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Today is Friday May 29th... Monday an African American was killed when a white officer knelled on his neck for 5 minutes. This shouldn’t have happened. My city has been protesting this man’s death at the hands of police and the fact that policeman is still free to do as he pleases. This white man was fired but the city did not arrest him till Friday morning. I see rioting and looting happening all over the twin cities and surrounding towns on the news. Most of the images are of white people doing crazy things because they can get away with it while the police are trying to maintain some order. The national guard was called in to help. Tonight the twin cities and my town of Roseville, MN have put into affect an evening curfew of 8pm that will go through the weekend. Our President tweets out that more violence should used to control the situation, instead of calling for peace or justice for this man named George Floyd. Our world is hurting and it makes me heart broken to witness the hurt my community is suffering. To know that my skin color has never made my life harder.

All this on top of a world wide global pandemic that has taken the lives of over 100,000 people as of this week. In MN we are at 967 deaths, reaching 1,000 deaths probably this weekend. Stay at home orders were going to enter phase one of the reopening for businesses on June 1st. They say that we probably haven’t even peaked in new case numbers, they estimate the peak around July.

Meanwhile this week we stayed home. I did not have to work and we didn’t really make the kids do too much with their distance learning this week. O’s teacher seems like he’s pretty much given up. Lucius’ teacher had told us that she would be lightening the school work this week.

With the cities in such turmoil this week I focused on yard projects. It’s been a large under taking but I’m making progress finally. Last Saturday Jerimy and I went to Menards to get some things for the yard projects. It was the first time I had been inside a store since March 13th.

**I'm posting photos from the process, long after I actually wrote this blog post. I spent much of the summer of 2020 picking rocks out of our front yard to transform it into our yard, instead of the yard my parents used to have. It was a lot of work but we didn't have too many chances to get away from our house this year because of Covid, so we made the most of being outdoors in our own front yard.