Pandemic Diary — February 15 to 21

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Monday, February 15 Deaths 2,137 (+0) New cases 184

A second day of zero COVID deaths reported. Reports are for the previous day, so that means that both Saturday and Sunday were zero. It makes you wonder if this is a reporting anomaly. New case totals and test positive numbers remain low.

Our day was busy but mostly routine: grocery shopping, exercise class, correspondence, etc. We had a short walk, but conditions were fairly nasty–40 degrees with wind-driven rain. We’re getting tired of rain, which seems to go on and on. Every unpaved inch of ground is saturated and puddles form in every low spot. It doesn’t help that up until seventy-odd years ago our neighborhood was most probably a wetland.

We’re having a minor insect invasion in our otherwise perfect home. (Some exclusions apply.) We have been seeing small moths flitting here and there, a few tiny ants in the kitchen, and one black fly buzzing around. We do not feel merciful toward these invaders and the death toll is mounting. E has ended the lives of four moths and three ants. M has accounted for two moths and the fly.

Tuesday, February 16 Deaths 2,138 (+1) New cases 411

A mix of rain and sunshine today with warming temperatures. Our neighborhood walk was pleasant and M did an hour of garden work before a shower chased him inside. E did her yoga class and got some sewing done. M disposed of another moth but he is having a hard time catching up with E, whose score today is three more moths and one more ant. She was very satisfied to get the ant. She says it was the that got away from her yesterday–a claim which is difficult to verify.

We are floundering around trying to find something else to watch on TV. We tried to watch a Turkish series called 20 Minutes, which stars one of favorite Turkish actors, Tuba Büyüküstün, who played Elif in Kara Para Aşk. But 20 Minutes is so grim! Too grim. Then we tried to watch another Turkish series called Woman (Kadın), which some of our friends in Spain are watching. It’s also being shown here on Netflix, but it is in Turkish with Spanish subtitles! We tried that for a while and it kinda worked, but it was really hard and just too culturally confusing. So tonight we tried out an episode of A French Village on Prime. It’s good–and it has English subtitles. But it’s French and we missed our Turkish cultural exposure. So we’re still thinking.

Wednesday, February 17 Deaths 2,143 (+5) New cases 473

Another day much like the last. First, M works on his article and E sews. Second, the sun comes out and both work in the garden. Then the sun goes away. M lies down. E goes to the fabric store, navigates the insane complexity of their pricing structure, and eventually gets a package of seam binding and one spool of thread at “regular” prices, two “free” spools of thread, and a piece of flannel fabric for 88 cents.

But wait, here’s something new. A package arrives. Quick, let’s see who it’s for. It’s addressed to E. M tells her it’s probably just a lump of coal or something, but E knows better. It’s a box of Godiva truffles and the card inside says it is for E and M from the Andees. Fine folks, these Andees, both of them credits to their clans.

Although E is now “eligible” to be vaccinated, sign up for her group has yet to be activated, as far as she can see. Frustrating.

Thursday, February 18 Deaths 2,149 (+6) New cases 466

8:00: FaceTime tertulia with R and J. They tell us about having paella and tapas here in town at FireWorks. We tell them about finding Godiva chocolates on our doorstep. Then we compare notes on lugubrious Eastern European national songs.

9:00 — E has Zoom exercise class.

9:30 — M goes to get a haircut.

10:30 — E goes to the dentist. She decides to walk despite the threat of rain.

11:30 — E goes to Winco and picks up some Grape Nuts.

12:00 — E arrives home in a pouring rain. She is cozy in her coat. The Winco bag is soggy, but the Grape Nuts are fine. M is impressed by the Grape Nuts but wants to know why she didn’t also pick up some butter.

12:15 — M fetches lunch from Burgerville.

1:00 — M and E rest from their labors.

2:45 — M starts making pickles

3:45 — Pickles!

After dinner we stumbled upon something new to watch on Netflix. It’s a British film called The Dig. It is about an archeological discovery in Suffolk in 1939 and stars Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan. We found it immediately absorbing. It’s a little slow and a little long, so we decided to save some for tomorrow.

Friday, February 19 Deaths 2,149 (+0) New cases 492

Today is the 330th day of the Pandemic Diary database. Time for another chart. Over the last ten days, the average daily COVID death toll in Oregon was 11.8. This compares with 7.4 during the previous period, so it’s not great news. but nor is it terrible.

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The data in the last ten days was strikingly uneven. Two of the days, 2/12 and 2/13, had some of the highest totals of the entire pandemic. On three other days, 2/14, 2/15, and 2/19, zero deaths were reported.

For E and M, today was a more relaxed day than some. After breakfast we took a long walk in the rain. It was quite a nice rain: small drops, not too many of them, and no wind to blow them around. It buoyed our spirits. When we arrived home the rain obligingly stopped for a bit and E went out to the garden to trim last year’s stalks off of the sedum. When she finished that, she got a shovel and whacked up a couple of pumpkins that had been sitting out in our new prairie since Halloween. As soon as she finished, a bluejay went after the seeds she had exposed. Its method was to stuff its craw with four or five seeds and then fly off and bury them one at a time in various parts of the yard. We know that bird won’t find all of them and E is a little dismayed at the thought of having pumpkin plants all over the place. We shall see.

While E worked in the real world, M worked elsewhere, in the video world of Need For Speed: No Limits. Just today he finally got to the point where he could stage up his SRT Viper GTS. This means that he will be able to make more progress in Car Series and also compete successfully in Level 5 Tuner Trials, which will lead to acquiring the parts needed to increase the speed, acceleration and nitro performance of his Porsche Carrera so as to continue progressing in the The Campaign. This, in turn, will open the way to earning more blueprints to allow yet more stage-ups to the Viper, which, in the long run will surpass the Porsche’s performance and allow for yet more progress in The Campaign. That’s if M doesn’t die first. If you’re too cheap to make in-app purchases, this is a very long-view game.

After all that, we both needed a break so we shared a fish stick for lunch.That wasn’t quite enough, so M had a quesadilla and E finished off some faro salad and a hard boiled egg. In the afternoon E did Zoom yoga and M worked on his article.

In the evening we finished watching The Dig, which was quite satisfying. We have also discovered a number of other TV things of interest. First, there are many episodes The Number One Ladies Detective Agency on YouTube. Second, we have found a Turkish series called İstanbul Kırımızisi. The plot looks interesting and one of the actors is good old Tuba Büyüküstün. Thirdly, Season 4 of Outlander is now on Netflix. E has never seen any of Outlander. We are not sure if she would like it. Does anyone have an opinion on this?

