7/11/20
Aloha Everyone –
A relatively busy and pleasant week here. Last Saturday we were able to go to our Farmers’ Market for the first time in months. It was pretty quiet but our favorite vendors had set up and we were able to buy a few things, like bananas, papayas, and radishes. Although we can get most things in the supermarket, buying direct from growers and supporting them in person is something we value highly after our years back in Ohio as vendors ourselves when we had our apple orchard.
On Sunday we celebrated our 19th anniversary of moving to Hawai’i with sunset champagne and of course followed up on Monday with more champagne to celebrate the first day of living in Hawai’i. Hard to believe it has been that long! All in all these have been very good years, and certainly we are extremely happy to be here right now in the middle of the Covid19 pandemic, the world-wide economic melt-down, cultural upheavals, and the upcoming election campaign, which may set new heights for nastiness and absurdity.
This week saw the biggest surge of new virus cases since the pandemic began. This is nearly entirely due to community spread as things have reopened. Starting in August, when the state will allow a waiver of the quarantine requirement if a traveler can show a negative test within 72 hours prior to arrival, we expect to see many more cases brought it from outside. The real question is “how many?” Our state health care system can handle perhaps a thousand hospitalizations and only 300 or so intensive care cases before being overwhelmed, and we will have to find a balance between handling the illness and pumping up the economy. The next few months will be “interesting.”
This week has been one of our most physically active in months. On Tuesday Karen played golf, on Wednesday we went to one of our favorite snorkel spots down south, and on Thursday we worked out again at Planet Fitness, which is now requiring face masks at all times, even on the huff and puffs. Today we are rather stiff, but plan on working out again.
After our Thursday workout we had lunch at an open-air restaurant in the Kona Inn, which was the earliest of the fancy hotels here, built by the steamship company that brought passengers from the mainland US way before there was air travel. The view of the bay is gorgeous from the restaurant. On Friday Karen got her hair cut and went shopping while I did some gardening – mostly whacking back some bamboo that I had been neglecting. I figure today after market and our workout at PI we will collapse.
That’s about it. Enjoy your early summer. Stay well. Stay sane.
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Looks like the two of you are surviving quite well during this time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hope you might still have gourds in your life. I'm working on some new gourd frontiers. Casting gourd in bronze. This is heavy stuff. Still chipping them, too... light stuff. R U into your birds? U folks have lots of "lifers" in your environments. Wish I could visit one of these days. Cheers... The other Sherman
Sounds like it is almost normal there. Here Stan and I are being very careful. Staying at home, wearing our masks when outside, and limiting most social contacts. There is so much controversy over masks that we always extra cautious. We are among the lucky one though. No worries about Stan’s job. Our library is open again, so we order books and DVDs online and pick them up at the drive thru, and Egg does her best to distract us. We do look forward to some normalcy (whatever that is) in the future.
Sounds delightful.
19 years! No way it has been that long. Congratulations!
I think I,ve read that your concerns about what will happen in August were justified. I hope your numbers stay manageable.
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