Saturday, April 25, 2020

Tales of COVID-19, Episode 3

Here are the numbers for the past 2 weeks: From April 10 to April 23, COVID-19 cases in Massachusetts, Middlesex county, and Lexington increased from 21,000 to 43,000, 4,400 to 10,000, and 47 to 218. Rate of change has flattened and numbers day-on-day are slowly decreasing.

Grandma Joan made us all a batch of cloth masks. Right before COVID times I watched the HBO series "Watchmen", which has a theme about why people wear masks.  Their masks were better and their reasons more complicated than ours: not to spread germs.

Without cousins to join in the fun, Caroline prepared an Easter quest for her sisters

Solid chocolate bunnies!

Tessie's schoolwork often requires adult participation

We had a 2-inch snowfall on April 18th

If you were to go into battle wielding one musical instrument, which would you choose? Woodwinds and strings are pretty flimsy, and brass are kind of bulky. Could a harp fire arrows? Or would the angry fluter conquer all?

We hiked around Walden Pond and finally saw Thoreau's house site. He wished to live deliberately, which is made easier when your Momma still does your laundry and hot meals are on the table 10 minutes away.

  The rusty barbed wire fences ringing the trails cast a buzzkill on the simple wonders of the nature

Here's a luxury of COVID days: the extra time to make grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup to feed all 6 of us.

One day all the baby dolls in the house came back to life

And Erin constructed a bigger horse

Caroline's Earth Day signs

This is my favorite


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Snow one day


and sun the next

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