Day 35 sheltering at home!! The weeds keep coming, Spanish still eludes me and being a rock star has not developed the way I envisioned.
At times life is very reminiscent of the movie Ground Hog Day. I get up. I drink coffee in the front room reading the days newspaper. I then read my email and delve deeper into news stories on my iPad. I usually go for an hour hike or bike ride after that, then settle in for a little yard work if it is not raining. Found a new radio station, at least for me, called Krush or krsh out of Napa which is on the internet and plays many rock, blues, acoustic tracks that are not so main stream. I am also listening to K-ZAP out of Sacrament via the internet which I grew up listening to. After some outdoor work I usually spend a couple hours on Rosetta Stone attempting to improve my Spanish. I can certainly read Spanish better but speaking and understanding spoken Spanish remains elusive. Following that, some lunch with maybe a TV show (Star Trek Discovery, Tiger King, Clone Wars, Marvel). I then move to the music room, maybe with a beer and play for a couple hours. Fender offered 3 months of free guitar lessons so I have been doing that. I chose the Blues track which has been exceedingly slow and hard to jump ahead. But, this has toughened up my fingers and I enjoy doodling for an hour or so after the lesson. I have my electric Les Paul and an acoustic/electric Ovation I play thru a Fender amp. Along with Tab from online and Spotify to play the songs I play along with Tom Petty and others for kicks. My goal is to get better with knowing the fretboard, scales, and a little bit of music theory. We’ll see, maybe more beer will help.
We have had some visitors. Jamie and Tim have brought Russell over a couple of Saturdays in a row. We sit outside spread out. We don’t hold Russell just watch and coo. We sit and talk for a few hours sharing a few glasses of wine and lunch. We have facetimed with Kelsi and David catching up with them and watching Ava showing off her walking prowess. We facetimed Zac and Maria but they have been working really hard (Doordash is doing exceptionally well during the Shelter) so we missed out on an online pinochle game with them recently. We will make it up in the coming week. The Alex’s are fed up with the City at this point. They have decided to move in early with us for the next number of months. Our original plan was June in preparation for Katie and I’s big trip around the world but that is most likely cancelled. So now, we will just be roommates 2020 getting to enjoy homemade pizza via Crow every Friday, maybe some cornhole contests, and more social interaction. Looking forward to that though I will need to get dressed a little earlier in the day!
Katie and I had an excursion to Napa last week as the skies were blue and the temp somewhere close to 80. We had wines to pick up at Robert Biale and we ordered take-out from our favorite restaurant up there, Rutherford Grill. We hiked in Moore Creek Park up along a creek finding a nice flat spot to eat our French Dip and Wild Rice Salad meal. A little Biale ‘Black Chicken’ wine and the day was set. We were planning a longer hike after that but we were too full and tipsy to enjoy the long walk so we drove back home. Beautiful day
My family is in general well though my mother took a fall at the living facility she is in. She has had the unfortunate luck of being in quarantine prior to the shelter in place orders because of a GI bug going around her facility. Then of course they locked down because of the Corona Virus. Well she sat in her room for weeks. I suspect got fairly weak. Then while moving about her kitchen twisted awkwardly, fell and ended up with several pelvic fractures. She was evaluated that day but initially no fractures were found and they sent her home. She couldn’t put weight on her leg and subsequently fell 2 more times. This time they found the fractures with a CT scan. She ended up overnight in the hospital and now is in a nursing home getting physical therapy until she can get up on her own. The worst is no visitors have been allowed for weeks at her facility and now that includes the nursing home and hospital so she has just been on her own for all of this.
Oh my, look what time it is! Rosetta Stone is calling. Take care everyone. Hope all are well and look forward to seeing you all on the flipside.