December 2020 - Campground Life & Christmas

December 1st & 2nd, 2020

See blog for Bryan's Birthday Trip HERE.

December 3rd -31st, 2020

We got home safely and back in our routine. It took us a few days to recover from the long drive back.  We are out of practice. ha!!ha!!

We had quite a few doctor appointments during the month, mostly annual check ups.   Bryan's hand finally seems to be better and he successfully hit a bucket of golf balls.

We walked the nature trail, the first time for a while as it has been too hot.

The Herons are back, starting to build their nest.

Looking through to the golf course.

Back at the swing in the campground, we spotted this heron standing in the river.

Oops, its actually sitting on a branch!!!

It was a quiet month and before we knew it Christmas was around the corner.

We decorated our tiny home. 

We were given a Christmas Tree by the office. It was awesome to have a live tree outside. We decorated it and called it our "Charlie Brown Christmas Tree"

A couple of days before Christmas, I found a shiny American penny on the floor.  Very strange, my maternal grandfather used to save new shiny pennies through the year with the current year on, and give all the grandchildren one on Christmas Day.  Maybe this was his way of saying he was with me. It brought a much needed huge smile to my face.

The Christmas Gnome keeping a watchful eye on Bryan. You know, reporting back to Santa if he was "naughty or nice".  He must have been nice because Santa visited with gifts for him. Hmmmmm!!!!!!

Sue preparing Xmas dinner

We had a very quiet Christmas and New Year.  

We arranged for Lily to have a much needed wash and wax!! At the cost of $10 a foot, it was not cheap but we used our Covid Stimulus money to stimulate the economy!! 👍

We did manage to stay up until midnight New Years Eve and see the New Year in. Hopefully 2021 will be better than 2020 but at least we have survived so far.

Coronavirus Update

As at:      Cases USA  Cases Florida  Deaths USA  Deaths Florida                                

Dec 1st   13,706,356      1,008,166       270,450            18,916

Dec 31st 19,967,278       1,323,315      345,736            21,990

The USA had 77,892 deaths in December, 36,974 deaths in November, 23,394 deaths in October, 23,216 deaths in September, dropping from 30,309 in August. The number of deaths more than doubled from November to December, a dramatic increase. 😞

Florida had 3,156 deaths in December, 1,837 deaths in November dropping from 2,481 deaths in October, 3,157 deaths in September, and 4,555 in August. The number of deaths nearly doubled from November but still fared better than the USA overall for the month. 😢

December ended with nearly 20 million cases in the USA, an average of 207,904 new cases a day. Significantly higher than the November average.

Unfortunately, the average number of new cases per day were significantly higher than the previous high in November(148,216), July(61,718), October(59,966),August(47,663) and September(39,888).  I started watching these figures at the end of March 2020. The lowest was May 2020(22,160).

On 1st December Florida passed 1 million cases, by the end of the month the total was 1,323,315, averaging 10,451 cases a day.  This is significantly higher than the November average of 6,559 a day.

 This figure is significantly higher than November(6,559), October(2,941), September(2,857), August(4,600) but still significantly lower than July(10,000). The lowest was May 2020(691).

On December 31st, we had 685 cases on base, as opposed to 589 at the end of November, 391 at the end of October, 275 at the end of September, 237 at the end of August, and 267 at the end of July. There is some good news, the number of cases this month dropped, the first time it had decreased since September.

Duval County (the county we are in) had 61,321 cases, Deaths 725 and 1,542 hospitalizations. 

Duval County (the county we are in) had 43,978 cases, 604 Deaths and 1,392 hospitalizations. 

An increase of 17,343 cases, 121 Deaths and 150 hospitalizations from October 31st.

An increase of 8,722 cases,  81 Deaths, and  105 hospitalizations from October 31st.

The number of deaths increased from November, ending the downward trend from prior months. The number of hospitalizations and cases both increased over November, following the National trend.

 

Unfortunately, cases have increased dramatically again, maybe due to Holiday travel. We need to start seeing some reductions in these figures. Please, please let it be a Happy New Year.