20 April 2020

Hi Bonnie,

I'll paste this into an e-mail instead of printing it out.

Quarantine hasn't changed things much here, except that I'm not getting enough exercise.  I used to try to take an all-day bike ride every week, and got through the winter pretty well, but now there is nowhere to go.  I plan to leave a stoneware water bowl in front of the animal shelter this week, but that's not a very long ride even when I stick to almost-no-traffic roads.

I continue to walk to church every Sunday, and climb the staircases.  I wipe the gaskets of the refrigerators, but don't even look at the ice even though it's almost certain that I'm not shedding virus.

Yesterday I ran into the pastor -- at a safe distance -- and he signed me up to lead banner-making classes when normal activities resume.  Tentatively scheduled for Wednesday nights.  I suppose that I'd better compose a poster, and make a list of what I should buy when Lowery's opens again.  I think I have everything but iron-on glue in my stash.

I've been reasonably well.  I'll have a new crown installed when the understaffed lab gets around to making it.  I'm scheduled for Mohs surgery in May, but the hardest part of that is driving to Fort Wayne.  This is a living-in-the-future moment:  I've got cancer, and it's *trivial*.  I don't even need a driver to take me home -- but Dave may be desperate for a road trip by then.

22 April 2020

I think today is the day I drop off the stoneware bowl.  I'll avoid the Heritage Trail and keep my mask handy.

Joy