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Quarantine Diaries – Week 38

Posted on December 4, 2020 by Thistle

It was a bad week. On Wednesday evening, my oldest son called to tell us he was positive for covid. Morrigan had been sick for a few days, but it took that long for the test results to come in. … Continue reading →

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November 2020 in Review

Posted on December 2, 2020 by Thistle

It was a momentous month in so many ways. Covid is back on a major rise, worse than it’s been so far. The presidential election has been strung along for weeks and weeks with the Prumpster still grouching about his … Continue reading →

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Quarantine Diaries – Weeks 36 and 37

Posted on November 27, 2020 by Thistle

Well. Things are getting dire out there, aren’t they? We really need a national mask mandate, some stronger lockdowns, real financial help for both people and businesses, and a vaccine. Speaking of the latter, there seems to be several vaccines … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Thanksgiving

Posted on November 22, 2020 by Thistle

It’s Thanksgiving week, and to be honest, it couldn’t be worse timing. The country is in a massive wave of covid, with nearly 200,000 new cases a day, making July’s spike look like peanuts. This has been going poorly for … Continue reading →

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Quarantine Diaries – Weeks 33-35

Posted on November 13, 2020 by Thistle

Today is Friday the 13th, eight months to the date from the Friday the 13th in March when we got our first case of Covid in San Antonio. The country is undergoing a third spike, higher than previous spikes. Unemployment … Continue reading →

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October 2020 in Review

Posted on November 2, 2020 by Thistle

I feel like all my months have been reversed and thrown off this year. Likely due to the incessant everyone-is-always-home bit. (I have this funny story about how people were showing first-snowfall-of-the-year photos on Instagram, with captions groaning and saying … Continue reading →

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Quarantine Diaries – Weeks 30 to 32

Posted on October 23, 2020 by Thistle

A lot of the country is seeing a third wave and/or surge in the virus right now. San Antonio is trying to keep things together, but it’s hard given some of the conditions at present. Schools, at university level and … Continue reading →

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Quarantine Diaries – Weeks 26-29

Posted on October 2, 2020 by Thistle

It’s been fairly quiet in terms of the pandemic here for the past month. September 13th saw the six-month mark pass since our first case of Covid. Things are holding steady, and we’re all trying to figure out a good … Continue reading →

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September 2020 in Review

Posted on September 30, 2020 by Thistle

September was far more eventful than I was expecting. Choosing to leave school and begin on another path. The death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg and the ensuing political nastiness. Atticus escaping the house for a day. LOTS of construction, some … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – A Day in Quarantine Homelife

Posted on September 27, 2020 by Thistle

A couple years back, I participated in Trish’s “A Day in the Life of…” event, which happened to be my life as a stay at home mom in the middle of spring break. Not sure why that particular event came … Continue reading →

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