Today I baked a double batch of chocolate chip cookies, I broke them into bags of 5 to distribute to the neighbors and the shopping ladies. I doubled a few for the people that had families. I also delivered to a friend that lives near by outside the neighborhood.Its fun to meet the people, even for just a few minutes, today I met Jerry who is 87 the boy-friend of one of the grocery ladies (age 84) and said he worked for the Ed Sulivan show and brought the Beatles and other foreign groups to the US to be on the show, he said he knew Brian Epstein the Beetles manager. He was a character and will be interesting to know him after this emergency is over.
- Text from one of the grocery ladies “Thank you so much for the delicious cookies. Jerry and I enjoyed them. You are the best!”
I ran again yesterday, 5 miles again with a good pace.
This emergency is dragging on too long, why there is not a plan to do some kind of testing, even sampling so we can have an idea of what we have out there. With the rate of new infections going down it seems that the unaffected people are in the majority.
Since we have what we need and I am able to get out frequently and our income is secure we have not been terribly affected, except for limitations caused by the distance rules or the shut down, possible summer vacation interruption. You can understand the frustration people feel and can understand the protests to open things up.
Here’s to my wish for improvement in the statistics so that we can begin to see signs of the return to normal or some form of normal life.
I wish you all can find the good out there!!