I'd been thinking about Ann for a few days, and gave her a call yesterday. She's doing great, though progress with her hip has slowed. Friday was the last day insurance will pay for the physical therapy but she is going to keep doing the exercises on her own with her aide. She also mentioned that Mom had called her the previous week, when they had a nice chat.
In other PT news, Cindy went to her first session yesterday. Today marks 3 weeks post ankle surgery. and while says she "may be walking" in a few weeks she admits she has a long process ahead of her.
The phone rang about 10 seconds after Ann and I hung up so I thought she was calling back with something she'd forgotten to mention. But it was Wanda, checking in to let me know that she is going to take me up on my offer to chauffeur her to/from her medical appointment on Friday.
I called APS yesterday when I noticed a broken "tube" hanging from one of the wires strung out front. Grant said someone would be out within hours to check it out. When the doorbell rang a few hours later I thought it was one of the workers to report what they'd found (and fixed?) but it was Estera (with four of the kids) dropping off some juicy watermelon and luscious tomatoes. Guess what I had with my dinner last night!
It was really windy here yesterday - windows were rattling - and I saw on the evening news that there were "warnings" around the state. However today it's only supposed to be breezy. In the early evening, when it was nice and cool, I did trim the hedge outside the fence, and in a bit will go out and collect the wilted greenery from the ground to stuff more easily into the can.
Enjoyed a fun movie yesterday, In Her Shoes. Of course it was one of those movies with no real surprises in the plot, but then Life has been full of surprises these past few months that it was fun to escape into a well-done piece of fluff.
The worsening virus situation here in Arizona
made the Rachel Maddow show again last evening.
I found this segment of yesterday's hour, explaining what it means to dismantle police departments, very informative and enlightening.
In another segment, one of her interviewees was a scientist who had worked on the just-released UCBerkley study which had measured the health benefits vs. economic costs of various pandemic responses in the half dozen hardest-hit countries. However I was a little confused by this seemingly contradictory finding. He said that while the stay-at-home orders may have prevented as many as 500 million cases world wide, the data showed closing the schools didn't seem to have much of an impact. Here's part of that interview:
Am enjoying my current library book, though was surprised to learn that defendants get to sit in on the voir dire process of selecting a jury. (After reading that part in the book yesterday I did look it up to confirm that it was true.)
It’s
the most sensational case of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Jessica Silver,
heiress to a billion-dollar real estate fortune, vanishes on her way home from
school, and her teacher, Bobby Nock, a twenty-five-year-old African American
man, is the prime suspect. The subsequent trial taps straight into America’s
most pressing preoccupations: race, class, sex, law enforcement, and the lurid
sins of the rich and famous. It’s an open-and-shut case for the prosecution,
and a quick conviction seems all but guaranteed—until Maya Seale, a young woman
on the jury, convinced of Nock’s innocence, persuades the rest of the jurors to
return the verdict of not guilty, a controversial decision that will change all
their lives forever.
Flash forward ten years. A true-crime docuseries reassembles the jury, with particular focus on Maya, now a defense attorney herself. When one of the jurors is found dead in Maya’s hotel room, all evidence points to her as the killer. Now, she must prove her own innocence—by getting to the bottom of a case that is far from closed.
As the present-day murder investigation weaves together with the story of what really happened during their deliberation, told by each of the jurors in turn, the secrets they have all been keeping threaten to come out—with drastic consequences for all involved.
Flash forward ten years. A true-crime docuseries reassembles the jury, with particular focus on Maya, now a defense attorney herself. When one of the jurors is found dead in Maya’s hotel room, all evidence points to her as the killer. Now, she must prove her own innocence—by getting to the bottom of a case that is far from closed.
As the present-day murder investigation weaves together with the story of what really happened during their deliberation, told by each of the jurors in turn, the secrets they have all been keeping threaten to come out—with drastic consequences for all involved.
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