192 how do you get it (to the backyard)?

San Francisco can be pretty magical.

Yesterday was one of those mornings. Nobody is quite sure when the smoke will be back, and it makes you appreciate the nice air even more.

Remember what I was saying about how SF had a different strain than NYC?

As far as I can tell, the big "G" mutation happened early, in China, then moved to Europe. This was the more transmissible, less deadly variation of the virus.

At first, it was called the "skier's disease" because it was circulating in the Alps of Nothern Italy. That variation flew to the US and went to places like Aspen, Sun Valley, and Greenwich, Connecticut. This was when wealthy people started getting sick, and dear leader's "friends" started to conk, and our government started to take things seriously.

But as community spread started to happen, the disease moved from the wealthy to the people who serve them.

The first strain arrived in Seattle and San Jose, but didn't spread as easily, especially when we had the first lockdown in the US.

And now we mainly have the "G" varient and subsequent spinoffs, which all may be more airborne.

Now, the virus is so widespread with so many slight varients, that any vaccine is likely to be only partly effective.

In other words, the Cov2 is out of the bag.

File under: kudos for a great idea well executed

Two years ago, the founder saw a neighbor charging everyone to use their pool.

And looked at Google Maps, then started knocking on doors. 80 attempts led to 4 pools that were interested in renting time.

And then the pandemic hit, and public pools were closed, and nobody went on vacation, and some people had extra money around.

Pools are basically like sailboats. They sound like a great idea, but they mostly sit around doing nothing while costing a lot of money. Shared water issues aside (and we've been setting that issue aside for a long time) this seems like a great idea. 

Like, maybe-I-need-to-book-one great.

Finally, a progress report. We hauled a lot of decomposed granite fines yesterday. So much that we have a buddy coming to help next week.

Unfortunately, the day labor demographic is one of the hardest hit by Cov2 in the city, and we're afraid to go there. The classic struggle of SF gardening is "how do you get it to the backyard?"

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