We’re almost six months in to individual states in the US taking COVID-19 seriously and I am just now* buying my first cloth face masks! I was using running buffs at first (now a no no), then started using the blue disposable masks. But now I can make a fashion statement! (Which you already saw in my last post, but I had this drafted for last week and didn’t publish it)

Ha ha ha.

Everyone I’ve talked to about the cloth masks say they make them super sweaty. I’m naturally sweaty, so I was worried about using this, but it’s been fine so far… in our cooler temps.

Do you have cloth face masks? What pattern? When did you get them?

I also got one with cats on it, naturally. And was gifted a Star Wars one! We have to use cloth masks if we ever go back to the office, and those are all totally appropriate patterns, right?

It’s nuts that it’s been almost half a year since our stay-at-home order started in Illinois (on March 21) – six months is a long time! Long enough for this to happen to me:

Ha, so true. source

Illinois isn’t on the stay-at-home anymore, but that date sticks in my head as Illinois’s “taking COVID-19 seriously” starting date. Not a lot has changed for us since we started following the stay-at-home order. Yes, we went to Iowa (and self-isolated after), had our little trip last weekend which included eating inside twice, and I have had outside dates with Rachel twice, but we don’t see friends here (just neighbors), and we don’t eat inside here. We got used to it pretty quickly. It helps that we have the right sized house for us, a big yard, lots of projects to do, access to open preserves, and the technology tools to keep in touch with people.

I love all the down time but I do miss being social in person.

*Two weeks ago now