General Discussion

There's no good reason to go window shopping or even on a Sunday drive, even if my 18-year-old car has now been "fixed" though not reliably "tested" on the road. We live on the literal edge, and lately I've come to terms with wintertime cabin fever by doing the usual household stuff, reading, surfing the health docu-series and DU, binging TV, and messing with the pets. DH does most all of the "away from home" errands. The checks come in and go out lickety-split without a C-note to spare for "frivolous spending" thanks to decades of government and corporate greed. Got lots of pancake mix, flour, yeast and Kraft singles for grilled sandwiches in the larder, hahaha. Don't worry, I'm not salad-deprived either and have a giant bag of blackberries and a big bag of apples too. Just good planning and good luck! Just waiting for the March Madness checks to add another bag of frozen veggies for the next month. Yesterday, I wacked off an inch or two of my hair.

TPTB put the aerator back in the pond yesterday and trenched the tree beds yesterday, a welcoming sign of spring and incoming summer mulch. I'm so grateful that the winter weather hasn't been worse. Then we'll find the funds over several months to get the soil amendments, seeds, and seedlings for our north 40 inch garden - can't wait to get back into the sun, albeit, out the back door. Yes, things could be much worse or still go to much worse quickly, and I expect that eventually, in a myriad of unknown ways, but perhaps the large first wave of infection will have then passed by my little world.

Yup, my world is genuinely self-limited. It's not at all easy, and I marvel at all the well-funded travel to events around the city and the pay-for-leisure experiences around the globe that has brought "the bug" so close that a great many still need reminders to behave appropriately (wash hands), dress appropriately (tissues/hankies at hand and sequestered after use, maybe gloves/masks), or risk becoming quarantined home bodies like me. In the long view, the Plan B is working well; together, we're going to be very expensive to TPTB. Nothing good ever comes without sacrifice.