I made sure to buy some tulips during our last trip to the grocery store. I’d prescribe a bouquet of flowers to everyone who is at home, waiting this out. In our area, the landscape is still dull and brown, with tiny bits of green emerging, though not enough to change the view. Flowers help a great deal.
More and more news emerging. Paris! No cafés open, Shakespeare and Company closed; it’s truly hard to imagine. Cafés are such a huge part of the everyday life of Paris; they’re everywhere, they’re open into the wee hours, I simply can’t imagine them empty.
Our library is closing for two weeks as of Monday. Thankfully, they gave us a heads up, allowing time for people to stop by and stock up on books.
Don got an email from his agents yesterday. The woman who heads the agency said that every working client, whether in television, film, or the theater, has been laid off. No one is working. That means the agency is not making any money. So, to remain solvent, she’s had to lay off the other agents for a few weeks and she’ll man the office and also work from home. Every actor, writer, and director either lost their jobs or is being laid off indefinitely. It’s so hard to get a job as an actor. You finally get one and you’re laid off.
I know that we’re not special – this is happening to everyone on some level. But to those who are working and still being paid and can work from home, you’re very fortunate. Actors and dancers and musicians and singers cannot do that. Their work ultimately depends on a live audience. And live audiences are now a health risk.
It was interesting here yesterday. Even though I’m a homebody and can easily spend days at home without going anywhere, I discovered that staying here of my own free will is very different than knowing I have to stay here. Suddenly, I was restless. I know that I’ll get used to it, but it was telling. I want staying home to be my choice. When it’s not, I get a wee bit edgy.
We’re reading, listening to music, Don is practicing his guitar, I’m cleaning and doing laundry and spending too much time online. But I’ve found that Instagram is rather comforting – I really get a sense of camaraderie there – we’re all in this together.
Anyway, my friends, hang in there.
Happy Sunday.
Hi,
I live in a a resort ski town and they are closing all the resorts due to a community spread plus all clubs and concerts. The library closed and I wanted to go and see if they had the any books about the Mitfords, no warning. Oh well, better to be safe than sorry.
Stay safe and well,
Kaye
Park City, UT
You, too Kaye. Better to err on the side of caution, right?
I was having a hard time yesterday. Like you said, if you choose to stay home it’s much easier than being told to stay home. I was feeling very restless even though I was busy. It was like cabin fever. I can’t imagine the residents of Paris. Cafés are practically their life…from what I’ve read.
Hope you have a good day. We have had plans to meet our friend today. She lives 1 1/2 hrs away, and we don’t get to see her often. So, since none of us appear to be ill…we are driving up shortly.
Stay well! ;)
Please take care as you make this trip, Donna!
I *so* understand your comment about being a homebody when it is OUR choice. I enjoy (prefer?) hanging out at home alone, puttering around, popping out briefly for food/groceries. But now that I SHOULD/HAVE TO stay home, I am starting to feel a bit stir crazy and wanting company (and it has been only a few days! *sigh*) At least you have Don for company– I live alone. (But do have neighbors close by that I can wave at! ;-)
I lived alone for many, many years. I understand! Wave to your neighbors, maybe some Face Time with a loved one? Take care, Elizabeth!
Actually, a friend just now showed me how to do FaceTime. But for my sister, I think I will have to install Skype. But it is a brilliant solution! thank you!
You’re welcome!
I know exactly what you mean by “enforced” isolation as opposed to it being your own idea. My car died Thanksgiving week (needed new engine) and I told Dean I could get along over the holidays just using his car in the evening for errands. He with the 17 yr old car was the one who needed a new one, not me. He dragged his feet about getting his new one until towards the end of February. By then I was pulling my hair during the day. We live far enough away from essentials like the grocery store that, in that cold weather, I was not inclined to hoof it to the store.
I share your interest in the Mitford sisters. I’ve had “The Sisters” paperback for a while and began to read it last fall. I had great admiration for Deborah, the late Duchess of Devonshire. Years ago visited Chatsworth and subsequently bought several books about it. Haven’t read any of her memoirs yet, but hope to do so. Over her lifetime as the duchess, she did some wonderful innovative work restoring that historic jewel of a country house.
K.
We went through a period like that several years ago when we only had one car. I completely understand!
Yes, Debo, was an amazing woman, Kay. Hopefully, I’ll get to see Chatsworth someday!
