@TimurShtatland Thank you! That's kind of you. My state isn't likely to change very soon, it's so full of antivaxers. Oh well, I could al=ways move (sure. During a pandemic...) :)

@anongoodnurse oh dear, I feel for you. We have pockets of that around here, but doing okay-ish. We do keep hitting black alerts for bed availability in hospitals though, so I think we are teetering on the edge of chaos

@RoryAlsop I forgot to ask, how are you and Claire doing? Have all the symptoms resolved? (I hope so!)

Ugh, I feel for me, too. I was doing pretty well for about a year (I guess with my leg and all, I had other things to deal with), but it's starting to really wear me down. I got my 3rd shot, the booster, but... The thing that scares me most is the persistent neurological residua(e?) My mind is slowly going as it is; I don't want to get worse because of a virus.

@RoryAlsop I have been planting bulbs, and thought about you. Are you still planting more daffodils along the road? What a sight it must be!

I'm a fool for antique things. I used to hunt around really old abandoned farmhouses for old peonies and daffodils. I struck paydirt one day, and dug up a boatload of daffodil bulbs (they had already bloomed.) The next spring, they bloomed, and I never saw such an ugly daffodil in my entire life! Lol! No wonder no one was growing them anymore! I had to laugh every time they bloomed... They were so raggety, it looked like someone had hit the flowers with a trimmer.

I finally found them online (not for sale, just a picture) and it was about 100 years old back then. Must have been 15-20 years ago now.

On a rare night out, I spoke with a woman whose son married a Scottish woman, apparently old money, because they had an old, large estate, a lot of land, a lot of walking trails. She has visited Scotland many times, and I was really wising I could go as well. Someday, I hope.