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May Long Weekend..

The day that followed the morning went by with little adventure, mostly I puttered around the garden, while waning clouds floated over the valley and sprinkled the garden. I've been meaning to write of these cancer treatments but find myself pushing past the daily visits in an unconscious movement of not looking back, something I probably taught myself through the grief of losing dad. At any event I have two more weeks and two days left of radiation treatments, on the cusp of a covid outbreak at my hospital. I can only hope that those nurses in the icu and other health workers who tested positive will get through this sickness swiftly, and lightly. And that the rest of us stay healthy. Its our Canadian May long weekend, the official start to our camping season from which is usually met with a parade of rv's on the freeway. This year however, because of this pandemic, campsites will not open until June, though I can assure you people are camping in our mountains off forestry

Coffee and words.

The heat of the day has fallen. The beginning of May has been surprisingly warm, record breaking even. Everyone is gardening, and setting up patio lights. There's been this false security here however, even within myself, from which you wouldn't know there's a pandemic occurring in British Columbia out from the regular movement of citizens-that being said we as a province have done due diligence earlier on with the flattening of the curve, and continue to see numbers go down. But we have also been warned that we are not at the end of the pandemic yet, and need to be mindful of others and patient while we slowly go through the stages of reopening. So far we are days away from being allowed to be in a group of six, preferably outdoors, and sitting a distance from one another.  It all sounds so foreign, this time in our life. Twitter reminds me just how challenging it is for others, especially in other countries. In some cases I couldn't bear seeing anymore tragic new