BYC Café

[pennyJo1960]

Got that right Shad can always depend on you to brighten the day
How are you today ?

 

[Shadrach]

The main house here has an apartment, which until the Covid crisis, they let out to people throughout the year; mostly weekend lets for people who wanted to visit the National Park. It’s stood empty for the past couple of months. I did initially suggest that they let it out a much reduced rent to a couple who were about to be made homeless having lost their jobs due to the virus. This suggestion went down like the proverbial lead balloon. I think it was the ‘much reduced rent’ bit that threw them the most. Then of course there was the problem that the people I had in mind were not really ‘our sort of people’ as they are fond of saying.

A few weeks ago I got told that doctors and nurses who work on the Covid wards were looking for rooms/apartments, anything that meant they didn’t have to risk taking a dose of the virus home to their families. I suggested that the apartment here would be ideal and they could offer it for free for a few weeks. Well, they must have looked that word ‘free’ up and seemed very disconcerted that anybody could even mention such a word in polite conversation.

Much to my surprise, I was informed this afternoon that they had decided to let a nurse and her boyfriend they know have (yep have for free) the apartment for one night!
The couple turned up this afternoon. I had met the boyfriend some time ago and his partner the nurse seemed a pleasant young women. I spent a while chatting to them earlier bearing in mind social distancing etc. I got to hear first hand how the nursing staff are still not getting tested for the virus and various other horror stories about the initial flood of patients into the ICU units that were already almost at full capacity. If you read International news you will know that Spain has the highest infection rate in Europe and this week some measures to reduce the rate of infection have been eased and people are allowed out again for a limited time, with masks and social distancing rules.

I went to leave the couple some eggs for breakfast with a note outside the apartment door. The door was open when I went around and the apartment was empty. I went in to the main house and found the couple and some guests plus the usual household members sitting around the dinning table in the kitchen, candles and bottles of wine on the table having a bit of a party.

I have tried to explain to the household that the virus has not gone away. What has happened is through the lockdown the rate of infection has been slowed, but the overall number of infections relative to exposure has not changed.

I just left them to it. It’s not hard to see why Spain has the highest infection and death rate in Europe.

 

[Shadrach]

Got that right Shad can always depend on you to brighten the day
How are you today ?

I'm on the critical side of pissy to be frank Penny.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Have to admit not very bright of them to have there little party in my book
We have a extra room here never considered renting it out .. There is a single Bed in there
The way life and the world is just now would not rent in at all Ever

 

[ronott1]

The main house here has an apartment, which until the Covid crisis, they let out to people throughout the year; mostly weekend lets for people who wanted to visit the National Park. It’s stood empty for the past couple of months. I did initially suggest that they let it out a much reduced rent to a couple who were about to be made homeless having lost their jobs due to the virus. This suggestion went down like the proverbial lead balloon. I think it was the ‘much reduced rent’ bit that threw them the most. Then of course there was the problem that the people I had in mind were not really ‘our sort of people’ as they are fond of saying.

A few weeks ago I got told that doctors and nurses who work on the Covid wards were looking for rooms/apartments, anything that meant they didn’t have to risk taking a dose of the virus home to their families. I suggested that the apartment here would be ideal and they could offer it for free for a few weeks. Well, they must have looked that word ‘free’ up and seemed very disconcerted that anybody could even mention such a word in polite conversation.

Much to my surprise, I was informed this afternoon that they had decided to let a nurse and her boyfriend they know have (yep have for free) the apartment for one night!
The couple turned up this afternoon. I had met the boyfriend some time ago and his partner the nurse seemed a pleasant young women. I spent a while chatting to them earlier bearing in mind social distancing etc. I got to hear first hand how the nursing staff are still not getting tested for the virus and various other horror stories about the initial flood of patients into the ICU units that were already almost at full capacity. If you read International news you will know that Spain has the highest infection rate in Europe and this week some measures to reduce the rate of infection have been eased and people are allowed out again for a limited time, with masks and social distancing rules.

I went to leave the couple some eggs for breakfast with a note outside the apartment door. The door was open when I went around and the apartment was empty. I went in to the main house and found the couple and some guests plus the usual household members sitting around the dinning table in the kitchen, candles and bottles of wine on the table having a bit of a party.

I have tried to explain to the household that the virus has not gone away. What has happened is through the lockdown the rate of infection has been slowed, but the overall number of infections relative to exposure has not changed.

I just left them to it. It’s not hard to see why Spain has the highest infection and death rate in Europe.

A lot of people are like that here. Some are virus deniers. One woman for a church in Esparto posted vilely about how crazy it was to have social distancing when there was no one in the Hospital in Yolo county and no new cases that day. Less than an hour later, a member from the church died in a different county because Yolo county does not have a trauma unit.

This is a Pastors wife too. I find the whole attitude not loving or caring

 

[Shadrach]

A lot of people are like that here. Some are virus deniers. One woman for a church in Esparto posted vilely about how crazy it was to have social distancing when there was no one in the Hospital in Yolo county and no new cases that day. Less than an hour later, a member from the church died in a different county because Yolo county does not have a trauma unit.

This is a Pastors wife too. I find the whole attitude not loving or caring

It just seems stupid to me. I know they like their social life but a few weeks of peace isn't going to kill them. The thing for me is, I have to bear in mind their behaviour when I need to come and go in the main house.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We are stay at home kinda folks I am more social than BF or the Son
but have been at war with myself .. We have a new neighbor I would traditionally
taken her a carton of eggs .. I have been leery to say the least

 

[DobieLover]

Great. I hope the chick survives. I know you wrote you lost track of how many eggs there were, but out of the eggs she sat on, how may hatched?

All of them. No one had access to her nest but her. I just goofed when I thought I only gave her 8. I gave her 9. Lost one the first night because of my lousy nest box. And then the late hatch.
She's definitely behind the others and I am wondering if she is going to make it. They are already bopping around and she just needs to stay under mom.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I can only hope for you she catches up Dobie

 

[Shadrach]

All of them. No one had access to her nest but her. I just goofed when I thought I only gave her 8. I gave her 9. Lost one the first night because of my lousy nest box. And then the late hatch.
She's definitely behind the others and I am wondering if she is going to make it. They are already bopping around and she just needs to stay under mom.

I think it's in with a better chance than it would be here given you can keep them all in a run until and if the chick catches up with the rest. Mums just leave chicks that can't keep up here. It's not instant desertion, but once the chicks reach a certain level of mobility, mum doesn't go back for any that can't follow her. Moon was a bit like that. She would wander off a bit and Mel would move on leaving Moon behind. I did help Moon catch up on a few occasions but there is bound to come a time when I'm not there and may not even find a missing chick. Luckily Moon made it, but it was touch and go for a while.
Anyway, that was an excellent hatch.