Heading into Fall

So far so good as we head into the fall flu season. I'm still working at home, and have been since mid-March. Amp's dialysis clinic has been only regular patients for a while now, but the resurgence of Covid patients are on the horizon, and they will likely be back to the Covid days of the spring and summer shortly. Bring on the full PPE...

A bit of normalcy in all this craziness is Ryder. We've had him for about 3.5 years now, making him ~4.5 years old. Hard to believe that time passes so quickly, but given the way Grace's experiences are flying by, I guess I shouldn't be surprised. He's still...odd. But he's a member of the family.

Big Sister Julia

At a primal level, there is something immensely gratifying about returning home from running some errands, or a short shopping trip, or any other reason to be out of the house for the briefest time, and to be greeted by an ecstatically happy pup.

Not to mention that he can sleep anywhere, and takes great delight in finding new places to crash. We recently cleaned out a storage cabinet containing extra pillows and comforters. Heaping them in a corner to decide what to keep and what to send to Goodwill, we were somewhat surprised (not really, I guess) to find Ryder burrowed into a cave in the middle of the pile. It's good to be a dog.

How'd Ryder get in there?

On the people front, masked and socially distanced band practices have been going on every Monday and Wednesday evening. The other night, I was in the band room with some of the other band parent association board members taking care of some paperwork and admin stuff, only to come back out to the side parking lot and see my little girl up on one of the side stands helping conduct the practice. Happy dad moment.

Field Major Grace

It's impossible to predict what the future will hold in the days of Covid, but as of now, Garnet Valley will be having a 5 game football season, all within the Central League. Three of those 5 games will be home games, at which the band can play their routine for band parents before the game. The band parents will then need to leave the stadium, so that football and cheerleading parents can come in to watch their kids and keep everything under the heavily restricted spectator limits. As of now, the band will be able to stay to play throughout the game. Things can change. Or be cancelled. Who knows. But so far at least, in the overall scheme of things, is good news.

I hope that Grace can have some semblance of a decent Junior year, and that we will be at least somewhat past this for her senior year.

Or herr Trump could inexplicably get reelected. In which case we are all doomed. Our kids deserve better.