Quarantine - Day 26

Ella finds a suitcase in a mysterious wooded area

Today Ella woke up lying on the ground in a mysterious woods and found a small suitcase. “What could be inside?” She asked. “Why am I in my nightgown in a mysterious woods?” She pondered.

Slowly she approached the suitcase and, gathering her resolve, tried the latch.

Today Ella and her mom went to Walking Stick Woods to shoot a movie that Ella has had stuck in her head since long before the start of the quarantine. Back in early February, she had asked me if we could go shoot a movie in the woods, and I kept putting it off and she kept insisting. Finally, her mother and she made a morning of it. Abbie spent hours on the phone with Apple tech support trying to get the brand new logic board they installed in her computer to function correctly. I fussed with the website and did bookkeeping (just the expenses, no revenue), and later went out to stand in a line five deep six feet apart for Mexican take-out. Fridays have been our day for takeout since the lockdown began, and I am always impressed with the insuperable will of our dauntless restaurant workers who bag your food, ring you up, and smile at you from behind their masks wishing you a nice evening. To them I say, “Thank You.”