Saturday, February 20 Deaths 2,154 (+5) New cases 536

E was annoyed again this morning by our state public health authorities. She heard one of them on the radio going on about how the vaccination program is flowing right along and everyone who qualifies for shots is getting them, etc., etc. This, she says, is a blatant lie. If it were true, she would have gotten at least a first vaccine by now.

But then she again went out to walk Pepper and chase rainbows and then got herself a latte from Tried and True, which she says has the best coffee in town. There’s nothing like a dog, a rainbow, and a coffee and to improve one’s mood.

RETRACTION: We must report an error in the January 28th entry of the Diary. On that date we discovered that our John Deere tractor had been attacked and overturned. We were quick to blame a nearby plant shoot, which we identified as a crocus. As can be seen here, it was not a gigantic crocus at all but rather a humongous snowdrop. We regret the error.

We are fortunate, of course, that we did not file an insurance claim based on the crocus damage clause in our homeowners policy. We could have been arrested for fraud. We could have been imprisoned…in which case both of us might have gotten our vaccinations by now.

Sunday, February 21 Deaths 2,155 (+1) New cases 111

Cloudy but dry today. M mowed the lawn. E went for a walk. We planned plans and listed lists for another trip to Bend. At 4:00 we had a Zoom meeting with E’s brothers back east. All three of the crew back there–brother #1, brother #2, and sister-in-law–have gotten their first vaccinations. J the Elder says he felt poorly for three days after he got his shot but is now doing fine. J the Younger is trying to bear up under the pressures of walking on the beach and putting his feet up to watch the sunset.

On TV we watched the ‘season finale’ of All Creatures Great and Small on PBS. E was annoyed by the whole idea of Helen’s engagement and last minute decision not to marry what’s his name. None of that was in the book. It was inconsistent with everything we know about her character. And the scene where James finds her alone in the church still in her wedding dress was just stupid. Judging by the woodenness of the dialogue, even the writers who created it knew how dumb it was. This reminds us of the bad old days when you could pretty much just assume that any movie or TV adaptation of a novel was going to be junk.

Pandemi Günlüğü

Pazartesi, 15 Şubat Oregon’daki ölümler: 2,137 (+0) Yeni vakalar: 184

Sıfır ölümle başka bir gün bildirildi. Iyi ama garib. Virüs hafta sonları çalışmıyor mu?

Günümüz meşgul ama rutin bir işti: market alışverişi, egzersiz dersleri, yazışma vb. Biraz yürüdük ama hava kötüydü…soğuk, yağmur ve güçlü rüzgar. Burada her şey çok ıslak. Her santim toprak doymuş ve bahçemizden su birikintiler oluşuyor.

Evimizde küçük bir böcek istilası var: küçük güveler, minik karıncalar ve bir bara sinek. Merhamitli değiliz. E dört güvenin ve üç karıncanın hayatına son verdi. M sadece iki güveyi öldürdü ama anyı samanda sineğe de bir son verdi.

Salı, 16 Şubat Oregon’daki ölümler: 2,138 (+1) Yeni vakalar: 411

Bugün yağmur ve güneşin karışımı. Güzel. Mahallede yürüyüşümüz keyifli geçti. M yağmur onu içeri kovalamadan bahçede bir saat çalıştı. E yoga yaptı ve sonra biraz dikiş yaptı.

Televizyonda izlemek yeni bir şey arıyoruz. Kadın adlı bir Türk dizisini izlemeye çalıştık. İspanya’da popüler ve oradaki bazı arkadaşlarımız izliyor. ABD’de Netflix’te ama İspanyolca altyazıları var! Bu hem dilsel hem de kültürel açıdan gerçekten zordu. Çok fazla. Sonra 20 Dakika adlı başka bir Türk dizisini denedik. Kara Para Aşkında Tuba Büyüküstün’ü sevdik. Ama 20 Dakika karanlık ve dertlerle dolu. Bu gece Amazon Prime’da Bir Fransız Köyü adlı bir dizi denedik. İyi bir dizi ama Türk dili ve kültürü dersimiz özlüyoruz. Hala düşünüyoruz.

Çarşamba, 17 Şubat Oregon’daki ölümler: 2,146 (+6) Yeni vakalar: 473

Başka bir gün geçen gün gibi. İlk olarak, M yazı projesi üzerinde çalışıyor ve E dikiş dikiyor. İkincisi, güneş geliyor ve ikisi de bahçede çalışıyorlar. Sonra bulutlar geliyor. Normal. Sıkıcı.

Fakat bekle! İşte yeni bir şey. Bir paket geliyor. Nedir? M, muhtemelen bir parça kömür olduğunu söylüyor. Ama E daha iyisini biliyor. The Andees’den bir kutu Godiva çikolatası. Andees iyi insanlardır.

Perşembe, 18 Şubat Oregon’daki ölümler: 2,149 (+6) Yeni vakalar: 466

8:00 — R ve J ile FaceTime görüşmesi. Godiva Chocolate, İspanyol yemekleri ve küstah Doğu Avrupa ulusal şarkıları hakkında konuştuk.

9:00 — E’nin Zoom egzeresiz sınıfi.

9:30 — M’in saç kesimi randevusu.

10:30 — E’nin dişçi randevusu. Oraya yürüyerek gitmeye karar verdi.

11:30 — E Winco’ya gitti ve bir kutu Grape Nuts aldı.

12:00 — E eve geldi. Çok yağmur yağıyordu ama E’nin yağmurluğu iyi. M etkilendi. “O iyi bir işçi,” diyor.

12:15 — M Burgerville’den öğle yemeği aldı.

1:00 — Emeklerimizden dinlendik.

2:45 — M turşuluk sebzeler yapmaya başlar.

3:45 — Turşu sebzeler bitti.

Cuma, 19 Şubat Oregon’daki ölümler: 2,149 (+0) Yeni vakalar: 492

Bugün salgın haberciliğimizin 330. günü. İşte başka bir grafik. Ortalama günlük ölümler 7,4’ten 11,8’e yükseldi. Harika bir haber değil. Rakamlar tuhaftı. On ikinci ve on üçüncü iki günde çok fazla ölüm oldu. On dördüncü, on beşinci ve on dokuzunda sıfır ölüm vardı.

