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