Easter 2020. The Coronavirus is all over the world. Self isolation applies to most people that are not working, especially the elderly people. This is an Easter in self isolation for Peter and myself.
On Easter Saturday we went to ALDI. They had plenty of Easter eggs left. We bought a few things for decoration. I wanted our breakfast table on Easter Sunday to look a bit like Easter, take a few pictures and publish them.
So today I did download these pictures that I took a couple of days ago on Easter Sunday. I found a candle to light and I found a flower in our backyard to decorate the table with. Peter and I we each had two soft boiled eggs for breakfast. We also had Filter Coffee. And some honey with our bread.
We also had a good lunch with beef patties and vegetables. For desert Peter preferred sitting in his easy chair at the small table. The easy chair keeps his back pain in check! The desert included some fresh raspberries. There was also red wine.
We still had some Christmas stollen in the freezer and had it defrosted for Easter. So we liked a slice of the stollen with some afternoon tea on Easter Sunday. It was really quite yummy cake!
This bag with the little Easter eggs found its way to the frontyard of a neighbouring place where two little girls live!
Maybe tomorrow, Wednesday, Monika can stop at our place for a little while on her way home from work. So I might have a chance to give her the above eggs. I hope she likes these! These little Easter bunnies I want to keep for when hopefully the great-grandkids can come and visit again!
It has been many weeks now since we could see any of our great-grandchildren!
They are not allowed near us because of the Coronavirus! Social distancing has to be adhered to. We do have to stick to this. So any Easter egg hunting is out of the question this year for kids that do not live in our neighbourhood!
Last year we saw Carter, Alexander and Lucas in Unanderra a few days before Easter:
On Saturday, the 2nd of March 2019 Peter and I did walk up to the NAN TIEN GRATITUDE BELL. This bell is being chimed in gratitude for our ancestors. I love the sound of this bell. It travels far across the surrounding country.
The walk was quite exhausting for us oldies. But we enjoyed it. We walked slowly and took frequent rests. Later on we met up with our granddaughter and her friend at the Nan Tien Tea rooms. We were happy that they had come from Newcastle to visit us for the weekend. Son Martin had also come for a weekend visit from Benalla in Victoria and was happy that he could meet up with his daughter.
Saturday night we went for dinner to the Dapto Leagues Club where we met up with our daughter Monika and a lot of her family. The next day, on Sunday, we went with our visitors to the foot of Macquarie Pass for a little walk called the Cascades Walk.
I took this picture while Peter holds my walking stick!
I wrote in a comment on the 12th of March 2019 the following:
. . . to be reminded of our ancestors is always special to us.
A week later, on Sunday (March 10) we had another beautiful day with Caroline, Matthew and Matthew’s Mum. It was a lovely late summer day and we all went to the Port Kembla Swimming Centre. Later on we had a great lunch at our place.
We find that early in the morning it is never too warm to go for a little walk, that is we walk for a little bit every morning before breakfast. I take only about 4 or 5 minutes to walk to my favourite trees in the park behind our complex of villas. Peter and I usually leave our place together. I do walk very slowly just to stretch my legs a bit. Walking back home I can usually walk a bit faster. Peter uses some spray on his tongue that helps his breathing. He aims to walk straight away at a faster pace for 8 minutes. He walks quite a bit faster than I walk. I watch him walking in the park in the distance. On the way back, when he passes me, he calls out (just for fun!) Good Morning! And I call back: Good Morning! The whole park area feels to me very private, meaning even if I owned the whole area, I could not make any better use of it than walking there for a few minutes every morning! These days the sun comes up later and later. So often we miss out on some sun when we walk early in the moring. However, I love the mornings, when the sun does shine through the trees! When daylight saving is finally finished, the sun will be up a little bit earlier again. 🙂
Here is another comment I made on the 12th of March 2019:
. . . we had two beuatiful walks on that weekend, one on Saturday and another one on Sunday. The best thing was that some family took us to these beautiful places. 🙂
Since Peter and I are very elderly, we went at our own pace, while the others could roam about at their much faster pace. 🙂
I think I was very brave last year to venture on this walk with Peter. When I started walking I knew I could not very well have made it as far as to the waterfall. The others were of course much too fast for me. I was grateful that Peter stayed with me. When the others returned, we took a path that goes right back to that large meadow at the entrance. Peter chose then to walk ahead with the others towards the meadow. However I did get some support from a younger very fit person. I think she thought nothing of it giving me a helping hand. I was so grateful for that!
