A POST ABOUT NOT MUCH AT ALL

I’m not really all that good at fabricating things, so my Covid body suit turned out to be a bust. It ended up in the recycle bin BEFORE the birthday BBQ. That at least was a huge success, even if I didn’t get to hug the kiddies as planned. I still enjoyed watching the little ones romp around, each one showing off a little bit for the Mémère who has been absent for the past 3 months. Aware of my situation they and their parents practised physical distancing but the smiles and jokes were plentiful and it was well worth my first ‘sortie’ since this pandemic began.

In April the boss contacted me to tell me that he was forced to put most of us on unemployment, and mine would start on April 11^th. He would need me to do some hours here and there he said, which would be paid accordingly. I was too tired to panic, and our salaries had been off and on since last October anyway, and the government was offering CERB, financial aid to offset the loss of income. I applied and was accepted, and figured that I would still have a year’s worth of unemployment benefits when that was done. In the meantime, I would relish doing only a few hours a week compared to the 45-50 I have been doing for ages! Someone forgot to tell the sons, who are a huge part of the enterprise, and the employees, who still call me all hours of any day. Not that I mind so much, but I can see it is slowly increasing to more than ‘some hours here and there’, and am wondering if I’ll even need to file for unemployment after all. To be continued….

Instead of throwing myself into cleaning, which should be done, I have been spending lots of time cooking and doling out meals to those who run my errands, or stocking my freezer, or sharing with those who do NOT like cooking at all and badly miss frequenting the restaurants closed during the pandemic. A call came in yesterday that I would be receiving a good amount of rhubarb, a gift with a catch, in that the first strawberry rhubarb pie will go to the donor. Haha! No problem! Quebec strawberries are in season now so it’s perfect timing! YUM! I can taste it already! And that makes me SMILE.

Sharing that SMILE with you, folks, and hoping it warms up your day!

LUV FROM THE BUSH IN QUEBEC