Bizim için rahat bir gündü. Yağmurda uzun bir yürüyüşe çıktık. Yağmur güzel. Küçük damlaları. Çok fazla damla değil. Ruzgar yok. Yağmur durkuktan sonra E bahçede çalıştı ve M bir video oyunu oynadı. Need for Speed adında bir araba yarışı oyunu. M’nin kullanıcı adı Canavar’dır.

Akşam The Dig izlemeyi bitirdik. Oldukça tatmin ediciydi. İzlemek istediğimiz daha çok programımız var. Biri İstanbul Kırımızisi değeri Bir Numaralı Bayanlar Dedektiflik Bürosu.

Cumartesi, 20 Şubat Oregon’daki ölümler: 2,xxx (+0) Yeni vakalar: xxx

GERI ÇEKME: 28 Ocak girdimizde bir hata oluştu. Traktörümüzün saldırıya uğradığını ve devrildiğini bildirdik. Tehlikeli bir yabani çiğdemi suçladık. Bu fotoğraf onun çiğdem olmadığını gösteriyor. Dev bir Kardelen’di. Hatadan dolayı üzgünüz.

Traktör sürücüsü yaralanmadı. Ama traktörde çalışmaya devam edemeyecek kadar korkuyor.

Pazar, 21 Şubat Oregon’daki ölümler: 2,155 (+1) Yeni vakalar: 111

Bugün hava bulutlu ama kuru. M çimleri biçti. E yürüyüşe çıktı. Saat dörtte Zoom’dan E’nin kardeşleriyle konuştuk. Erkek kardeş 1 kendisinin ve karısının ilk çekimlerini yaptıklarını. Atıştan sonra üç gün boyunca kötü hissettiler, ama şimdi iyiler. Erkek dardeş 2 sahilde yürüyor ve sonra ayağını kaldırıp gün batımını izliyor. Ne kadar zor iş!

All Creatures Great and Small’ın bir bölümünü izledik. E sinirlendi çünkü yazarlar kitaplarda olmayan büyük bir sahne eklediler. “Aptal” “Gereksiz” “Bunu neden yapıyorlar?”

February 15, 2021

Pandemic Diary — February 8 to 14

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Monday, February 8 Deaths 2,024 (+1) New cases 305

We’re back in Bend, Oregon for a couple of days, looking for more fun in the snow, staying at a rental condo in Mt Bachelor Village. Nice big suite.

We got a kitchen because we planned to mostly eat food brought from home.

The view from the condo, overlooking the Deschutes River, is a classic Central Oregon scene.

Tuesday, February 9 Deaths 2,031 (+7) New cases 529

We skied at Dutchman’s Flat near Mt. Bachelor. As the name suggests, it wasn’t too strenuous, good for us at this stage, no skiing thrills, but no skiing spills either.

The nordic trail stays in the trees, going up one side of the flat and back down the other. E took this from our lunch spot.

The mountain is called Broken Top. We don’t know the name of the cloud.

Today is the 320th day of the Pandemic Diary database and time for an updated graphic, which–we are happy to say–shows a steep decline in the severity of the virus in Oregon. Over the last ten days, the COVID19 death rate was 7.4, as compared to 12.6 in the previous period.

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Wednesday, February 10 Deaths 2,044 (+13) New cases 555

This morning we left our happy home overlooking the river and headed back to Corvallis. At around 11:00 we stopped for another skiing excursion, this time at Potato Hill, just east of Hoodoo. Potato Hill is quite different from Dutchman’s Flat, which make sense since a potato is somewhat different from a Dutchman and a hill is definitely different from a flat. We went up the easy side of the hill, but that was hard enough. About a mile and a half in we came to a scene of major storm damage, an area where dozens of big old trees had blown down, probably during last month’s windstorm.

Normally the trail goes straight ahead here. On this day, we had to pop off our skis and detour on foot for a bit.

The weather was beautiful. Here’s our lunch spot…

Good thing we were well fortified, as our descent lacked neither thrills nor spills. We got back to Corvallis by 4:30, somewhat the worse for wear. As we were unloading, we found a paper bag in the back seat which turned out to contain a gigantic apple fritter. Thus it seems likely that we stopped at the Sisters Bakery somewhere along the line, and if so, E may have had to wait her turn behind a skinny young guy who turned down a fritter as being too large and instead bought four other donuts, a loaf of sourdough bread, and four pats of butter; and who then went outside and walked up and down the sidewalk eating a maple old fashioned.

Thursday, February 11 Deaths 2,056 (+12) New cases 621

It’s cold and wet here as another winter storm moves in. We are resting up, rehabilitating, and still unpacking. In the morning, E had a quarter of an apple fritter, then had a Zoom exercise class. Later she had laughter yoga, also via Zoom. M had his own quarter fritter to prepare him for a FaceTime meeting with our long-time colleague D. In 1998 the two of them co-authored an article to be included in a handbook for language program administrators. They revised the article when the book was reprinted sometime in the 2000’s. Wasn’t that enough? No. The book’s tirelessly industrious editors have now found a publisher for another new edition. Suckers that M and D are, this will be the third time that they have done this work on the basis of the same financial arrangement, which was firstly nil, secondly none, and now thirdly zero.

Now I know what some readers are asking: What the heck happened to the other two quarters of that fritter? E sent it to the freezer. If it doesn’t get lost in there (Fat chance. –Ed) it will appear again another day.

Friday, February 12 Deaths 2,094 (+38) New cases 517

A major spike in the number of COVID deaths today. This despite several weeks of low case numbers and test positive percentages. Yikes!

A day of errands around town. M got up early to trickle charge the Porsche so he could start it up and go get a new battery. The car clinic happened to be in the neighborhood of a nice bakery. Oddly enough, that’s where E found him when she came to give him a ride home. We bought two scones and took them home to have for breakfast. E then got right into filling out a survey and registering herself with the county health department so as to be informed as soon as appointments become available for people in her category, which won’t be soon. But at least E has been accepted into the system. M, a few years younger, was turned away. M then took bottles and cans to the bottles and cans place, got some gin from the gin place, and picked up some vegetable juice, milk, yogurt and tomatoes from a grocery place.

In the afternoon, E took M to fetch the little blue car and then zipped home in time for Zoom yoga. M had a mind to go joyriding in the rain but decided against it. We took a walk before dinner, but the world was cold and wet, so we kept it short.

