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Hopalong:
Ohhhh, so happy to read a vivid description of your town!
I do envy you that kind of environment. RIVER!
And yes, the rubbish and pollution is very sad. Yet moving water
somehow still calms the human psyche. And we can clean it up.
When you walk in the mornings does Son come? Or does he have
a lie-in so you can enjoy a little Tupp-time?
I think morning walks are the BEST, though I just enjoyed a brief
early afternoon one with Pooch. It's absolutely PERFECT here today.
High 60s, sunny, cool but not cold. I've seen and chatted with several
neighbors and have a contact to get the number for a lovely lady up
the way I've chatted with briefly and am positive I'd like to get to know.
Went past her place on a walk a few days ago and she had a whole circle
of about 8 women sitting socially-distanced with masks on in a circle in
the sunshine, knitting. (Got no interest in knitting but DO like the idea
of befriending someone who creates circles like that!)
Happy Sunday to you, Tupp. Now that I've re-involved myself in the church
bit by bit, it's becoming one of the Best Days again. Good faces and good music
via Zoom, but lately even good ftf gatherings. (They're doing a meet-in-the-park-to-talk thing--limited number, masked, 8 feet apart, bring own chair--I want to go to next Sunday afternoon. It'll "fill us all up" a little before the cold closes in.)
hugs
Hops
PS--SEALS? I'm speechless. For no reason I watched several videos last night of this wonderful team of guys who chase seals on the huge beach somewhere (not Galapagos, I forget) where many of them congregate. For the purpose of nabbing the ones that are entangled in fishing lines. They catch them either with a net or by kind of leaping on them to hold them down, and it's amazing how many of the seals calm down and recognize that someone is helping them--even though they have to painfully dig into their necks or flippers with a metal hook and knife to cut the line free which can take quite a few minutes. It's remarkable and heroic. A temporary diversion from dog-rescue videos! Although you'll be pleased to know I've added the cat ones. Check out Hope for Paws on YouTube.
Twoapenny:
Aw I'll keep a look out for seal help videos, Hopsie, I love those videos of people helping animals out and yes, they do seem to know sometimes that someone's trying to help. I keep watching the ones where someone rescues a dog that's been abandoned or badly treated and how they bring them back to life. Amazing what some kindness and TLC will do. The thing that always strikes me is that they get results by letting the dogs do what they need to - if they hide behind the sofa for weeks or only eat food off the floor they let them do that and get comfortable in their own time. I think we should do that more with people. Too much pressure to get fixed within a set time line or in a certain way and it just doesn't work like that. I'll add seal videos to the list!
We don't get many in the river but we do along the coast line and as it's tidal, they do sometimes wander along looking for fish. There is a cafe near one of the beaches here that's very close to the top of the slip way so at high tide the water is inches from the building and they have, on occasion, looked up to see a seal looking in the window which I find very funny. They're beautiful creatures.
The social circles/church groups/distanced chats with neighbours sounds lovely, Hops, I'm so glad you are getting that interaction and have people around you who are taking precautions but also getting out there. I feel more anxious about it here; more people seem to be only taking precautions when they have to (going in to a shop, for example) so I don't feel confident about socialising at the moment. One lady I've seen for coffee a few times as she is being careful as well but other people I know are more or less ignoring it. It's kind of weird. We're averaging 100 deaths a day here again now, which is apparently where we were at a month before we were topping out at a thousand a day in the summer. I get that more people than that die each day under normal circumstances but this is on top of that. If we were seeing planes crashing and losing a hundred a day very few people would be flying. Yet this doesn't seem to elicite the same concern. It's kind of weird but we're just doing our thing so I'm trying not to think about what others are doing just now. I'm glad you've got those opportunities ahead to help get through the winter. I'm experimenting with my SAD lamp; I think I've left it on too long a couple of times as I've ended up going to bed very late so I'm adjusting the times a bit now - a good balance is needed.
I am trying to walk for an hour without son, and then take him out for half an hour later in the day (half an hour is about as much as he can manage without getting too tired). It's funny because we had two days last week where we were out doing things so we did walk about an hour, in short bursts, and I just didn't get the same effect from it that I do from walking for an hour on my own. I think it's the head space that helps. I can leave him for an hour and he's okay; I text my sister when I'm leaving so she knows if she doesn't hear from me that something will have happened and son has his own phone so he can call me if there's a problem, which there hasn't been because basically one he's in front of his computer he doesn't move anyway. I just tell him not to answer the door but apparently you can get a thing on a phone now where you can see who's at the door even if you're out? I'll have to look in to that.
On the subject of door cameras I did watch some clips of YouTube of drunk people trying to get in their own front doors and not being able to manage it. The door cameras pick up what they're doing and it made me laugh so much. One guy was talking to the door asking it nicely to let him in and not to make any noise because he didn't want his wife to know. Funny drunk people make me laugh.
Happy Sunday! Although it's Monday here now so Happy Monday! xx
Hopalong:
Thanks, Tupp.
City plus County are what I check daily. That's basically our metro area--I have as many friends in county neighborhoods as in the city.
Today we have 10 new cases but that bounces around -- a few days ago it was 32. The total case # in these two localities so far is 3,000, with 55 deaths. The curve is heading up.
Happy little joggers blasted close past me on my walk yesterday, huffing and blowing, mask free. Fortunately I'd happened to re-anchor my mask just before I heard them, heading up to greet a gardening neighbor. Unbelievable.
What part of PLUME do they not understand? What part of OUTSIDE IS NOT MAGIC THOUGH IT'S BETTER do they not understand?
I am developing a very getoffmylawn feeling about runners. They can dangle a mask from one ear just as easily as I can, and yank it up when coming up behind a walker. I guess the runners' high means too-high-to-notice-slower-humans. Spit.
Grrrrrr,
Hops
Twoapenny:
I hear you on the joggers, Hopsie! And similarly oblivious people. We've been to the beach today, first time since March. Very careful, masks, hands, took food and drink with us so we didn't need to go in to shops, etc. Beautiful weather, the beach was lovely and most people doing their bit but some, just oblivious. Walking very close or letting their dogs walk the full length of the lead and taking up the pavement, meaning we had to get into the road to get past them. The local authority have tried to organise it so everyone walks on the left, to keep distance more easily so there are signs up and someone has written "Don't be a slave" on the sign that says "Please keep left". How can anyone compare walking to one side (which is what we all do when we drive, right? To avoid crashing into each other?) with slavery? Seriously. I feel so sorry for all the people who are working extra hard, spending money on PPE for their staff, staying in, avoiding family and so on, and wonder how much of that effort is mitigated by people taking no notice. Very demoralising for them. Anyway, it was a nice day but I think next week we might try a different beach as it's usually quieter than that one. Son was very excited though :) xx
Twoapenny:
Death rate in our area just jumped up. Sigh. We're staying in all week as it's half term holidays and the place is full of holiday makers. Just so frustrating, surely people should be staying close to home unless further travel is absolutely essential? Still seem to be so many people who just don't get it.
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