Long hours, phone ringing all night, but we’re feeling blessed. Knowing we’re on the front lines of this and unable to spend time seeking personal supplies my secretary called late last night offering to try to find what we might need and neighbors contacted me offering to share.
Be sure to pray for those fighting on your behalf in multiple capacities and remember a
few canned goods or home supplies left on the steps of an elderly neighbor or less fortunate shut-in may make a world of difference. All the kindness we give away will be returned many fold. You cannot out give God. Blessings and stay safe.
I’m praying for everyone, R.
Glad you have a good friend to care of what you might need. Take care of yourself!
This was to have been a busy weekend with dinner with several friends Friday, volunteer work in the library yesterday, followed by a party to celebrate our daughter and son-in-law’s week old marriage, and symphony today. All cancelled. Our former son-in-law has put off his mid-April wedding until October.
So many plans had to be scrapped. So many people out of work. Take care, Margaret!
Went to 3 stores to do our regular weekly grocery shopping. Hubby wants to make some bone broth and even the bones were gone! Most people don’t even know what to make with hamhocks so why would they buy them?! And the poor cashiers having to deal with pushy people who don’t think the limits on items apply to them. But also some fun conversations with people about the strange things that are still in stock–lots of ice cream and cheesecakes at Trader Joes! Our cats eat flowers, but we have jasmine and wisteria blooming outside. One thing that worries me is libraries and bookstores closing. I’m thankful we have books and food and wine and nice neighbors and nice people on your blog.
You can order from a bookstore online or via phone. They need our dollars! I’m doing that today. Libraries closing is always hard to take. If yours is in danger of closing, get over there and check out some books! Take care, Linda.
glad you have flowers, food, books, don … :)
praying that everyone gets/stays well, has what they need, plus something relaxing and fun to do.
here? i’m trying to remind myself “don’t take back in fear what you gave up in faith”. hard with my brother now unemployed for who-knows-how-long and my sister’s job putting her in close quarters with other people (no social distancing possible there) and she cannot work from home. i work with elderly people in a big building and management has been slow to deal with this. as an example, when i talked with my boss about measures we should take per the cdc, etc., i mentioned putting signs on the doors encouraging people to reconsider visits if they had any signs of a respiratory illness. she frowned and said “do that if it makes you feel better … but make it short … no more than two lines!” ):(
still, i try and pray …
thanks for listening, being there …
kathy in iowa
Sigh. Your boss doesn’t get it, or didn’t get it. Hopefully she gets it now. Take care of yourself, Kathy.
i hope people everywhere understand the severity of it all and take appropriate precautions for everyone’s sakes!
thanks, claudia. be well.
kathy in iowa
xo
Love your tulips. I’m looking at my grocery store daffodils opening up now. It does help as its grey still here in CT as well. I’m so sorry to hear of all the closures and people out of work. Our son was just “furloughed” from his job at a small regional theater and I just hope they can survive this. It’s so hard in “normal” times for these companies. I’m hoping to get to the library tomorrow and then have lots of projects to do around the house. I’m going to work hard to take these lemons and make lemonade. Though I wish I had more toilet paper! Lol
I’m going to do some stuff around here as well. I just have to get up off my tush and get started. It’s still very surreal. Take care of yourself, Deb!
Yes, I listened to a mental health expert on TV and she says (I’m paraphrasing, but was my take on her interview) we need structure right now, when everything is loose and so much is out of our control when, as humans, we want to exercise control over our lives and have our freedoms in daily life. We’re not on vacay, so turn it around, and make that to-do list and quit putting it off. Clean out old papers; get to a hobby you’ve put off; reorganize the linen cupboard; that sort of thing. Get busy. I remember reading years ago that if you’re a worrier like me, and you’re just idle and not doing a task, you’ll just fill up that empty time with more worry. And as this health expert said of herself, she realized she was spending ‘way too much time looking at the news, so she said she had to put down her phone for awhile.
We’ve got to find our balance in this; easier said than done. It’s good to share ideas; we’re all in the same boat. I really can’t ever remember a time like this in my life where that was the case. The Great Depression and WW2 pre-dated me. I barely remember the Bay of Pigs event, when I guess everyone was stockpiling and preparing for disaster. I know my parents were, but they didn’t have a lot of money, my dad had been out of work, and Mom just had this small box of ’emergency’ food in a back room of the house. Again, we were united against an enemy with 911, but not confined to our homes.
