Flypaper thoughts: still in quarantine edition

• Well we still have a pandemic don't we?
• I only hope it doesn't get too bad too fast
• There will be many stories out of this
• Hardships that are invisible
• I am thinking of my friend whose marvellous husband 
• Just went into a memory care facility
• Because he has early onset
• Now she can't go and see him
• I wonder what he thinks
• My mom said to me
• We got through the war, we got through the flood (Winnipeg in the '50s)
• We can do this
• Of course we can
• My first father-in-law was in forced labour in Russia in the war
• He walked back to Hungary in the winter
• How did he do that?
• The secret he said
• Was that he made sure, even if it was with snow
• He washed every day
• Now that was a something
• We are at the end of week one of self-isolation
• Daisy has a ruptured disc in her neck
• So she is on bed rest for a month and a half at least
• She's in the dog stroller in the day and not liking it
• But that's the way it goes
• Ever tried to keep a dog from moving their neck?
• But we can do it
• Main crisis at the moment is the shortage of flour
• My husband is a stress baker
• And I am a stress eater 
• A very successful marriage
• I made a decision to dress every day like I was still going to the office
• I sorted my enormous button collection on Tuesday wearing my pearls
• I knew I had them for some reason
• I had a female boss early on who told me
• If I was going to have a decent career I needed pearls
• Never wore them
• Thought I was too young
• Too matronly for me
• But turns out they are perfect quarantine wear
• So this is what I was saving them for
• Tomorrow I think I am going to put on stockings
• Covid-19 what do you think of that?
• You will be hearing from me again

Flypaper thoughts: quarantine version

• Home now after an odd trip home
• Double time
• In the house for two weeks now
• All good except Daisy
• She has a very bad foot/shoulder
• Trying to do telemedicine with the vet
• If all else fails will have to leave her in the yard 
• And have someone take her in
• Strange times
• My DIL in Berkeley has a a cough
• They aren't tested but she's been told to behave as if she has the virus
• Two front line health care workers here
• And a son and his girlfriend now separated by a border
• Hard when they sail out of your own safe harbour
• Not entirely patient with those who are noncompliant
• We need to get this done
• However
• My neighbour left muffins at the end of the driveway
• My son put his hand to the front window
• My husband is cheerfully stress baking
• I discovered a pattern piece I lost
• I am getting that sock knitted
• I folded the laundry as soon as it came out of the dryer
• I am making sure I wear jewelry and my lipstick every day
• I am using up all those Christmas bath bombs
• And eating peppermint patties
• I had a group chat with four seven-year-olds
• I made a lesson plan for my virtual home schooling
• Bees, capitals of the provinces, and creative writing
• I am modifying my old 4th year writing syllabus
• Work with what you have
• I think later in the week we should do cover letters 
• And how to address an envelope
• 6,8 and10, seems to me to be about time
• I have an idea for fractions with coloured water and measuring cups
• It occurred to me that I am living the life of a '50s housewife without a car in the Canadian winter
• Pretty close to being that person anyway
• Unpacking so I can get sewing
• Need to see those stitches form in a line
• Just want my dog to get better
• Happy with our leaders here
• That matters
• Someone smart I worked with said to me once
• Never stand too close to insanity
• It is contagious
• So true, so true
• I think I will sew small things tomorrow
• Important to sew in different proportions to events
• I am thinking of you
• One day this will be past