Door Trim Work
On arriving home, I heard the familiar sound of a grinder wheel. Curious, I headed into the basement – and saw Liz, standing next to some clamps with her trusty helmet on.
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Christmas Dinner in Merrillville
We brought a few things to share. And also got to sample some Armagnac that Katie and Tim picked up, while they were in southern France earlier this year.
Losing My Sense of Smell
I’ve been pulling items off the pantry shelf, whenever I go into the kitchen. And smelling things like coffee beans, trying to sense if I can pick up any aroma at all. Sometimes it’s nothing, sometimes I think I catch a whiff of something. But it’s hard to tell if it’s an actual smell I’m able to detect, or if it’s the memory of a smell.
Múm: Smell Memory
This seems appropriate.
Christmas in Chicago
An early joint gift: a sampler of “sherry bombs.” I figured this was something we could try out together. Funny enough, we were already familiar with a few of these: Arran as well as Auchentoshan.
Felix Gets an Early Christmas Present: Covid
Ah, dang.
Covid Math
This year though, with Liz getting Covid (for the first time), and me starting not to feel great… we were trying to see if our situations improved before Christmas rolled around.
We’ve been working out the math, trying to figure out whether Liz is still in the infectious stage. How many days has she been sick, how many days have I been sick. And so on.
Negative Test
My cough has gotten more frequent/annoying, but not necessarily worse. It seems unlikely that I somehow dodged Covid, being next to and around Liz these last few days. But, so far so good.
Double Sick
So it now seems that I’m also sick. What I have so far though is what seems like a light cold – a slight runny nose, a slight cough. No fever to speak of, nothing else besides this.
The Weepies: Living in Twilight
“So it goes, though no one knows you
like they used to do
Have a drink the sky is sinking
toward a deeper blue”
Liz Tests Positive
Liz has been feeling under the weather since Friday. A few days ago, before our return to Chicago, Liz took a Covid test and was negative.
Tonight though, with her symptoms increasing in strength… she took another test, and came up positive.
Death Cheese in Switzerland
In a historically poor area, “leaving enough” required advance planning. “There was the ‘cheese of the dead,'” explains Zufferey. “Everyone had a wheel of cheese so that they had something to serve at their funeral.”
Early Christmas in Detroit, 2023
Back at the house, Sandy’s cozied up in the living room.
Early Christmas Dinner in Detroit
Anne was decorating a lot of these cookies, and eventually Liz joined in on the action. I… mostly ate the cookies?
Kirt’s Birthday Dinner, 160 Main
Group photo, with a lot of lovely lights in the background.