The weather will be much better today. Yesterday it snowed. And snowed. And snowed.
This morning I realized there is no such thing as simply getting up and making a cup of coffee. First, the chicks needed fed and watered, the mouthy and loud Tiger wanted fed, the barn cat was pawing at the door to be fed....then there is Romeo....sigh...I got my cup of coffee finally.
My husband and I went to the "Big City" and did a supply run for us and for her. We picked up her favorite wine too. The greenhouse did not have sweet potato slips in yet, so that was one stop we didn't need to do. Mom was smiling this delivery, so she is doing better now.
Other news:
Our statewide shut-in order will lift after May 1st. They are setting us free. Sort of. There will be three phases of opening places. Each "phase" is minimum 14 days, and if all goes well, school open back up in phase 2 (so that passes their prom date). The Ohio Bike Week was postponed.
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We had our first Click and Collect delivery yesterday. We had to wait 3 weeks for it but have managed by ordering some meat from our butcher (kerbside collection) and phoned in greengrocery order to collect too. Our eldest daughter lives with us so has to go out and do the pick ups.
Meanwhile, much gardening being done here, and we now know how much chocolate is needed to see us through between Click and Collect shops!!
When does it stop snowing with you and Spring arrives? We rarely get snow. 2010 was the last year when we had an appreciable amount.
I remember weeks and weeks being snowbound, unable to go to school or to the store or to get propane or coal delivery. I remember at least once, perhaps twice, the National Guard dropped a pallet of food for us in our back pasture by helicopter that my sister and I were trying to bring in, but the neighbor man showed up on his horse and pulled it to the back door to us. It was surplus food. The kind military eat. But we were glad to get it. And I remember one time we had run out of coal altogether, and Mom put Army blankets over the doors to the kitchen and lit the propane oven, praying we wouldn't run out of propane too.
Then Dad showed up with a tow truck pulling the coal truck and the propane truck from a church about a mile away. What a relief that was because it was getting scary. Then he started a fire in the coal furnace, and had to hop back in the truck with the tow truck driver to get back into town so he could go to work each day.
But then I also remember the magic of snow, beautiful snow, falling at least one time on Christmas Eve, and several children who no longer worried how Santa was going to get to our house with presents. Memories. Just memories.
Let's take our minds off the virus, as much as we can, and remember the good times, for that's what will carry us through this most of all.
God bless.
RB
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