Last Friday, we had a date night by ordering a full dinner from the local top end restaurant The Grey Plume; the owner and Chef, Clayton Chapman, grew up across the street from us and went to school with our girls. He prepared a full meal and sent it along with cooking instructions and a bottle of Australian wine. The dinner was Wagyu beef, with roast vegetables, preceded by a wonderful leek and potato soup and topped off with a double chocolate dessert with creme on top. Delicious and a lot of fun during these tough days.
We continue to read, garden, walk a bit, travel to the grocery store so we can holler at people without masks or people who can’t drive but somehow manage to have commandeered a vehicle. More people with masks this past week. But now that states and cities are beginning to “loosen” the restrictions, we expect to see the hospitalization and community spread skyrocket. I hope we are wrong and will happily wear the title of “Chicken Little” if we are proved wrong.
Our weather has gone from temperatures in the mid-80’s to lows in the 40’s overnight. Then the winds hit midweek - gusting to 35 mph and making outdoor work nearly intolerable. There was however a bit of rain and the most incredible rainbow ever witnessed from our north deck the other evening. Never have we seen such a full and vivid true rainbow that wasn’t a man-made recreation. The garden growth is popping up by leaps and bounds and we are so surprised when something appears that we had forgotten we planted. As usual, plenty of things now in the wrong spot and tagged for rearranging before the season is out, but nevertheless wonderful to see.
Deb really enjoyed her “new” book club by Zoom meeting this week. They have just finished the book Mornings in Jenin and it was thought provoking. Then Deb arranged her “ladies drink night” via zoom and this time 4 of 5 were able to log on. She expects a full house next week.
This week is becoming a true social whirl in this time of social distancing, what with the Zoom meetings, and last night our friends Howie and Lee stopped by for a social distance pizza and wine in our backyard. Tonight we are invited to join some neighbors for a glass of wine in their back yard, and Saturday we are invited to a Zoom cocktail party with friends from Lincoln and Houston Texas. Quite the social calendar.
Time for a plug for the kids: if you want to see what our girls are doing, you can turn to You Tube and search for Covert Knits for Abigail’s weekly podcast on knitting or you can search for Omaha Girls Rock to watch Darcy’s broadcast of her lessons for middle school kids about rock & roll. Both interesting and entertaining, although, admittedly we are biased.
Please stay safe, keep washing you hands and don’t drink and drive, or walk around aimlessly!
