March 2020 turned out much different than planned. We were able to go to Mississippi and also see New Orleans, then to Michigan for Dexter's birthday. When we arrived home on March 11, Dean was pretty sick. By Thursday, March 12, I was getting pretty sick. We had to cancel our Pi day party, which was going to be on Saturday, March 14. By the time Saturday came around, the world pretty much had shut down! Who knew! Church services were cancelled, businesses were shut down, here were we had a directive from the government to "Stay home, stay safe". Then on Wednesday, March 18, there was a 5.7 earthquake, I thought it was the "big one" that has been talked about for years. Scared me to death.
We decided no better place to stay home than at the cabin!
So starting on March 19, we basically lived at the cabin, and plan to till the quarantine is lifted.
We had started our wall project, with about 12 puzzles finished to this point. Since we were quarantined, it was a perfect time to work like crazy on our puzzle project.
First wall complete!
We stayed down at the cabin, thinking it would only be for a couple of weeks. We were loving it, we had a huge project, beautiful surrounding to go on walks and 4 wheeler rides, this wasn't going to be too bad!
Our neighbor, Natalie Diamond, knowing we were sick, brought us over a loaf a bread, and a puzzle to add to our puzzle wall.....the puzzle was 4000 pieces! It took up 3 full tables for the pieces, and none of our tables were big enough for the puzzle, so we brought up half of our ping pong table to put the puzzle together on. We put the blue plastic underneath while we were working on it so we wouldn't have to move it to Mod Podge it. This thing was huge!
More walks, and more puzzles.
We would work on the big puzzle, and get discouraged, complete a couple of 1000 piece puzzles so we could feel good about ourselves and make some progress on our wall.
On March 26, Braden brought his family down to the cabin parking lot so he could pick up a snowmobile our cabin neighbors gave us. Braden was going to get it in working order while he was "social distancing".
I got to see Lucy, (didn't get to hold her or play with her) but I got to build a snowman with Livy and Rex. No hugs, no touching, and tried to keep our distance from each other. It was awesome to see them, even if for a super short time, and from a distance!
Then back to the puzzles....Starting to see a little progress on the huge one.
Progress is soooooo slow!
It was so beautiful at the cabin. We were loving the time up there, but anxious for the puzzle to be finished, and the quarantine to be done! Now it was a race to see which finished first!
Neither one ended in March.
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