Most of you probably have seen our website and its message that we have, after nine months of clear sailing, sisters that have tested positive for the COVID virus. As I write this I am happy to say that none of them are in the hospital seriously ill. In fact, they are all quite stable and the asymptomatic ones are just fine, obviously! As we are all pseudo-experts on this virus, we know that things can change quickly, so do keep us in your prayers as you, too, are in ours. 

Meanwhile, we are trying to keep spirits up. We offer prayer over the PA system at the usual times and we have a "newsletter" that goes out every other day, with announcements, prayer requests, updates and anything else of interest and information for all. 

We have also had a few activities to help pass the hours in our rooms. Some activities are even videoed from the back of chapel on our internal TV channel. Here is a sampling of one activity we had this past week. These were compiled from the New York Times Fun Facts from 2020. We turned them into multiple choice and true and false. "A good time was had by all."

Australia, Japan, USA’s (circle one) legal system has a 99% conviction rate.

Fishing, stagecoach driving, teaching high school remains the second most dangerous profession, after logging in the USA.

The ginkgo, maple, tulip is the oldest surviving tree species–on the planet for some 200 million years.

 About 95% of Egypt’s population live on about 4% of the land.  True or False?

In the 1960s rock concertgoers in NY and San Francisco were greeted with barrels of free apples, marijuana, T-shirts.

For decades after the birth of modern photography in 1839, one of the most common uses was a professionally shot photograph of yourself, family pet, dead family member.