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[Helena]

Our city has a stay-home order now. Thank God you can still take a walk if you want. It should be warm enough tomorrow to do that. At least there will be yard stuff to do soon, so a reason to be outside more. That is always a peace-bringing activity for me.

We had a warm day last week. On my walk, I had to keep crossing the street to keep the safe distancing, but it was nice to see neighbors out and about in their yards.

We have a great neighborhood. Lots of volunteers willing to shop for those at high risk, and neighbors have started to use the little free lending library boxes scattered around to leave extra food for others. I have some things I can put out there, so will plan to take them with me on my next walk. There are some good things that happen when there are community challenges.

Also, people are adopting pets like crazy during this time. And the shelter says they have more offers to foster than are needed for probably the first time ever. I guess people either want something furry and loveable around for comfort now----or they just finally have time to spend with a new animal. Whichever, its kind of a fun unexpected side effect.