the continued increase in numbers and some people steadfast refusal to do the right thing. It was announced at 2.30pm yesterday that as at 6pm last night we are in Stage 4. That means one person is only allowed to leave to house within a 3 mile radius to get essentials (food) for 1 hour. There is a curfew from 8pm till 5am. Exercise is permitted within 1 mile radius - again only once a day for maximum of an hour. The premier is announcing what businesses will be forced to close today. All schools are back remote learning and all other shops with the exception of takeaway, bakers etc are closed too. This caused everyone to panic - I have no idea why as the supermarkets are staying open. DH and I got our negative results so I had popped out to do our weekly shop. When the announcement came I did go and do my mums weekly shop and was shocked with how quickly the shelves had emptied :( I am assuming that I will still be able to get my mums medications and groceries etc as its listed under caregiving but she has plenty of supplies now just in case. Unsure if we will be permitted to drive to the farm under caregiving - will work on that once this settles a little. So this is our new normal for the next 6 weeks. Will miss our grandsons 1st birthday, my eldest sons, my mums too but hoping this harder lockdown stems the infection rates as they are out of control. Premier has enacted State disaster plan thereby giving the police more power to detain etc etc - it should help them do their jobs better with the stupid idiots refusing to give details when pulled over or wear masks.

So today is just work and we will continue to work around the front. We got another section of dirt cut out along the house and its now all filled with rock. Looks much better. Just need to finish the retaining wall behind the garage then we can get the roadbase brought in and pack it all down. Its been a huge job mainly done by DH. The house looks completely different to how it used too. We are considering putting corrugated iron in place of the base boards and re-doing the deck uprights to replace it with steel line and new handrails. Will need to save up for that one. Always many projects and not enough funds. It requires planning... oh and saving

Feeling very blech today.... best go and get some more work done. Stay safe all

S

It's hard to have to endure such sacrifice because others weren't doing their part. I admire your government though, for their ability to make the hard choices that are necessary. In our country, we have various law enforcement groups that flat out say they sill not be writing any tickets for people ignoring mask mandates, let alone enforcing curfews if any were even in existence. I hope all the shared sacrifice you ate now experiencing leads to better things in the next 4-6 weeks.

Thanks DD - yes it is a little but I too am thankful that decisions are being made and taken to get us into a better place within a time frame - that is much easier to contend with rather than looser restrictions that blow out for a longer period. It messes with you mentally. But we are all in this together and just have to do it.

Most days I try to take what's happening here in stride. It's a mess, a true mess, but it's what is happening. What's left is for me and others to decide what risks we're willing to take, and what is ethical. Risk I would take, taking care of a family member if they were sick. Risk I won't take, eating indoors at a restaurant. Ethical for me: following all recommendations for personal behaviors published by the Minnesota Department of Health, including wearing masks in all indoor public places.

But some days the lack of coordinated response, the increasing numbers of infections, death, and survivors with scary complications, it's all too much. I look towards November and December and I see no hope for returning to something that even resembles are previous lives... I push back the despair, because no good can come of going there...

Gracious. even with our lousy numbers, I can't even fathom what kind of uproar there would be here with those kinds of restrictions!

Lockdown is hard and the panic shopping people do seems really odd to me but I guess it is because I don't get too anxious.