Life in Quarantine – July 21, 2020 to August 3, 2020

We are in a 14-day quarantine to make sure we are not carrying coronavirus to our daughter Julie’s family.  We were careful traveling here, but we expect to be integrating with them until after her baby is born in September, so we are taking no chances.

This is going to be a short blog.  Our daily routines are boring.  We sleep as long as we want, we eventually get up, shower and dress.  I usually make breakfast but sometimes Doug comes up with something special.  Lunch is a sandwich of some kind.  I try to devise good dinners but more often than not, it’s just something I pull out of the freezer and heat up.  Our newest innovation is that when I cook dinner, Doug has to pick out something for dessert.  We buy a lot of pudding cups and other things that are portioned-controlled so Doug just has to make a decision between a couple of pre-packaged choices.  There are usually moments of snacking and we reach for something simple – sweet or salty does the trick. 

I wash clothes by hand about every other day in order to keep up – the loads are tiny.  We both clean up the RV when we see a mess.  This is such a clean site that we don’t track in much dirt or grass so our floor is pretty clean. 

Doug fixes things.  As I am writing this, Doug is once again blasting out a clog in our kitchen sink.  No matter how careful we are with washing dishes, we seem to get clogs on a regular basis.  Doug also fixes things like my OverDrive Account, his old phone, the lift over the RV engine, and all the things that happen in our everyday life.

I have lots of crafts projects to keep me busy.  I just finished a christening outfit for Beckham and I am working on matching vests for the other two grandchildren.  I have starting crafting textile blocks for the Violet Project – an art project designed to show bipartisanship.  Look it up – it’s really cool.

We are both working on projects for Kartchner Caverns.  We are collaborating on an information/newsletter for staff and volunteers and are just waiting for final approval.  Doug has some computer projects and I am helping with the Adopt-A-Bat program.

There is still plenty of empty time which we fill with tv, naps, and checking our phones.  One day we watched a sappy Christmas-in-July Hallmark movie, The Birds, and some shark attack videos because it’s Shark Month.

It’s a quiet time for us.  We are trying to embrace the serenity of this simple life.  We know that once our two weeks are over, we jump right into the chaos of busy family life.  Paisley and Griffin are already planning things for us to do and adventures for us to go on.  Julie and Jake have a few house projects for us.  By September, we will be exhausted.  But we can’t wait to hug them all and see our new grandchild!