In the evening we finished watching our latest Turkish series Love is in the Air (Yer Gök Aşk). We had watched Episode #36 on Thursday night, which left us far short of the 110 episodes that Netflix offers. So how did we finish so quickly? Well, things were moving kind of slow and 74 more episodes seemed like way too many, so we skipped ahead and watched #109 and #110. Clearly we missed some things, but it didn’t matter too much. As we expected, the basic issue was still not resolved. We were delighted to meet a new character being played by Şahin Ergüney, an actor that we recognized from when we saw him play the part of Ömer’s mentor in Black Money Love.

In Episodes #109 and #110 of Yer Gök Aşk, Ergüney plays the father of Yusuf’s new girlfriend, Bade. In #109, we learn that Yusuf is determined to marry Bade, even though he is still in love with Havva, just as he was back in Episode #36. He seems to know that he is making a mistake, but his mother is pushing hard for Bade, and his mother–played by the inimitable Işıl Yücesöy–is a force of nature. So here comes trouble.

Saturday, February 13 Deaths 2,137 (+43) New cases 474

There have been ice storms here and there across the area. In our neighborhood, the rain has not frozen at ground level, but up in the trees thick layers of ice have encased limbs and branches. Due to the weight of the ice, some big limbs have broken off from our neighbor’s tree and fallen onto our yard. Bah. Cold rain has continued on and off all day.

Eve again went out to walk with Pepper. She was pleased that just as they started their walk, the rain stopped and the sun even appeared for a few moments. After the walk, as she was driving home, it was pouring again.

Take-out dinner from Sybaris–a dungeness crab and shrimp bake for E, BBQ meatloaf for M. Panther Creek Pinot. A pre-Valentine’s celebration. Very nice.

Sunday, February 14 Deaths 2,137 (+0) New cases 254

We walked in the OSU forest today and saw some effects of the ice storm there. It was very striking. A number of large trees had fallen and many others had varying degrees of damage. It was odd to see no snow or ice anywhere except in certain places where high branches had been encased in ice, ice that became so thick that the branches broke off and carried the ice down with them. In those places the ice was was still visible after 36 hours of temperatures above freezing. Here’s what the debris looked like under one fir tree. We just pointed our camera at the ground.

The other oddity was that the high damage areas were very localized. Most of the forest just looked soggy–the way it does this time of year. Only here and there did we find pockets of damaged and downed trees, places where the ice formation must have been especially heavy. We noticed this same kind of localization after last fall’s terrible wildfires, when we saw areas of complete destruction immediately beside areas of little or no damage. The complexity of natural phenomena makes their destructive effects seem capricious, as if they were the work of angry, drunken gods.

Pandemi Günlüğü 8-14, Şubat

Pazartesi, 8 Şubat Oregon’daki ölümler: 2,024 (+1) Yeni vakalar: 305

Yine Bend’deyiz, karda daha fazla eğlence arıyoruz. Büyük bir apartmanda kalıyoruz. Güzel.

Mutfağımız var, böylece dışarı çıkmak zorunda kalmayız.

Pencereden Deschtes Nehri’ni ve klasik bir Orta Oregon ormanını görüyoruz.

Salı, 9 Şubat Oregon’daki ölümler: 2,031 (+7) Yeni vakalar: 529

Bachelor Dağı yakınlarındaki Dutchman’s Düz’te kayak yaptık. Bizim için iyiydi çünkü yorucu değildi.

Dağin adı Kırık Dağ. Bulutun adını bilmiyoruz.

Çarşamba, 10 Şubat Oregon’daki ölümler: 2,044 (+13) Yeni vakalar: 555

Bu sabah Bend’den ayrıldık ve eve doğru batıya gittik. Saat 11: 00’de Potato Hill’de başka bir kayak gezisi için durduk. Dutchman’s Flat daha zor. Parktan bir mil uzakta, korkunç bir fırtına hasarı gördük. Pek çok büyük ağaç rüzgardan düşmüştü.

Normalde kayak pisti düz gidiyor. Bu gün dolambaçlı yoldan gitmek zorunda kaldık.

Hava çok güzel. İşte öğle yemeği yerimiz.

Öğle yemeği yedikten sonra aşağı kaydık. Yol dik ve hızlıydı. Çok dikkatli olmalıydık. Zaman zaman kayaklarımızı çıkarıp yürümek zorunda kalıyorduk. Yavaş ama güvenli.

Eve gittikten sonra arabamıde bir çantada dev bir elmalı börek bulduk. Nereden geldi? Hmm. Belki kayak yaptıktan sonra Sisters Bakery’de durduk.

Perşembe, 11 Şubat Oregon’daki ölümler: 2,056 (+12) Yeni vakalar: 621

Corvallis’te hava her zamanki gibi soğuk ve ıslak. Kahvaltıda elmalı börek yedik. E onu dört parçaya ayırdı. E bir parça yedi ve M bir parça yedi. Diğer ikisine ne oldu? Kayboldular! Ama belki bir gün günlükte yeniden görünecekler.

Cuma, 12 Şubat Oregon’daki ölümler: 2,094 (+38) Yeni vakalar: 517

Kötü haber. Oregon’da günlük COVID ölümlerinde büyük artış oldu. Neden bilmeyoruz.

Bugün ayak işlerini yaptık. M yeni bir pil almak için Porsche’yi aldı ve ayrıca biraz market alışverişi ve biraz da geri dönüşüm yaptı.

Akşam Yer Gök Aşk’ı izlemeyi bitirdik. Bugüne kadar 36 bölüm izledik. Seviyoruz ama çök yavaş. Sadece sonunu izlemeye karar verdik. Son iki bölüme atladık. 109. bölümde Yusuf ve Havva’nin hala evle olmadığını gördük. Aslında Yusuf’un yeni bir sevgilisi var, Bade. Bade’nin babasını canlandıran oyuncuyu görmekten çok memnun kaldık. Şahin Ergüney’di. Onu Kara Para Aşk’ından hatırladık.

Yusuf’un Havva’ya kızdığı için Bade ile evlenmeye karar verdiğini gördük. Elbette Havva’yı hâlâ seviyor ve onu seviyor. Yusuf hata yaptığını biliyor ama gurur duyuyor ve annesi–Işıl Yucesöy–Bade için çok bastırıyor. Sorun geliyor!

Cumartesi, 13 Şubat Oregon’daki ölümler: 2,137 (+43) Yeni vakalar: 474

Dün gece buz fırtinaları yaşadık, çok soğuk yağmur. Yağmur sokaklarda ve bahçelerde donmadı. Ağaçların uzuvlarında çok kalın buz oluştu. Garip. Ve ağaçlar için çok tehlikeli. Komşumuzun büyük bir ağacı var ve birçok uzuv kırılmış. Bu bir karmaşa ve bir kısmı bizim bahçemizde.

