4/13/2020

The times they are a changing.  4-6 weeks ago a new term was being thrown around - coronavirus 19.  Covid19.  Something happening around the world, in China.  Braxton pays more attention to this type of information.  He may have been mentioning it but I wasn't listening.   He's a bit of a hypocondriac anyway.  But by early March he was asking me to not go to my grooming appointment at Merle Norman.    I went.  But I did not go to my hair appointment 4 days later.  I canceled.  Catherine understood.  It wasn't much longer before the state of NC closed salons.  Nail salons, hair salons.  Restaurants open for delivery/pick up only.  It really doesn't seems as if too much is changed.  As I sit in my home, up on the hill, I'm so far removed from the every day life that is happening just 1/4 a mile away.  Sure, there are enough signs that things are different.  Braxton has set up a remote office here at the house.  He's worked so hard at setting up remote work, remote Register of Deeds, remote filings.  Anything that might keep him, and his staff, out of the courthouse.  he struggles daily with keeping his office open and staying alive for his first grandchild, a granddaughter, Eleanor Emerson Kimball.  Ella. 

Ella doesn't know what's going on.  She was born 2/17/2020.  Today she's 8 weeks old.  Today we haven't seen her in 5 weeks.  Thankful for facetime.  Not the same.