Hey quarantine. Hey,

Quarantiners, it's Monday, May 4th.

A big happy birthday shout out to a special listener,

Nate Ferguson, who turns 10 years old today.

Nate, welcome to the double digits and thanks for listening in with your mom, Allison.

And hi to 8 year old Tucker from Illinois and his brother Hudson.

Also, happy belated birthday to Lucy Pickering who turned 13 a week ago.

Hope you had a great first week as a teenager, Lucy.

Mackley White from Preston, Idaho turned 12 yesterday.

Welcome to the 12 club, Mackley.

Also, I'd like to remind everyone out there that there's a lot of great charities helping people during this pandemic.

One that's very close to my heart is Feeding America.org, which supports children and families in need through its networks of

food banks. Help out if you can. Thanks.

So I hope you guys had a good weekend. For us it was a gardening weekend, another new activity for my family.

It's more fun than I thought it would be and it feels really good to watch the vegetables and herbs start to come out.

We even got our first carrot today.

Very satisfying.

Makes you feel, I don't know, hopeful, like things are blooming and growing.

And it also takes my mind off that other thing. Hear that?

Nothing but static.

And that's pretty much how it's been since Zander basically hung up on me. I slept with the walkie-talkie next to my bed for the last three

nights, but Rem never checked in, not even to say hi. I'm kind of worried.

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