Dave and I were playing cards for awhile this afternoon with TV on the background. Ellen Degeneres was doing her show from home.....another adaptation because of our dystopian now. I said to him....in the future we will have a new meaning for the abbreviation "BC". This will no longer be a biblical reference, it will stand for Before COVID. We will use it when we talk about how life was before this virus swarmed the earth and changed everything for everyone.
We've tried to have a sort of routine and certainly I can't complain as we are comfortable in our condo overlooking Lake Michigan. We watch some TV, we have a puzzle going on the dining room table, I make baby quilts for area hospital NICUs, we walk the dog, we read, we play cards, we talk to friends, we clean house and empty drawers to reorganize them. Last night we even played Farkle on Zoom with friends who live in New Hampshire and it was fun!
And I make masks since we are now told to wear them when we are out in public. Not that they will really provide much, if any, protection but if we have the virus but no symptoms they may keep us from infecting others. So since I like to use my sewing machine and I do have quite a bit of fabric I make masks. I've made two for Dave and me, seven to send to my sister and her kids/families in Chicago, about a dozen for my condo neighbors and then I got a call from VITAS Hospice.
I worked at VITAS for about five years and retired in 2010. It was nice to hear from my boss and to catch up other than on Facebook. She was responding to an offer I'd made a few weeks ago and asking if I could make masks for their staff and some of the caregivers. Yes.
It's nice to feel you are doing something when you can't really do anything.
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