“I didn’t want normal until I didn’t have it anymore”
Lovely is the perfect word to describe today. It is dry and pleasant with a bright sun, a blue sky and a slight breeze. The temperature is 71˚. This is going to be a stay home and read day. I have nothing pressing.
Writing Coffee isn’t easy in these days of being housebound. Cleaning has been a big topic. It is about the only way I keep busy. Laundry too has had its day in the sun so to speak. As for today, I’m going to water the plants. I’ll rest in between moving from room to room.
When I bought my house, my mother brought down some stuff she had saved from my childhood. I have three Fanny Farmer rooster egg cups in a bright cheery yellow. Some of the beaks are missing, but they were missing when I was young. The small white chair came from one of my father’s uncles. My mother said he made it for me when I was three. Right now a doll I had sits on the chair. The doll is wearing red overalls and a pattern shirt. The overalls have a patch. The doll has yellow braids. I was not a doll person, but I liked this one because it isn’t one of those dolls with puffy dresses and a hole in its mouth for a bottle. My mother also brought down all my childhood books like The Bobbsey Twins, Trixie Belden, Donna Parker and Nancy Drew. I bought a small bookcase and filled it with all those books. That they are in wonderful condition is because I loved books and took special care when I was reading them. I bought many of the Whitman hard cardboard cover books with my allowance. They were 49¢ which gave me a whole penny to spend. Back in those days, even the lowly penny had value.
Massachusetts starts Phase 2 today which the governor calls cautious. It is a huge step. So many places are opening it seems almost normal, but it isn’t even close. Kids can play sports and go to playgrounds. Hotels, pools, funeral homes and so much more have the green light to open. My favorite, though, is personal services can start. That includes house cleaners. Halleluia!
In maybe three weeks, the next phase will begin as long as there is no spike of new cases. That phase is called vigilant. Three or so weeks after that begins the last phase, the new normal, but I think phase 4 needs a different name. Nothing about this is normal.
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June 8, 2020 at 4:50 pm
Hi Kat,
We’ve been out for over a month when Texas began opening up the economy. We are at stage 3 and it’s a new normal. Things like getting your hair cut while wearing a face mask, standing six feet apart in lines to checkout, no free sample foods at Costco and drivers being especially rude. The number of new cases has risen the last few days in Dallas County. However, I don’t know if the increase is due to more contagious infections or more testing.
Most of my kid stuff didn’t make it to NYC when my mother died when I was 13. My father either threw away or sold most of my stuff when he sold the house after my mother, sister and I flew to NYC. I teased him for years afterwards about how valuable my baseball cards and Lionel trains had become. 🙂
Clear and hot again. Tomorrow we should break the century mark.
June 8, 2020 at 6:06 pm
Hi Bob,
Governor Baker went slowly as well he should. We had a huge number of cases and deaths all due to Biogen and their meeting in Boston with what turned out to be infected people. It spread fast.
We haven’t had any deaths the last few days so it was time to move to Phase 2. There are spikes in states which opened early and allowed everything. I don’t have any sympathy. They made the choice.
My family moved from the Cape when I was in Ghana. My mother saved what she could but stuff which had been stored in the cellar was gone. Come to find out the cellar flooded and destroyed my stuff. I had prints for which I had paid good money. Stuff happens!
Great day today!
June 8, 2020 at 7:08 pm
Of course things happen, however it was still fun to tease him. In about 1970 my dad had a friend who had a girlfriend. She wanted to give her boyfriend an 18 kt. gold Rolex President watch for his birthday. My dad had a customer in the valley in McAllen who could buy those watches at cost with Mexican made gold bracelets for about $600. They were genuine Swiss Rolex’s but the bracelet was made in Mexico. I suggested he should buy a few and put them in a safe deposit box because they might be valuable someday. He didn’t buy them because watches don’t make interest. Today used ones are worth over $10,000. I teased him about those also. 🙂
June 8, 2020 at 7:16 pm
I agree. I’d tease my dad whenever I could. He’d do the same.
I’d tease him too for losing all that money. All he had to do was buy a couple and be patient.