The end of a Covid April

The new normal is weirdly ok in many respects, for us.
Every week day I come downstairs, if the weather is good, I walk the dogs and then start my work day, right here:

I am in reality living the working from home dream.
I have a lovely breakfast every day of homemade bread toasted with eggs and then a slice with jam. Lately due to my low iron levels I eat spinach too, I eat spinach in as many things as I can. Thankfully I rather like it.

I have discovered how to make greek yogurt, out of necessity as everyone was eating it and it was getting expensive. I also make cookies as Lily practically inhales them and bread as that too costs a lot for something thats not that good. We invested in a new breadmaker that makes bread and yogurt and I dont believe I will ever buy bread, cookies or greek yogurt again.

I go to the barn in my time slot where only three are allowed at any given time and hang out with Ducky, sometimes we ride, sometimes I loose school him to work out energy and to be able to watch him move. I try to keep it all low risk as I dont want to invite a trip to the ER.

Lately the weather has been gorgeous but the last couple of days its been snowing and cold.

I have also started growing my own food, I have sugar snap peas, lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, celery, carrots and cucumber started, some more successful than others. Yesterday I ate my own lettuce for the first time ever.

Apart from worrying where this may take us financially, how it may end or what the new normal would look like, how Bahama Bay will fare among other things, I am just wondering onwards.

Paul is working one week on and two weeks off in a rotational shift, in his home weeks hes spring cleaning and making things with what we may already own as we hoard money every way possible.

The girls are learning in Google classrooms and missing their friends but keeping it positive and we have started takeout Friday to have something cool each week.
Lately a family trip to the local A&W has been a highlight.

The dogs and I are restricted to this neighbourhood as I dont wish to risk any fines and we are online grocery shopping including our meat from Snowy River Farms which has been a dream of mine for a while, eating healthy guilt-free meat is blissful. The idea of happy animals being the basis of my food makes such a difference.

Unfortunately a week and a half ago a man who I refuse to name took the lives of 22 people in  13.5 hour shooting and arson rampage. The whole province is reeling and the country feels it. For us it was half an hour of crazy and then it was over. It still doesnt feel real although for the families affected it is painfully real. For me, I no longer emotionally respond to police cars the same way.

The Coronavirus

Its three weeks into my working from home new life. Like the rest of the world I too am getting used to the Covid-19 threat and what it means to this home and our life.
For us, the lucky ones, it means me working from home, hubby working 7 day on, 14 days home shifts, the girls starting e-learning and massive restrictions to our outdoor life.
We have to go one at a time to the grocery stores where sometimes items are limited, tape is on the floor and staff are behind plexiglass.
I have a two hour slot at the barn most days where I ride Ducky. I can walk the dogs and as a family we can walk in our neighbourhood.
We cannot go to state parks, beaches or walk in new places as we risk a fine. We cannot see friends.

Companies around us are pulling back or shutting down as the world continues to change. Gas is at 64c a litre and I have no idea when I can get my glasses changed now I have broken the frames. I am waiting to see if new ones might arrive as the manufacturer has shut down.

For others they battle their very lives as we see daily on the news as globally this coronavirus takes hold. Frightening numbers of infections and death by country.  For some people, the homeless, the less fortunate countries this is very bad indeed. For our seniors, those with less than perfect health and even healthy people - this is dire and life threatening, and life ending.

Its all come to this in mere weeks.

I wonder where we go from here.

Meanwhile I have learnt to make bread and cookies to take care of our bank accounts, and am growing salad in the window sill of the spare room as its still cool outside. The pets are overjoyed at our continued presence at home and I check in with friends and family around the world as often as I can.
I wear PJs to keep clothes good and have a whole new routine including a morning workout every single day before working to try to address the newly painful pelvis I seem to have acquired.

This virus seems to be bringing out the empathy in the empaths and the jerk behaviour of the jerks. Many still dont believe its "a thing" which blows my mind.