TROUBLE...

I had trouble getting back into the blog. The browser kept saying it was unsecured so I had to use some other tactics to finally get back here. 

March was a month to beat all. It started out a great Spring with wonderful warm weather and all the snow GONE. The snow did not show up again either. I was busy getting my spring cleaning in order, while the weather was good. Seems the flowers and leaves are out on the trees really early this year. The whole month I spent trying to get into a place to get a covid shot. No matter where I went I hit a snag. I managed to get on several lists to be called IF and WHEN they got the supplies. Seemed like everyone was getting their shots at the same time. Our clinic called and said ONE AND DONE shots and that made me happy as I would not have to go back again. Not driving it is not easy to go anywhere.

WE got a date of APRIL 14..what a relief.  AND THEN TROUBLE HAPPENED.

I TOOK THE BUS to town on the 26th and two days later I came down sick. The bus informed the public they were shutting down next week for a COVID problem. I immediately called them up. Should the public be concerned since I rode on Friday? They said NO.. I will always wonder,,

AS the days went on I got sicker.. it felt like bronchitis, which I have had at least 50 times in my life. So I did everything I usually do. Seemed to work some but the fever would not pass. The weakness was incredible. I got a call and they would be able to give me a covid shot early.. being sick.. NO WAY I could do it. So disappointed. 

WELL by APRIL 1st I was tired.. I no longer wanted to fight the fever and congestion I decided to go get some antibiotics to help out. 
I THINK YOU KNOW WHAT IS NEXT.......

THEY DID A RAPID TEST AND YES INDEED I HAVE COVID. OR DO I??

I CONSIDER MYSELF LUCKY NOT TO HAVE IT SO BAD I AM HOSPITALIZED. MY horrible lungs due to asthma all my life probably helped the condition along. 

SO I was told to take the meds and go home and sleep and rest. The meds make everything taste horrible and are pretty bad. I have a recheck in 10 days to see how I am progressing.  I have been inside my tiny place for 13 days now. Only time out was the dr. The wiping and spraying of my sisters car and the double masks help. I sure don't want any one else getting it.  IT IS NO JOKE...

I HOPE TO UPDATE IF AND WHEN I GET BACK HERE. I AM NOT POSTING ON FB ETC ONLY HERE, 

STAY WELL GET YOUR SHOTS AND WEAR THE MASK.. IT MIGHT SAVE YOU A WHOLE LOT OF MISERY. 

2021 HOPEFUL AND SPEECHLESS

 

                                      

I had such hope for 2021 knowing that the election was over and all but done and all the upset over who won was done. It was decided. OVER. but what happened on the sixth day into the month of January left me stunned and speechless and tearful. I had come in the house from grocery shopping  and turned on the tv for the local news. What I saw took my breath away. OUR nation's capital building being over run by rioters and protesters determined to get into the building and they did. Hundreds of people rampaged into the building destroying as they went. It was a scene I hope to never see again. If you lived in another country it might be normal to see such a thing. The talk of revolution and riots are normal. The world is dealing with a pandemic now though and things are calmer than they used to be. 

It is now FEBRUARY...Biden is president and Trump has been impeached and is on trial. It's a process I know. They are all reliving the nightmare that happened that day in the Capital building. Clearly as the senators etc. give their testimony you can see what the whole ordeal did to them. They were so very close to being in real life threatening situations. The guard is still standing around and so are the gates that were installed around the building. Life is still going on inside the Pandemic that we are under. They put speed on vaccines to help us fight. Some are getting shots others are still waiting and some refuse completely. Some people in the  United States of America don't  seem to be the ones though that are sure of the whole virus thing they believe it is not true even though hundreds of THOUSANDS are dying. 

I shake my head and wonder just what they are thinking. They just cannot see the dangers that are evident. The winter goes on..the whole country it seems is now in really cold temps. Spring will come in less than 40 days and with it the hope that we turn a corner into getting back our lives. 

TWAS COVID...

 T'was 3 sleeps before Christmas, and all through the town, people wore masks, that covered their frown.  The frown had begun way back in the spring when a global pandemic changed everything.  They called it corona, but unlike the beer, It didn’t bring good times, it didn’t bring cheer.  Airplanes were grounded, travel was banned. Borders were closed across air, sea, and land.  As the world entered lockdown to flatten the curve, the economy halted, and folks lost their nerve.  From March to July we rode the first wave, people stayed  home, they tried to behave.  When summer emerged the lockdown was lifted, but away from caution, many folks drifted.  Now it’s December and cases are spiking, wave two has arrived, much to our disliking.  It’s true that this year has had sadness a-plenty, we’ll never forget the year 2020.  And just ‘round the corner - The holiday season, but why be merry? Is there even one reason?  To decorate the house and put up the tree, who will see it, no one but me.  But outside my window, the snow gently falls, and I think to myself, Let’s deck the halls!  So, I gather the ribbon, the garland, and bows, as I play those old carols, my happiness grows.  Christmas is not canceled and neither is hope. If we lean on each other, I know we can cope!

DECEMBER 2020

DECEMBER 2020

                                         

What a year it has been.. I have so many feelings about 2020.

I put angels on this post because we as a country and world have lost so 

many souls this year due to this horrible virus COVID. Angels were

here one minute and days later gone. Families in shock and just 

left empty. I pray that in 2021 we will begin to heal and come back in some way

to a more calm life. I know some will be changed forever. Our service workers and 

medical doctors and nurses have had a very hard year. May 2021 be better for us

all.  

 

SEPTEMBER 2020

 SEPTEMBER

                                               

                                            What A MONTH.... It seemed at times like it was never going to end. Full of hurricanes and earthquakes, fires, pandemic and upheaval all over the country and world. I was afraid to even see the news on tv each day because it just got worse. Certainly not like any other September I have lived through. Remember those days???  The ones where all you worried over was the winter to come and how bad it might be? Did you get all your leaves raked up etc. Simple days of no worries about the world and its problems. 

I sure miss those days. Will it ever ever get back to those days. My opinion is NO. Things have changed the world is all different now and we will never see those days again. That sounds so negative but it's what I think. We will someday get back to NOT having to wear masks. Might take a year or two. I just don't think that our days of violence in the streets will be over for a long time. The winter weather might stop some of it but it will not go back to the way things were before. 

For me, I am grateful I have not been sick. I got my flu shot and was told it would maybe help but they have no idea how effective it will be this year with Covid around. We are smarter now wearing masks and keeping cleaner.. so maybe FLU will not be as bad. I guess we just wait and see. 

One of my best friends has NOW moved outside the state of California and I am ever so glad. Living in the fire zones was so stressful. Now that it is yearly and not seasonal.. it just was so scary every single day there. One of our tenants moved this month and we will miss him here. He was here 3 years. Sad because he said he did not want to move but HAD to. They increased the rent and he needed to be in a place he could afford. I totally understand where he is coming from. I hope it never happens to me. Moving around as much as I have in my life and then being without a home for 3 years.. well this is home now and I do not want to move again. 

Well must wrap this up.. another month down. Where ever you are I hope you are well and safe.