I really wish that our dog could talk.
Not in that shouty voice that he uses with the garbage truck and delivery vans and our car and the wandering fox. I want conversation.
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Open the door, focus, get my fill of evening hare. It wasn’t at all perturbed by my efforts.
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It may have required a half century, but some of the skills I picked up in high school now make sense. This afternoon, I decided to sanitize the fresh water tank on the RV, because… well… it seems like the right thing to do. I didn’t get many hours of classroom time in biology, particularly water purification. Hey, that’s why we now have Google; to lower the deaths due to bad drinking water. Anyhow.
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The Green Machine has gone for a ride. I don’t know the why, but a man with a trailer arrived in the yard this evening. He took the scenic route, down below, and I had to explain that winter isn’t officially over so we still have the GM in the garage.
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Today, the province moved one step closer to tourist season. In a move that caught none by surprise, the health officer and the premier let us know that in the next couple of weeks, we should have the first sightings of the “seasonals”.
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Slowly, I’ve come to realize one common thread to life during a pandemic. Nobody knows what is going on. Seriously. When you notice that people are actually tuning in to the press conferences, it’s because we’re all waiting for the “great reveal”.
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Here’s a word that I haven’t used before: perplexion. I checked, and it is a real word, and it is the right word for the moment. Because, you see, I am trying to “wrap my head around” the sudden belief that everything is OK, out there.
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Years from now, when historians wonder how Canada handled the idea of a highly contagious pandemic, I hope they’ll be able to give us a full “two thumbs up”. Or five stars. Or whatever the rating for excellence in the field. Right now, it seems to be cobbled together.
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Strange times. Today, we paid off the winter snow removal contract. In cash, that had been kept out of circulation for almost a week. I mean, money is dirty. It can carry disease. But if you put the bills into an envelope and then wait for a bit, at least the disease part goes away. I jest, barely. The money was delivered by hand, and bicycle.
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This afternoon, via the web, I learned that this province has declared a state of emergency. Not noticing anything untoward, I said (sub voce), “Finally! Something interesting!”
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