Day 19: 

It was sunny today.  YAY!  It means getting OUTSIDE!  As I've done just about all that can be done in my garden until everything really starts growing, I'm thinking of taking my clippers out to the communal front gardens and trimming back the dead wood on the bushes.  That will busy me for an hour or so.

Having Grace locked in her bedroom and never coming forth has taken me back to her teen years here.  The only difference is that she would come out to eat.  I have been slipping her meals under the protective plastic.  It's only been 1 full day.  This is going to get old fast.

Another 900 or so dead in the last 24 hours.  Every evening at 6 the government puts out the official number of deceased.  We are running out of old people.  There have been the first deaths in MIL's home town.  She is taking it more seriously now.  Though she still has some odd ideas.  Her priest called to check on her today.  Up until the lock down she had been volunteering every Monday morning in the church office and she and the priest have become very friendly.  MIL told him to "drop in when he takes his daily walk".  Gian Piero almost had a coronary.  He told her no one can "drop in" because we are all in lock down and, by the way, Don Giuseppe isn't out walking every day either!  Her answer?  "The virus won't touch Don Giuseppe.  He's a priest."  Uh huh.  When GP called to tell me this he was hiding in the bathroom.  Evidently his privacy is not something she has learned to respect in all the years he has lived away from home.  When she hears him on the phone she walks in the room and listens.  He'll be spending a lot of time in the bathroom.

Stay well.  xxoo me