So how is the COVID world going on ?
Nature has been reclaiming its space. Deers have been roaming confidently around all neighborhoods. And chomping on everyone's freshly grown veggie gardens in the Summer. One such did that to my bean plants & made our neighbors newly planted apple tree, bare of all leaves. Bunnies have been equally bold and out in open.
Yet almost all are gardening after the spring quarantines ended. This summer garden centers ran out of pots whenever I went there. Shopping for plants also had urgency. In Minnesota, gardening of ornamental and vegetables is from May till August. This year the frost has come very early as last week of August. Likewise there is a spurt in gardening hobbies in other states and in India. This interest along with work from home-town, could mean the younger generation could go back to Agarian lifestyle while working corporate. That would be ultimate life.
Masks have become mandatory. Not that we mind.
Travel & outing to closed spaces are gone.
Every door handle is opened with a tissue in hand.
Opening those plastic bags in grocery stores with gloved hands in indeed a challenge. This pic is real struggle.
About eating out, we haven't dining in, except one time in an abandoned Indian restaurant, late close to closing time. We were the only ones and the tables looked like they have never been eaten on in the recent times. The whole stay was guilt-ridden, "Did I do the wrong thing?" Order was late to arrive, as the take-out delivery ones were piled up, but ofcourse was invisible to us.
Now with WFH or remote working for most corporate jobs, mean that we don't need to live in the same city as our office. Not even same state. And this means a big deal in India, where it had lead to clustered growth in some cities, while there is real estate space & breathing space in Tier 2 & 3 cities. Now most of the younger corporate & IT folks have gone to their hometown, close to their families and are working from there.
