update.. ?

 Bob's shipments of N95 masks arrived and we gave some to our daughters. 

Teacher/daughter's school is now up to 25%  of staff and students either ill or quarantined.  Thanks to Missouri's Republican governor no school districts are allowed to go virtual for more than 5 days this school year, so her district managed to work around things this past Friday. Monday is Martin Luther King Day, a federal holiday, and Tuesday  is a staff training day.  A four day weekend which will allow the custodial staff to go into ALL the buildings for a deep clean. Hopefully that will slow down the covid spread.

Wednesday she will be wearing her N95 mask !!

 I wore mine for the first time today. Our area stats are pretty bad so we have been wearing masks anyway. Today I wore the N95 one... I like the way it has elastic to go over the back of my head ( no getting in the way of my hearing aids and glasses) but it is a little harder to breathe through it. I am sure I will get used to it!!

We were disappointed with so many of our fellow customers not wearing any type of a mask !!

As Bob says... it doesn't matter. We wore ours!!

Yesterday it snowed... starting late the night before with rain. By evening we had received about 4 inches. Bob was stuck shoveling the driveway.... and the huge swath of "stuff" the snowplow left at the end and in front of the mailbox. The temps have dropped but not lower than the 20's overnight.

Birds have been crowding around the seed Bob put out... juncos, sparrows, chicadees and blue jays. A sparrow tried to take advantage but rapping on the window sent him scurrying away. Tigger the Tripper ( the orange cat) sits watching at the window!!

He's also watches Bob at the front door window while Bob is shoveling...Tigger mews, not happy with Bob out there !! Also runs his claws on the window... nasty scratching noise which makes one have goose bumps!!