the results

It’s quite chilly today - a far cry from the 34C+ of a few days ago. Alas, the pool is back to arctic temperatures and if I saw a beluga whale in it I wouldn’t be surprised. Speaking of whales - a humpback whale is swimming in the St. Lawrence in Montreal! What the heck!

I didn’t want to mention it until we got our results back, but Thursday Carm and I got tested for Covid-19. We’d both had some mild symptoms that we felt were spring allergies, but with our premier Doug Ford on the tv urging everyone to get tested we thought ‘what the heck’. Well, the  heck started with making us stay in isolation until we got the test results back. We hadn’t bargained on that! They said it would only be a day or two, but turned out to be 3 ½ days, screwing up our weekend plans.

We went to a drive through test in a village not far from home. The parking lot was divided by cones to move the traffic around, starting with a stop sign that had an intercom on it. They took our information there, including our cell phone numbers. From there we went to a parking lot to wait our turn. While we were waiting they called us to confirm our information and give us some instructions. We didn’t have to wait much longer till we were called again letting us know it was time to drive to the testing spot. We rolled down our windows and waited for the woman to put on new PPE. 

Then the test.

It wasn’t too bad, honestly, although I thought for a moment that she’d gone all the way to the back of my skull and possibly into my brain… It stung but was over quickly. I’d do it again without hesitation, so don’t worry too much if it’s ever your turn. Carm felt nothing after a few minutes, but I could feel it for a few hours - I’m more of a suck I guess! I did end up with a terrible headache for the rest of the day, but I don’t blame the test - I think it was starting before the test.

As the next few days passed we signed onto the online results site a million times to check for our results. We weren’t surprised but were somewhat relieved when finally late this afternoon they came back NEGATIVE.

We planted some trees a few weeks ago that we thought were chokecherries, but now that the leaves are out we can see they are silver maple. They are planted way too close to each other so we’ll have to move 2 of them in the fall.

Today I made buns to have with our Italian Beef sandwiches tonight. I’ve made them once before, probably close to 11 weeks ago when this all started.  Yes… it’s been ELEVEN weeks! (No wonder everyone across the world is starting to go insane.) They are a very satisfying bread to make as the dough turns into an elastic ball as the kneading proceeds. And after it’s risen the first time, forming into balls is positively sensual. One of our favorite breads is no-knead which takes some of the satisfaction away.

Headline tonight: Rioting continues across the USA. 1,837,170 cases with 106,195 deaths in the US. There are a total of 90,947 (90,166 yesterday) cases of Covid-19 in Canada today, with 7,295 (7,073 yesterday) deaths today.

“Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science.”

~Anthony Fauci