The Month That Was July-2020

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July was not any different from June. The Covid-19 situation still continues. Number of cases in the city, state as well as country has increased. The death toll has reached 30,000. For our vast population the mortality seems minuscule. Only loved ones know the pain when there is death in the family. Government, bureaucrats, and people show lack of apathy. I can understand the plight of people who are out there to earn livelihood. What about others who loiter around without any reasons? It is hard to stay put in one place all the time and we have been doing it from the past five months. This is where civic sense and responsibility comes. We may not get infected. Even if we may survive because of youth and stamina. What if we become asymptomatic carriers to pass on the germ to others? Hubby and I make sure to turn down all the invitations from family and friends alike to hang out as most of them have small children or aged parents. Cousin M1 visited and that girl is more paranoid than I ever was. And for the unknown she has been in isolation for the last five months.

Our life continued staying at home, social distancing, wearing masks while going out for essentials, sanitizing, and glaring at people when they come too close to our comfort. My favourite quote for anyone who cares to listen is "Just because you have forgotten pandemic does not mean that pandemic has forgotten you".

The reading journey continued with five books this month. They are Queenie-Candice Carty Williams; Overdue Life of Amy Byler-Kelly Harms; Where the Crawdads Sing-Delia Owens; The Guest List-Lucy Foley; Sex and Vanity-Kevin Kwan. I was hoping to see the screen adaptation of 'Where the Crawdads sing" while reading, and to my delight Reese Witherspoon will be producing the film and it is in pre-production.

We had watched total 17 movies and they are; The Monuments Men (English) Vettah (Malayalam), Anveshanam (Malayalam), Beverly Hills Cops 1 (English), Beverly Hills Cop 2 (English), Beverly Hills Cop 3 (English), Memories (Malayalam), Mamangam (Malayalam), Spencer Confidential (English), Murder Mystery (English), 6 Underground (English), French Biriyani (Kannada), Law (Kannada), Gentleman (Kannada), Blood Shot (English), Shakuntala Devi (Hindi), HIT (Telugu).

We had watched good numbers of TV shows too. They are "Out of Love, Hostages, Bose:Dead or Alive, She, Test Case, TVS Pitcher.

I couldn't spend much time gardening this month. Still the plants are not complaining. I'm rethinking about planting tomatoes and chilies. I knew they are going to take four months to harvest. When all the micro-greens gives me a week to 10 days'supply, waiting for tomatoes and chilies seems longer. And they take lot of space too. We were thinking about creating more vertical space to accommodation few more plants. The search for that one particular stand is on. Our stint in the kitchen continued as well. 

Despite all these I miss traveling terribly. Any future travel seems bleak this year. Our friends constantly ask us how we are coping with the situation as most of them knew our passion for travel. We just say we are bidding our time. We (us, family and friends) consider ourselves fortunate if we could sail hurt through this pandemic. I might sound like an obsessive paranoid, which I'm about the Covid-19. 

July has been kind. How was yours?