What a week.
The first seven days of April have seen the cases of COVID-19 rise along with the death toll. 38 confirmed in Pitt County, with one fatality. Lowe's is still open, but with new entrance and exit patterns to prevent people form concentrating in one spot for too long. Publix put tape on the floor to demarcate the six foot distance rule, and Walmart has closed its garden entrance along with the pharmacy entrance as well. I did not enter the lone open entrance. I had my groceries and was just looking to pick up some Black Kow for the garden. Lowe's was out of it. It was surreal to see the Greenville Mall parking lot virtually empty on a Monday morning. Our small town feels smaller though there is still quite a bit of truck traffic on the road. More and more people wearing masks in the supermarket.
We have two cats now. Jen was yearning and since we were to be home for a long stretch, it seemed a good time to bond with two young male felines. Didi and Gogo. They come from Dr. Kuhn of East Carolina Veterinary Group. They were rescued from a "bad situation" when just months old and have lived for the most part at the vets. Their original names are Fester and Gomez after Addams Family characters. The one's nickname was Gogo. So we changed the unappealing name of Fester to Didi after the characters in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.
If these are not absurd times...
We here are all healthy and hunkered down for the moment. Jen is working from home and I am taking a slower, more methodical approach to the gardens around the house. Keeping myself busy, praying for all my friends and family around the globe dealing with damage caused by this horrific event.
Please be safe. I feel confident the good and true nature of humanity is working diligently for facts which will support the easing of this restrictive lock down.
Until then, if you can, make the most of this brief pause.
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