Wednesday, March 18th 2020

Day Two:

I got out of bed at 5 am, made coffee and read the news. Things are tightening up all over the country and the world because of the virus. Canada and the US closed the border to each other, New York City is tightening down more than it had, and two more counties in the San Francisco Bay Area have imposed shelter-in-place orders to all of its citizens. These eight counties are the only ones in the US, at present, to require shelter-in-place.

Well, the Sun came up and the birds were singing, Erin is at the kitchen table reading a Dean Koontz novel and I am writing this.

We took our hour-long walk while it was sprinkling. With rain we saw less people out, but there were a few. We got home at about noon and Erin did our finances online. Our amazing luck  continued financially when she told me that my first Social Security Check had been deposited into our account. I put a pork tenderloin in the crock-pot and washed the dishes. I sat down to catch-up on our new surreal world and nodded off till the cat woke me with her constant meowing. So much for the nap. I am going to quit writing for now and clean out another closet. Wish me luck!

The closet was pretty much a success, one more day in there and I should have enough room to open the boxes under the stairs in the lower part of the house. These are boxes of personal items I haven’t seen in almost twenty years. Wow! This was to be my first project when I retired, but due to unforeseen circumstances, like a pandemic, I am able to practice being a retired man. I only have a little over three months left, and if things don’t get better out there this could be my final curtain as a regular working stiff. As my mother used to say, “we shall see what we shall see.”

The pork tenderloin turned out great. It was rubbed with brown sugar and I roasted it with apple slices in the crock pot. With the split pea soup I made yesterday, and the pork today we have a few days meals ready to go. Hurrah! At least so far I’m not bored.