Day 32 Lockdown Codiponte...
Officially, a day over a month of Lockdown. Day 56 for me. Just saying. Read on to perceive my mood…
Weather continues to be sunny, warm… overly dry, damn-it and causing me to water the garden here at il Poggiolo every darn day of Lockdown… and breezy. But, HELL, it IS Spring! And yet, there is this lovely soft, fragrant scent to the air at dusk. Like it’s been sunny, warm… overly dry… and breezy. So much for the current forecast.
I don’t really have much to say. Oh, yes…
one thing is the silence we are all experiencing here in our back-of-beyond posting. I hear only the breeze and birds chirping. There are moments when I hear NOTHING! What a luxury. Occasionally however, and usually right before la pausa pranzo, music from a loud-speaker comes around the corner of il Poggiolo blasting from one of the houses down in the Codiponte Flood Plain. I know who too. A young man with the intelligence and tendencies of a 3 year old is the responsible person. Or, so I was told by a neighbor I had spotted her working with her chickens. We kept about 12 feet apart. I was without a mask and so was she. No gloves for either of us too. Thus, the overly cautious Social Distance. I got what little news was about. In fact, the disturbing-our-silence music was the only bit the neighbor could offer me. It’s tough. Kind of enforces one’s sense of loneliness and isolation. No truck or car traffic from the SR 445, no noises of people talking at/over the din of their machinery working the land or, no airplane traffic overhead. I can provide a screen shot taken from flightradar24.com just 3 seconds ago. Please note: in the left hand photo, the blue dot marks My Spot in Codiponte, Lunigiana, Tuscany and look! No airplanes, and…
in the left-hand photo is Dottore You at his command post in hospital and sporting his Coronavirus protective gear. This modest selfie ought to satisfy any curiosity of what an Italian doctor looks like who is battling in prima linea this COVID-19 with his very own gloved doctor’s hands and other…? Other…? Other doctor’s defences. And yes, yes, a thousand times, yes, we all know his interior mask ought to also cover his nose. However, he had just gotten off the telephone before this photo-op. One which made me very, very nervous… no, sorry, EXTREMELY NERVOUS, WORRIED, AND UPSET although I have know this Truth for the last 56 days. That expressed and explained, try this… pinch your nose while talking and see if anyone will understand you.
I am going to sign off for now. I seem to be on a Lockdown rhythm of one Day Yes! and the next a Day No! Guess which one I am having today?