My third day working on the “Carnival” warp with just ten inches woven. (I discovered that the acid green I’d hoped to use was from a very old first dyelot of the color and the yarn itself thicker than the others. I finished off a very old blue skein like that in the recent blue warp.) Twenty or more inches today, I hope, and I will bake bread. We had salad last night for dinner! Such a relief after no fresh greens for a week. Salads for the next couple of weeks, and I have leeks to make leek soup, potatoes to go into the soup or for oven fries, cheese!, green beans I will roast tomorrow. Potato chips are a treat. 

We found forty-seven bits of seaglass yesterday morning—colorless, brown (dark orange), green, pale blue-green. It was dozens over our record for a single day. We did not even get far down the beach, but came home after searching for over an hour and had granola for breakfast.

Gary has not been buying lottery tickets, but he did drive north yesterday to pick up one of his favorite beers.

We mailed our granddaughter’s birthday gift too, a week ahead of time. I am so sorry not to be able to bake her a cake. That is one of my most treasured tasks, baking birthday cakes for grandchildren. Instead, I will make a blueberry pie for our Easter here.

Gary spotted about five whimbrels yesterday and a female hummingbird in the rosemary in the evening. The hummers often nest nearby and our garden is planted to provide flowers twelve months of the year for the Anna’s Hummingbird. The Rufous are seasonal and larger and aggressive, but they love the “Lucifer” montbrecia so we will see them later. We had no hard freezes this winter. Even some annuals like nasturtiums wintered over.

We have our routine both for each day and for the week. Over a hundred thousand people have been recorded as dying from the new virus, though the count is inevitably low. It will take years to reach a more accurate count. The 1918 influenza pandemic infected far more than the original count showed. The so-called “Spanish flu”, “estimated to have killed between 50 million and 100 million people when it swept the globe in 1918-19 – more than double the number killed in the first world war. Two-thirds of its victims died in a three-month period and most were aged 18-49,” has a lot to teach us. Good news: social distancing worked in 1918. Cities that were most conservative and careful and locked down early, hard, and long, bounced back the fastest.

We are waiting for the sun to push enough light over the coast range to give us our walk. Maybe we will walk faster and further today. I hope so.

We are a full month in to lockdown. We still have books to read and projects to complete, gardening and walks each day. We bought gas for the first time but have not bought take-out. All the groceries from Thursday have been wiped down with bleach, but some packages are still aging in place just like us.