I haven't posted anything for many, many months as the fun after years of weekly posts just wore a bit thin. But there have been a few requests for this to come back from friends and family, so here I go again. Also, in this time of "sheltering in place", "self quarantining", or my personal favorite from our home state - "safer at home" - it just seemed right to reconnect with everyone. Especially, since as a strong introvert I really needed to reach out to others to be happy and content during my seclusion - oh, that isn't right. As I have said before, introverts really rule in retirement - well you can add introverts ruling in self quarantining to that list. Gee, the president of the US and the governor of WI want me to stay home by myself and not see other people. Well, I'll try to make do - especially since I have books, computer games, and a comfy couch to do all that with - as it actually sounds like heaven to me. 
We are healthy and, so far at least, virus free. Unless of course you consider paranoia and becoming a major germaphobe an unhealthy behavior. In which case, we are fully infected. We are doing our best to maintain social distancing and being good little rule followers we have expanded the recommended six feet to somewhere around 20 feet or so. We are going out for a daily walk just to get some exercise and a plot of our walks looks like a drunken zig zag home from the bars. If we see anyone within a block of us on the same side of the street we are rapidly moving to the other side, turning a corner, or moving into the actual street. A straight line, one mile walk might take us anywhere from 2 to 3 miles with all the zig zagging we are doing. Anything to not come within any distance that we think the virus could jump - I mean have you seen the legs on those virus particles. As our attempts at social distancing have gone on, we find we are looking for ever more distance as it seems to feed and grow our natural paranoia - pretty soon we won't go out without the entire city of Madison being kept inside.Anyway, we are really having a fairly good time laughing at our attempts to stay virus free (yes, we quarantine the mail, newspaper, and packages for days - don't ask we are just nuts), tackling some chores around the house, getting a jigsaw puzzle going, and the aforementioned computer games and books.
Anyway, I will try to be diligent in posting for now - and to enjoy a little shot of spring the photos are of our blooming orchid (it blooms on some unknown cycle and despite anything we do to it) and the lake Mendota looking particularly fetching this morning.
