I'm heading back in time again, via the photos on my phone, to a world in which going places was normal, before most people had heard much about coronavirus, before social distancing was something everyone did. It seems so far away and yet not that long ago.
So, back to February, when we still got out and saw people and didn't put on masks when we couldn't social distance. Here's what normal looked like for us:
I had book club with my friends, in person. I can't remember what we read, but we talked about a book, drank wine, and sat together on the couch. The boys had boys' night with burgers and "fruit salad."
The next night, we went out to see "Paloma," an origami bird installation at Discovery Green. We ate at Phoenicia and strolled around the park. It was beautiful and magical.
Everyone went to school, every day, and there were projects.
and Ethics Bowl (the Kinkaid team won the civility award again).
Henry and I went to the zoo.
Will practiced toaster oven safety with ridiculously large oven mitts.
Ane the rodeo came to town (briefly).
One thing that hasn't changed is that we get outside in nature as much as possible. We've always done this, but we do it more now than ever before. In February, Henry and I took Gene to Cullinan Park in Sugarland. It's one of our new favorites.
If you look closely, the green leaf is being carried by a leafcutter ant.
I have no idea what we were doing but there was a clearly a pileup on the bed.
Another thing we still do: cook and eat some really great food, like rabbit pie
and Gomes de Sa.
Gene and I celebrated Valentine's Day at Tapas on the Trails at the Arboretum, which combines two of our favorite things: good food and nature.
Eastern screech owl
Ruby even got dressed up with a tux from her BarkBox. Sucy a fancy dog.
February was the last month of normalcy, but even then, we knew that things were changing. My parents were stuck on a cruise ship in Asia, unable to dock and get home easily because of the virus. Cases started popping up in the U.S. If we had known what March would bring, I wonder what we would have done differently in February?
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