Empty calendars

Whoa. I've never seen anything like that before. A totally empty month.  

The fridge calendar usually looks like this, filled with happy activities and appointments.  Can we ever go back to being that busy?  Will we even have the energy for it?

Anyway, May is already half over.  What happened?  Time has taken on a new weirdness, as the days drag slowly by while the months pass in a blink.  We've been at home now for almost 3 months. Life has certainly boiled down to the bare essentials.

Speaking of essentials (eating) I've always enjoyed grocery shopping. I like looking at food and thinking about cooking. Now a trip to the store is stressful, but since it's the only outing these days I look forward to going anyway. Observant shoppers can see changes, and not just store safety protocols.

As the food chains adapt, different cuts of meat and products are showing up. Like this beautiful Dole pineapple from Hawaii for $2.99.  Cheap pineapples always come from Costa Rica.

In Hawaii, they keep these babies for themselves, but with restaurants closed and the tourist trade down, I suppose they're sharing with the rest of the world.

Remember the old Elvis movie, "Blue Hawaii?"  His rich daddy owns a pineapple plantation, and young Elvis returns from the army to sow some wild oats, falling in love with a "native" girl.

Of course there's a happy ending, featuring Elvis on a barge singing the beautiful "Hawaiian Wedding Song."  He was real eye candy in those days.