Pazar, 14 Şubat Oregon’daki ölümler: 2,137 (+0) Yeni vakalar: 254

Bugün OSU ormanında yürüdük ve buz fırtınasının etkilerini gördük, Bazı ağaçlar düşmüş ve birçok ağaç zarar görmüştü. Kar yoktu ve yerde buz oluşmamıştı. Ama bazı ağaçların tepelerinde kalın buz oluşmuştu. Sonra dallar kırıldı ve her şey düştü. İşte birçok küçük dalın düştüğü bir yer.

February 8, 2021February 12, 2021

Pandemic Diary — February 1 to 7

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Monday, February 1 Deaths 1,958 (+1) New cases 964

Rain all day long. M went to the dentist and got the crown put on his implant, the final step in a 10-month process. Whew. We won’t go into details, but M is amazed that it worked at all. He returned from the dentist to find E on her knees weeding in the front yard in the pouring rain. After lunch E went for a medical appointment in Salem. Did M then go out and do more weeding in the pouring rain? No.

Tuesday, February 2 Deaths 1,981 (+23) New cases 619

After a long hiatus, E has resurrected her bird feeder and hung it in the apple tree outside the study window. The larger birds don’t use it much, but it’s fun to watch the chickadees, juncos, and goldfinches from the study. Unfortunately, a couple of birds have flown into the window–thunk. That’s not so pleasant. So we needed warning decals, the kind that reflect ultraviolet light, which birds can see but we can’t. After exercise class, a medical appointment, and lunch from Taco Time, E managed to get down to the bird shop, buy what she needed, and then apply the decals to the window, finishing all this just before the rains came back.

Here’s a bird decal as seen by the watchers inside the study.

M got out in the sun for an hour or two, working on his paver project. He says he made real progress, it needs just a few final touches.

After all this, it was time for a walk, which turned out to be a walk in the rain, a steady rain accompanied by a noticeably cold wind out of the west. Back inside where it was warm, M served up lemon pepper salmon, plain couscous, and asparagus. The clientele at our exclusive restaurant, i.e. M & E were pleased.

Wednesday, February 3 Deaths 1,991 (+10) New cases 649

Went to the garden center today. E got wooly thyme and a snowberry bush. M got asparagus. Did E know why she was buying wooly thyme and a snowberry bush because she had thought carefully about why she wanted them? Yes. Did M buy asparagus crowns on impulse? Of course. Was he looking forward to eating some homegrown asparagus this spring? He probably was. Did he do some basic research about asparagus when he got home? Yes. Did he find out that you’re not supposed to harvest asparagus for the first two years? He probably did.

Thursday, February 4 Deaths 1,998 (+7) New cases 730

It seems that vaccinations are really starting to get going as we get into February. The state says that about 510,000 doses have been administered. And we personally are hearing about more and more people who either have had shots or have gotten appointments for shots. Not surprisingly, they all seem relieved and happy. That’s fine of course, but what about us? We’re left to grumble.

One thing many are grumbling about is the fact that there is queue jumping going on. That is, people who are supposedly not eligible for vaccines are getting vaccinated anyway. We’ve looked into the sign up process here in our area and it looks to be a sort of honor system. The way it works is that you fill out a questionnaire–on Survey Monkey–and if you give the right answers, you can schedule an appointment. But what are the right answers, really? Are they the ones that you know will get you an appointment? Or are they the ones that accurately describe your situation? There are two world views in conflict here. It’s easy to understand why no one wants to get into the business of checking to see who’s telling the truth and who isn’t. And in the big picture, the more people who are vaccinated–whoever they are–the better off we all will be. Still, when someone that you can’t help suspecting of cheating gets their picture in the paper as part of an article celebrating and promoting the program, that’s annoying.

Something else that’s happening as we get into February is that we start thinking about Valentine’s Day. For E that means getting the box collection out from its home in the top of the garage. The collection stretches back twenty years or so. The prettiest boxes are from Burst’s in Corvallis…

…but the tallish one center left is also a favorite. It’s from Elizinn in Ankara. We also have boxes from Thailand, Mexico and Cyprus.

This box is reasonably attractive, but the contents got a poor review.

Friday, February 5 Deaths 2,002 (+4) New cases 846

Not a real nice weather day, but we did some garden work anyway. E finished planting her wooly thyme. Our neighbor gave us a whole bunch of Dutch iris bulbs and Michael worked on separating them out. It was a wonderful gift, dozens and dozens of small teardrop shaped bulbs. Later we walked over to see H and return her big soup pot. We had a nice socially distanced talk in her back yard. She seems to be doing pretty well. Her grandson recently strung up some lights for her out on her covered patio. They are those bright orange chili pepper shaped lights. Go H! On the way home we met M, a colleague from our teaching days. That was also fun. As for social distancing, it was a situation where she was on one side of the street and we were on ours. That should work.

Saturday, February 6 Deaths 2,019 (+1) New cases 624

A typical Saturday. E went out the country to take dog Pepper for a walk and then did a bunch of errands. M planted irises and then spent some time reading a history of Oregon State University.

So far, M has been reading about the period from 1880 to 1939. In those days OSU was called OAC, the Oregon Agricultural College. In 1931 the cost to attend OAC was $77 a year for tuition and fees, plus $225-350 for room and board, depending on the level of accommodation. The College President was William Jasper Kerr, who had previously worked as an educator in Utah. He was a former polygamist who had to officially divest himself of his second wife before he could be approved for the Corvallis job. He is, of course, the Kerr of the Kerr Administration Building, and was formerly the Kerr of Kerr Library, back when there was a Kerr Library. Many other names that will be familiar to OSU people are from the pre-WW2 era, including Margaret Comstock Snell, the first female professor at OAC; Grant Covell, OAC’s first engineering professor; and Ida Angeline Kidder, OAC’s first professional librarian.

Sunday, February 7 Deaths 2,023 (+4) New cases 393

Nice day for a walk in the woods. To avoid weekend crowds we went to a somewhat obscure corner of the OSU forest. We went about four miles in total, part of it following a little stream up to where a road dead ends at an old washout. It rained on us a little, but it was more sunny than not.

This forest road ends in an old washout and tree fall.

The ferns and the moss stay green all year.

