HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

To all the mothers out there that put up with all of us kids, Happy Mother's Day.  I've only done it for eleven years with my two puppy kids and I can't tell you how often I've pulled my hair out in clumps.  I hope you have a great day in spite of what's going on all around us.

I know some won't agree with me, but here's my take on things presently.  Whether you want to call the virus the flu, or the Wuflu, or Covid 19, it is not the plague that is going to kill half the people on earth.  We are not on lockdown so it will pass over us like a dark cloud and only pick on those outside the house.  We are staying inside to keep the numbers of people catching it from overloading the hospitals until medical supplies could be stacked up.  

That has happened, or so the local nurses and doctors have told me.  With some exceptions, hospitals are even closing down sections because of the lack of virus patients.  We have so many ventilators now they are giving (or maybe selling) them to other countries.  I think it's time to come out from under the covers and get on with life as several States are now doing.  

Yes I will at some point probably catch the flu.  So will you.  It's not going away any time soon.  Like any of the other illnesses we have had in this country over the last 200 years, it will eventually die out.  If you want to stay home and wait for a vaccine, I'm all for it.  For me, it's not worth giving up all my freedom.

So to that end, I've spent the last week doing nothing that I normally do.  I've been cleaning and cleaning.  I think I've cleaned places I haven't seen in ten years.  I've filled my garbage bin to the tippy top and stacked things alongside for the next round of pickups.

In so doing, I've found some pictures I've been missing.  Here's Captain Hook, a little blurry since it's a picture of a picture, along with the crocodile I pulled along behind me with a piece of wire around my waist.  That's a hay hook in my right hand.  What a fun day THAT was.  I'm pretty sure we got absolutely NOTHING done all day.  Yup that's a government office for you!!

I think I must be akin to a pack rat.  I can't believe all the junk I found stashed here and there, not to mention the dirt on the living room floor.  I cleaned everything out of the room for the deep carpet cleaning that was supposed to happen yesterday.  They cancelled.  It is currently Cooper's bowling alley for throwing the ball (bottom center next to the dirt).  They promised me they would show up Tuesday.

Although a tad late, here's the last full moon.  It seems that every full moon now has a name of some sort, but I can't recall what this one was.  The pink moon?  Cotton candy?  The names escapes me.  At any rate, it was spectacular.

Today I'm getting the Jeep ready for a doctor's checkup.  Apparently there is not one but TWO recalls on my toad, as well as she needs an oil change.  That's going to be $70 at the dealership.  Jiffy Lube here is known for not doing any work at all while still charging you.  No use taking any chances.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!  I hope you have a wonderful day!