The entire month of April was under Governor Inslee's COVID-19 “lockdown
order”, or as Washington calls it – Stay Home, Stay Safe! Being retired on a fixed income, while living
in a rural area w/few neighbors, it is very easy for us to keep our social
distance. But it still isn’t pleasant, especially
w/Washington enjoying phenomenal weather during the first half of April (on
track for the second driest April on record!).
Although over the last few years our RV BLOG almost never has
anything to say about us RV’ing, we usually can discuss other events like
visiting grandkids & kids in east Bremerton, day trips to Seattle, dining
and/or social activities in Monroe & Snohomish, visiting friends & family
in local area, etc. No longerL
Not even Easter in Bremerton w/kids & grandkids to decorate eggs w/grandkids &
then watch the easter egg hunt. Just the
two of us; & an excellent dinner prepared by Corrie. Now all we have to tell you about projects or
mundane chores around the house/property.
One unique project for Corrie was making facemasks for both kids
& their family, as well as us.
For those of you who have visited our place, you know Corrie has
always spent a lot of time on her flower beds & the vegetable/fruit garden. Now instead of a few hours a day spent
gardening, she can spend almost all day on it.
Already we have fresh lettuce being picked & eaten. So far looks like bumper crops ahead for the rabbits to enjoy, &
as always beautiful flower beds!
Dan’s main project was to clear out the shop area behind our
parked RV. Turns out all the “stuff” we
used to store in the basement of our old RV won’t even begin to fit in new RV,
& needs a proper place to be stored our shop/RV garage building. Not to mention our fourteen foot diameter
above ground pool that we dumped on the shop floor for the winter. Building two 2ft by 12ft shelves should help?
Another project on his to do list for the last eight years was
insulate & drywall one small corner of the attached garage (the last
section to be done). So Dan used all the
scrap insulation pieces from other projects, to insulate the area & cover
it with pegboard finishing 90% of the job – enough to get all the drywall
tools, paint tools, cement tools, tile tools, etc, of the floor & on to the
pegboard.
Obeying the Governor's Stay
Home, Stay Safe, order Dan decided to show his artistic side by taking up
painting. Like Van Gogh who was known for his series of paintings dealing only
with sunflowers, or Monet & his water lilies series; Dan experimented with
a series dealing only with spilt paint?
Oh Yeah – normal spring weather returned & last half of
April was wet! Not even close to any
record for driest April.
As before, we are still doing
very well; & hope you & yours are doing as well, or better, in these
trying timesJ!
