Yard visiting can be a gift in these trouble times. It can be a saving grace.
without the mitigation of a screen between us. Then I got the idea of doing something my sister-in-law has been doing with my parents-in-law and her kids since the whole outbreak began: yard visiting., we allow people to come to our yard. I know. It sounds bonkers. Stay with me, people.
The phenomenon of “yard visiting” has come, at least on our end, from a sense of total isolation. I don’t talk to anyone face-to-face except:the person who gave life to me This is a lie. I sometimes yell effusive thank-yous really, really loud at the UPS, postal service, and Amazon delivery people, which they heartily deserve, because without them, our country would degenerate into a Mad Max-style economy based on toilet paper, Twinkies, and tortilla chips. But an effusive “Thank you and I am glad you are wearing a mask to stay safe and have a blessed day now” does not count as conversation.
So we are all utterly desperate for human contact. When my friend Joey offered to come over, stand in the yard, and yell at us from a distance, we hauled out the lawn furniture, opened the front gate so he wouldn’t have to touch it, sat on the porch, and waited. I almost cried when he walked between my rosemary bushes and sat at the black metal table.We treat this situation like a CDC Level 5 Hot Zone.
To us, that means that yard visiting must take place while maintaining a minimum of ten feet in sunshine, humidity, and a gentle breeze. Our Table of Demarcation, a set of metal lawn chairs surrounding a table — half in the sun, sorry y’all, that’s why we set out a sterilized bottle of sunscreen — sits about twelve feet from our front porch, and ten feet from the center path, which the children are banned from crossing.
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