Pati. 19 March 20 First day of Spring! 

As far as weather is concerned, the astronomical seasons mean nothing. As many of us know, in a lot of areas of the United States, although technically it's considered Springtime (March, April or May), there still can be winter weather. In Great Britain, however, spring is thought to include February, March and April.  In the Southern Hemisphere, the seasons are reversed. For example, Down Under (Australia) spring begins around September 23 and ends about December 21.

Up earlier today with a Gingerman cookie and Brigadoon tea. What is that you ask? Adagio Tea had it available to be purchased only on Leap Day. Only once every 4 years instead of 100. If you still don't understand, google "Brigadoon."

Same lunch, again. Put corned beef on the stove, yes, I'm a couple of day late.

We decided to go to Safeway and do some more shopping. Since we've retired we started going to the store every couple of days. Now we thought we should shop for 2 weeks as we used to. No paper goods but we didn't go until 1500. Rick still says he'll never use cloth wipes but we'll see.

A nice glass of wine, 2017 Prayers of the Sinner from Saints and Sinner in Washington state with the last slice of dark chocolate orange from Christmas.

I finished my book and will started The Wanted by Robert Crais tonight.

Vegetables cooking and corned beef resting in the oven.

Dinner over and almost bedtime. House still smells like corned beef! 

We watched Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, NCIS: New Orleans, and Stumptown tonight.

See y'all tomorrow. Well, not really, social distancing, you know.

Today's Headlines:

Russia deploying coronavirus disinformation to sow panic in West, EU document says.

Prince Albert of Monaco, 63, tests positive for coronavirus.

Brazil's Christ the Redeemer statue lit with flags of countries affected by coronavirus.