In some parts of Madison, the temps dipped below freezing last night. We were not one of the "cold spots." We stayed just a degree above that. This is a good thing, as I had moved the most vulnerable plants indoors, but still needed to attend to the other pots -- ones where there may be damage if not total demise should there be an exposure to frost. And there will be frost tonight. We looked at five different models and projections: they all spell FROST. (When did this language of vulnerabilities, of hot spots/cold spots, of models, projections and exposures become so familiar?)
The morning walk to feed the animals is very nippy!
And breakfast is in the kitchen. Toasty warm!
Later in the morning, I have a (video) chat with someone who happens to do physician rotations at our University Hospital. Such good work these people do! She's the kind of person who wont accept praise without turning it around, right back at you: she talks of how proud she is of our city, and how well it complied with the distancing order, and how much it had saved the hospital from the chaos that would have otherwise ensued. It was one of those conversations that made you understand the benefit of communities working together to support a common goal. I teared up as we ended our conversation!
And here's another feel-good moment: lunch with Primrose in Chicago!
The little one is now talking up a storm! This spring surely will be the season where she stopped being a toddler and jumped full force into being a little girl.
And speaking of little girls, here's Snowdrop for her afternoon at the farmhouse!
(Java! Out of the flowers please!)
(Dark Blue Tuxedo! Out of the flowers please!)
(Girl in a world of green...)
Inside again, we are finishing up our big Lego city building project. It's a little outside her usual realm of Lego friends and families, living in Lego houses and doing artsy Lego things, and takes us instead into the more troubled world of crime and bandits and handcuffs, at the same time that there are city cafes and toy shops and doughnut stands. She loves it all. When we're done, we move it in with her other completed Lego projects. It is now truly a remarkable place of houses, shops, fairy castles and... city life.
Evening. I do not get home until late and so I am glad to reheat yesterday's foods for a soup and salad supper. I stop clicking on the weather. We covered some plants, moved some into the garage, others into the farmhouse mudroom, and still others into the kitchen. We did the best we could. Put your feet up, exhale.
And pause for a moment to thank those, who are looking after the hospitalized patients right now. So many, working so hard, in so many different capacities, to move someone from sickness to good health. Thank you.
With love.
The morning walk to feed the animals is very nippy!
And breakfast is in the kitchen. Toasty warm!
Later in the morning, I have a (video) chat with someone who happens to do physician rotations at our University Hospital. Such good work these people do! She's the kind of person who wont accept praise without turning it around, right back at you: she talks of how proud she is of our city, and how well it complied with the distancing order, and how much it had saved the hospital from the chaos that would have otherwise ensued. It was one of those conversations that made you understand the benefit of communities working together to support a common goal. I teared up as we ended our conversation!
And here's another feel-good moment: lunch with Primrose in Chicago!
The little one is now talking up a storm! This spring surely will be the season where she stopped being a toddler and jumped full force into being a little girl.
And speaking of little girls, here's Snowdrop for her afternoon at the farmhouse!
(Java! Out of the flowers please!)
(Dark Blue Tuxedo! Out of the flowers please!)
(Girl in a world of green...)
Inside again, we are finishing up our big Lego city building project. It's a little outside her usual realm of Lego friends and families, living in Lego houses and doing artsy Lego things, and takes us instead into the more troubled world of crime and bandits and handcuffs, at the same time that there are city cafes and toy shops and doughnut stands. She loves it all. When we're done, we move it in with her other completed Lego projects. It is now truly a remarkable place of houses, shops, fairy castles and... city life.
Evening. I do not get home until late and so I am glad to reheat yesterday's foods for a soup and salad supper. I stop clicking on the weather. We covered some plants, moved some into the garage, others into the farmhouse mudroom, and still others into the kitchen. We did the best we could. Put your feet up, exhale.
And pause for a moment to thank those, who are looking after the hospitalized patients right now. So many, working so hard, in so many different capacities, to move someone from sickness to good health. Thank you.
With love.
