I would shoot skeet out of our hot tub on the edge of a cliff. I had nearly 60 acres, surrounded by National Forest. My last house had a mile-long driveway, straight up a mountain in Tennessee. I don’t like hot weather, but I enjoy snow. I get motion sick just looking at a boat. Yet here I am on an island surrounded by it. Those who have read my posts over the years know that I avoid undiluted water. Which is pretty weird, if you know anything about me. At some point after the fact, I realized that his adamant determination, almost until the end, that it was “his job” to get the mail, and that I was under no circumstances allowed to do so, probably had something to with the surreptitious smuggling of all these boxes (which I never even saw) into the house. Old radios that he thought he’d refurbish, but never did. She had been–for quite a few years–an enthusiastic eBay purchaser. There’s really not much you can do, other than be in the moment with people who suffer this way, go with the flow, and enjoy the parts of life that are still enjoyable, both as you’re living them, and as you look back on them.Īfter he died, I discovered that Mr. But also looking back on it, and–indeed–since he died, I’ve found humor in some of the situations in which we became embroiled as he gradually became more and more confused, and retreated further into his past. It’s a cruel disease, as many of you know. She, died last year, he spent many years (probably well over a decade, now that I reflect on it with the benefit of hindsight) slowly succumbing to dementia. Essential freight-handling equipment too often is not where it’s needed, and when it is, there aren’t enough truckers or warehouse workers to operate it.īefore my husband, Mr. This month, the median cost of shipping a standard rectangular metal container from China to the West Coast of the United States hit a record $20,586, almost twice what it cost in July, which was twice what it cost in January, according to the Freightos index. I am getting nervous again when I read sentences like this, from an article called “Inside America’s Broken Supply Chain”: Several have posted what they are seeing, shortages, longer wait times, costs going up. So can we calm down yet? No, because it seems the next crisis is unfolding and this is in our supply chain. The infection curve went up, came down, went up again, and now it’s leveling off. We’ve been on high alert for so long, and I’m tired of it. Its origin was somewhere in China, maybe Wuhan (we know that is the origin). COVID was a life-changing event for the world and it has yet to be solved or rectified.

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