We’ll all find that balance. I’m staying away from any more dire predictions. We’re in. We’ve self-isolated. But I’ve reiterated to Don that it’s two weeks. He can’t sneak out.
My husband and I are worried and annoyed with his brother and the wife in another state. They refuse to change their ways. They don’t eat ‘in’; they always eat out, and I mean three meals a day, every day; we have no idea how they afford it. He takes her to work, goes to a restaurant for breakfast. He picks her up at lunch, they go out to lunch together. He picks her up from the office at day’s end, they go out to dinner to yet another restaurant. These are two people in their mid-70s and they both have many of the underlying health issues which make for bad complications of Covid-19 should they contract the virus. My husband’s sister-in-law even recently had a heart attack. His brother is hospitalized several times a year. What do you say? My husband chose his words carefully to express his concern with their denials (them saying they know their restaurants and they know their servers [but what about the people in the table or booth right next to them?]). It’s just one example of people out there NOT doing what the medical experts/scientists are pleading with us to do. That’s not self-isolation. That’s not nesting-in-place mentality. She’s going to work on Monday-tomorrow, but my brother-in-law should stay home; he’s retired, why not? (I don’t even understand why her office is open; it’s an insurance agency. Why can’t the business of such a company be done in larger part by phone or web?) These aren’t unintelligent people! And they live in a city which has a population of 60,000 in a state which has positive cases of Covid-19. What is this fantasy that they’re immune to threat from the virus? It’s so troubling. If they get sick, there’s no one to help them; their adult child lives on the other side of the country.
And even as we criticized members of our own family, my husband and I still were pondering earlier in the evening on Sunday if, considering a 2-week lockdown could occur like Italy, but also because we figure the two of us are in the nest-in-place situation for 8 weeks and beyond due to our risk factors for the virus, maybe-just-maybe we should go out ONE MORE TIME to get perishables in order to keep our shelf-stable food lasting longer. I was hesitant; still, I made a fairly-short shopping list. My husband planned to be at the grocery store later this morning, 6am, in the rain, hoping for fewer shoppers at that hour. But I was reluctant; was it really necessary; we’d said we were in-in-in and not returning to the big world except for the dilemma about our mail. Then, my husband came into the room with phone in hand and A FACE: We now have two confirmed positive cases in our little SoCalif town of 30,000 (where we only have one small hospital and few related services). We’re a poor town, not a rich one. The police force is small. We only have two pharmacies and one major grocery store. A good-sized chunk of the populace is elderly because there are no job opportunities for younger people here. Rents are high.
Our mail may have to sit at the post office for a month. We don’t dare leave our home now. We will make do with what we have on our shelves, in our medicine cabinet and in our frig. This is it. It’s happened; the virus is here. God help us all.
It’s willful ignorance and it’s dangerous. What is with people?
I so agree about the enforced isolation. I’m in Spain at the moment and it looks like I will be here for quite a while. I’m content as I am keeping myself busy but I feel restless as I know I’m not supposed to go out but I would like to be able to make that choice for myself. Still, we will all get on with it because it’s the right thing to do.
Can I make a suggestion for a British T.V. programme that I think you and Don may enjoy? It’s called ’ The Detectorists’ and is made by the BBC. It’s charming and so well acted by the cast. X
Thank you for the suggestion, Fiona. I’ll check into it. In the meantime, take care of yourself!
We love being home . We have our house, our pets, a frig and freezer full of food. Books, dvds, birds at the feeders , dollhouses, music. Even here in western MA we have hellebores, crocus, and snowdrops blooming in the yard. We feel very fortunate.
I love it, too. I just don’t like knowing I have no choice! Take care, Barbara!
I have chosen to self-quarantine since I just traveled. I am not going to my yoga classes and I cancelled going to a dinner with friends on Sat night. Brian has no choice but to go to work tomorrow, since he’s a 911 dispatcher. We’re going outside for a walk in a few minutes. It’s cold – only 39 degrees – but sunny. The fresh air, sunshine and exercise will do us some good and we won’t be in contact with any people.
I’m also an introvert and love being at home but you’re right; being “forced” is a different feeling. My First Best Friend who is a wonderful writer (she’s a published and performance poet) wrote a beautiful piece on this very feeling we’re talking about. If you’d like to read it, I shared it on my FB page.
xoxo
Don’s been walking every morning. I have to start joining him!
