Working from home, growth, good news

My first day working from home was not unproductive. I could have accomplished  lot more at the office, but that was not allowed. My workgroup communicated through the day via Slack. I had to keep reminding myself to open and look at the program to make sure I was up to date on the discussions. in one of those discussion threads, I got an assignment that I will actually be able to work on from home. However, the assignment required more materials – electronic and digital – than I would be able to access from home. For that reason, I am in the office this morning to gather those materials. I will only be here for half the day. Unless it turns out that I need more time than that. It is nice to have breakfast and lunch with Mama. To be available to help her whenever she needs my help. To steal a kiss frequently. I could get used to that since she I my life’s most pleasant distraction.

While working from home yesterday, I kept up with the mopping. Water trickled in all day. It worstened when we got a rain shower, but eventually slacked off to the point that we had to check about once every thirty minutes or so. When I got up this morning, I expceted to see a small flood, but the floor was completely dry. Praise the Lord! Once I was officially off for the day yesterday, I did a careful check of the exterior wall where it joins to the patio. The crack between the two has grown somewhat, but it would be hard for me to prove since I do not have measurements of the original opening. Sealing the crack will require a lot of caulk. Fortuantely, that is not in short supply. At least, I do not think it is. I plan to check on my way home later this morning.

Cori, Nate and the kids are still housebound in Honduras. It would seem that, as of this morning, so are those living in California. It is hard to see where this will end – as far as the Coronavirus is concerned. Meanwhile, the oil market has been flooded and the short term effect has sent oil prices into the lowest pricepoints seen in decades. In spite of the news, that is what is causing the market to fall so dramatically. When those prices rebound, the market will fly higher at a dizzing rate. Those who have money to invest at that time, will make a fortune. Unfortunately, many are currently losing a fortune. Mama and I currently have all our money in real estate. Look in the bright side, gas is very cheap with oil prices where they are. We will recover from this. And we will recover quickly compared to past recoveries. My hope is that by the end of the summer, we will be well into the recovery. Time will tell. Meanwhile, sit tight. Buy what you need and a little extra. We will have enough to go around. Keep trusting the Lord. He is still in control.

After Mama and I fed the animals yesterday evening, I took the time to put together a simple trellis for the grape vine. It is thriving in the flowerbed with the blueberries and asparagas and has grown to the point that I needed to give it a place to attach its new growth or that new growth would either start falling toward the ground or attaching itself to the nearet blueberry bush. Neither of those options was acceptable but I wanted a trellis that was almost invisible. Using repurposed fencing parts I built a frame and drove some anchor posts into the ground. Once the frame was in place, I attached just enough wire to give the new vines something to hold on to. The result was about as good as I can expect. Mama is okay with it and it will serve the purpose required.

Mama is runnung out of eggs to sell. Since the gorcery stores are sold out of eggs, people have been coming to her. One person we know very well got quite irritated that Mama would not just give the eggs to her since she is a friend of ours. Mama is not charging much for the eggs. Three dollars per dozen. So everyone who heard about the eggs wants two to three dozen. We are currently getting about two dozen per day. We will top out at about three dozen per day. Mama can sell all of that production easily. We will have to take our allotment from that total, but we should be fine. I will be eating less eggs. The only blood test that came up less than perfect was my cholesterol. It was quite high considering I typically run low on both counts of cholerterol. I will change that dietarily. I don’t like cholerterol medication.

It is tough to say what next week will bring, but the announcement of an effective treatment of individuals sick with COVID-19, the publisized recovery of numerous well-known celebreties diagnosed with the virus and the lightening of the panic instilled by false reporting should produce a greater calm than we have seen recently.

We cound all use some of that.