Building Immunity to Covid19

Home Sweet Home taken with Bill's new GoPro

While cities open up across the country with the phasing-in of normalcy, cases of covid are on the rise. States once applauded for keeping the disease under control are now the focus of media reports for having the highest incidents. Florida, Texas and California are the present hot spots for the virus. Testing has accelerated, which many experts say may account for the increase in cases. Hospitals are reporting increased activity, especially among younger victims, but not necessarily deaths.  Nonetheless, it's important to continue to be diligent about social distancing, wearing a mask in public places and keeping your immune system strong. In my humble opinion, the key tenets of a strong immune system are diet, exercise, meditation, good sleep, and Vitamin D. We're still taking it pretty seriously in June.

Birthday pic with my dinner companions

As the country continues to be in a state of civil unrest spurred by racial tensions, we took a road trip to Miami to celebrate my birthday at a favorite Japanese restaurant: Zuma.

It was nice to get away but the exposure to germs in a hotel room was a little unsettling. We've been watching our diet as we find ourselves dining out and entertaining visitors a little more. Steph and DeWayne came by for a few days to help celebrate Father's Day. We're killing two birds with one stone with our bike rides: exercise and Vitamin D. (And by the way, they say bicycles are the new toilet paper.) As for meditation, that's prayer. It's my daily ritual that I find comforting and effective for the nourishment of my soul.

So, feed your body, move your body, nourish your soul and moderately expose yourself to new venues. Building a strong immunity to help fight this crazy flu bug may just get us safely through time as we wait for a covid vaccine. And that's a whole other hot topic.

It's Still a Simple Life

Chris and Dracco with Nixon

July 4th beauty

Candy making at home

June finds us still immersed in a covid19 dictated kinda lifestyle. The virus seems to be the all encompassing excuse for general mediocrity in all things relating to business as usual. It's important to stick to a positive routine: exercise, diet, recreation and social distancing; otherwise one could easily go NUTS. Cooking, baking, biking, golf and pool time continue to dominate my agenda. With June being such an important family birthday and occasion month, I've taken to a powerful little app called Procreate to make some fun greeting card designs on the iPad.

Fun visit with Jill

We did have visitors to lift our spirits, too. Jill and Doug popped over to Marco in their new RV. Collier-Seminole State Park provided a close respite for their maiden voyage. It was great to hang out, golf and even go to a restaurant. Perhaps we'll see them in PEI someday soon.

Slowly, but surely, we are putting some dates on the distant calendar in hopes of resuming some normalcy soon.

Cool head Ally

 














And by the way, Black Lives Matter will continue to be a meaningless movement until we can have a truthful and meaningful discussion on race.