COVID_19 Day 5: Oh yeah, I need to do things, too...

Today was Marriner's first day home from the office, but he did have to go up to work anyway - someone in the lab left his laptop charger, and Marriner is on the short list of people who can still get into the office, because he had an experiment running at the time of shut-down. So he went and got his friend's charger for him. Then he Fed-ex'd it to him over night for $8, instead of 3-day, which was $35. FedEx is weird.

Kids still put in a full day of work at home, but some of them are starting to get through their work for the week, and I think we'll have some more down time toward the weekend. I've spent most of the week helping everyone else get the things they need taken care of, and sometime this evening I realized that I was spending a lot of time of Facebook because, you know, that's the easiest thing to do when you might get interrupted any moment. And there are a lot of funny jokes right now, and even a lot of good ideas... But, it's time to get off Facebook and get some work done! So I went out and worked in the garden. Got one whole flower bed cut back and ready for the spring. Also took some skin off the back of my thumb, and now I have a bandaid there, which makes it hard to wash hands a lot. Stupid virus.

After gardening, we went to the school yard and played kickball for our exercise time. We played with one person pitching and everyone else rotating to kick. If you weren't kicking, you were in the outfield. A funny play was after Jane and Sam had drifted off to the playground, my turn to kick came up with loaded bases...and there was nobody in the field except Martha, who was pitching. It looked like a guaranteed home run. But Lige stopped on 3rd base and kept me from running in until Martha had the ball back, so I only got a tripple. Well played, Lige. :)

Sam is still having a blast playing chess with Grandpa. We invited an uncle who is quarantined to play with us, but claimed he was no good at chess. He doesn't know what he's missing :)

After dinner, we watched funny spoof videos with the kids. There are a lot of them right now! Then we did some karaoke before the Branch youth activity.

Yes! We had a Branch youth activity! We found a game you can play online together, coupled with a Zoom meeting to be able to talk to one another. They had a fun time, though the end was mired in technical difficulties. But yay for creative solutions to social distancing difficulties!