In the afternoon, E did another Zoom meeting with brothers J and J. In South Carolina John has gotten a first dose of vaccine with a second scheduled for Feb. 25th. In New York Jim has an appointment for a first dose on February 20th. To get it, he’ll have to drive from Clifton Park to Utica, 102 miles away.

Here in Oregon, daily COVID fatalities and new case numbers are encouraging– considerably below the record highs of the first half of January.

Pandemi Günlüğü — 1-7 Şubat

Pazartesi, 1 Şubat Oregon’daki ölümler: 1,598 (+1) Yeni vakalar: 964

Bütün gün yağmur yağdı. M dişçiye gitti. İmplantı için son adımdı. Sonunda, on ay sonra! Dişçiden döndüğünde, Eve’in yağmurda bahçede çalıştığını gördü.

Öğle yemeğinden sonra E tıbbi bir randevuya gitti. M daha sonra dışarı çıkıp yağan yağmurda çalıştı mı? Hayır, o deli değil.

Salı, 2 Şubat Oregon’daki ölümler: 1,981 (+23) Yeni vakalar: 619

E kuşyemliğini elma ağacına koydu. Şimdi pencereden bülbül, junko ve ispinozları izleyebiliriz.

Penceredeki gri şekil ultraviyole ışığı yansıtır. Kuşlar ultraviyole ışığa duyarlıdır ve bu şekil onları pencereden uçmamaları konusunda uyarır.

M yürüme yolu projesi üzerinde çalıştı. Neredeyse bittiğini söylüyor. Sadece birkaç son dokunuşa ihtiyacı var.

Daha sonra soğuk yağmurda yürüyüşe çıktık. Eve döndükten sonra M akşam yemeği pişirdi: limon biberli somon, kuskus ve kuşkonmaz.

Çarşamba, 3 Şubat Oregon’daki ölümler: 1,xxx (+1) Yeni vakalar: xxx

Bu gün bahçe merkezine gittik. E yünlü kekik ve kar üzümü satın aldı. M kuşkonmaz satın aldı. E dikkatlice planladı mı? Evet. M dürtüden mi satın aldı? Elbette. M birkaç ay içinde evde yetişen taze kuşkonmaz mı düşünüyordu? Muhtemelen. M kuşkonmaz yetiştirmenin iki ya da üç yıl sürdüğünü öğrendi mi? Elbette.

Perşembe, 4 Şubat Oregon’daki ölümler: 1,998 (+7) Yeni vakalar: 730

Oregon’da şu ana kadar yaklaşık 510.000 doz aşı yapıldı. Aşılanmış birkaç kişi tanıyoruz. Rahatladılar ve mutlular.

Şubat başlarken Sevgililer Gününü düşünmemiz gerekiyor. E için kutu koleksiyonunu gösterme zamanı. Güzel kutuların çoğu Corvallis’teki Bursts’tan ancak ortadaki uzun koyu kırmızı kutu da favorilerimizden. Ankara’daki Elizinn’dendir.

Cuma, 5 Şubat Oregon’daki ölümler: 2,002 (+4) Yeni vakalar: 846

Hava biraz soğuk ve biraz ıslaktı ama yine de bahçede çalıştık. E onun yünlü kekik bitkilerini dikti. Komşumuz bize çok sayıda Hollanda iris soğanı verdi. Harika! M onları hazırlamaya çalıştı. Daha sonra arkadaşımız H’yi ziyaret ettik. Verandasında yeni turuncu acı biber ışıkları olduğu için mutlu.

Cumartesi, 6 Şubat Oregon’daki ölümler: 2,019 (+1) Yeni vakalar: 624

Tipik bir cumartesi. E köpek arkardaşı Pepper’ı ziyaret etti ve onunla birlikte yürüdü. M biraz iris dikti ve Oregon Eyalet Üniversitesi ile ilgili bir kitapta bazı bölümleri okudu. 1880’den 1939’a kadar olan dönemi okudu. 1931’de bir yıllık öğrenim ücreti 77$. Yemek ve konaklama 225-350$. Üniversitenin ilk başkanlarından biri olan William Jasper Kerr, Utah’lı eski bir çok eşli idi. Oregon’da çalışabilmek için ikinci karısından boşanmak zorunda kaldı.

Pazar, 7 Şubat Oregon’daki ölümler: 2,023 (+4) Yeni vakalar: 393

Bugün ormanda yürüyüş için güzel bir gün. Dört mil yürüdük.

Eğrelti otları ve yosunlar tüm yıl yeşildir.

Öğleden sonra E’nin kardeşleriyle Zoom’da konuştuk. Güney Carolina’da John ilk aşı dozunu aldı. Ayın sonunda ikinci bir doz alacak. New York eyaletinde Jim’in 20 şubat için bir aşı randevusu var. Burada tabii ki henüz randevumuz yok. Ama en azından Oregon COVID istatistikleri eskisi kadar kötü değil. Pandemi Günlüğü önümüzdeki hafta yeni bir grafik yayınlayacak.

February 1, 2021February 1, 2021

Pandemic Diary — January 25th to 31st

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Monday, January 25 Deaths 1,882 (+2) New cases 436

Another Monday and again we felt compelled to seek out yet more food items from our local markets. Will this matter of cooking and eating never end? And why–after M got up so early and braved the perils of the supermarket–were there no Little Schoolboy cookies on the shelf? How can that be right?

We’ve been trying to avoid this next topic, but we can’t stand it anymore. What the heck is going on in the house across the street?

The neighbor who used to live there was a fellow in his forties. He had a nice pickup truck that was usually attached to a box trailer. He went to work everyday and often worked long hours, but often came home at lunch time. He looked to be a builder or carpenter and the trailer was almost surely his toolbox. There was a younger guy, possibly a son, who came by often, sometimes seeming to stay there for days at a time. His pride and joy was a very old VW van that he worked on every weekend. But then, last summer, that tenant moved out.

