Today is the first day of spring
And it's a beauty. We have had warm, sunny weather for about the last ten days, and I've gone up to Sovereign to ski most of them. It had been cold in the hills and springlike in town. I was beginning to think of things to do in the yard, but fortunately I have a couple of friends who often pull me out of my shell. And of course once I'm out I never shut up so now I can't stop saying what a great place Sovereign is to socially distance. Silver Star closed down a week ago and Sovereign asks you to stay outside except to buy a ticket or use the bathroom. I have a membership and my belief that most of the time I go to the bathroom just because I can seems to be true. Jane, Lynne and I were discussing this matter on Tuesday and again today as we stood the correct distance from each other in the parking lot after skiing. Social distancing has not kept us from considering matters of urgency.
Aside from noticing that the shelves where toilet paper, hand sanitizer and chicken were supposed to be were empty, there hasn't been much change in my shopping in Vernon. Fortunately for me, my Korean friend Lucia gave me some of the sanitizer she finally found at Super Store last week and I have two bottles of rubbing alcohol that May left me. I heard on CBC Radio this morning that there's a recipe on line for making hand sanitizer from rubbing alcohol. Of course if you really want to sanitize to the bone you could apply it straight from the bottle. CBC is certainly taking on the role of covering the š¦ . It's laudable but can get a bit irritating. When it does, I put on an old CD, turn up the volume and dance as much as my left knee can tolerate then I downloaded the CBC Listen app, connect my iPhone to the Bluetooth speaker Jay gave me and do physio exercises while I listen to past 'Ideas' programs. Like an old car, I'm under repair more than I'm on the road. Talking about old, I think we are appropriating the indigenous term 'elders.' I like that. Lately I've heard many talking heads referring to us as elders. "We have to look after our elders", sounds better to me than the elderly or senior citizens. There's a connotation of wisdom that accompanies the word elder. And I was touched last evening when I looked out the window and saw four young men getting out of their trucks and cars in the church parking lot across the road and standing around for quite a while talking at quite a distance apart. They are not the age group most seriously affected by Covid-19, but they were doing their part. Jay says South Koreans certainly are taking it seriously. His school reopened this week, but they only have about half their students and are not sure they will stay open. The subways are still not crowded, May decided not to return to her school because she has three transfers to make and Jay says there are a few new hot spots in Seoul, so the military is being called in. All schools are closed in BC for an unspecified time. Today for the first time there were no cars on my street because the church and its daycare seem to be closed.
This thing is real and the end is not in sight.
Blue sky and banks of snow at Sovereign. Not much sign of Spring there.
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