Day One-Hundred!!!

It's Day One-Hundred!!! I can't believe it. And yet, I have a feeling I'm going to look back on Day 100 and think, "Aw, she thought that was a lot of days, isn't that cute!" 

Taking stock at Day 100: 

William is still all about dinosaurs, facts about outer space and constellations (he invented one the other night, the Big Shovel, owned by Orion the Farmer) and animal "creature features" and loves to talk about those things for long periods of time. He eats a diet of predominantly cheerios, triscuits, tortilla chips, pancakes and waffles, avocado if it has no brown on it but also isn't too firm, and sometimes handfuls of raw fresh sage. He thoroughly enjoys not being at school. He loves playing PBS Kids games on the tablet, and yesterday we composed a song about the tablet ("Tablet, tablet! It is so fun for everyone! Tablet, tablet, you can learn about the evolution of whales, and dinosaurs! Tablet, tablet, dogs cannot use it, and neither can goats..." my rhymes fell apart pretty quickly). 

Taiya is looking forward to going back to school. She misses her friends. She is really into her doll right now, and has built a fort in the living room and set up all her doll furniture and accessories in there. She is a much more diverse eater than William, eating pretty much everything except avocado, but she especially likes fresh blueberries, red bell peppers, sugar snap peas, and watermelon. She likes being able to sleep in and not be rushed around to school or summer care. She's almost swimming on her own, loves giving Daisy snuggles, hates having her hair brushed, and loves peeling and chopping carrots and cucumbers. 

Jeremy seems fine. He's always reading, watching, and listening to the news and other YouTube people to try to discern from all the noise what we should be ready for next. He hasn't gone full on prepper yet, but he leans in that direction more than me. That's fine with me, though. If he's worrying about it, that means I don't have to. He's juggling farming, his job, home projects, and being a parent and husband. He's a pretty fun person to be stuck at home with, and I am grateful for his steadiness, his humor, and his good company and conversation. 

And me? It changes by the day, but overall I'm doing okay. I'm doing my best to embrace the good (extra time with kids and husband and in the garden, work that can be done from home) and not focus too much on the hard stuff (endless cooking and cleaning, not enough time to do everything that needs to get done leading to the feeling of failing at everything). Things that help are not thinking too far into the future, occasional fun culinary experiments, working on my poetry when I can, spending time outside, walking and swimming, and talking things through with Jeremy or friends and family when it gets to be too much. 

Today I spent most of the day on a Zoom conference with people from around the country to work on the problem of scaling up soil health and carbon sequestration. It was good to dive back into the work that I am passionate about: trying to move the needle on regenerative agriculture and, you know, saving the planet from the ravages of climate change through agricultural practices that heal the wounds we've inflicted out of ignorance and greed. I did feel awkward anytime I had to interact - my "talking to strangers" muscles are out of shape - but I guess I better get the hang of it again. I don't have much hope for the coronavirus going away in the next few months, but I know it will eventually. I don't want to be totally feral when I get to emerge again from the holler. 

I hope everyone out there reading this is doing okay - I know everyone else might not be exactly on the same count of days, but we have all been socially distancing for a long time now whether it's exactly 100 days or not. And since our country is totally flubbing its response to the pandemic, it looks like we'll be having to socially distance for a long time to come. So stay healthy and sane, and I can't wait to see you all on the other side.