Soon after that, there was a period of great activity, lots of pickups and cars, lots of miscellaneous debris being hauled away. The most frequent visitors were a middle-aged couple. They started to spiff things up in hurry. The lawn was cut and edged to perfection. Shrubs were trimmed and the big tree was pruned. The weeds growing from the cracks in the driveway disappeared. Flowers were planted and the roof was swept. The house hadn’t looked bad before, but obviously they thought it needed to look better. Was the house being prepped for the next rental or possible sale? It got a new patio sliding door and all new windows. Interior painters came and went for weeks and weeks. This is a small house, how much paint did it need? Then the work tapered off. The house stood empty for a couple of months, making us curiouser and curiouser. Just before Christmas someone put a Santa on the doorstep and a bunch of lights on the front yard tree. We know that someone was keeping an eye on the house because Santa fell down a couple of times, but was always set up again within a day. The lights on the big tree remained on twenty-four hours a day for three or four weeks. That seemed odd. These days, Santa is gone, but the lights are still there, only now they go off in the daytime and only come on in the evening. Once in a while painter’s van arrives and stays for an hour or two, sometimes late in the evening. About a week ago a mysterious gray car stayed in the driveway all night. We haven’t seen it since. So now we are really curious.

But not so curious as to miss dinner. After a day spent chasing rainbows…

…E cooked trout in a red wine sauce. Trucha a la Navarra is said to be an old recipe from what is now the Navarre Autonomous Community in northern Spain. The sauce includes onions, olive oil and twenty peppercorns. It came with steamed potatoes to soak up the sauce and red cabbage on the side. It was delicious, so good that we decided to follow up with ice cream and Snow’s Mandarin Orange Dark Chocolate Sauce, a more modern recipe from the foothills of the Sierra Madre in California.

Tuesday, January 26 Deaths 1,904 (+22) New cases 796

Quite a day today. We planned to drive out into the forests west of town to explore a place called Ritner Creek Park. The park appears on no maps, nor could we find it on google earth, but M remembered seeing a sign for it pointing down a gravel road leading into the timberlands. We knew that snow was forecast for the afternoon, which made it all the more interesting. We packed up a few picnic staples: pineapple juice, two small rations of Swiss chocolate, and a flask of Aberfeldy; and then went and got some oversized sandwiches from the 57th Street Grill. (Which, as we mentioned last year, is not on 57th Street and is not a grill–but that’s another story.)

Forty-five minutes later we found the sign and headed for the park. Except for having to squeeze past a huge loaded log truck that came barreling toward us and then having to also squeeze past a huge empty gravel truck that also came barreling toward us, the drive to the park was uneventful. It wasn’t very far. Ritner Creek Park turned out to be wonderful, very simple and very lovely. All we could see at first was a parking area, a restroom and a gravel path along the north side of the creek. We parked and got out to explore. The sky was dark and the air was heavy with moisture. Eventually we found a footbridge that led to the south side of the creek. Just as we approached the bridge, the snow started to fall.

On the far side of the creek we found a longer gravel path and a scattering of picnic spots. The trees were all native maples, some of them ancient.

Mature maples growing from the remains of an ancestor

Fortunately for these trees, timber companies have little interest in maples. The land for the Ritner Creek Park was donated by Boise-Cascade.

Lovely as the scene was, our lunch was in the car, so that’s where we went next. Once there, we decided to drive back down Bourbon Road and take Highway 223 to the old Ritner Creek Covered Bridge, just a few miles away.

We had our lunch there and then started for home. For reasons too complicated to explain, we decided to return to Corvallis via U.S. Highway 20 rather than on the back roads we had taken on the way out. Bad choice. Traffic was snarled. We waited twenty minutes to get onto Highway 20 from 223. After another twenty minutes we had progressed just fifty yards or so from where we got on. Bah. We turned around and retraced our journey back up 223 to King’s Valley, and went home via Airlie and Tampico. It was snowing hard, but the hills weren’t terribly steep, there were few other cars, and M’s foot was gentle on the throttle. Snow is a lovely thing in the forest. When we got back to town, it didn’t look nearly as nice.

Wednesday, January 27 Deaths 1,924 (+20) New cases 731

In the morning E walked over snow and ice to WINCO for some groceries and then started making a blackberry pie. Then we had lunch and she went off to Salem for an appointment, making it back in plenty of time to serve dinner: green salad and sardines followed by pie. Yum! What a cook!

M worked at the computer and also read a few chapters in a William Robbins’ book Hard Times in Paradise, a history of Coos Bay, Oregon.

In Turkish television land, Havva is walking on air. Despite having been put out of the mansion, she has been able to spend some time with Yusuf, who is clearly smitten. Betül, Yusuf’s old girlfriend, has given up the chase and gone back to Istanbul. The series is filmed on location in Cappadocia, and so–as was inevitable–Yusuf and Havva went for a ride in a hot air balloon. Toprak, on the other hand, stayed home and knitted Yusuf a scarf.

Thursday, January 28 Deaths 1,930 (+6) New cases 750

Our tractor has been attacked and overturned by a rogue crocus! Fortunately, no one was injured, although the driver is nowhere in sight. Just another reminder of the power of nature…

It turns out that our insurance policy will not cover any damages. Losses due to crocus attack are specifically excluded unless you opt for the “Small Monocoteyledon Supplement” and pay an additional $4.85 a month premium, which we have not been doing. Oh well.

Friday, January 29 Deaths 1,938 (+8) New cases 976

A relatively quiet day, mostly overcast and mostly dry. E attended a meeting of her HEPAJ group at Pat’s Open Air Garage and Tea Room. E was pleased by the chance to socialize over key lime pie and other treats. After the meeting E and P went walking in Martin Luther King Park where they met up with M on the trail. P then took us on a tour of the new housing development on the north side of the park. There’s a lot that she’s thinking of acquiring. It borders the park at just the spot where a donated bench commemorates her late husband.

Saturday, January 30 Deaths 1,957 (+19) New cases 707

Oregon’s COVID death rate has dropped over the last ten days. In the most recent period, January 21-30, the rate was 12.6 deaths per day, as compared to 22.7 in the previous period. Recent test positive percentages and new case numbers have also been low.

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A total of 407,869 first and second vaccine doses have been administered in Oregon so far. Health care workers have had the highest priority. Beginning Monday, educators will also be eligible. One week later, eligibility will extended to older Oregonians, beginning with those over 80. The Governor Brown has received some criticism for prioritizing educators over seniors. As far as we know, she is the only governor to have done so. She says that it is important to get schools open.

Sunday, January 31 Deaths NA (+NA) New cases NA

Yet another overcast day, with light rain showers every hour or two. In the morning E had a Zoom meeting with her friends S and Mrs. H. while M watched an OSU women’s basketball. They were playing at Utah, M’s alma mater. It was Beavers over Utes 84-74.

In the afternoon we went for a long walk in a neighborhood where there are some very interesting houses. We just had to take a photo of this one.

