Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

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I WANT ONE!!! When I was a kid, my Mm wanted one in the WORST WAY! And that's how we almost got one ... Luckily another neighbor intervened first and took the babies to a rehab. His car stunk for WEEKS - and that was just from residuals, 'cause they'd already sprayed! !

 

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Relax. Breathe in the moment. Meditate...

Then, WASH YOUR HANDS ... again ... zheesh!

 

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I had to order my bread yeast online. Got a fresh new jar now.


*raises hand*
I grow Swiss Chard and have for years.
Nice in between for spinach and kale. I even dry the extras (and kale, and spinach too) so I have it to toss in my soups, stews, and casseroles all year long. It keeps the flavor quite well after being dried.

Yeah, I know that sounds weird, but when you get an entire laundry basket of the stuff from the garden each week, and it's too darned hot to stand at a stove blanching it for freezing, then taking up valuable freezer space you need for meat instead...one tends to get creative.

Pretty to look at too while growing-


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Drying it for soups ... that's GENIUS! I've always cooked a whole mess of Kale at a time, then pulled out most for the freezer before it's fully cooked (quick, I know!) I guess it's time to break out the dryer baskets again!

 

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Guess we are going to have to look into making sour dough bread.

https://holycowvegan.net/make-sourdough-starter/
Try this site. It's got tons of info for adapting and troubleshooting - and starts without yeast. If nothing else, it's a cool science lesson!

 

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No...
I think I might have skipped it

Okay ... I'm one of those people who poo-poohed ever needing algebra again ... until I found myself using it EVERY DAY in my job as a digital cartographer (computer map-maker) with the State. My specialty was GIS - Geographic Information Systems - to compile some really cool data and the accompanying maps. I was using X to find Y all the time, but didn't realize it until the computer model started asking for Z, as well. Then it "clicked" all over again. That nasty old math teacher was right ... I DID need that awful stuff ... only now, it was FUN!

 

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Does everyone on here have depression? I do too.

Probably! Welcome to modern America!

 

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'Crime and Punishment' , page by bloody page, in English class. Reading 'Anna Karenina', and being so happy when it finally ended!
'Macbeth' and 'Hamlet', and ee cummings.
My children had no Shakespeare in HS, none!
Mary

We read MacBeth aloud ... and I'll never forget my embarrassment when I said "brewch" instead of "Broach" for "brooch." The entire class laughed ... and I was mortified!
Which leads to another idea for home-school reading. Choose a funny play and let each person read a part. It keeps everyone on their toes, to make sure they jump in at the right time.

 

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Memory issues, stress, anxiety, depression, paralysis, short temper, yelling at the kids over stupid "carp" as you guys put it.... yeah, any of that sound familiar to y'all? How about low-grade headaches when you NEVER get headaches? They said this was a war, only it's an invisible enemy. That's what this feels like, battle fatigue, they used to call it. I think it may be a form of PTSD to tell you the truth, meaning no disrespect to our actual veterans. The stress is unrelenting. We don't get furloughed, we don't get R&R. We don't know when it will end. Some days my eyes leak and won't stop.

This may sound cliche ... but I'm SO glad we have each other, here on BYC. My Online Friends ... you all make this much easier (not easy, but definitely easiER) to bear. Thank You!

 

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Omnes who? You got me on that one! Let's see: "Veni, vidi, vici," Julius Caesar (I came, I saw, I conquered), followed by "Et tu, Brute?" And To Kill A Mockingbird. And boys, of course.

And then there's Marty Feldman ...
"GET OUTTA THE BATHROOM AND GIVE SOMEONE ELSE A CHANCE!
... Sorry ... couldn't resist!

 

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I like having salad dates with them yesterday we had a salad with apples, lettuce, cucumbers, and mine had nuts, berries, and homemade balsamic vinaigrette.

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THAT. LOOKS. AMAZING!