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Cold weather still dominates my life right now

9/8/2020

Clicking a pic shows that you have no fear of the unknown.

My grandsons first day back at school on a chilly wet Denver morning with snow in the forecast.

As often is the case, the weather guessers shuffled around their weather guesstimations a little bit and moved our snow event forward from this morning to this afternoon. I know they do the best they can, and predicting the weather in a mountainous area is extremely difficult. It can vary from mountainside to mountainside, so I suppose we're lucky to have anyone that will even try to predict the weather around here.

It got pretty chilly last night but didn't get down below freezing. That blessed event is supposed to occur sometime tonight, so I'll have to wait and see if I'm going to need to run my furnace or not to keep the basement pipes from freezing. It sure is a weird feeling to go from the mid-90s yesterday to today's high 30s; it messes you up both mentally and physically. I knew there was a reason I didn't throw away all of my thermal underwear when I became a full-timer.

My Grandsons school started today. I haven't figured out yet if I need to be worried about the Bat flu again or not. I've been very limited to the number of people I've been around since I've been here in Denver. I'm not isolated like I was before in Arizona, but I'm not around very many people and usually only briefly. But having my grandson exposed to a classroom full of students and teachers would seem to open up more opportunities for everyone to catch something, but I don't know if that's a problem or not.

Despite all the controversy over going back to school there appears to be three scenarios that all the scientists agree on..... It's not a problem. It is a problem. And lastly, we don't know whether it's a problem or not... Not being a scientist myself, I'm glad I have expert opinions I can fall back on.

theboondork

Just a taste of things to come later today. It's already below freezing but the snow hasn't really started yet.

Close-up of a Black-Eyed Susan growing next to the road. It sure is complicated for such a simple looking flower.

6 Comments

Thomas

9/8/2020 06:47:43 pm

(Do not post this if you don't wanna. OK?)

Happy birthday! I don't know exactly which day of September is your birthday, but I just decided to send you birthday wishes today. If it has already passed, I hope it was great. If it is yet to come, be sure and enjoy it. I think you, the OFM, and I are the same age and our birthdays are only a few weeks apart.

Tom

9/8/2020 07:19:56 pm

I do try and keep my birth date a secret because I don't want everyone sending me expensive gifts like a new GMC diesel truck, or a set of Michelin tires for the Arctic Fox, or even a case of Maine lobsters. Because I would be obligated to send everyone a "thank you" card and that would require a lot of effort on my part. But I certainly appreciate the thought and I wish you the best for your birthday.

By the way, the "old fat man" is waaaay older than I am. He was RVing when I was still in diapers. And now I'm RVing and he's so old he's in diapers.

Tom

Judith

9/8/2020 08:35:23 pm

Ahhh. What cute munchkins with their face masks on....off to school. A scary time. Some kids get it and have problems, most don't. Just like most people below 60. I do hope all goes well with him. Schools opened here a couple of weeks ago. And it's in every school....all ages, and some staff. Only very few cases yet, but I live in a small town. Your grandson is a cutie pie. Hope he does well and can stay healthy. Meanwhile, I think that blackeyed susan heart looks just like the COVID virus. Sheesh.

9/8/2020 09:34:31 pm

You're right that Black-Eyed Susan does look like a Covid virus. Those things grow wild alongside a lot of the roads around here.

Yes I hope the best for my Grandson to. Around here you can choose to home school on the Internet or attend class with all of the Covid restrictions in place. He wanted to be with his friends. My daughter has a close friend that's a child psychologist and she told my daughter that a lot of the little kids are having troubles with the Internet schools because a lot of what school does during the early years is teach socialization, and they're not getting that from the Internet.

I hope things work out because this is one time we have to trust the experts on the virus because we don't know enough to make decisions about the virus, and it seems like the experts don't know a whole lot more than we do. And to make matters worse because it's an election year some decisions are being made based on politics and not necessarily on what's good for the folks, and we end up not knowing who or what to trust. And when your kids and grandkids health is at stake being in the dark is not a good place to be.

Tom

9/10/2020 08:53:20 pm

Oh yes. A hard decision to make, but I'm on board with kids being able to be around other kids and have some school stuff to learn as well. Oh Oh best wishes.

9/10/2020 09:23:40 pm

You would think with kids going to school all over the world the experts could figure out how to do it safely, or if it's even a problem at all. The grandkids have been isolated all Spring and Summer as have the other kids in the neighborhood. I don't know how long the kids, and the parents can live like that.

Tom

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