Om the 28th of April 2019 I wrote the following comment: . . .
this map of the world looks great on that wall. Lucas is 6 now and Alexander 4. We had not been to their place for a while. Usually they come to see us when there is a family get-together. Often birthdays are celebrated at a different venue as for instance at a club. Little Carter is 2 and is going to have a little sister in September! 🙂
Lucas and Alex live in Unanderra on a very steep property. When I climb up there, I have to be very careful not to slip, especially on the steep drive-way. But with my walking stick and someone supporting me I am alright. 🙂
The back of the backyard is extremely steep too. I was happy to see that they landscaped it very beautifull now. It has become a vey good play area for the boys! They are lucky to have a great toy-room too. This has always been a toy-room and their two dogs are allowed in that room too when they do not happen to be outside in the back. The family had the two dogs already for many years before the boys came along. I think the dogs are getting pretty old by now, especially Hamish, the little dog. 🙂
The roof with the solar panels, is the roof of th neighbouring property. But their roof also has a lot of solar panels now.
Thursday is the day when Monika takes a day off to look after her grandson Carter. To make up for Thursday she goes to work on Saturdays. Last Thursday Monika took little Carter to see her other grandsons, Lucas and Alexander, who were on Easter holidays already. This is why Peter and I went to see all the boys (our great-grandsons!!) too, for we knew they would be going away with their parents for the Easter weekend.
Lucas and Alexander have two dogs: Kaiser and the smaller dog is Hamish. I think they are both pretty old already.
Lucas looked around in our backyard and called it a “forest”. He loved running from the side gate on the south side of the house back to the table on the north side. He kept running, and running, and running with little Alexander always following him. That was after they had been looking for Easter eggs. Alexander was happy, when he found just one little egg. He did eat it straight away and let his big brother look for all the other eggs!
Our Granddaughter Natasha, the boys’ Aunty, took some pictures of her Nephews while sitting at the table with them.
Some weeks ago we went to the Bulli markets, where Peter bought some gelato. Daughter Caroline took some pictures of Peter buying the gelato and of me trying to take a picture of it. I also took a picture of Caroline walking towards us.
We were lucky yesterday, on Easter Sunday: There was beautiful sunshine all day after a lot of rain during the previous days. Early in the morning we went with Caroline and Matthew to the bottom of Macquarie Pass. It was easy parking there. At the other end of this beautiful green grass area is a path that leads to a waterfall. Everyone wanted to go on that walk to the waterfall. They all said I should come too. But I decided against it. I thought the path might be too slippery for me. I did not want to risk it. I had taken a picnic rug along and made myself comfortable near a table with bench. Peter took this picture of me:
I thought it was very pleasant to sit for about an hour in the morning sun. I did not mind this at all while the others disappeared to walk to the waterfall. All the following pictures Peter did bring back from their walk.
In preparation for breakfast . . .
For breakfast we had filter coffee, boiled eggs, warm bread rolls out of the oven, as well as some orange juice.
After breakfast at eight we left for the drive to the bottom of Macquarie Pass from where Peter, Caroline and Matthew went on their nice little walk to the waterfall while I stayed outside in the beautiful, warming sun. Towards 11 o’clock we were on the way back home. Matthew was driving. He stopped on the way at a Pie shop in Dapto that was open! Several pieces of cake and a few pies were purchased.
So at eleven at was time for us to have our morning tea and to eat some of the things from the Pie shop. For lunch we had to wait quite a while for Monika and her family were a bit late in arriving. All in all we expected six additional persons for lunch.
Monika came in her car. She has a special child’s seat in her car. Her daughters Tash and Krystal came along too, as well as Tiana, the daughter of Mark. Krystal and Tiana are university students, whereas Tash has a job with the Postal Service. Tash is going to have an engagement celebration this coming Saturday. Krystal turned 18 on Easter Sunday. She had a birthday party the night before her birthday. She started university at the start of this year when she was not even 18 yet. Monica’s daughter Roxy did not come yesterday. But we are going to see her for sure at Tash’s party next Saturday. This is also when we are going to see Troy as well as Ryan and Ebony with their two little sons. It was so lovely that we could see Lucas already yesterday. Tiana kept carrying him. She said he was so cuddly. He did feel a bit tired for a while after they arrived. I think he had already seen Ebony’s parents in the morning and then he was at grandma Monika’s place for a while. After lunch Lucas went outside for some egg hunting. Everybody watched him as he was doing this! Tash and I took pictures.
Back to lunch now. Caroline and Matthew had earlier baked the leg of lamb. We had bought this meat, 2.7 kg of it, at Aldi’s the morning after Peter’s eye op. It only needed heating. Matthew sliced it. I had cooked some red cabbage the previous day. This also needed just some heating up. Caroline cooked green beans and sweat potatoes. Some other potatoes were baked in the oven together with the meat. Caroline filled up a jug with tap water and set the table with this jug, glasses, plates and cutlery. Peter sat up some extra chairs around the table. I think all I had done was to cut the sweat potatoes and to help with the tablecloth. I also took a few pictures of the lunch table.
