TRAVELING was to be our RETIREMENT vocation. NOT a vacation as we ARE RETIRED, but a leisurely round of RV and STATE Park campsites, visiting places that we had wanted to see or to explore more fully. We were always in such a rush to return to the RESORT in beautiful, downtown STRAWBERRY, to our responsibilities to maintain the ten cabins right on the south fork of the Stanislaus River. We did NOT own them all but treated them as if we did!! Neat and Tidy is my middle name! Even Tom had the neatest workshop ever!
ENTER the Hunan VIRUS!! We had planned to return for a week of Doctors Appointments and the receipt of Tom's by-mail medications. The meds were delayed by a week and arrival coincided with the CA Governor's "request" that all us OLDSTERS stay put to avoid spreading the BUG FROM CHINA! We looked at our hostess for the past two weeks (and the two weeks between the close of escrow and Tom's last preaching assignment!!) and she said, "MY house is your house as long as you need to stay!"
WHAT A FRIEND; what a perfect place for us to hunker down while the rest of the world PANICS. I manage to do the grocery shopping, saving both she and Tom from exposure to whatever germs are about. We share the cooking and cleaning, we play the piano downstairs and sing, watch several worship services each week (easy to do on UTube!) while Tom keeps us informed on the events worth reporting. We play games, watch old movies, read books and magazines, knit and crochet, shovel snow and watch the fire burn in the wood stove. GOD is GOOD, and we will surely miss our "voluntary house arrest!" once we can get "ON THE ROAD AGAIN!"
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