Well, howdy to “millions” of readers! Okay, I’m a day late, publishing today instead of yesterday. I man had to eat supper last evening!
Three weeks have passed since my last article. You must have been “sitting on pins and needles” awaiting this entry. At long last, here it is! Enjoy!
On Monday, 3/16/2020, Mrs. Appalachian started her work-from home every-now-and-then reality as a vice-principal and teacher. The Sevier County School System is closed indefinitely due to the coronavirus, or, as it’s being called nowadays, the COVID-19 virus. At first, the school closure was for two weeks only. Well, we will see if face-to-face classes resume this fall! For now, my wife is teaching online.
Tuesday, 3/17/2020, St. Patrick’s Day, was a fine day for any Irishman. After my workday, a fine friend since grade school, nicknamed Gator, called! We haven’t talked or visited in a few years. His wife and he are back in my hometown now! Great! Oh, the day also included the every-four-week chiropractic “tune-up” adjustments for my wife and me.
On Saturday, 3/21/2020, my friend, nicknamed Gator, drove down here to visit us! His wife decided to stay home. We visited, drank coffee, and talked as two mountain men do for about three hours! As long as Gator and his wife are nearby, we will see more of each other now! Afterward, in anticipation of starting to work from home, I purchased and brought home an L-shaped desk and a couple of other items for my home office.
The next afternoon, Sunday, 3/22/2020, and the weekend afterward, Saturday and Sunday, 3/28-29/2020, I assembled the L-shaped desk. It was a 33-step process that is almost completed. The missing bottom panels for two desk drawers are supposed to be on their way. I fought Office Depot/Max by phone until I was blue in the face, but I won! Modern, robotic, and insufficiently staffed “customer support” is not what it should be nowadays!
Tuesday, 3/24/2020, on my father-in-law’s 82nd birthday, was my last day of driving the 16.4 miles one-way to the office in Maynardvegas! Utilizing a borrowed card table for three days, I have been and am working from home since Wednesday, 3/25/2020! It is much easier to walk a few steps from my bathroom to my home office than to drive to and from work. Driving, I pass twice the crossroad where, on 3/29/2016, the 18-year-old, uninsured female failed to yield to my right of way and almost killed me.
On Saturday, 4/4/2020, Mrs. Appalachian Irishman and I, in my 2006 Frontier, went to Lowe’s, very bravely, to purchase items for the flowerbed. Afterward, again, very bravely, we bought groceries at the local IGA. Oh, yes, everyone was trying to stay six feet apart. Some were wearing masks. We were not. It was too warm! I suppose that we survived!
Yesterday, on the afternoon of Palm Sunday, 4/5/2020, the parking lots at my beloved House Mountain were closed! Huge trailers and signs blocked the two parking lots. Thus, I did not take my 168th hike that afternoon! I thought about parking on the shoulder to hike anyway. No one can close the woods! Wisdom dictated, however, that an officer might have placed a ticket on my truck windshield or towed him off while I was in the woods. Instead, my truck had a Gibbs wash, and I helped my wife work in the front porch flowerbed. Oh, by the way, Molly, our “old puppy,” loves her new front porch flowerbed resting spot! It's called “Molly's Corner.” She dug herself a place to rest there. With her front paws, Molly did a disruptive digging job into the immaculate work that my wife and I had done. Thanks, Molly.
My next article will focus on the coronavirus (COVID-19 virus) from a historical perspective. Until then, I hope that this country doesn’t die economically as we try to avoid a nasty common cold virus.
It's supper time! Y’all keep turning right and going straight out there!
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