It's Good for Me to Take Long Walks

 I meander about the streets of the town for perhaps an hour and a half, most mornings.

Our winter is "walkable" this year: little snow and ice.  And that is a big Blessing, I should note.

We need to count our Blessings!

Road traffic is very light and foot traffic is freakishly rare. Me and a few dog walkers and one or two others.  It is like one of those stories from the 1950's where, after the A-Bomb, someone finds themselves to be the last person left on earth.  It is weird.

I don't think there is any Covid-19 out there in the cold, depopulated sunshine and fresh air. So I'm not afraid to go for a walk.  Or maybe it is simply too cold for people to come out?  (I have been known to walk in bad weather.)

Having said that, I am careful to "avoid" coming near to people, out on a walk or in the grocery store, or so on. We are eating lightly, with pretty good nutrition, no alcohol or etc., taking our few meds and trying to sleep as well as possible. I take melatonin every night so I get 5 or 6 hours of sleep.

Powerful forces seem deliberate about ruining the economies of the world; just senseless destruction: "If we can't have it, nobody will"- that kind of logic.       

The entire situation is "to be survived".

Really Bad Babysitters: #2 If you hate to see Cheaters "win"

 and thieves go unpunished and justice left undone....then this feels like a pretty rotten day.

And it is.

However, You are Not the Only One. 

About to be Left with the Really Bad Babysitters???

The Current Situation:

 A year or so ago, I was chain-reading every Alan Furst novel I could find in my local library--which has all of them.

He writes historical thrillers of the brave resistance fighters and simple citizens of Europe during the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Very readable and inspiring novels. 

I wondered how the people must have felt in those occupied authoritarian nations: soon I will learn, I guess. 

I have managed to avoid the Covid-19 virus by living my normal reclusive life: I don't miss "people" very much, if I'm being honest. Socializing now seems like "play acting". 

However, I insisted on doing my own shopping and errands:

#1 Rule of Old Lady's Game is remaining actively busy at taking care of the things I should do. Not letting others do these things, or delegating to services. (I like selecting my own produce).

I am very careful about cleanliness when doing these errands.

After all, in past years, I avoided catching SARS and MERS, other plagues we didn't start ourselves. But I understand that if a person is naturally inclined to like socializing then it is difficult to stay away from friends. So far, so good.

I go for an active, hour long walk most days; though after nearly 40-years of living in the same house in the same neighborhood, I am bored to my bones. It is flat around here, and I miss a few hills and vistas.

I was the child of a military family--an Army Brat. A move every year or two or three was hard-wired into my system----and here, I have lived for nearly 40 years.  So we shall see. There is the beginning of a plan.