Monday, March 16, 2020

I spent a lot of time this morning with Hall work. Answering questions about cancellations, offering refunds, updating the Facebook and website regarding cancellations. Not everything has cancelled; a few of the smaller groups are continuing as far as I know but with everything changing on a daily basis they may all be done before long. Fortunately the Hall can afford the loss over the next while.

I have decided to self-isolate as much as possible. There are still a few trips out that I feel I need to make; short and local ones and nothing that involves crowds of people.

Today I was in search of birthday gifts and tomorrow I’m going to have to get out to the Post Office to mail them – not essential I know but I don’t think any harm will be done by doing it. There are still a lot of people on the streets. I renewed my prescriptions and picked up vitamins so I’ll have lots to get by with should I have to completely isolate myself.

I won’t be going to my usual sewing sessions; again the crowds are under the 50 that are recommended but I can sew at home and probably get more done. I intended to stop at the fabric shop after sewing tomorrow; I need backing for a quilt and I wanted to make my final payment for the Spring retreat. The quilt can wait for backing (I have plenty of quilts to work on until I get it) and I’ll wait a bit on the payment to see if the retreat goes ahead. It takes place on school property so it could be shut down if the schools are closed.

So why am I so unsettled? I have plenty to do, we have plenty of food in the house and, a week ago, having nowhere to go would have felt like an absolute holiday. I’m hoping tomorrow and the rest of the week can be more productive.

Pat and I are heading to the Hall tonight to give out refunds for the two shows that were cancelled. I may also have a couple of people show up to pick up deposit refunds for Hall events.