Pandemic Journal Vault
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Our weekly family journals are intended as living history. So, we resist archiving them online. But the coronavirus pandemic of 2020 was such an historic time to live through, we thought these journals, documenting in real time ordinary family life under COVID-19 restrictions and the changes we made to adapt, were worth keeping. In a vault. Where they can't contaminate our other journals.

Tuesday, December 29 2020: A good old-fashioned pandemic family Christmas.
Tuesday, December 22 2020: Life changes in progress, vaccine shipments arrive, a family COVID-19 case.
Grandma Caught Corona From a Reindeer, a cheery Christmas song!
Saturday, December 12 2020: Thanksgiving, Leo's driving, politiculousness, finals week.
Wednesday, November 25 2020: A weekend getaway, 2020 election results contested, more COVID-19 records set.
Wednesday, October 7 2020: Heat, first presidential debate, Trump tests positive for COVID-19, weekend plans.
We took a break from archiving our journals because we didn't want to just replay the entire year.
Tuesday, July 28 2020: A mild July, TV viewing, Leo's new laptop, exciting news for Ondine, recaulking the shower.
Tuesday, July 21 2020: Leo's birthday, Ondine's vacation, John's summer schooling, return to in-person classes?
Tuesday, July 14 2020: Alt-right and coronavirus surging, Bonhomme Richard fire, Ondine on vacation, hawklings.
Tuesday, July 7 2020: Independence Day, independent thinking, John dines out for school, hawklings fledged.
Tuesday, June 30 2020: Resurgence of coronavirus, Roy's room makeover, John's schoolwork, charades challenges.
Tuesday, June 23 2020: A big upsurge in COVID-19 cases as restrictions ease, Katrin, hawk chicks, Roy on the dole.
Tuesday, June 16 2020: Birds and chicks, social reforms, Roy and unemployment, John rearranges his office.
Saturday, June 13 2020: Leo's graduation lunch, 2 million U.S. cases, Cowles Mountain reopens.
Tuesday, June 9 2020: Graduation Day for Leo, calls to defund police, more reopenings, John's summer school.
Saturday, June 6 2020: Birthdays, Class of 2020 graduation, police changes, a gathering of neighbors.
Tuesday, June 2 2020: Protests over police killings turn violent, La Mesa burns, grad plans, gardening.
Saturday, May 30 2020: 100k U.S. deaths, beaches opening more, first NASA/SpaceX manned launch, Zoom calls.
Tuesday, May 26 2020: Social distancing contentment, summer school plans for three bears, TV habits.
Saturday, May 23 2020: Old plans gone, new plans coming, openings and bailouts, clearouts and finds.
Tuesday, May 19 2020: Humminghen again, dogs vs squirrels, more openings, summer school plans for three of us.
Saturday, May 16 2020: Leo gets a Class of 2020 yard sign, Roy finishes finals, gradual re-openings, TV shows.
Tuesday, May 12 2020: Mother's Day, a new pizza combo, a new rowing machine, and a new family portrait.
Saturday, May 9 2020: Grocery shopping, Roy's semester winds down, coronavirus and unemployment.
Tuesday, May 5 2020: A new blender, a new mutation, kints' school plans for fall.
Saturday, May 2 2020: California beaches, new Mars rovers, Roy's summer clothes, Ondine's 30-day daily haiku challenge.
Tuesday, April 28 2020: Meat producers sound alarm, John rants about advertising, Disney Plus, and online activity.
Saturday, April 25 2020: Weather turning hot, unemployment figures, parks and oceans opening up a bit, Ondine's office at home.
Tuesday, April 21 2020: Protests against social restrictions, Disney Plus, UPstART, stimulus payments, oil price crash.
Saturday, April 18 2020: Birthdays, kints at large in a small space, defunding the WHO, hawk and hummingbird pics.
Tuesday, April 14 2020: Easter, taxes, economic stimulus, historical perspective, back yard hawks and hummingbirds.
Saturday, April 11 2020: Positive news at last, Roy does taxes, Leo does Invisalign, more life in quasi-quaratine.
Tuesday, April 7 2020: Sheltering in place, online school, online theatre, online work, "the surge," braces, catch-ups.
Saturday, April 4 2020: April Fools, COVID-19 knowledge evolving, schools evolving, earthquake, toilet paper, Shadow hurts his foot.
Tuesday, March 31 2020: Leo starts spring break, Roy starts school online, enforcing parks and trails shut-downs, opera.
Saturday, March 28 2020: Wedding anniversary, housebound, discovering opera.
Tuesday, March 24 2020: Social distancing, toilet paper, a $2 trillion stimulus package, parks and trails closed, the stock market.
Tuesday, March 17 2020: Roy comes home from college early, Leo out of high school, a nice walk, working from home.
Friday, March 13 2020: Ramping up, Patrick Henry high school closes early, a family visit, and a play.
Friday, March 6 2020: The last journal reflecting the old normal, but things are starting to get weird.

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