Keeping in Touch

It was my niece's birthday this past week so son K dropped this card over to her house with a monetary gift enclosed. I added the '25' with some stickers.  My niece said they stuck it in a closet for a few days due to covid.  Then she would be allowed to open it.  My sister had email money transferred gifts to my kids for their April birthdays recently. She was unable to go shopping as she usually prefers to.

I called my uncle's partner to see how they were both doing. My uncle has been in a long term care home for awhile now with deteriorating Alzheimer's. He was actually my departed 2nd cousin's husband and was lucky to find a devoted partner after my cousin died. So the partner is as fine as can be these days. Of course she is unable to visit the care home at the moment and does worry about my uncle. However a few of the workers there are kind enough to put her on the phone to speak to him regularly. He doesn't say much but I am sure he can hear her voice and it must do him a world of good. Fortunately his care home has weathered the covid crisis so far, we have had a lot of long term care covid deaths in Toronto.

In other news, I have started weeding a bit every day. Last week I was surprised as the neighbour across the street gave me a big hello saying he had not seen me for awhile. He seemed to be in the mood to talk. I am usually the one to strike up a conversation. People need to socialize, isn't it true, regardless of how private or introverted one might be. I asked him how the grocery shopping was going, to which he replied that we had no choice it is still something we have to do. I told him we were thinking of where and how to get lawn fertilizer. He thought that although places like Home Depot are opening up there might be lines. He seemed to be going off to the grocery store himself. It was a brisk, windy kind of day, not a day to stand talking to neighbours really, albeit socially distanced.