Take care, Melanie!
My husband’s been picking his times when he can walk the dog (when there’ve been less-to-no people around, like at night; we live in a tight, compacted neighborhood with 50 other families; and adjacent to a normally-busy boulevard; it’s not optimal, but it is what it is where we’ve ended up living). Unfortunately, we don’t have anywhere else we can walk unless we drive somewhere. Don’t laugh, but my fave place to walk (other than the ocean beach) had been at the cemetery. It’s in a beautiful setting away from things and crowds; great little asphalt lanes on incline/decline to work your legs; fresh air and views and all kinds of trees. So far as this nightmare goes, I’m staying completely in and home; but I know I’m getting creaky with not enough moving around in my small house, so I did print off some exercise-in-place routines this morning. Will give it a go.
Well, as I’m writing this, I just got a pop-up that our Calif Governor Newsom has ordered all California bars to close, and also with the often-voiced admonition for older residents to isolate. Sigh.
We walk down our very busy road, but that’s what we have to do, at least for a 100 feet or so, then we can turn off onto a very quiet road. xo
You’re lucky. I envy Susan Branch’s daily beach walk, which is apparently right outside her back door there on Martha’s Vineyard.
Well, not really lucky – it can be dangerous walking down this road with no shoulderand where people drive too fast. We’re always a bit nervous.
PS – all the libraries here are closed. No worries for us in that regard…we have hundreds of books here. Our own little library! ;-)
Book hoarding does pay off! xo
Everybody should tackle the home chores they have been putting off. If no chores, declutter & reorganize spaces, including garages, plus enjoy good books, binge watch quality TV or movies on Watch TCM. When we can go out & enjoy public spaces again, our homes will be in better order/condition = more free time to enjoy life without a to do list nagging us for rest of 2020. Has everyone filed their tax return? Due a month from today!
Thanks, Mary. Good tips! Take care of yourself.
London is looking very different today. I am not at all convinced that Boris’ strategy will work.
Silver lining – just discovered Parks and Recreation- it’s sublime- how did I miss this ?
Be well everyone
Siobhan
You too, Siobhan!
The yellow tulips are so lovely, Claudia.
It is hard not to be restless.
Everything is mostly closed where I am; the streets are quiet now. I’m wondering if this makes it easier for law enforcement in this lull (should we go to major lockdown in the country; if so, I’m glad for them, because their jobs will get harder). Even yesterday, in periods of no-rain, I didn’t hear the children, and that was a big diff just from Friday to Saturday (and we’re a family neighborhood; there are a lot of children here; how on Earth do you explain all this to a child without frightening them?). Of course we are also indeed having consistent periods of rain in SoCalif (much welcomed) and it’s gloomy/dark outside (matching our moods); it would be a time anyway where there’d be less activity outside anywhere. But today, I’m not even hearing cars leaving driveways (now that we have fewer double-pane windows in my old house, I can hear pretty well what’s going on outside my walls). Of course, there’s not a whole lotta places for people to go now! Local social media tells us there’s very little to buy in our few grocery stores in my town (even the dollar stores). Apparently out there in the world, L.A. freeways are ‘eerily’ vacant. (And THAT is a really hard thing to imagine or contemplate. I’m a native Los Angeleno; busy freeways are simply our life here, and they’ve been that way since before I was born.) All of our public schools, in my locale (suburbia) are closed.
I’m trying to stay off the news today, other than watching Biden/Sanders debate, but despite everything I was just thinking about, I did see the headline where the esteemed Dr. Fauci has said on a Sunday morning chat/news show (I think it was Meet The Press) that we’re still not doing enough to hunker down; people (some people), from other things I just read, are still trying to congregate at bars and restaurants, that sort of thing. Maybe it’s their fave neighborhood pub where everyone knows their name, which is comforting in uncertain times. I realize they want to support their local businesses; but … no.can.do.
