Why do we have this blog?

The blog started as a way to preserve our emails as we reacted and adjusted to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, we're using it as our archive, for minutes and email notices, starting in March 2020. We have continued many of our meetings on Zoom, and several, in person. We met outdoors when the weather permitted. After we were all vaccinated, and before the Omicron variant spiked in Hastings late December 2021, we met indoors, masked. We suspended our tradition of the meeting's hostess serving lunch. It's an inconvenience caused by the pandemic, we acknowledge it, but it's another of the small deprivations we've endured during this difficult time.