Sat, Jul 18, 2020:  Day 120 of self-quarantine:  Hot today.  Upper 90s with a heat index of 104 or something.  Indoors watching golf and playing spades.  Mike is grilling chicken breasts for dinner tonight.  Talked with both Steve and David today.  They’re both at home recuperating from surgery.  Wonder when we’ll get together with them again.

San Francisco

Japanese Garden

Fri, Jul 17, 2020:  Day 119 of self-quarantine:  They power washed today.  It looked so good when they finished that I didn’t see any reason to pain again—except for the decks.  But they do it every 6 years (I think).  It’s really warm and humid out there today.  On the weekend the heat index is going to 104 to 110. 

Colorado Rockies

Thu, Jul 16, 2020:  Day 118 of self-quarantine:  The painters showed up today.  They’re prepping the building now.  It’s nice today, but only going to get hotter.  I ordered groceries yesterday and thankfully asked for delivery today.  Good thing because we had a rather severe storm just about the time it would have been delivered.  Upper 80s today.

Wed, Jul 15, 2020:  Day 117 of self-quarantine:  Mike and Darwin went skeet shooting today.  Just beat the weather system coming through.  We had a pretty severe thunder storm roll through about 4:00 and lost our power briefly.  Everything back to normal now.  Had to reset all the clocks twice.  Power kept going out.  Low 90s today.

Rocky Mountain National Park

Tue, July 14, 2020:  Day 116 of self-quarantine:  The painters didn’t show up again today.  Did some cleaning and gave myself a mani and pedi.  Would love to get my hair cut, but too many new covid cases.  Not as bad as Florida.  What a mess that state is.  But still no mask mandate.  Just don’t understand.  Upper 80s today.  And into the upper 90s in a couple of days.  I made an eight-bean salad for dinner.  Mike is going to grill burgers.

Rocky Mountain National Park

So beautiful!

July 13, 2020:  Day 115 of self-quarantine:  We’re all ready for the painters.  Of course they didn’t show up.  We’ll see what tomorrow brings.  Last night we ordered dinner from 54^th Street Grill.  I had a steak dinner and Mike had a craft sandwich.  Both were really good.  I still have some left for tonight.  Upper 80s today.  Nice.

Durango to Silverton train ride.

July 12, 2020:  Day 114 of self-quarantine:  Well, we removed all the furniture from the deck this morning.  The chaise was the worst.  Pretty heavy.  I’ll hire some people to lug it back up there.  It’s only every 6 years.  Our deck seems pretty empty now.  Hope they get the painting done quickly.  Mid-80s today.

Silverton, Colorado