Let me just say again, I think Andrew Cuomo is amazing. He speaks calmly and matter-of-factly, not defensive, not hysterical. He’s leading; took the charge. Yes, it’s his job. But it really hit home with me how an effective governor of a big state with big cities can logically make a transition to governing a country. I never quite got that with Reagan in California. He was wildly popular, and I lived well under him here as a younger working person, but I was always skeptical of his credentials, even after he was President. Yet I’m sure I voted for him; can’t remember now. Maybe I just got jaded. I certainly cried when they televised his funeral. I am grateful for his service. He was ‘in my life’ for a long time, from junior high school (middle school) to when I got married well into my 30s. And I know little-to-nothing about Cuomo except that he’s impressing me big-time with his response to the epidemic in his state.
You hang in there, too, Claudia & Don.
He’s the son of Mario Cuomo, another incredibly effective NY governor. I agree. He’s just what we need right now. xo
And then Trump said, AFTER the call with the governors, that Gov Cuomo could be doing more. Cuomo twittered right back saying, “YOU should do more; you’re the PRESIDENT.” At the later press conference, notice that Trump didn’t directly reference that exchange but at least he made some blanket statement about the governors doing a good job, or something to that effect. It’s just no time for that kind of sh*t; this is serious; the blame can come later; focus on the immediate problem. At least it was finally a news conference with some real substance, with some harder facts and info about what’s going on behind the scenes. I love it when Dr. Fauci just cuts to the chase.
He’s such an ass. Cuomo is doing a terrific job. And he’s right. The Federal response should have been much stronger. Because it wasn’t, individual states had to make the decisions, resulting in different restrictions from state to state.
An aside: My husband put out a post (intended for our town) with a suggestion that our local grocery stores could allow senior citizens a specified shopping time early in the morning, when the stores first open and are at their most-disinfected, so that they could get the items they need to buy before the store is opened to the rest of the masses who aren’t the higher-risk people. Not all high-risk people stocked up early enough; maybe they couldn’t get transportation; maybe they have no one to help them and aren’t even online to set up home deliveries. Now, they’re afraid, trying to do the right things by self-isolating. I can see where it would be hard to be in your 80s, and you move more slowly in the aisles and checkout line; feeling you could be overpowered by anxious, hurrying people; scared of the crowds, scared of the germs. Think of their worry and the feeling of being powerless. But you can’t have elderly people stuck at home and running out of their supplies. It would be as simple as showing the person at the store door your driver’s license to prove your age. This wouldn’t be forever; it’s a temporary, emergency situation. You’d think there’d be resistance to this, like, oh, that’s not fair, giving preferential treatment to one group of people when EVERYbody of ANY age is worried, but my husband was gobsmacked by how quickly he got responses to his post, and I mean hundreds of replies, of other people (like the younger, healthier) supporting his suggestion and saying they have no problem with it. That we all have to be in there together right now to help each other. It also gave people the platform to say, “I will be happy to get your groceries for you; anyone out there in need for this kind of help, just call me.” And a local nonprofit who offers free or cheap meals to anyone of a certain income level including the homeless is expanding their offering to reach out to seniors who are homebound now, saying to this audience in response to my husband’s post, “Call us; we’re here for you; we will bring you a meal. You are not alone. Do not go without your food and medicines.”
I mean, my husband and I were seriously in tears after this; the magnitude of generosity and concern; are we U.S. citizens getting back who we are and always have been, when we’ve felt ourselves lost from one another in these recent years of national divisiveness? The good in people really does come out; it’s just so inspirational and gives such hope.
There have been posts of that nature all over the country and in other countries too. I think it’s a movement that makes sense. And I’ve already seen evidence of it going into place in England.
Ahhh, burst his bubble! He thought he had an original idea. No matter, one of our neighboring towns, just a few miles from where we live in SoCalif, has a grocery store that is starting it tomorrow (Tues): From 7am to 8am, just one hour, seniors-only can shop when the store is first opened and disinfected (fuller shelves!) with proof of i.d. at the door…and a limit on several items of what they can buy. We’re not sure (husband and I) what we’ll do yet. Apparently they’ll allow this every day, 7 days per week (otherwise, there’d be a mob, true…?…maybe they’ll have to limit how many people are in the store at one time but I’m sure there’ll still be some sort of distancing regardless, like the 3-6 ft between people; will be interesting to see how it plays out). I hope it comes to my town’s main store.
It’s a hard call, though. The seniors are a risk group (age, if nothing else): we’re supposed to stay home, not shop. I thought I’d understood these next two weeks were critical for people to adhere to that (social distancing, flatten the curve); but, you know, so much is still steeped in confusion of some of the ‘what to do/what not to do’. “Stay home” is pretty basic, though.
