GENERATIONS
D8 | APRIL 14, 2021
My COVID year Staying busy and staying away from the virus BY BESSIE KLOSE
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Atwater
ast year, 2020, started out very good. My two daughters, a friend and I took a trip to the southeast United States. I was scheduled to receive an award at the National Farmers Union convention which was held in Savannah, Georgia. We started our trip visiting my sisterin-law in North Carolina. We flew to Charlotte, rented a car and drove to their place. We had a wonderful visit and got to see all their kids. From there we drove to Savannah for the convention, then did some sightseeing in South and North Carolina before going back to Charlotte to fly home. The COVID virus was just starting to pick up and we were lucky to fly home when we did. A few days later all the airports were closing and directions were to stay home. What do you do to keep occupied? Well, luckily I have hobbies. I started out embroidering dish towels for two of my grandchildren who were
getting married that fall. That kept me busy for a while until I finished those two sets and ran out of towels. I love to read books and a few years ago my daughter, sister, a good friend and I started a little round robin library. Each of us would read a book or more, initial it, so we knew who had read it, bagged them, and when we got quite a few in a bag, passed it to the next. So we all had plenty to read without having to each buy or go to the library. We got to read a good variety of types of books this way without much expense. I like to watch TV so I worked a lot of viewing into each day. I don’t have cable so when there isn’t much on I watch old movies that date back to when I was a kid. I enjoy seeing some of the famous actors when they were just getting started. I enjoy talking on the telephone and talk regularly to family and quite often to friends. I don’t know what I would do without that although I’m old enough to remember when we didn’t have that luxury.
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