Jeff Stahler for April 13, 2021

We, as soon as we were 3 weeks post-vaccine, actually went out to a restaurant to eat. In the restaurant!

Separate vacations.

Netflix

A copy of Stanley Kubrick’s movie version of The Stand.

Kubrick’s telling was about the horrors of being trapped with your nuclear family 24/7.

King’s was about the horrors of being trapped in a cursed dwelling full of malevolent ghosts.

“How can I miss you, when you won’t go away?” – Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks

Actually, I think it’s simply choosing not to be pregnant during a pandemic. People are afraid of what that might do to either them or the child.

Put those masks on.

Maturity is learning to live with that that cannot be changed.

Fortunately, my wife and I still like hanging out with each other.

Both of us work from home, but we see very little of each other. We have to work at getting to have lunch together.

For me and my best girl, lots of hugs every day. Something to make us laugh often. Hearing that our middle-aged children are now on the list for vaccine. Flowering almond budding. Dogwoods shiny white. Columbines, iris, day lilies showing lots of fronds. Crabgrass and spider grass invading. Yes, even irritations get a bye this year. Just happy to be around to fuss about them.

S-o-o-o there is not just one thing to celebrate but many. Just takes looking.

News that enough have been vaccinated worldwide that we have herd immunity.

It’s been a year?

analysis gift card?

Getting to know you, getting to know ALL about you!

A steel hatchet. You bury one in each other’s skulls.

A mask.

Now that we have had our shots and waited the required two weeks, we will celebrate our quasi freedom with another couple of like condition with dinner tomorrow at the Old Hill Villa Restaurant and enjoy the view of Mt Hood over expensive steaks. Hooray, Hooray.

I know quite a few millennials who weren’t going to have children if Trump was re-elected (very small sample, I know). Anyway, there could be a Biden Baby Boom if the financial concerns cited by Darsan54 don’t turn out to continue/worsen.

Separate vacations?

Divorce papers?

Hubby and I are both retired, so we spend a lot of time together anyway. We can go to church now and a week ago we met another couple for lunch. We work a lot of jigsaw puzzles – trade them around at church! – have read read a bunch of books. One of us could have has a PhD by this time, if we’d kept track.

Life.

Ice cream.