Later we watched an episode of Love is in the Air. When Havva’s former fiance, Cüneyt, was causing problems, her dad, Remzi the Mad, dealt with it by telling the police about Cüneyt’s drug dealing. Remzi hoped that he could remain anonymous, but now Cüneyt has found out who ratted and has sworn to take vengance. Cüneyt is still in jail for now, but Remzi is nervous. Meanwhile, Havva and her constantly scheming aunt, Sultan, have intercepted a DNA test result letter. The letter is for Yusuf and it confirms that he is not the father of little Rüzgar, whom Toprak has been nursing. This is not the result that Sultan and Havva were hoping for. So Havva has altered the report so that it seems to confirm that Yusuf is the father. E and M were not at all surprised by this. Judging from all the Turkish series we have seen, it is apparent that no one in Turkey has ever received accurate DNA test results. We wonder why people even bother having them done. Don’t they watch TV?

Pandemi Günlüğü 25-31 Ocak

Pazartesi, 25 Ocak Oregon’daki ölümler: 1,882 (+2) yeni vakalar: 436

Başka bir pazartesi, başka bir market alışverşi günü. Hiç bitmeyecek mi? M’un Little Schoolboy kurabiyeleri bulamaması dışında alışveriş iyiydi. Bah!

Eve yoğun bir gün geçirdi. Öğleden sonra bir gökkuşağı buldu. Akşam Trucha ala Navarra’yı pişirdi. Sos kırmızı şarap, zeytinyağı, soğan ve yermi karabiber ile yapıldı. Kuzey İspanya’dan eski bir reçetedir. Çok lessetliydi.

Salı, 26 Ocak Oregon’daki ölümler: 1,904 (+22) yeni vakalar: 796

Bugün pikniğe gittik. Önce biraz yiyecek hazırladık: ananas suyu, İsviçre çıkolatası, ve kuçuk bir şişe Aberfeldy. Sonra Taylor Street Ovens’tan sandviç aldık. Planımız Ritner Creek Park’a getmekti. O park haritada yok. Google Earth’da yok. Amah M otoyolda bir işareti hatırladı. Batıya gittik ve Peedee kasabası yakınlarında doğru yolu bulduk. On dakika sonra parkı bulduk. Park basit ve çok güzeldi. Arabayı derenin kuzey tarafına park ettik. Yaya köprüsü var. Köprüyü geçerken kar yağmaya başladı.

Parktaki ağaçlar akçaağaçlar. Bazıları çok yaşlı.

Birkaç büyük tomruk kamyonu gördük. Akçaağaçlar, kimse onları kesmek istemediği için şanslı.

Parkı keşfettikten sonra eski bir kapalı köprüyü ziyaret etmeye karar verdik. Kapalı köprü 1926’da yapıldı. Öğle yemeğimizi orada arabada yedik.

Çarşamba, 27 Ocak Oregon’daki ölümler: 1,924 (+20) yeni vakalar: 731

Sabah E kurabiye ve salata için WINCO’ya yürüdü ve sonra mutfakta çalıştı. Öğle yemeği yedikten sonra o Salem’e gittik. Akşam yemeği servis etmek için tam zamanında geri geldi. Bir büyük yeshil salata ve bir büyük böğürtlenli turta yedik. Nefis. M bilgisayarda çalıştı ve William Robbins’in bir kitabında birkaç bölüm okudu.

Yemekten sonra Gök Yer Aşk’in bir bölümünü izledik. Havva çok mutlu çünkü düşmanlarından birini yendi. Yusuf’un eski sevgilisi Betül İstanbul’a geri döndü. Havva’nın annesi meraklıdır. “Gözlerindeki o ışık nedir?” soruyor. Havva cevap vermiyor. Planını sadece babası ve teyzesi biliyor. Dizi Kapadokya’da geçiyor. Tabii ki balonlarımız olmalı. Havva ve Yusuf birlikte gökyüzüne gittiler. Tatlı küçük Toprak evde kaldı ve Yusuf’a bir fular ördü.

Perşembe, 28 Ocak Oregon’daki ölümler: 1,930 (+6) yeni vakalar: 750

Felaket! Traktörümüz çiğdem tarafından devrildi. Doğanın güçünü gösterir. Neyşe ki kimse yarlanmadı.

Sigortamız hiçbir şey ödemeyecek. Çiğdemlerden korunmak istiyorsak fazladan ödeme yapmamız gerektiğini söylüyorlar.

Cuma, 29 Ocak Oregon’daki ölümler: 1,938 (+8) yeni vakalar: 976

Sakin bir gün. E arkadaşlarıyla Pat’s Open Air Garage and Tea Room’a gitti. Çok fazla tatlıları olduğunu söylüyor, ama beğendi. Toplantı bittikten sonra E ve P MLK parkında yürüyüşe çıktı.

M da parka geldi. P bizi yeni konut projesini gezmeye gezdirdi. Orada bir yer satın almayı düşünüyor.

Cumartesi, 30 Ocak Oregon’daki ölümler: 1,957 (+19) yeni vakalar: 707

Bu salgının 310. günü. Oregon’daki COVID hakkında bazı iyi haberler var. Ölum oranı biraz düştü. İşte grafik.

Yeni vaka oranı da daha düşük.

Pazar, 31 Ocak Oregon’daki ölümler: (müsait değil) yeni vakalar: (m.d.)

Başka bir bulutlu gün. Aralıklı yağmur. Sabah E arkadaşları S ve Mrs. H ile Zoom görüşmesi yaptı. M bir kadın basketbol maçı izledi. Oregon Eyalet Üniversitesi, Utah Üniverstesi’nde oynadı. Kuduzlar 84-74 kazandı.

Öğle yemeğinden sonra birçok ilginç evin bulunduğu bir mahallede yürüdük. İşte bunlardan girinin fotoğrafı.

Daha sonra Gök Yer Aşk bir bölümünü izledik. Yusuf’a önemli bir mektup geldi. DNA testinin sonuçlarını içerir. Sinsi Sultan, Yusuf görmeden mektubu açtı. Mektup Yusuf’un Rüzgar’ın babası olmadığını bildiriyor. Sultan bundan hiç hoşlanmıdı. Sultan ve Havva mektubu değiştirdi ve şimdi Yusuf babası olduğunu sanıyor. Biz şaşırmadık. Diğer Türk dizilerinden, Türkiye’de hiç kimsenin doğru bir DNA raporu almadığını biliyoruz.