The joyous 40th anniversary celebration in Holland is canceled. What part of the already incurred expenses will remain depends on how the small print is interpreted on our travel insurance and whether COVID19 counts as an exception. Insurance is always about exceptions.
The other joyous celebration that always happens at the time of our anniversary is the welcoming of spring in Massachusetts, our Easter celebration/find-your-goodies-hidden around Lobster Cove. We hadn’t sent out the invites yet. They may still come but for a virtual celebration, in spirit, and possibly on Zoom or such.
I attended one of the sessions on Sita’s site but had to pull out because of a very poor connection. It was a poetry reading about “Lost Words,” with music and video. Kids had brought their instruments, and so I did too, the violin and the ukulele, but the poor connection left the instruments unused and me disappointed – there it was again, disappointment upon disappointment.
We had a virtual cocktail hour with friends in the neighborhood who we often hang out with over the weekend – it kind of worked. We made our own cocktails, toasted each other and our health and didn’t need to worry about drinking and driving.
Our brand-new gleamy new lease car stands mostly unused in our drive way as we don’t need any more driving, or very little. We could have done without a 2nd car and saved ourselves a bundle – how different things are from just a month ago, when people were led to believe this corona thing would soon be over, everything was under control and it was a Democrat hoax. Our country’s leadership must be dizzy from all the spinning it is doing.
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