{"id":2457,"date":"2020-08-01T10:41:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T17:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=2457"},"modified":"2020-08-01T11:03:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T18:03:17","slug":"covid-19-notes3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=2457","title":{"rendered":"COVID 19 NOTES,3"},"content":{"rendered":"

JUST IN: A COVID-maybe worker lurks and we are confined…again.\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The COVID comes, the COVID goes … up and down, but never away.\u00a0 Sigh.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Life is Groundhog Day, temporarily sheltering (now,even more)-in-place\u00a0 Thank heavens for Day Brighteners, like Tim Wu’s NYT<\/strong> op-ed that argues small flour mills may save our economy<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0Then he highlights King Arthur and Maine Grains, which calls to mind my ND roots, always a happy thought.<\/p>\n

Not to brag because that is unbecoming, but my Non-Partisan-League forbears, in order to make the world a better place for ND’ans and thwart the Minneapolis milling, banking and railroad robber barons, started the still existing State Mill And Elevator and the\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ND State Bank,<\/a> which was recently featured positively in\u00a0the Washington Post<\/strong>.\u00a0 A state railroad\u00a0was planned, but I don’t think\u00a0it was ever actually born.\u00a0 \u00a0My dad’s Coghlan family was politically involved e.g. mayor, county commissioner, 2 or 3 uncles in the state legislature.\u00a0 Stories abound, and my uncle John, like my dad, a 3rd generation ND’an but not a Coghlan, tried to keep them honest.<\/p>\n

So when in 1961 I received a generous wedding gift from Joe Coghlan and did not know who he was, dad said he was his uncle who had served in the ND state legislature.\u00a0 Then he said, “He must be on the right side of the fence,” which I assumed meant he had switched political parties, but no.\u00a0 As John explained, it meant he was out of prison.\u00a0 Uncle Joe apparently defrauded the Federal government, which made him a kind of local hero.\u00a0 Or so the family tells it.\u00a0 John smiles.\u00a0 Anyhow, my dad, uncle John, the Non Partisan League, and ND State Mill were all pluses in my world.\u00a0 So you go, Maine Grains!<\/p>\n

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Another Day Brightener\u00a0 was the flag wrapped folding flag chair Charlie found on sale at Fred Meyer.\u00a0 This means we can be Pier denizens longer and more comfortably as the other Pier sitters decide if we are Trump supporters, protesters, delayed hippies, or just people with a rolled-up chair in search of a fanny?<\/p>\n

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Action shot:\u00a0 Watching geese moon us and poop at the same time.\u00a0 I figure, and hope, it was a good, and rare, omen.\u00a0 I should have looked away.<\/p><\/div>\n

No, I am not waiting for Godot.\u00a0 I AM waiting for Charlie to get a phone that can add a selfie stick so you will know we are both here and that\u00a0 can add the app Starbucks requires when ordering a pick-up latte during the lock down.<\/p>\n

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Action shot: Going rogue patriotically\u00a0or leading the attack on Albert, the junker, from Homer?<\/p><\/div>\n

REALLY BIG Day Brightener is very\u00a0 good news that the Pier will stay open after August for at least a time and maybe for always.\u00a0 Suspect COVID delays are involved.\u00a0 Here’s to Richard Fernandez, best project manager EVER.<\/p>\n

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Susan, our ongoing Day Brightener, routinely hands out things to do.\u00a0 The best so far, IMHO, is Book Bingo, a paper grid with topic boxes, e.g. travel, pets uplifting, in which we are to put summer reading choices.\u00a0\u00a0Five filled boxes across or down means BINGO.
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