It was a beautiful evening up here last night. When this is our living room you can keep me quarantined. Ha, ha.
We drove over to Hood River today with Chris and Jim to pickup our wine club order at Marchesi Vineyards. What a nice drive over the mountain and through the woods. We packed a picnic lunch and sat at a picnic table in the little railroad park in Parkdale soaking up the sun and enjoying a little vino with our lunch. I can’t wait for the day we can sit in the tasting rooms of our wine clubs and taste their latest offerings and be up at Skyway listening to music and eating some good bbq from their new smoker. Now, I just read that Clackamas County is probably two weeks out from meeting the prerequisites for reopening some businesses. I received this message in an email from Clack County this afternoon.
“We understand people want to return to normal as quickly as possible, especially with Governor Brown’s announcement. We are working on the Phase 1 plan to submit to Governor Brown, but this is challenging due to our county’s size and unique make-up. Per the governor’s guidelines, we must first reach established goals with contact tracing, a decrease in the prevalence of the virus, and hospital admission data. We are at least a couple of weeks away from meeting these prerequisites. We ask residents to continue to abide by the governor’s order, to ensure the progress we have made against the virus is not lost.”
What I read here is that Clackamas County has not been adequately preparing a Phase 1 plan to submit to the governor. It will be interesting to see how many counties do get the approval to reopen on May 15th after submitting their plan. I’m glad I haven’t sent my ballot in yet.
There are two injustices in the news today that have me fired up. One is the amount of time it took Glynn County Georgia to arrest the white father and son who shot an unarmed black man jogging down the street. It was two months ago that the incident occurred and had drawn little attention until a video of the shooting showed up online on Tuesday and was widely shared. Had the public not seen the shocking video and made it go viral, the white father and son would probably be still sitting at home whooping it up. Had it been a black father and son shooting a white jogger, do you think it would be two months before there was an arrest? No, they would have been in jail the same day. I hope there is a thorough investigation of this incident and not by AG Barr’s Department of Justice. That’s the second injustice of the day. Barr’s office drops the charges against Lieutenant General Michael Flynn after he had admitted to lying to the FBI. Unbelievable. I have never in my lifetime seen anything like what is going on in Washington, D.C. No wonder the rest of the world pities us.
Cocktail time! Don’t forget your sunscreen tomorrow. Keep smilin’. Ziggyman
Mountain Man Musings 