when will this end?

we are asked to wear masks now when in stores. Maya has to go with Naomi on shopping runs. I haven't been in a store in a month

Kaya will be a year old in a month

When will we be on the beach again

Very old polaroid of my brother and me in a camera store. Camera stores in the 60s usually had a frieze of Kodak prints along their walls. My job would be to pick out the ones my father took. He entered various contests sponsored by them and usually won something

As we are all healthy and can afford food, I should not complain especially when I read accounts of inside the hospitals where workers working double shifts aren't given enough protection to do their jobs. Detroit now is death central yet Trump thinks we will be able to open up our country next month.  Every day unemployment finds some new issue to be addressed in Naomi's application. We think we finally get things settled but no, the next day a new issue.

Graupel. This is a bizarre mix of rain and snow forming ice balls distinct from hail. We were bombarded with it the other day even though it was close to 50.

Had another Zoom meeting with my friends. I have had a few outside visits with friends and family. I am getting tired of language apps. I should prepare all my gardens though the nurseries will be shut down until May. Hopefully by mid-May they will open some of them up not so much for my sake but it is a big business around here. I get depressed when I think of the fall out from all these closures and furious as you know who takes absolutely no responsibility in his part in this. All he can do is gloat how high his TV ratings are. Even the WSJ had an editorial the other day how no one tunes in to hear him but to hear Fauci. He released a series of tweets saying the WSJ is fake news and a tool of the Democrats which is hardly the case.  There was this old Twilight Zone episode in which this tyrannical child could read your thoughts. If he thought you weren't thinking the best of him, he could turn you into an inanimate object so people had to constantly suck up to him.

Ancestry keeps updating its databases. I am now more "norwegian' than before. My bad brca gene is a Norwegian founder gene. I assume it is from my mother's side but none of her many relatives will get themselves tested. I did note that my cousin's son has half the Norwegian ancestry as I do (which is what my kids would have) so it is a good chance it is my mom's side. I finally talked to my cousin, who has been avoiding me as she doesn't want to deal with this. Did she at least tell her childen, one of which has children who could be at risk?Of course not.

We have been watching Netflix and Amazon Prime at night. We just finished up "valhalla murders" which takes place in Iceland. Not even the police carry guns. At one point a police woman is going into the lair of a known killer. A gun would come in handy then. She has to call in a request to open the safe in her car trunk to get an ever changing password to have access to her gun while valuable seconds are ticking away.