It's so good to  hear from so many of you - I've missed you all.

Chet and I are managing pretty well.  Tomorrow is his 93 birthday, and  I still manage pretty well for

 91.  My gardens have pretty much gone to pot since I can no longer work in them, but I have had

for the past week the most spectacularly beautiful white hellebore - it has at least 35 blooms, and

is really lovely.  There is a pretty lavender one, too, as well as lots of the common purple kind.

My early daffs are handsome, too, and I can see more of the late ones coming.

As I said, we can't do garden work any more, and the help I can get doesn't do it the way I  want.

I do have a very good helper who comes in half a day twice a week - one day to organize the garbage

for pick up ( I have cats so there are three bags of kitty-litter to carry up from the basement and  I           

just find heavy lifting is too bad for my bad back ) and the other day to take me to the grocery store,

bring things is, and take the new kitty-litter bags downstairs.  She is also very good at the other small

chores.  The cleaning woman  that usually comes twice a week, has called in sick with tonsilitis - hope

she recovers soon, because things need to be done.

The way things are going with this crazy virus, who knows what next week will be.  I'm glad to hear

of things that are working out.

As ever, Auralie

In a message dated 3/24/2020 11:38:11 AM Eastern Standard Time, f*@rewrite.hort.net writes:

It's always heart-rending losing a baby.  Sending virtual hugs....

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 10:36 AM Jesse Bell <c*@rewrite.hort.net> wrote:

I am so profoundly sorry Melody. That breaks my HEART!!! I've been emotional lately anyway...stuck at home, picking up on everybody's silent panic about the virus. I can't even watch the news. But that....made my eyes cry..

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 8:15 AM Melody Hobert-Mellecker <1*@rewrite.hort.net> wrote:

Working from home for the foreseeable future.  Thankful I can do that.  My 83 year old mother is staying with us so we are trying to keep her as protected as possible.  My husband is a custodian at one of the high schools here so he is getting extra pay for the duration as he is one of the only school district employees still having to show up for work everyday.  My daughters are nursing assistants at the hospital and having to work with extremely limited PPE so I worry about them A LOT.  

It snowed here Sunday.  I had to have my elderly dog put down that night.  They weren't letting humans into the building because of Covid-19 so they took him inside to put the IV in then brought him back out to my car.  I'm standing outside in the middle of a heavy wet snowstorm with my hatchback open, cuddling with him while the vet injected him.  I didn't want him to die alone with no one there who loved him.  He was a good boy and lived a good long life.  His pneumonia was not responding to antibiotics.  It was the right decision for him.

I need spring to get here so I can get back into my gardens.  That will help.

My son and his wife bought a house this winter and they're asking me for help in planning their gardens...so that's been fun.

Take care all and stay healthy!

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020, 7:58 AM Pam Evans <f*@rewrite.hort.net> wrote:

still going to work here.  these money grubbers won't miss any opportunity to pinch a nickel.  oh well, it's a job.

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 7:56 AM Jesse Bell <c*@rewrite.hort.net> wrote:

We’re shut in as well. I’m doing things I never have time to do - and lots of deep cleaning. I wish the sun would come out and the rain would ease up so I can weed my gardens and plant some seeds! But we’re good!

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 5:48 AM Kitty Morrissy <1*@rewrite.hort.net> wrote:

I hope this message finds everyone safe and well!

 

Zem, Did you receive the Lily bulb I sent you last week? Just checking.

 

 

Kitty

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