Sorry it's late

I started this a few days ago and at this "late" hour of 9pm on Sunday, I'm deciding to post it as is . . . because I don't post often enough.  :-) 

 

I cannot believe there is only one week left of November (well, one week and a half a handful of days).  We are not going anywhere for Thanksgiving.  We normally go to my sister's house, but not this year.  I actually see my sister regularly, so I'm not too bummed. We did a lot of outside socializing this summer, and just did pedicures last weekend.  

WA is under new restrictions, mostly just restaurants and bars and gyms closed again, but they are strongly advising us not to get together for Thanksgiving.  When I was younger, Thanksgiving was a big holiday.  We lived only a few miles from my grandma, but we'd still spend the day there eating.  When I moved to western WA I quit going over there (I did one year and was stuck in traffic forever), and then my Grandma died and my Mom got tired of being the only  one to cook (and clean) so my family started going out on Thanksgiving and it's just not fun doing it that way.  There were a couple years that we had some young people living with us (they were a brother and sister that were homeless) and we started doing big Thanksgiving dinners with them and inviting their friends, but when they moved out they gradually quit talking to us.  Now we rarely see them, which is sad, because they had become part of our family.  

I am still running.  My ankle is feeling good, and I am on track to run more miles this week more than any week since August.  Maddox has been going to the Boys and Girls Club for remote learning, but this week an employee tested positive so they closed it all.  I think it's strange since I thought they were in "pods" in case someone tested positive and only that pod would be quarantined.  According to the letter sent home, Maddox was not in direct contact and we don't have to quarantine, but they are all closed.  So we did some P.E. by doing a 2 mile run/bike ride.