Friday, October 9, 2020

Friday, October 9, 2020

Tonight's picture was taken in October of 2003. Mattie was a year and half old and that day we went to a Fall festival. They had a petting zoo at the festival and we started at a young age introducing Mattie to animals. As you can see by his expression, he was rightfully cautious, but in time, his curiosity got the best of him and he learned to pet and interact with all the animals. 

Quote of the day: Today's coronavirus update from Johns Hopkins. 

• number of people diagnosed with the virus: 7,648,256
• number of people who died from the virus: 213,390

I woke up with my continued headache and wondered how on earth I was going to make it through a four hour long licensure board video call. Not sure I have the answer, but I managed my way through it. So at least I functioned much better today over yesterday. I know people reading this who have never had a migraine or cluster headache, probably are saying.... take an aspirin or Tylenol and move along. Unfortunately the kind of headaches I get involve severe and sometimes debilitating pain and therefore they aren't your typical tension headache. My fear yesterday was I had the making of a cluster headache coming on and my last experience with one produced NON-STOP pain for months on end. It's the kind of pain, where I would welcome a migraine instead. 

After a being on the call from 10am to 2pm, I needed to get my eyes and head away from the computer. So thankfully Sunny is always up for a walk. To Roosevelt Island we went. Apparently it is wild turkey season there, because we have seen more turkeys than ever before. Peter knows how the speak "turkey." He learned this from the wild turkeys that visit his parent's backyard. In any case, as Peter was speaking turkey, this one hopped up on the tree looking to identify where the sound was coming from!

There were four turkeys all hanging out with each other. You can see two of them here. To me it is the perfect place to walk, as it is close to where we live, you can immediately connect with nature, and it is a place where Mattie spent so many of his weekends growing up. 

The beauty of a white heron!