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[Scott Knitter]

It's definitely quieter in our neighborhood due to the reduced schedule of
the CTA elevated trains that are normally clattering by in the background,
a few blocks away. At 6 p.m., I noticed I could actually hear the Angelus
being rung on the bells of Madonna Della Strada chapel at Loyola U Chicago.
I usually hear the brief peal of all the bells that happens afterward, but
I also caught the 3 sets of 3 bongs before that. Interestingly, I heard the
peal of the noon Angelus while I was watching a live stream of a friend's
6pm Vespers from London, which started with the Angelus. So the bells fit
in perfectly. The Angelus across the waters. :)

We've got a new bird feeder set up and are putting some seeds on a couple
of windowsills as well. The cats get a great view of this, and so do we. A
cardinal couple are regulars, and so is a pesky house finch that they
tolerate for a while but then chase away. You can tell the cardinals are a
couple because the male feeds the female occasionally from his own mouth.
Neat.

On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 9:05 PM ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mass General's been locked down for a couple of weeks.
>  If you walk up to the front door, Security will greet you and politely
> shoo you away.
>  (I have not had this experience myself, but am paying attention because
> sooner or later I'll need to visit the Credit Union, which is currently
> off-limits to all but current employees.)
>  The dozen or more other entrances have all been locked.
>  That's probably true of all the hospitals.
>
> They are predicting that we will probably hit our peak on Friday or
> Saturday.
>
> The testing of the homeless population continues.
>  Something like a third have tested positive.
>
> A couple of things I've noticed.
>  With hardly any traffic, red lights seem to last forever.
>  I have never heard so many birds downtown. The other day I was listening
> to what I thought was a hormonally-charged song sparrow, but then I heard
> echoes of bluejay and seagull, so realized it was a well-traveled
> mockingbird.
>  We've discovered we're channeling our mothers because the food supply is
> plentiful but not 100  per cent. So it's no longer "what do you want for
> dinner?" but "what's available?"
>  It's fascinating to see what gets snapped up at the grocery store. Frozen
> pizza and French fries are sold out. Plenty of healthy stuff, thank God.
>  FWP [first world problems]
> -M
>
>
>
>
> On Sunday, April 19, 2020, Charles Wohlers <chad at satucket.com> wrote:
> >
> > The town in Massachusetts we used to live in, population 14,500, reported
> > 87 cases earlier last week. Our county in Vermont, population 58,000, has
> > had 32 cases and one death.
> >
> > Very thankful I live in rural Vermont.
> >
> >
>


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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA