Sunday, December 6, 2020

Sunday, December 6, 2020

Tonight's picture was taken in December of 2002. That was Mattie's first Christmas. It was an exciting time for our family and when Mattie was alive, it was important to me that we celebrated holidays and we always had a Christmas tree up. That year, I had a lot of baby's 1st Christmas ornaments on the tree! Never guessing that we wouldn't have many more Christmases together!

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

• number of people diagnosed with the virus: 14,747,102
• number of people who died from the virus: 282,231

I woke up this morning to find Peter under the weather. It appears that he had food poisoning. Which is confusing to me since we ate the exact same thing yesterday. Needless to say, Peter had a rough day today. 

Meanwhile, outside my window, I saw an accident today. Two cars were speeding around the corner and collided into each other. What I saw next was over the top. The driver of each of the cars in the accident knew one another. In fact, all the people in both cars got out and were walking on the highway. One person removed the license plate off the car that spun around (the car you see near the police car), and then all four of the people in the accident pushed the car into the middle of a traffic lane, and then abandoned the car on Route 66. They all escaped into the car that was hit, but was still operable. I honestly couldn't get over what I was seeing in broad daylight. This is a safe, or used to be, part of the city. But it was clear to me that the car left on the highway was stolen. 

This was NOT a red letter day for my neighborhood today. Right outside our building is this tent. We have had this issue before in our neighboring park, but now tent cities are forming all around us, and residents have very little recourse with the city. 

I snapped this photo of the Washington waterfront, because I wanted you to notice the orange tent in the distance. Sunny and I walked passed these three orange tents today. What are they? COVID testing sites. Mind you, I walk twenty feet away from these tents, because I find them suspect and don't want to be around anyone mulling about and waiting for testing. This is the third upsetting thing I saw in the District today. I frankly do not know who is running these COVID testing tents. There is NO official representation near the tents, like Quest or Lab Corp. Or even an affiliation with a hospital system. There isn't even DC Department of Health signage. So from my perspective these tents are operating illegally and I wouldn't put a toe in such a testing site. 

I spent a good portion of the day baking a three layer coconut cake. I am testing out recipes for Christmas. This cake is supposed to look like snow. I love when the recipe claims that the prep time is 15 minutes. Who on earth are they kidding!? I spent hours on this cake and all I can say is it better taste stellar. I will find out tonight.