Quarantine Chronicles

It's Monday again... another Monday; my first Monday working from home. My knuckles are starting to get that scratchy feeling that tells me that my hand-washing to lotion ratio isn't quite balancing out and the clothes in the laundry tell me I haven't really worn "real" clothes in a full week. *sigh* 

 

The work days don't necessarily bleed into the weekends but when my desk is only fifteen steps from my bedroom - it does make things seem a lot more "together" than I think I realized. Oh well. such is the world we are living in right now. I am doing the best I can to make the best of the whole thing...

Friday night, after I got off work (ha-ha), I hooked Watson to his leash and we set off to make the walk from our home over to Regions 117. We did curbside pick-up for dinner and I decided that since I needed to get in some exercise before dinner, I'd walk with Watson to the restaurant and when my parents came to pick up the food - we'd ride back with them. It was a good walk and it felt good to stretch my legs after sitting at a desk almost all day.

The curbside pick-up from Regions was excellent and we watched the movie Yesterday for some Friday night entertainment before getting sucked into Aerial Britain: Northern England.... and then getting sucked into some reading before bed! Saturday morning couldn't quite decide whether it wanted to be rainy and cold... or sunny and warm - either way, after coffee and exercise I actually put on real clothes and I felt like a human being! It was wild! 

After having some lunch, we drove over to West Virginia and popped in to see some friend for a little bit of a birthday celebration. There was no cake, no balloons and we sat poised on one end of the deck and they sat all the way at the other end - but we visited for about an hour and Evelyn got to open her presents. No hugs, no hopping onto the trampoline to join the little people - I even had to snap my selfie from six feet away. What a world we are currently in...

 

The rest of Saturday was pretty... dull? Is that right, I don't know. When we got home, I began the process of cleaning out my closet before whipping up a pot of Chicken Tortilla soup for dinner, alongside some big fat salads. After dinner and a bubble bath, I got sucked into a show called Log Cabin Living - I'd love to live in a log cabin, but the style I like it a lot less rustic and a lot more...mansion-like? I don't know, ha-ha! 

Sunday dawned cloudy and cool but after coffee, breakfast and church online, the sun came out and the clouds cleared away to reveal an absolutely splendid afternoon! We headed over to the Third Battle of Winchester site, which I've never been to but a friend recommended as an outdoor alternative. The site has 4-5 miles of trails, all ready to be explored!

 

 

 

 

We stuck mostly to the gravel paths but at one point we veered off into a field to inspect some cannons and the ruined foundation of an old cabin. There were weeds...or flowers...depending on how you want to view them - but I was glad to snap pictures because I was just thrilled to see the sunshine and the signs of Spring all around!

Down a portion of the trail was a little wooden foot path that crossed the Redbud Run, a little stream that was trickling along at quite a good pace. We paused to sit and take in the breeze coming off the little stream and my Dad offered to lower my dog down to the stream to get a drink - but I declined, ha-ha! Something told me that Watson wouldn't appreciate his harness being used for lowering him into the stream! 

  

 

After we returned to the car, we took the scenic route home and I got some pictures of the canola fields with bright yellow blooms pointing high to the sky. The weather was so nice that when we got home, I decided to eat my supper on the deck and then ended up lying across the storage table and staring into the clouds. 

The rest of the evening was spent watching the newest episode of Outlander, taking a bubble bath and just being a little bit lazy. It was a good weekend - although the announcement that the social distancing measures will be in place until at least the end of April was a little sad. I suppose I'll be doing quarantine chronicles for a while still...