April Over

And April bites the dust.  I can’t speak for anyone else, but the whole month seems to have gone buy in a blur.  The only thing that sticks out is that we had a chilly weather and rain during the first two weeks of the month.  Lately it has been as if summer arrived.

There was virtually no period of adjustment for the three cats.  They seemed to feel at home the day after they moved in.  There was no adjustment for me either. I think it feels more normal to have animals than to be without them.

It feels like normal to wait in line outside of Trader Joe’s now and I have no problem wearing a mask.  Until I think about how weird this all is.  I was flipping through TV shows and there was Mrs. Fletcher coming out of an elevator filled with people. She didn’t seem concerned at their closeness.  Not long ago, none of us were.

I am using the time home to go through stuff including some of the old journals I have.  Honestly, most of what I wrote is boring and my handwriting is hard to read, but still I’m struck how what has happened in the last two months would have been impossible to predict.

My grandson came over this week.  It’s the first time I’ve seen him in person since the beginning of March.  It had to be outside and we all had masks and gloves on.  Even so, there was no touching.  Surprisingly, he went along with it just fine. But then he hasn’t been out of the house for weeks so I think he was just glad to be anywhere else.

I think I have reached my peak of being stuck at home and now am on the slide back to normal.  I was wrapped up in baking, cooking and eating, but I find myself back to only thinking about food when I’m hungry.

When this is at last over with and life has returned to normal, the view of this time will be different. Right now, even with the supposed date of May 15, for the stay at home thing to be lifted, there is no real end in sight.  Who even knows what will change on May 15, or if there will suddenly be an extension.  When it’s over, there will be TV specials with  images of people waiting in line outside a grocery store wearing masks and empty streets.  We be reminded of the doctors who came out of obscurity into the limelight and the  politicians who said things that turned out to be correct or incorrect.  But the view will be so different in hindsight than it is now.