2020 Life Logs, Day 88: Making Adjustments
Date: Saturday, March 28, 2020
Weather: Mostly Cloudy, Rain Late; High 45 degrees, Low 43 degrees F
Location: At Home in The Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
This morning Heather and I talked and we decided to make some adjustments in our stay-at-home and stay apart policy. For the past 16 days, both of our households have been on our version of a lockdown. Since we are now past that 14-15 day Covid incubation period and none of us has any symptoms, this morning we decided to treat our two households as one. We will proceed with as much caution as possible even though we will now be together in the same house sometimes. There will still be no hugging or kissing—elbow bumps only! But I will now be able to help them with their move. Since they closed on Thursday, they can now move into the new house. And if things go as expected, they have one month to get out of their current home as the closing on that house is the end of April. They had devised a work schedule to get workers in both homes to do various projects, but that went out the window when our Governor put this state on a non-essential work order this past Tuesday. Painters and carpet layers are non-essential, so Heather and Jed are going to have to do the work themselves or just put it off until later. Today they started working on a new plan. Heather, with a little help from Sam, started ripping carpeting out of the boys’ upstairs bedrooms in the new house and they ordered wood flooring that they will put down themselves. They are going to leave the current carpeting in the master bedroom downstairs and the bonus room above the garage and replace it later. Today Jed worked on cleaning the carpeting that is staying and I offered my services driving back and forth delivering things from our current end of town to the new house. And in between trips, I contributed a bit to cleaning efforts in the new house. Tomorrow I have offered to clean the basement and garage with the help of the boys so we can start moving things in. The move would have been a lot easier if they could hire the work done, but we will get the essentials done and some things will just have to wait until life is back to normal. Thankfully the old house and new house are both perfectly livable as is. You just always want to paint and replace flooring before you move into a new house, but doing that while working full time from home while also trying to home school three boys certainly limits the amount of time and energy you have. It is not the perfect situation, but hopefully the excitement of moving into the perfect new home will prevail.
Justin sent photos today of their horse Hopi and her new baby Barnaby. So precious. And then he sent a text with a photo of baby bunnies born today. There is certainly a lot of depressing news coming our way these days, but new birth is always uplifting. Ziggy and Coco must be so excited to have a new foal and baby bunnies. So a new house for my grandchildren here and newborn friends for my grandchildren in Puerto Rico makes me a very happy Oma.
