Thursday, November 12, 2020

it's gotten cold, but it's my favorite time of year - burnt orange colors, clear fresh air, a little wind and hint of change. even some snow every once in a while.

looks like things will shut down good and hard for the holidays. classes will send kids home, schools will go all online until the end of december. and it's just as well, as things are getting much worse, not better. hospitals are full. people are panicking. we are hoping the next ones are not us. my son is afraid to go to school.

a quilt is almost done, and then will get sent, in a box probably, to illinois. it will be the first of three "illini shalom" quilts. all will have shalom in them or on them, all will be illinois colors (defined loosely). in the pandemic one might not be able to find a true dark illini blue, or gold, one does what one can.

i hit a deer the other day. three small deer darted out from a ditch - two in front which i saw, but the one who went right in front of the car, i hit her, and she tumbled and flipped, but landed on her feet and ran away. i saw a single deer in the same place, the following day, so i apologized, but i don't think it was her. she's part of a family that i see all the time, the three together. how they got her to jump right in front of that car, i don't know. i hope she's ok. the car is not.

but i wasn't going all that fast - that's one thing you learn around here. you take your time if you can, it's much safer. you can't really control the way they dart out in front of you from the ditch or from a cliff or something. but you can give yourself more time to stop, and make it not so far to get to a dead stop.

it was depressing, but overall, i was lucky - we both lived. she too will tell the tale.

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