I’m just kidding; there is no update here. I’m so sick of getting updates on this virus from everyone and his brother. There’s no good news yet and no one knows how long it will take to get to the good news. So we’re all settling into a new reality.
Here’s my reality. I wake up at the same time as always, but now I take my temperature. A little exercise, then brush teeth, take Purl for as long a walk as we can stand, then home for breakfast for Purl and coffee for me. A little time at the computer, reading the NY Times digital edition and usually getting mad or sad at the whole mess, and then as I work my way down the page, feeling guilty that my isolation is not as interesting or productive or educational or creative as the NYT seems to think it should be.
Then, with a promise that I’m only going to spend 30 minutes on this, I steel myself to move something that hasn’t been moved in 10 years and clean behind it and/or under it. After I have sufficiently horrified myself for the day, it’s time for lunch and a shower and another walk with Purl, which takes us to late afternoon, which means a glass of wine for me and a cheesie-bone for Purl. We all need our treats.
Dinner, a rousing game of ball with Purl, knitting and Netflix, one more quick walk, and to bed to read a little and finis.
When the CDC announced their recommendation for wearing masks in public the other day, I couldn’t sleep until I had figured out how to knit one. I have a sewing machine, but no skill, so I didn’t think that was an option, and besides, I always prefer to wear knits when I can. I came up with a nice pattern that’s fun to make and uses just about 50 yd of fingering-weight yarn, which we all have in our stashes.
It’s still ugly but we’ll have to get used to seeing people like this:
I’m putting it up on the free pattern page for you to download if you don’t have anything better to do. If you make it, send me a picture, and please let me know of any problems that you may find!
It looks like we’re in this for a long time. I really must do better. What can I do to spice up my essay “What I Did during the Coronavirus Shutdown”? Other people will talk about the calming, the cleansing, the chakras they beefed up, the muscles they acquired, the work they got done, the things they taught their kids at home, the breads they baked, the art they made, the novel they wrote. I will have 25 new sweaters and a rear end as big as all outdoors.
Miss you, love you, take care of yourselves!
