Sunday, April 12, 2020

Well, spring break is over, and it never really began. We continue to shelter in place. Which is getting really boring. Alex and Missy were on spring break this past week; we went nowhere, except out for ice cream a couple times and to the trails a couple times. It was nice in the middle of the week but it got lousy outside for the weekend, just to be nasty....I finished up a set of 2 cloth masks for everyone early last week from that pattern we found online. I also made one for each of the neighbor ladies, and ones for Judy and Neill. And since we usually have a spring break vacation, we all put our masks on and took a family selfie on the lawn in front of the house (our "vacation house").....Since that project is done, we've turned to painting Missy's bedroom. We've been telling her we're going to do it for a while now, so it seemed a good time. She picked out the colors, a pale yellow and an almost Carolina blue. It actually looks a lot like the nursery colors Beth and I did the room in when the kids were born, but we're not telling her that. Instead of blue on the lower half of the room and yellow on the upper, Missy picked a yellow accent wall (the wall with the window) and the rest of the walls all blue. It does look less little-girly than the pink and green that it was. Unfortunately the yellow does not cover the green very well so at this moment there are 3 coats and green still shows through a bit.....Beth and I have been doing a lot of cross-stitching this past week.....Virus-wise, things still aren't horrible here (I think we're up to 18 cases and 1 death in the county now) but still no sign that things will be back to normal any time soon. In fact, my company is trying hard to make sure nobody permanently loses their job due to this, but we're all being asked to take a 20% pay cut effective immediately, and the plant is going to do a 2-week shutdown starting Monday. The grocery stores seem to be getting back to normal-er, although I've been very surprised at how few people are wearing masks when they go out to the stores.