Siege - Day #8

Working from home seems pretty great today!

It's the first warm, sunny day of spring.  The windows are open and there's a lovely breeze wiffling by as I sit here and, through the window, I can see budding branches move with the same breeze.  Gorgeous.  Even my new tomatoes are reaching up toward the sun...

I've spent most of the day finishing up the "gathering" phase of doing my business taxes: totaling receipts, figuring out my studio's share of utilities, and adding up mileage etc.  Tedious work, but necessary if I want to save some of my extremely-hard-earned-cash from Uncle Sam.

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Siege - Day #6

This is very strange...

For days - longer - I've been impatient that Texas authorities didn't seem to understand the seriousness of the coronavirus situation.  I've been, mostly, staying home myself and reading too much about Italy and to me the danger was clear:  Dallas County has 2.7 million people and, because of Texas' policies, 10% of those people have no health insurance. 

Potential disaster.

We got a heads up that the governor of Texas had a 3:00 public announcement... fifteen minutes late... and I really suspect that in those fifteen minutes businesses talked him into stepping back from the shelter-in-place order he had prepared.

So Dallas County ordered shelter-in-place instead.

And now that I got what I am convinced we need... I feel oddly shaken.  This is going to be bad.  So bad.

Good thing I planted tomatoes this morning.

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Well, those luscious tomatoes above are what I'm aiming for.  This is what I've got so far...