Monday, March 23, 2020

Monday Morning This and That

Good morning everyone.  Last night the 'stay at home' order took effect.  What this means is that 100 percent of the workforce must work from home unless they are an essential worker.  This places more restrictions on the entire state population, with different regulations for vulnerable and non-vulnerable populations.

Provisions for us in the vulnerable populations, which the governor has called “Matilda’s Law,” include remaining indoors, but allows for outdoor solitary exercise.

All visitors must be pre-screened by taking their temperature and the vulnerable population cannot go visit households with multiple people. 

Vulnerable persons should wear mask in company of others, and everyone in presence of vulnerable should wear mask. Finally, all vulnerable individuals must stay at least 6 feet from individuals and should not take public transit unless it’s urgent or necessary.


My first birthday.
So, our families cannot even visit us.  I understand it's for our own benefit, but today is my 73rd birthday.  This will be one to remember for sure. 

So what did I do over the weekend?  Not very much.  Continuing with de-cluttering and cleaning.  I continued packing away winter and rinsing out spring. Wanted to take a drive to the waterfront yesterday and find an isolated bench, but it was much too cold.  Temp dropped to 34 degrees.  Much colder by the water. 

Have a good one.  And stay safe.

21 comments:

  1. Happy Birthday! Try as much as you can to find some joy in this day.

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  2. Happy happy birthday! Facetime or Skype rather than just phone - not as good as a hug in person but comforting to see those you miss!

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    1. We have done some Facetime. Wish my friends at the center knew how to use it.

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  3. Happy Birthday ๐ŸŽ‚๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽˆ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿฐ
    We are all in this together๐ŸŒท

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  4. Mary, I hope you'll have a very pleasant day today on your birthday, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

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  5. Times are not easy … we all need to do our bit.
    Sending lots of birthday wishes to you.

    all the best Jan

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  6. Happy birthday - yes, one to remember! Stay well and enjoy the day!

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  7. Happy Birthday. I do hope you can find some joy.
    We are inching ever closer to a stay at home order - not least because some people are totally ignoring the social distance requests. One young pair were even quoted saying 'If we get the virus it won't mean anything to us. Everyone else needs to look out for themself'.
    Stay safe.

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  8. Happy Birthday, Mary -- you're going to have to have a virtual celebration in the blogosphere with all of us! Here's your birthday cake -- make a wish and blow out all the candles!

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    1. And we'll all sing "Happy Birthday" twice to you so we can multitask and wash our hands with soap and water at the same time!

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  9. Happy Birthday Mary. Thanks for all your years of blogging. Stay safe. From Kate in England

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  10. Happy Birthday. I like that term Matilda law, but I even like song waltzing Matilda

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    1. Thank you. I like the term, too. Don't know how the governor came up with it. Will have to do more research.

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  11. Happy Birthday, my friend. Hope you were able to enjoy your day. I'm out here in The Bronx.

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  12. I'm way, way behind in blogland. I hope you are well and wish you a very happy belated birthday.
    blessings
    ~*~

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