Day 25

Promise to end this soon. Yes, the three white cars are still there. Yes, construction continues. It was very hot today (record 95 degrees) so I didn't open the blinds and snap this until late.

Day 24

View today.

Day 23

I'll quit this after a bit, I'm sure. Today I extended the panorama a bit so you could see pieces of the relatively empty Nueces street. And, of course, I added my companion in this glorious experiment standing on the balcony! More of the same tomorrow? Maybe. Or maybe I'll start showing pictures of the things in my house. Or go back through the pictures I took when we still went outside and strolled.

Day 22

Not much different, is it? No Farmer's Market. See you tomorrow. We just got a grocery delivery that included bacon so off to make BLTs.

Day 21

It's Saturday. Notice the Farmer's Market on Fourth Street. We would like to shop there, but just too risky for us.

Day 20 Inside

This is our view from our apartment. We have been mostly inside for almost three weeks. We assume outside our apartment door is a petri dish of positive exposure. We know one person in the building is monitored. (Our management has informed us.) Most days we only get our newspaper in (with great care and glove and Clorox wipe removing the wrapper). We have been to the lobby a few times to get our mail (mask, gloves, Clorox wipes) and to our parking level twice. Once to take our car to a pharmacy and then to the curb in front of a restaurant for take-out. Once to get in the storage cage and get all the extra TP and paper towels and Kleenex. We also took some recycling to make us look less like alcoholics when they take us away. I swear those two Scotches barely had any left! We started both cars to see if they would run.

We made one shopping foray to the deli in our building (with masks). Much construction will continue in our neighborhood so people on the very front lines of infection will be in the shops. Four times neighbors (one on our floor) added some of our grocery items to their shopping and left at the door. We had take-out delivered several times, had some packages of supplements from Amazon and had the wine store deliver Sweet Vermouth and some white and rosé wines. We've tried to combine our trips to the lobby to get things with picking up our mail. Discarding trash is a two-person operation with sanitizing wipes, hand-washing, changing shoes.

I'm going to take a picture from the window for a few days to put here. It's cloudy and rainy today. The three white cars? They probably won't move. We believe they are unmarked cars of Federal marshalls. The cranes? They will probably move. Welcome to our (new) world.

Where he Went to University

FFP is only a few miles from all the schools he attended. The closest, of course, is the University of Texas where we frequently walked from our downtown condo. (Currently, due to COVID-19 we are avoiding getting outside our apartment as much as possible.)  Here FFP is looking across the fountain on the mall looking toward the Tower. Because of the events of August 1966, that edifice always gives him pause. Today is Theme Day at City Daily Photo and 'school' is the theme. Click here to see what others have offered for this theme.