In which the dial of restrictions is moving, slowly, towards "normal"

Washington State Governor Jay Inslee says it isn't time to "flip the switch to normal" yet,

but he is beginning to "turn the dial" of restrictions back to where we started.

Translation:  we still can't get haircuts.

However, as my friend Mary Jo likes to say, "Normal is a setting on a laundry appliance."

So, we continue as we have done.  I'm still working from home, and have discovered that three online meetings in a single day is definitely too many. 

Someday, even one online meeting is a lot.  At least my coworkers are hummingbirds.

Social distancing continues. 

Henry's nursing program at Everett Community College has delayed start until (at least) Fall Quarter, and he has a lot of energy to burn.  "Not a problem here!" I told his mom, and so Henry will be busting up the Mighty Tree that has been setting out in rounds to dry since last summer.

It's not hard to stay 6' apart when you're thumping on huge rounds of wood.

Elsewhere on the farm, things are progressing...normally!

leetle teeny sage plant that I started from seed is now planted out

Pickles' plum tree is visited regularly by chickens.

The tree is resplendent this year, which leads us to hopes of plums come fall.

The chickens are beginning a migration from Haenaheim to the Easter Egg Palace.
When they have given up trying to lay eggs in Haenaheim, I'll plant beans there.

The garlic is getting huge

raspberry canes are leafing out, and so are the young blueberry plants

closeup of raspberry blossoms

closeup of blueberry blossoms

peas are getting taller

The orchard is full of flowers--and also full of bees.  Yay for bees!

Some of our rivers, lakes, and parks will open up next week, hooray!

But businesses are mostly staying closed.  The libraries will stay closed  (and thank you, Johns Hopkins researchers, for figuring out that that needed to be a thing). 

As for my hair, well.  I'm just not taking a lot of pictures of it.

like this, but purple.

Stay well, y'all.