We’re coming up on two years’s time since the first time we heard about Covid-19. We’re about a year and two thirds from when we started the lockdown.<\/p>\n

In that time we’ve come up with a vaccine, distributed it, and gotten a shot into more than 50%<\/a> of the planet. That’s half of 7.7 BILLION WITH A BEE people! Which is an amazing accomplishment.<\/p>\n

I’m one of the very lucky people who has received three shots and, as such, we’ve started hanging out with people again. Thursday night, we had a friend for dinner who lives in Denver but comes down to Colorado Springs a couple days a month to provide support to her Southern office. Before she goes back up to Denver for another 3 1\/2 weeks, she asks if we can feed her. Back a dozen years ago, she and I had a friendly rivalry where we would go to the others’ house to enjoy a home cooked meal. We went bigger and bigger and bigger until our spouses told us to knock it off. So we don’t go over the top anymore. But I still want to put my back into it.<\/p>\n

I made ham and cheddar sandwiches and broiled them for a minute under the salamander. I served mozza sticks with my homemade spaghetti sauce for dipping. Dessert was apple blossoms and dulce du leche ice cream. Nailed it.<\/p>\n

Friday at 4:30, we’re going over to some friends’ to bolster each others’ spirits and watch a single episode of The Wheel of Time and then we have all agreed that we will leave immediately after that so everybody can be in their own basements on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Saturday is a game night with the gaming group.<\/p>\n

Sunday will be spent soaking in some serious isolation because, dang, that’s nowhere near the amount of introvert time that anybody involved is used to getting after 20 months in nigh-isolation.<\/p>\n

But it feels so good to be doing things with friends* again.<\/p>\n

*Note: Everybody in this story is fully vaccinated and 80% of them have received their first booster.<\/p>\n

So… what’s on your docket?<\/p>\n

(Featured image is The Good Robe. Taken by Maribou.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a couple of years of quarantine, it’s good to see friends again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":355304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[]},"categories":[11247],"tags":[10650],"class_list":["post-355303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekend","tag-weekend"],"yoast_head":"\n