"T Stands For Teddy And Advent Calendar For Cats" - Photograph

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I am joining Bleubeard and Elizabeth for this week's T Stands For challenge found here.

This is my summation of the past week:

Teddy will be serving double duty as my main image plus as my "T-Day ticket" for my T-Day posts.

Teddy is posing under my Christmas Tree, with the Advent Calendar For Cats that my sister gave my cat as a Christmas present. That was very thoughtful and kind of her to do.

With the holidays upon us (Thanksgiving Day was this past Thursday here in the United States), covid-19 now feels like a black cloud hovering over everything. This past Sunday was the first Sunday of Advent. On Friday, I put up my artificial Christmas Tree and decorations, which is the earliest I've ever done that. I normally wait until December. But despite all of the festive decorations around the room and ornaments on the tree, it didn't help my spirits much.

Prior to Thanksgiving, Teddy and I went out for a few walks in the woods, including one at Gallows Hill Natural Area in Redding, CT. During our walk there, Teddy turned to me and said, "I see dead people." Despite knowing he was quoting a movie, I took the bait and asked him what he saw. Teddy said he saw a ghost in a Redcoat uniform, at the top of the hill we were on. When we returned home, I looked up the information about the trail, and informed Teddy of the following: 1) We were not on "The Noose" trail, where the Revolutionary War hanging had taken place on the hill top, we were on "The Drummer" trail, and 2) The man who was hanged was a Patriot, who would have worn a Blue uniform and who was hanged as a spy, for helping the Redcoats (British). Teddy then muttered something about he suffers from a rare form of color blindness, that comes and goes, which causes him to see red instead of blue, and that ghosts can roam about wherever they want, not just where they were hanged.

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Going out walking in the woods provides me with a brief reprieve from what I am now calling my Covid-19 Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). Except "fatigue" isn't a strong enough term to describe my emotions right now. I am worn down due to the ongoing stress of covid-19 lurking.