BYC Café

[sourland]

Brewed an afternoon pot - was suffering caffeine withdrawal. We started home this morning, and I had no coffee as that would institute a need for many bathroom breaks. Oh, the joy of aging body parts. Had a great trip. Folks were universally masked and social distancing. Eating at a restaurant- even outside caused a bit of nervousness, but was enjoyable after four months of not doing so.

 

[Shadrach]

Good break Mr @sourland ?

 

[sourland]

Good break Mr @sourland ?

Excellent, Shad. My life is good and spent mostly doing things that I want to do, but it's nice to get away every now and then and regroup.

 

[Bunnylady]

Welcome back, @sourland. My apologies; it seems that I am sending you a tropical storm as a belated birthday present.

I'm sorry about that, though I'm not sorry to see it going. This morning, I found a diving beetle in my kitchen sink. You know it's wet when aquatic wildlife is coming in the house to dry off.

 

[CapricornFarm]

The places I see the majority of the "I'm too good to wear a face mask"ers is at Home Depot followed by Lowes. I don't really know why that is.

Walmart too. It's the uneducated masses.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Welcome back , Sour! You seem a bit....older!

 

[DobieLover]

I see it the grocery stores and dollar store and feed mill and......just about everywhere,
except for TSC. They have a large stand up sign outside the from door with a bold graphic of a masked face and the text "Masks Required" all in black and white.
Can't miss it.
Other places have printout of the mandates stuck to the doors, but I doubt many read them.

As I was waiting to check out at Lowe's this afternoon the man in front of me had no mask. I turned around and ten feet behind me was one of those huge signs reading 'New York state law mandates you must wear a face mask'. Once he left I asked the cashier, Who's policing this? She had no answer for me.

 

[DobieLover]

Welcome back Sour. I'm glad to read you had a good time.

 

[DobieLover]

For a change of pace, I decided to do all of the plumbing work at the same time. I cut off every single one of the shut-off valves that was corroded in place and if you tried to shut it off it would just leak water.

I used SharkBite adapters to transition to the PEX plumbing. All of them are accessible without being enclosed in a wall. I turned on the water veeeeeery slowly and bled the lines out through the kitchen sink. Then I went into the bathroom to check on those valves and that's when I noticed I forgot to shut off the washing machine cold water valve and the water was spewing out behind the access panel. Oops.

 

[Sequel]

Walmart too. It's the uneducated masses.

They have an “alternative truth”