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Quarantine Diary #130 7/22/2020 What's in your glass?
July 22, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

In the last few weeks one of my knees has decided it is the current star of the MB show. I overused it one day, I know when that was, ever since it’s been wonky. I have to baby it otherwise it hurts more than a little. Aging isn’t for wusses. 

Quarantine Diary #124 7/17/2020 As if it makes sense …
July 17, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

Our family lost a friend this week. I won’t go into too many details other than Tom died of a bike accident on a sunny day while riding in the country with friends. His wheel somehow got stuck in gravel, he fell, the fall twisted, and he died.

This is not his obituary or eulogy. This is a just a reflection on losing friends and how do we make sense of this?

Endeavor Morse and Dorothea Frazil
Quarantine Diary #121 7/13/2020 When we crave a simpler murder ...
July 13, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

Last post we were talking about what stories, books, art, TV, shows, and music works for us now. It’s pretty obvious that living four months in isolation through a pandemic - changes what our spirits want and need. Several people in Friday’s comments said that they are watching British crime shows.

Quarantine Diary #118 7/10/2020 The thing that we don't want that we have.
July 10, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

This week I requested books from the library, picked them up, walked back home, and started reading.

One book is a lawyer/detective book that is 850 pages long. It’s a great read in that American gum-cracking, fast-talking, everyone has an angle kind of way. I was 150 pages in before I accepted I don’t even like gum and I quit it.

Quarantine Diary #112 7/3/2020 The View From Here, Now
July 3, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

I just checked the comments on my website. I get a few wacko ones most days that are in Greek or Russian, or are porno invites. I delete them. Part of the shtick when running a website outside the hosted sites.

And here, right here on a Friday evening, is this good comment from one of you, 

Quarantine Diary #108 6/30/2020 Woke Neighbors
June 30, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

I was quietly sitting here, just writing, when I heard yelling. I looked up and there was Modern America Right Here Right Now, in front of my house.

Quarantine Diary #104 6/26/2020 Common Sense
June 26, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

This very small story has been lurking in my mind for decades and I have been thinking about it again, just recently.

Quarantine Diary #101 6/23/2020 Today the Protest Came to Us
June 23, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

I keep saying Len and I are not going to protests because of Covid.

But then one came to us.

Late yesterday afternoon we heard that Mike Pence and Betsy DeVos would be at a meeting this morning at Saratoga STEM school here in Waukesha. It's three blocks from our house. 

Quarantine Diary #99 6/20/2020 "A bonfire of small changes ..."
June 20, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

This evening Trump is speaking to a political rally in a Tulsa venue that can hold 19,000 people. There will be no social distancing. The place is enclosed. Masks are optional. Boggles the mind.

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Yesterday morning I went to a local Stein’s garden mecca to see if they have marigolds on sale yet. They don’t even have marigolds NOT on sale!

But this happened.

Quarantine Diary #97 Le Bistro de Garage..
June 18, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

People don’t need to care about “decorating and home design.” As long as one can live safely in their abode while getting done the things they need and want to get done, that’s civilization.