Sunday, May 24, 2020

Tales of COVID-19, Episode 5

We are through weeks 8 and 9 of the shutdown and case numbers are dropping. After 34K new cases in MA for weeks 6-7, weeks 8-9 had 16K for a total of 91K. We finally lost our #3 status in US cases to Illinois and then California passed us. Our county dropped from 7,300 new cases to 2,700, totaling 20K. Our town had 45 new cases summing to 302. The remaining school year is only 4 more weeks and summer camps have been cancelled left and right, leaving us wondering how to manage the summer months.

Erin attended her first virtual birthday party. The family arranged for each kid to receive a make-your-own-pizza kit. Cool idea!

Grandma Lu received her first haircut in the Taft Ave salon

Orioles were to be found everywhere and we consumed 2 boxes of Oreos

Not all iPad time is a brain drain. There is drawing 

and photo altering

and very strange symmetry operations

Grandma Joan's stylish caps and masks arrived

For the dry stretch of Memorial Day weekend, we set up the backyard tent

and creekstomped for the first time of the year because 


finally the temp hit 80 degrees

Our local ice cream place was open for takeout

and our favorite fancy dinner restaurant announced permanent closure. We took their offer to patrons to empty their larder of charcuterie and wine

We finally relented on the girls pleas for backyard entertainment. Apparently the hosta aren't company enough. Trampolines and treehouses wouldn't fit, but this hanging "tree pod" did the trick. 

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