Again, interesting to see how things are unfolding. We sometimes order a box of veggies from something called Imperfect Foods (like a CSA box; can get veggies, fruits, cheese, organic peanut butter; vegan sausage; etc.). I’m usually overwhelmed because it’s stuff you have to work with pretty quickly/perishables and I sometimes don’t know what to do with all of it because I’m certainly no cook. (We end up oven-roasting/sheet-pan cooking a lot of the veggies.) They put out a message to warn that there’s such high demand (it’s all home delivery via their online site; an internet business [their facilities/shipping center is all in San Diego I think]) that they’re backlogged and orders will be delayed, but they finely detailed all the steps they’re taking to protect the food, the customer and their employees from virus, saying their workers/packers wear gloves, goggles and masks. Got something similar from our bank today, about how they’re still here to serve us, and everything they’re doing to disinfect their branches and ATMs. And we heard some grapevine talk about the pharmacy working with a customer to bring out your prescriptions to the car so that all you have to do is roll down your car window and they’ll hand it to you (I assume they’d set up something online where you’d pay in advance; I envy people who had drive-up pharmacies already, before any thought of an epidemic!). We’ll see more and more of this sort of accommodation, of course.
My husband was messing around with a list for Imperfect Foods (we may order a custom box in a couple of weeks[?]; toying with the idea [it’s good to have shelf-stable food in crisis times but a lot of it isn’t the healthiest, too much high carb {for me & my ‘diet’} with beans/rice/pasta, or canned stuff with too much salt]) and he said they’re actually HQ’d in San Francisco; I guess our near-depot is in San Diego. I didn’t realize they do this all over the U.S. In my ignorance, I thought they just delivered in SoCalif. It all started with a mission to cut down on food waste.
We had to stock up on canned foods, which we normally don’t eat. But we have to be prepared and this stuff will keep in the case of future storms, blizzards, etc.
I think it’s an example of minds tuning in to each other – a mass idea – and it’s a good one. We’re all one and all tuned into each other on some level. Maybe in a crisis like this, we rise above the feeling of being separate and realize our connection.
If this goes beyond 14 days, we’ll need to stock up on some items, for sure.
Those tulips are beautiful, they make the world seem cheery and happy. I had to reorder a new date for my groceries. For some reason the deliveries were all cancelled for today. I will not be getting the groceries until March 25th. I ordered from another store for a few things to have until the bigger order comes. Mailed my mail today and it felt good to get some fresh air.
Marilyn
Yes! Fresh air. I haven’t been outside today and I should have done that. But Don took a walk this morning. Hang in there, Marilyn.
I started a Maigret book today. He is on ‘vacation’ in Paris. Sounds lovely but I can’t keep focused. Will clean house instead. You have a community around you, thanks to your blog.
Clean and do what you need to do so that you can find a moment to read. But it’s sometimes hard to concentrate when so many other things are in your thoughts. Take care, Jan.
My eldest grand has a plan in place to get home from her study abroad in the U. K. It will be a few days, but we are praying. I feel for those who are hourly employees, have no daycare, working in service industries. Take care and be safe…
You too. Praying for the safe return of your grand, Brenda!
I’m feeling so distressed at the financial hardships that are on the horizon for so many people. Did you see the closings in MA? Your tulips are the cheeriest thing I’ve seen today.
No, but the closings here are all-encompassing. NY has the highest number of cases in the country. Take care of yourself, Lynda.
We are staying in also…mostly. If we do need any fresh veg or milk, we shop at 5 am.
And we go for golf cart rides around town just to get out. Thank goodness for AZ sun!
Golf cart rides sound wonderful. We’re going to be taking a drive here and there, also! Take care, Lynn.
Our libraries closed; all Michigan bars and restaurants close today at 3; all theatres closed. Our annual Friends of Theatre gala and the last two shows of the U season are canceled and the Wharton Center (tours) has closed several upcoming shows and indicated it was likely those coming after the closed ones might meet the same fate. Precious little is open apart from the grocery, drug stores and doc offices.
I’m unpacking and putting away from Canada. Like you, most of my days can be here (since I’m not working at all) so that’s not different but I know what you mean about knowing you CAN’T go out! Hang in there — at least you have flowers!
Same here. It’s all closed. (My tulips are drooping today…) Thanks, Jeanie.