Okay, 6:30 AM. Let’s get up and get going. And I did. I have approximately three cotton maxi skirts that hang out on the counter next to the sink as I rotate them. (I get dressed in the bathroom.) One of these was a bit soiled (don’t ask), which means the others were suspect since they were all bunched together. Plus other laundry (some of it also suspect). So I took a quick shower and threw the whole mess in the washer PDQ.

We’ll never know for sure but after some googling, we think our illness was caused by a norovirus. Our case timeline (who got sick when and after which gathering) is complicated but my gut says it wasn’t food poisoning, which was also under consideration.

I wasn’t moving at top speed this morning but I was pretty darn fine. As my system is restarting, my main food for today was Saltines with butter, an old childhood “treat”. I texted that to the beach urchins and one of them said it actually sounded kind of good. I was still being careful but I’ve got xmas leftovers warming in the oven for tonight and the sight/smell of them isn’t turning me off. Alas, I will have to throw some of those out after today. I am pretty darn sure they are not contaminated and I HATE to throw food out but I am kinda *done* with xmas food. I’m planning a nice light whitefish dish accompanied by rice and a simple green veggie for tomorrow night and looking forward to it!

I haven’t been able to focus on reading for a while, particularly in the last few days. Sick in the last few days but otherwise various reasons too long to articulate. Then I randomly ran across “The Husbands” (Gramazio). I don’t know if I’d call it great literature – I may even end up calling it “chick-lit”, which I normally steer clear of. But it bends time and space, which I like, and it is hitting the spot so during/after the laundry and word puzzles, I read all day. It also rained cats and dogs all day, which was nice since I was sitting in my window seat.

The GG periodically battles squoils that try to ravage his bird feeders so one year (quite a while back), I bought “Donald” off Etsy. I’m not sure if he really likes “Donald” or not but the rest of us do. This was before Etsy started selling all kinds of cheaply produced stuff from “overseas”. Which, in full disclosure, I have been known to buy. Like cotton maxi skirts. I have more than three of those but three have currently been hanging out in the bathroom. Once a clothes-horse, always a clothes-horse albeit a clothes-horse of a different “color” these days but we’ll go there some other day. Or not.

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