Life for during this pandemic is so much fun - I get up at 6AM to walk Riley, the dog, and Persephone, my stray cat that walks with us. When I get back, I do get to fix my coffee before I have to feed and water the livestock.

After that is done, I put up my large purple umbrella to welcome the blaring 6am sun when she rises. She will shine into those metal doors heating up the patio and the living room, causing the air conditioner to kick in way before it really should.

Sometimes, I have to play "purple monkey" with Riley before that first sip of coffee. Once everyone else is content, I get to drink my coffee and watch the nation and world's depressing morning news.

It is a wonder that do not go screaming out into the world in protest. Sometimes, I want to scream, "This is all I get for all those 50 years of working!" But I get over it and bury myself in to TV news, inane reruns of shows until evening when I turn on Hulu and watch reruns of shows and Midsomer Murders' reruns of shows.

Then I retreat to bed to read books THAT I HAVE NEVER READ. What a joy. I have stacks of books by my bed and I have read them all during this pandemic. I might lose my conscious mind, but I can live in these books for a few hours at night.
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Reading at night, allows me to sleep worry free-until the next morning when it starts all over again.
Please stay safe, healthy, and happy, my friends.

Riley woke me up at 12:30 this morning to go outside. Persephone and the kittens were not there and that surprised me because I thought they are always sleeping at that time. Well, when I got up a six none of the were anywhere. It worried me. But figures she might have moved them for some reason.

Then she showed up without them. I became worried then, because she did not seem to know where they were. I followed her and she meowed a couple of time and kittens came running out of the two patios. They followed us back until they passed the huge century plant and went under it.

Eventually they came back and ate some DRY food I had on my patio. It is now raining and they are leaping, running, and playing inside the patio while mama watches the rain outside As they move past her, I notice that they are really growing. The black ones is almost half her size, and the gray is smaller. I have not checked them lately for their sex, but I think the gray one is female. The two black ones play roughly with each other, so I am guessing they are male. I will know soon enough, I guess.

I am sorry this is the only news I have. This isolation, because of my susceptibility to the virus, makes a person bored. All I do is watch TV, read books, and eat. My neighbors have been very generous bringing me books to read. Our library here is closed due to virus.

I have also developed a soreness on my left side in my ribs from my fall. The black eye and facial bruise are fading. My left eyelid is still drooping. I hope it comes back to normal, too.
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Happy Monday to those of you who are retired. My sympathies go out to those of you going to work and even more for those of you who are not working because the virus. I send all of you good health wishes.

I have self quarantined myself in my apartment for  the last few weeks. I have only gone outside to walk Riley or take care of the kittens. 

I fell again on my face and blackened my left jaw and my eye. I was chasing kittens out of my neighbor's patio and turned too quickly. Luckily, we are having our windows replaced and the workmen went in to get help from the office. A senior workman and Antoine, our maintenance man, pulled me up  and walked me to my apartment.

I have been sporting a great black eye since then and a bruised face on my left side. Also, I bruised my chest pretty bad, but do not appear to have broken anything. All those years of dancing lessons when young have taught me how to fall safely.

So far we have not had a case of the virus in our  senior apartment complex. I had to go get a prescription filled yesterday and a neighbor drove me for safety. It was nice to see something other than my apartment complex. Life was going on but on a limited basis. Not many people out shopping.

An update on those pesky kittens. First I told them they are on their own after I fell. A few neighbors have expressed an interest in the babies and another neighbor has a friend who might take the mother cat and any babies without homes. She lives out from the city and has several acres. I wish they all could go. I think they would enjoy it.

I have no other news at this time - not teaching or training anyone on the computer. I hope all of you are safe and healthy. I will try to post again this month, if I can find something to talk about. Life in isolation is boring.