Coronavirus Daze

So, our Squeaky cat passed away relatively peacefully in the early hours of Monday, June 22, at about 2:15 a.m. So Monday was an absolutely wretched day. I managed to get her into the ground after my Monday morning Zoom meeting with United Way. I had a cement paver placed on top of the gravesite, it's at the corner o. f the garage and house, the edge of the front garden area. I've painted the paver white and will be painting something else on it, not sure what yet exactly, I had in mind a sort of picture of herself, but we'll see. At least her name and dates of birth and death, roughly. It's amazing how quiet it is here, even though we still have three cats, and she certainly was not one of the most vocal or active among them.  The next evening I kept seeing her in the living room circling the coffee table, as she often did. I didn't actually see her but I kept catching movement on the floor out of the corner of my eye. That's faded now. I hope she is at peace, ...

So it's Robert's 70th birthday and we can't go out to dinner to celebrate. We will eat leftover soup tonight, and Robert will take part in his first ever video call with Liz and Chad. Sunday we get crabs and more at Kim's place. Actually, technically we could go out to a restaurant, because our disappointing governor is allowing restaurants to open back up at 50 percent capacity. I think the last place I would want to go is to a restaurant, where you must remove your mask to eat.  Ok, not the last place. The last place would be an arena somewhere, packed with people. Like a concert.Oor a political rally. No way. It's a sad statement when an incumbent president asks his followers to sign a waiver agreeing not to hold him or his campaign responsible if they get sick with coronavirus because of their attendance at his political rally. Ugh.  Her at home we have our miracle cat still with us. Today she's eaten a decent amount of food, been awake and alert and on the ...

As I lose track of the hours, days, weeks, today I read a news story based on an interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci, who said this pandemic has exceded his worst nightmare, but who also offered some hope by saying that he's very confident that one or more of the vaccines being tested now will work. I believe that even if this virus is dampened down to the level of a seasonal flu (not in severity but in spread and outbreaks and availability of an effective vaccine), perhaps we will be able to return to some kind of semblance of normal. I've been thinking about what our future holds if it doesn't settle into something more normal, something in which we can begin to gather in groups without fear of immediately stoking another outbreak, risk our lives to attend a graduation party or a birthday celebration, or perhaps just a Sunday worship service. Yes, it's come down to that.  And if we cannot get to that point, imagine the industries that will be affected. There's the ob...