As a kid, the four big holidays were Christmas, Easter, Halloween and Thanksgiving. Candy in the stockings for Christmas. The Easter baskets full of candy. Lots of candy on Halloween. And the Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter feasts. For Thanksgiving and Christmas we always had Turkey. For Easter we had ham. When I learned more about the origins of Christianity I marveled at celebrating the resurrection of a nice Jewish boy by eating pork.
So it was a sad Easter this year. No church services. No large family dinners. No public Easter egg hunts for the kids.
A few years back, my weight had ballooned up to 205 pounds. During most of my adult life I weighed in at 165-170 pounds so I had become a real tub of lard. I attributed it to my love of chocolate so I cut back. I only allow myself chocolate three time a year: Leftover Snickers bars from Halloween, Sees pecan buds at my sister’s for Christmas, and the same thing for myself at home for Easter. Alas, Sees suspended operation a few weeks ago because of the Kung Flu.
How’s my weight? I’m down to 175 pounds. I was able to cut back on one of my blood pressure medicines. My BP was actually too low!
I really, really hate China. They ruined my Easter. I wasn’t able to visit my sister in South Carolina. She always cooked a good meal on Saturday night and I always provided a nice Bordeaux from my cellar. Not this year.
I also provided a nice wine from my cellar for the Sunday feast which, of course, was always ham. Nope. I was stuck at home.
No Sees candy. No ham. Bummer!
On the upside, the Kung Flu seems to be tapering off. Deaths were doubling every three to four days. Four days ago in the US we were at 16,000 deaths. Today we are at 23,500. New York, the epicenter was at 7,000. Today it is at 10,000. Too bad we had to kill the economy.
The next holiday is Mother’s Day. I usually visit my sister and we go out to eat at a place with a nice buffet, the same place we go for Thanksgiving. I fear that will be cancelled as well.
When we come out of this we need to make the Chinese pay. Move all of our manufacturing from China. There are other Asian countries with low priced labor. Better yet, move our manufacturing back home. Make Red China a pariah once again.
The Kung Flu is the price we have paid for the failed policies of globalism.
Trump started the disconnect from Red China. Pray he gets a second term so he can continue his policies.
Vote the Dimocrats out of the House and Senate since they will oppose his policies. Remember, they called him xenophobic for stopping flights from China. Now these same assholes are saying he didn’t do it soon enough.
Let’s hope this is the last bad Easter.
Good read. Good points to ponder. Especially using the term ‘globalism’ and ‘failed policies’ together. Keep up the good writing.
Should have gone and visited your sister. No one would have stopped you. We went to our daughter’s house. She served pot roast and potatoes with garlic bread and cheese cake for dessert. She has 2 small children; a 5 year old daughter, and an 8 month old son. The little one is just starting to crawl. Had to pull him off the ceiling a few times. The kids bounced off the walls most of the time we were there. The 5 year old never shut up and the son pooped his pants 4 times. What a day. Good memories. Go visit your sister on Mother’s day. Screw the rules.
My sister has a compromised immune system due to chemotherapy. I doubt if I’ve been exposed to the Kung Flu but it was not worth taking a chance.
GOC,
Be patient. Next eAster will be better than your usual. Plus if you keep your weigh down and you b.p. down, I am sure that R & S will spoil you like you had never been spoiled before. You can look forward to next year.
Boycott China. we can do without cheese manufacture goods and the problems that come with them. Just say no more ask to see the label and walk away business will get the message.
GOC,
I had already looked at the labels to check whether something is manufactured in PRC. As you know, I can read Chinese and recognise that the PRC Chinese characters (are called “simplified” is different from eh rest of the world’s Chinese.. Whenever I see anything that is produced in PRC, I just put it back on the shelf and inform the cashier that I will never buy anything made in PRC. Furthermore, I told the cashier that if that store continue to source anything from PRC, I would not enter their store anymore. One store is clearly getting the message. They have put any item manufactured in PRC on a different section fo the store and clearly labeled them as such and that section is starting to shrink.
Globalism is a DIRTY word. Obama’s truly believe that USA became so rich because we had been exploiting the rest of the world. He believes tha tit would be fair to tax us heavily and share the higher tax revenue that the federal government generated to other countries in the world. what a joke!!
Nice commentary Denny. As a senior, I’m just glad Biden or Pelosi aren’t president. Biden still wouldn’t know what was happening, Pelosi would be inviting us into China Town and the press still wouldn’t have reported a death. But I’d probably be dead by now so wouldn’t care. Thank goodness for DJT!! Any years I have left I will credit to DJT. And I was so glad to see him nail the horrible kindergarten press this afternoon. It’s like he’s teaching a bunch of children.
That -teaser was glorious
Presser, not “-teaser”
Need more coffee STAT!
I hope you do get together with your sister at a later date. Also glad to hear you dropped those extra pounds. I’m now carryin’ a few more than I should and at this age it’ll probably be a challenge to get rid of ’em.
Glad you dropped the pounds. I think this farce by the Lame Stream Media will blow over by Mothers Day. BTW, Mr. Surbers son passed away last week.
WHO World health organization
not american health organization
their funding &U.N. funding should be like NATO
each member nation contributes,they all benefit
while we pick up the tab
Speaking of Hallowe’en being one of Denny’s favorite holidays, usually you would get in trouble for TP-ing someone’s yard, but now you would get an award.
Our son has been home with us and working from here since NV shutdown … daughter and her fiancé came over for dinner. The better half has been working ungodly hours as a staff RN here at the hospital. I’ve been busy fencing, tilling, planting, taking care of the livestock … no matter how hard I try, the cattle refuse to social distance – especially when there’s a pan of sweet feed involved. All in all it was a good day all things considered … 😎! Most of my relatives in the southeast were unable to get together or attend church for various and nefarious reasons … 🤨!