20 December 2020
I no longer mark the week’s passage by my wall calendar. Instead, it is by my weekly pill organizers. I have one for morning pills and one for evening pills. Fortunately, none of my medications require a middle time frame organizer or pills four times a day.
Sunday evenings are when I restock the organizers and that’s when I know another week has passed. There used to be a lot of ways to denote the passing of a week – calendars, favorite tv shows, exercise patterns – but all that pales in comparison to social distancing during the pandemic when tv shows are repeated ad nauseum, or at least available on your favorite streaming service.
Even weekly pill organizers are not fool proof, particularly if you forget a change in medication or get busy and forget to take the evening pills. Then what do you do? What I do is fill six slots next time, not seven. You’d think at 72 years of age and retired I could come up with a better system for marking time but here I am.
This past week has been situation normal. The pandemic is still roaring away, new exposés every day about our governor’s attempts to mislead people on Covid, the daily rate of cases continues to yo-yo, Donald Trump is thinking about a coup d’état and the weather is beautiful.
It’s actually a little too beautiful. I had to work on the sprinkler system this past week to clear the sprinkler heads. My sprinkler system is on well water (high in iron content) and therefore doesn’t affect my water bill. Homeowners tap into the Floridan aquifer for water to water the yards and golf courses. Of course, we are slowly/quickly depleting the aquifer.
I haven’t needed sprinklers during the rainy season and the heads somehow get clogged over the summer. From here on until the rainy season in May I’ll be using the sprinklers twice a week (Broward county is still under water restrictions and we can only water two days a week) and periodically adding water to the pool because of the rapid evaporation rate. The pool water level can drop an inch or two within a week. Too low and you burn out the pool pump.
I never thought about evaporation rate until I worked for a short time as a botanist/plant ecologist with the Bureau of Land Management in Miles City, Montana. I was hired on in the fall of the year and it snowed on Thanksgiving day. That original snow was still on the ground when I left in April to take up a job as park manager of Golden Memorial State Park in Walnut Grove, Mississippi.
The reason I learned about evaporation rates was Montana had seasonal bodies of water on which ranchers depended. What little water that was available was either by very deep wells or seasonal coulees that ran through ranches or constructed ponds.
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Some of my time this week was helping out a friend figure out his new lap top and getting his printer to work. The job was made more difficult because his lap top is a PC product and all my gear is Apple. It’s been 5 years since I’ve worked on a PC and the Windows operating system and I’ve forgotten all the commands and short cuts for Windows.
We finally worked out a system where we did FaceTime with his and my iPhone and I got him to reverse the camera on his phone so he could show me his lap top screen. It took a while but we finally got everything figured out. We even got the printer to working. Fortunately, control P seems to be a fairly universal command.
Today has been a lazy day for me. I did my morning walk of 2 miles but didn’t do my yoga stretches or get into the pool. That’s another thing. With the cooler temperatures, the pool heater comes on in the morning so that will mean a higher gas bill. It’s not completely offset by the lower A/C bill but it does allow me to swim year round. Later on in the “winter” it’ll come on in both the morning and afternoon and then I’ll really be paying a high gas bill.
Three more friends were exposed to the virus but fortunately did not test positive. This thing is a long way from being over. Great Britain has now discovered a variant that is more highly contagious. I predict we’ll be getting Covid vaccines every year just like the flu vaccine.
My song recommendation is Don Gibson’s “Sea of Heartbreak.” Seems appropriate considering the continuing bad news.
Stay tuned and stay safe!