In between I had another turn of rapid heartbeat. So I stretched out a bit on the sofa to calm down. A few times I did get a bit short of breath. When this happens, I know, I have to take a rest. I am always worried, others might think, I am just lazy! Anyhow, here are the lunch pictures now;
I served myself only vegies, not meat for me please.Lucas had no problem with counting all this eggs in his basket.
Yes, he knew at every stage how many eggs there were in the basket. Later on Tiana made him count all the chicks he could see. I think he counted right up to twenty!
The girls left early with Lucas to take him home. Tiana drove. She took Monika’s car. Monika went home later with Mark who had come in his car. He had come a bit later for he first had to do something for his mother.
We had a nice coffee afternoon with Monika, Mark, Caroline and Matthew. We animatedly talked about a lot of things. And we did not even drink one bit of liquor! Nobody thought of doing the dishes that had piled up in the kitchen. I had no idea Caroline and Matthew wanted to travel back to Sydney soon after Monika and Mark left. I thought they would stay till Easter Monday. Nobody had told me they wanted to be home on Sunday already. I am afraid I said in a probably snappish sounding voice: So, you are going to leave us with all the dishes!
Caroline became upset. Peter said she cried. Peter said he could do the dishes. I would not have to do a thing. In the end Caroline and Matthew decided they would catch their train one hour later and do the dishes in the meantime. I was very happy that Peter did not have to do the dishes. I probably could have helped him with putting away some of the dishes. However it would really have been such an effort for us oldies. I felt we needed a more restful evening.
I was very grateful that Caroline and Matthew cleaned up the kitchen. They did it very quickly and efficiently. I thanked them for it before they left and apologised that I had been playing up so much. When Caroline had arrived back in Sydney she sent Peter a message on his phone, saying that she loved us both.
When Peter accused me of treating Caroline like a slave, I felt really awful.
Ich sagte am April 8, 2015 um 5:22 am :
Es war ein schöner Morgen. Am Nachmittag fand little Lucas bei uns im Garten einige Ostereier. Eine Horde Kinder in Sacramento, Californien, wurde auf eine Wiese gelassen um 500 Tausend Ostereier einzusammeln! Das sollte ein Rekord sein für das Guinness Book of Records! https://auntyuta.com/2015/04/07/easter-egg-hunt-in-california/#comment-
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Ostermorgen von Caspar David Friedrich
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Dr. Andrew W. Saul, Editor in chief of the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, sums up the Western big pharma approach nicely when he says:
“Medical orthodoxy obsessively focuses on searching for a vaccine and/or drug for coronavirus COVID-19). While they are looking for what would be fabulously profitable approaches, we have with vitamin C an existing, plausible, clinically demonstrated method to treat what coronavirus patients die from: severe acute respiratory syndrome, or pneumonia.’’
Over the last decade Dr Mao has been using high-dose intravenous vitamin C (IVC) to treat patients with a variety of acute medical conditions ranging from pancreatitis and sepsis to surgical wound healing. When the coronavirus epidemic first broke out he and several other colleagues thought that high-dose intravenous C could be a potential treatment for patients presenting with the coronavirus. Their recommendation for the use of high-dose intravenous vitamin C as a treatment was adopted by the Shanghai expert team.
Dr. Richard Cheng, an American-Chinese doctor currently based in Shanghai has given a report of this meeting. He notes that:
“Dr. Mao stated that his group treated ~50 cases of moderate to severe cases of Covid-19 infection with high dose IVC. The IVC dosing was in the range of 10,000 mg – 20,000 mg a day for 7-10 days, with 10,000 mg for moderate cases and 20,000 for more severe cases, determined by pulmonary status (mostly the oxygenation index) and coagulation status. All patients who received IVC improved and there was no mortality. Compared to the average of a 30-day hospital stay for all Covid-19 patients, those patients who received high dose IVC had a hospital stay about 3-5 days shorter than the overall patients. Dr. Mao discussed one severe case in particular who was deteriorating rapidly. He gave a bolus of 50,000 mg IVC over a period of 4 hours. The patient’s pulmonary (oxygenation index) status stabilized and improved as the critical care team watched in real time. There were no side effects reported from any of the cases treated with high dose IVC. ‘’
Dr. Andrew G. Weber, a pulmonologist and critical-care specialist affiliated with two Northwell Health facilities on Long Island, has said that coronavirus patients admitted to intensive care immediately receive 1,500 mg of intravenous vitamin C. This dosage is then repeated 3-4 times a day.
According to Dr. Weber this treatment regime is based upon the experimental use of high-dose vitamin C in Shanghai’s hospitals. He told the New York Post:
“The patients who received vitamin C did significantly better than those who did not get vitamin C. It helps a tremendous amount, but it is not highlighted because it’s not a sexy drug.”
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