“Home is a shelter from storms-all sorts of storms.”
The sun is partially hidden. I’ll take it. Even partial sun is an improvement. North of us will get snow tonight. My sister in Colorado got six inches from the same storm which is on its way here. Well, not here on the Cape but around the Boston area and out west. We’ll have rain and a cold night.
Television and radio would be the notifiers if this pandemic happened when I was a kid. The fire alarm would blow the no school announcement, and mothers in their frantic search to find out what was happening would fill and block the phone lines. TV, radio and newspapers were the information guides back then. My mother would go shopping with my father to fill the larder. We’d stay home. Books, board games and the TV would be our pastimes. We’d get bored. We’d even miss going to school.
I miss people. Talking on the phone isn’t enough. Despite having lots to do to occupy my time and attention, I seem to be slowing down a bit, not as much enthusiasm as I had at the beginning of all of this.
I have been watching black and white science fiction movies mostly from the 50’s. I’ve found them on Tubi, YouTube and Prime. I even ordered a couple hoping we’ll have a movie night some time in July when it’s warm.
The first summer movie is usually an epic. Last year it was Robin Hood. The rest of the summer movies are usually B science fiction movies. One of my new ones is Tarantula. The other is the Monolith Monsters. I also have a few more we haven’t seen. I’m still wanting to show Lady in White, one of the films we didn’t get to last year. Pop that corn!! Summer’s coming!!
Yesterday I never did get my fish and chips. I also didn’t get my second choice, a cheeseburger and fries. I did bring my laundry from the cellar up two flights to my room. The laundry had been in the dryer for a couple of weeks so this is big. I also did another laundry now in the dryer. As for the food, the on-line order page would not recognize my street address. I was flummoxed. I called and was told by a disembodied voice there was a long wait time so I should e-mail. I did and got a generic reply from DoorDash. It was suggested I check the Q&A pages. I was not happy. This is an interesting approach from Door Desk. Do nothing and suggest more of nothing. I still want fish and chips.
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April 17, 2020 at 2:05 pm
Hi Kat,
I thought you had a hanker’in, a Texas expression, for scallops? But fish and chips is also good. When I visited the U.K. I was disappointed in their version of Fish and Chips. I guess I was used to Long John’s Silver’s fast food fish and chips. The fried fish was ok, but they served it with mashed up green tasteless field peas. 😦 Before I went to the U.K. the first time, I had three misconceptions about the British. “Warm beer, bad food and ugly woman”. The first two were true but I saw some beautiful ladies. 🙂
Texting has pretty much replaced talking on the phone. Sometimes you need the verbal communication to be perfectly clear. I don’t know why FaceTime hasn’t caught on more? A lot of communication is through body language and facial communication.
Today is cloudy and cooler with rain in the forecast for the weekend.
April 17, 2020 at 2:18 pm
Hi Bob,
The place that was still opened didn’t, for some reason, have a scallop plate. Fish and chips would have been a great second choice. I’m going to try in a bit, earlier than I had checked last night. and I’m hoping the second place is open.
Around here you’ll usually find great fish and chips. My mother always ordered shrimp when she visited. I like them all. My mother wouldn’t eat clams. She thought the bellies were gross. I thought the idea of clams without bellies is gross.
I once in a while FaceTime my Colorado family. I don’t text as much as the do.
The sun has stopped appearing. It even looks cold.
April 17, 2020 at 5:51 pm
Hi Kat,
My second load of laundry is still down in the dryer. I’ll get around to it eventually. Probably when I run out of clean underwear up here. 😀
I’m not missing people. I can sit on my front porch step and talk to neighbors that might walk by at the legal social distance. There’s a lot of that still happening because there are a lot of dogs in my neighborhood and most of them need to be walked. I am missing my friends. They don’t live in my neighborhood or even in my town and we can’t get together these days.
The sun is totally gone up here and it looks exactly like it’s intending to snow. The snowblower is in the cellar but the shovel is still on the front porch. I’m no fool and April is the cruelest month.
Enjoy the day.
April 17, 2020 at 8:25 pm
Hi Caryn,
My laundry is still downstairs. The way things are going I won’t need those clothes for months. They can just stay in the dryer.
I miss game night. That was always fun, and I miss the jibing. The only sound on my street is the noise of the basketball hitting the pavement. The boys down the street are playing most days.
It was an ugly day. It will be ugly weather the next few days. I’ve stopped minding.
April 18, 2020 at 3:21 pm
Basket ball hitting pavement is the sound of summer on my street. There are hoops at both ends and they are heavily used. The one at the dead end even has a light. Fancy.
April 18, 2020 at 3:27 pm
The hoop is on the post beside the house with 3 boys and a girl. Even one of the boys will be shooting hoops and dribbling in between. I usually acknowledge what I’m hearing then fall back to sleep.
April 17, 2020 at 6:52 pm
Sunny T-shirt and shorts and barefoot weather here. I still enjoy this kind of vacation, bike trips, no appointments and no people 🙂
For a change I watch TV this evening, first the Joan Baez film with Mimi and others and now a concert from her farewell tour with old and new songs recorded in France. I’ve already seen both but it’s always nice to watch it again. Old heroes, I would probably be a different person now if I hadn’t discovered her music and more when I was young.
April 17, 2020 at 8:31 pm
Birgit,
You’d freeze here. It was sweatshirt weather. It is going to snow north of me tonight while I’ll get more rain. It will be the same for the next few days. Rain and more rain here.
There are cars near the supermarkets, but beyond that parking lot there are few cars. People are staying home. Massachusetts was hard hit.
I think I was 11 or 12 when I first heard Joan Baez. The purity of he voice hooked me from the beginning.