A different sort of lunch date

Alberta hit a high in terms of new Covid cases today (406)and with that we get closer to increased restrictions. I was thinking of what I miss and don’t miss about life before Covid. I don’t miss the busyness. Even a retired person can run around frantically trying to do too many things. I very much like staying home in the evenings especially now that the weather has turned wintery. During the summer we enjoyed the occasional yard visit either here or at friends’. That’s not going to be happening now for a while so I guess I’ll be putting in a bit more Zoom and Skype time. I do miss eating out. It’s a chance to get out of the house, have someone else do the cooking and the clean-up, and just chat with each other. While restaurants are open for in-person dining, we haven’t felt comfortable going into a restaurant and with the case numbers on the rise we won’t be going anytime soon. So what do we do instead?


Mostly we get take-out and eat it at home. Today Richard suggested that we get take-out and eat lunch somewhere with a view. We ate our Vietnamese subs in the car at the top of Battalion Park. Even though I managed to get sauce on my down jacket, I enjoyed watching the cars come and go on the newly-opened south part of the ring road and the familiar shopping centre looks very different from above. I think we will have to make a concerted effort this winter to do different things or to do things differently. Who knows, I may even be seized by an attack of tidiness and systematically deal with the various nooks and crannies in the house where overlooked stuff has taken up residence. I know some of you are laughing at that possibility and, if I were you, I wouldn’t hold my breath. Still, these are unprecedented times and unprecedented things happen in unprecedented times. I’ll keep you posted.