vacationing muse

It was bright and sunny and we had somewhere to go today! In winter coats… but still, it was sunny and glorious.

Carm wore his mask and disinfected his hands and I stayed in the car so we probably survived our winey outing. 

My muse must be on vacation as I have absolutely nothing to say… or perhaps it’s the mindless pap that I’ve been reading today has liquified my brain. I’ve got 3 books on the go, well, really 2 as I haven’t started ‘Secret Garden’ yet. One of them is a collection of essays by Joan Didion who was a political essayist in the 60s and 70s, and the other a really lame romance novel that seems to remove any intelligence that I might have had. 

A photo of new life seemed like an uplifting photo to include. This is Petra taking her first drink of Viktoria’s life giving milk. I can’t remember the year. Petra was born in the middle of the night, like many foals, with both Deirdre and myself in attendance. Probably Carm too.

Headline tonight:  Calgary stampede cancelled. Ontario extends state of emergency till May 6th. 878,779 cases, with 49,751 deaths in the US. There are a total of 42,110 (40,190 yesterday) cases of Covid-19 in Canada today, with 2,147 (1,974 yesterday) deaths to date.

“And they both began to laugh over nothing as children will when they are happy together. And they laughed so that in the end they were making as much noise as if they had been two ordinary healthy natural ten-year-old creatures—instead of a hard, little, unloving girl and a sickly boy who believed that he was going to die.”

~Frances Hodgson Burnett