Today is Saturday April 18th.
Got up this morning at 8:15am and did my workout.
Got up this morning at 8:15am and did my workout.
Once finished I got dressed, made a coffee with Baileys, made a peanut butter banana chocolate Arbonne smoothie with almond milk for breakfast and got ready to go to Julia’s for our second tailgate coffee. This morning Maria and Jim are coming up from Markham and my parents are coming over and we’re having coffee in Julia and Steve’s back field. I brought chairs this time and told my parents to do the same, way more comfortable - everyone sat about 20’ away from each other and we just chatted. It was really nice when the sun was out but it was only about 4 degrees so a little chilly when the sun was behind a cloud.
As we were getting ready to go Paige rolled out of her room and wanted to come with us so we woke up Sophie too to see if she wanted to come or not. Myah isn’t likely to be up for about 45 minutes after we arrive so we said they can come but they can’t wake her up!
We ended up staying until almost noon. Basically as soon as anyone had to go to the bathroom it was time to leave, so Mom and Dad skedaddled first around 11am and then we were there another hour or so. Jay and Steve left just before 11am on their bikes to meet Drew and Trevor in town for a bike ride.
I got home a little after noon and got a text from Julia S, one of the sewing ladies, that they want to do a car parade past Reachview and then Douglas Crossing and then Butternut and then the Hospital with a blue ribbon on your car and signs to support the front line workers. I found this blue flag, which I’m not sure where it came from but its been sitting in the back hall on the bench of a while, so the plan was to join that car parade at 2pm but then Jay asked if I wanted to go to lunch and we figured we would go to pick up some beer at Old Flame and then go pick up Marwan’s for lunch so we did that instead and we’ll do the car parade next Saturday at 2pm.
Mmmmm, butter chicken.
And the three dip trio with the Naan, so good.
Saw this meme on FB and sent it to my Mom. haha. Its not actually even a meme, its literally a picture of someone out shopping with a scuba tank on.
Some people are still very nervous about COVID-19. Uxbridge had their second death due to the virus yesterday, another resident of Douglas Crossing, sadly. We still have 12 reported cases, oh, its 13 now as of today.
Yesterday apparently some beaches in Florida re-opened. The US had the biggest single day of new cases yet with over 32,000. So stupid. Pictures of the beaches at Jacksonville are full of people.
Reading CBC, the news today: Protests against stay at home orders organized by small-government groups and Trump supporters were planned for today in several cities after the president urges supporters to “liberate” three states led by Democratic governors. Trump is pushing to relax the US lock down by May 1, a plan that hinges partly on more testing.
Last night NY Governor Cuomo called out the president in a press conference when a reporter read a tweet from Trump that had come in DURING the press conference. He said “If he has time to be sitting watching TV maybe the President should get to work”.
Trudeau announced that the Canada-US land border closure will be extended for another 30 days which was originally set to expire on April 21st. He also stressed that he doesn’t think it is a good idea for the House of Commons to resume business as usual Monday with all 338 MPs and staff, clerks, interpreters, security and cleaners. All the opposition parties agreed except Conservative leader Andrew Scheer wo is demanding up to four in-person sitting each week with fewer than 50MPs in the chamber to hold the government to account for its response to the health crisis and the resulting economic fallout (which could be massive)
BC plans to ease some COVID restrictions in May after data suggests the province has flattened the curve.
Air passengers will be required to wear non-medical masks starting April 20th.
As of today more than 2.2M people have tested positive globally and there have been more than 156,000 deaths.
I said to Jay last night - Italy and Spain are being overshadowed by the US but they’ve got 172,000 and 190,000 cases and over 20,000 deaths each. France and Germany aren’t that far behind in cases at 147,000 and 141,000.
We went to the Faust’s for burgers for dinner tonight. Steve got a new egg bbq and has been testing it out this week - its got 2 levels which is cool because that doubles its grilling space. He didn’t have a bbq brush so he used a big stick with a torn end to clean off the grills. Julia had baked peanut butter cookies, which are my favourite, they were so good. We played a big game of Karma with both decks and all 9 of us then another game with just Kobe and us with the big deck and then moved on to Super Tock, Julia and I won both games bringing our score to 11-8. We called it a night at 9:30pm, haha. That’s what happens when we get together at 5pm! Juls was tired and so was Jay, they shared a Diet Pepsi and the caffeine gave them the boost they needed to get to 9:30pm.
The girls spent the night in the basement playing Mario Kart on the Wii, they’re trying to unlock a bunch of characters and have been googling what they need to do and achieve in order to unlock them.
Numbers for today:
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