Monday, April 6th 2020
Day Twenty-One:
I got up at 3:30, made Peets, and started on my blog right away, now I’ll read the news.
The news from multiple sources is saying that the virus rate in New York City has stabilized at least for the moment. I believe that we should be very vigilant during this time. People who have cabin fever are likely to take this as a sign that they can let down their guard, now is not the time for that. Everyone should hold to at least hunkering down until the end of the month. The slowdown for one day does not at all mean we are out of the woods. On the contrary I think now is the time to lock ourselves up even tighter for the next two-weeks. I also feel we should refrain from going shopping at all if possible until April 30th. We need to kick this things ASS. Stay at home and only go out for exercise, and stay away from people, and wear your homemade MASKS.
Time for a walk…
We walked 3 1/2 miles today. I am felling much more comfortable in the mask, it will be a bit of a pain in the butt when the warmer weather hits. Petty much the same people were on the track today. We seem to be a community that shows up daily to walk and run together. We are all good at keeping our distances.
Erin is doing laundry, and bleaching the bathrooms.
We have been looking for a source of 100% cotton cloth for Erin to make masks out of for Jessica’s hospital in Santa Rosa. I found a brand new dress shirt that I bought a few years ago that I never wore, it’s 100% cotton. Everything else in my closet that was new, or nearly so, had polyester in it. They want you to use 100% cotton.
I remembered that back on day one of our stay-at-home I had cleaned out my closet of stuff to throw away or put in bags to go to Goodwill. In my tiny brain I had forgotten that those bags had been put in our van to be taken away later. I checked one bag and found three brand-new shirts and a pair of pajamas that were 100% cotton. Score!
Erin’s been trying to find material online with no luck. I went on Amazon and found 100% cotton sheets and ordered a California King sheet and it’s on the way, it will arrive Sunday. Score again!
Erin sewed the three masks she made for Us and Debbie by hand. We remembered that we had my Mom’s Elna sewing machine in a closet upstairs. It is now on the table in the dinning room waiting for Erin to see if it works. UPDATE: It works and there are plenty of needles and a good start on thread. She sewed a test piece and it turned out great!
Some day the making of masks will be remembered like duck-and cover drills at school, and bomb shelters during the Cold War.
I am going to see what’s going on with my 401k from work, and whether there is anything left of it with the economy tanked the way it is. Wish me luck!!
I dealt with the people that handle my 401k, they were great, and amazingly it had a decent amount of money in it. I put it in a totally secure account. That means it can’t be hurt by the stock market. I am so relieved!
We had dinner, Erin knitted and I watched the Beatles on YouTube…
I decided to call our cable company again after not being able to get through the other day. I got through at just after 8 pm and got our bill down by twenty-two dollars. That will work!
I am just about ready for bed. Goodnight…