Early Rising

Provincially, after a rise back into the 400s for new cases for a few days, we were down into the 200s yesterday. The premier announced that the much of province will move onto phase 2 later this week. This includes our area, but the golden horseshoe is excluded. That's the area that includes Toronto and goes all of the way around the western edge of Lake Ontario to Niagara Falls and the border with NYS. Although it is small in area, it would have to be more than 50% of Ontario's total population. That's where most of the cases have occurred.

At home. we are car-less again for the second consecutive day because Shauna's car troubles are back, even after a major expense last week. We had no plans or no need anyway.

Speaking of Shauna, at her seniors residence for the past few weeks, they have been holding one outdoor concert per week; it lasts about an hour. Last week, the concert involved one keyboard and some singing by one person. This is in the middle of the day. One neighbour wrote an irate letter threatening to blast heavy metal music back at them because the music bothered her. People, eh?

I am writing this before 5 in the morning. I've already been up for an hour and have consumed a coffee. I knew this would happen because I went to bed ~9:30 last night, and I can only sleep for ~6 hours. Rising early is not such a bad idea in summertime when it gets light early. If I want to go out with the camera for first light, I can. Not that I can go anywhere without the car today. (It is now 5:10, and it is getting quite light.)

Sue has Google Photos enabled on her phone, and they offered her this little composite yesterday. How neat. I could do something like this manually, but it would take me some time, and Google just does it off the cuff as it were — nothing to it.

And . . . selfies. You get two today because I missed yesterday. Aren't we the cutest?