Brewers try to find something new to do in sixth week of sheltering in place - cleveland.com

A few weeks ago, Sun News correspondent Mary Jane Brewer shared her family’s abrupt introduction to the coronavirus crisis. This is part six of the Brewer family saga during the COVID-19 sheltering period.

MEDINA, Ohio -- It’s hard to believe that we have been sheltering at home now for six weeks! We’re still reading, avoiding crowds, walking daily and trying to find new things to do.

Our daughter Kristy and her Seattle family have begun playing ping pong on their large kitchen island. For a Scout project, granddaughter Leah, 13, searched her neighborhood (very suburban) for “wildlife” to photograph. She captured images of hummingbirds, a robin, juncos, a bunny, a caterpillar, a worm and an ant.

Jeff, Kristy, and the children are excited that the Washington State parks and hiking trails are opening on May 5. Their family is usually very active and regularly enjoys long hikes in wooded areas.

Our son, Phil, admits that they had a rather boring week here in Medina. In addition to their school work, they took a family hike at Allardale Park, 401 Remsen Road. He and his dad played golf with some of Phil Sr.’s buddies, while paying close attention to the health and safety measures put in place for golf courses by Gov. Mike DeWine.

Daughter Sarah’s family in Worthington, Ohio, was frightened by a very violent wind storm on the same night that Medina experienced its tornado. The roof on their enclosed back porch was damaged to the point that it will have to be replaced. Luckily, their insurance will cover the cost.

Granddaughter Autumn, 16, is buried under an assignment for her Advanced Placement U.S. History class. She is required to write a paragraph about a significant event from each year of each U.S. president’s term, beginning with George Washington in 1789. That’s roughly 230 paragraphs.

A typical event for her to include would be the Copyright Act during Washington’s presidency in 1790. The act established rules of copyright for intellectual works. Autumn is an excellent student, but she tends to procrastinate a bit -- not a good idea with such a time-consuming assignment.

My husband, Phil, is enjoying the start of the golf season and is finding time to continue to play his online bridge and to work in the yard. He’s already run the rototiller through the garden and is champing at the bit to purchase our tomato plants and get them into the soil. He loves to share vine-ripened tomatoes with all of our friends and neighbors.

I’ve started spring cleaning a room a day, including window washing. I’ve learned that show tunes by Andrew Lloyd Webber help the work go better if I sing along.

To spruce up the outside of the house and the yard, and to offer work to small businesses that may be hurting during the pandemic, we have hired Jansen Wehrley to edge and mulch our flowerbeds, to cut down two almost-dead trees, and to edge the sidewalks and driveway. These are all chores we used to do ourselves when we were younger and had more stamina.

So that the house is as sparkling clean as the yard, we hired Dan and Dave Milchak, owners of Titan Pro Power Washing, to wash the outside of our house and our picket fence. The house looks terrific -- the walls of the house rarely touched by the sun were stained in places by pale green mildew. Now, they’re white.

We’ll continue to do our part to check the spread of the coronavirus. We’ll keep our distance from others and we will wear masks in public. We don’t want to catch the virus ourselves, and we certainly don’t want to add to the labor and the danger of the doctors and nurses who have battled so bravely.

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