Test and tree

I started the day early today - we got an email from Mary Cay Brass saying that free COVID self-tests were being given out in Dummerston at the Motor Vehicle Department office on Route 5. I dashed into clothes and left without breakfast - but I was too late. They were all out almost minutes after opening. They said that they would be given out at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital starting at 2p.m. So I came home, had breakfast, and we went to Elysian Hills to find a Christmas Tree. They had a nice one, small but nice, for $48, which was cheaper than the $60 one we saw a couple of days ago and decided against. So we got it and brought it home. But not before I went to Walgreens to get a prescription filled, and to Staples to get card stock, paper and blank CDs. I'm making CDs as gifts this year and was running out of materials. I got down to Brattleboro Hospital at 1:20p.m., well before the 2p.m. opening, but I could see no evidence of a place to line up. A woman in a pickup said it was actually off Canal Street at the place where they have been doing COVID testing, so I followed her. Things got a little crazy as suddenly everyone was cramming into that spot, but I stuck close behind her and by golly, at 20 minutes before two, I was having two test kits handed to me through the car window - two per vehicle was the rule. Who knows whether the people who came at 2p.m. got any! But I was happy - we can now test before our Christmas gathering, and I can share one kit with John if he needs one. Later,I put up the tree and put on lights. It looks nice!

Elysian Hills Tree Farm

Our tree

Test kits