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

[Aunt Angus]

This is TOTALLY random (sorry ) but thought these were interesting for you fellow nerds.

@MROO @Aunt Angus I think you like history or old language or something right? And I think @FortCluck ?

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english

https://www.rd.com/article/american-british-accents/

(Gotta scroll down on this one. Second question)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smit...se-British-accents-ask-smithsonian-180955291/

Thanks for sharing, @KDOGG331 ! You deserve some sort of award for remembering all this. I'm seriously impressed.

I knew about the great vowel shift, and I can read Middle English well (forget Old English - I tried but didn't have the patience), but this is cool stuff. Makes me miss learning for the sheer joy of learning. So often, I end up spending time and effort learning what I have to learn out of necessity (work stuff, instruction manuals, for sick chickens, etc). Gotta make time for the good stuff, like history and art and language and culture.

Thanks for the reminder! I will make learning for fun a priority this month.

 

[Aunt Angus]

So the mystery vine growing my mom says is pumpkins... My mom is never wrong (I must say this because she is my mom LOL)

It really perked up doing that pool garden for it.

This virus has really taught me to upcycle things. Everything can be made into something, you just need an imagination to see it. I guess I have a good imagination and I have been watching far too many youtube videos.

Love this! Resourcefulness is awesome - esp paired with a good imagination! I love YouTube for this reason. And Pinterest. So fun. So dangerous.

 

[cheepteach]

one year DH and I planted a whole field of pumpkins---too much rain/rabbits/woodchucks and only a couple puny pumpkins. Then we noticed over the front porch the biggest most lovely pumpkin. Must have been from the previous year jack'o'lantern. Beast pumpkin we never even planted!

 

[CapricornFarm]

And here is how it happens. Alaskan had a colonoscopy last Friday. Mid week this week he/she (we're not quite sure) was notified that one of the nurses helping with the procedure tested positive for Covid 19. 'Al' immediately went into self quarantine away from spouse and family. Yesterday 'Al' became ill. Is it Covid 19 ? Don't know yet. I like 'Al'.

Oh no! I like AL too! He's a great guy.

 

[FortCluck]

one year DH and I planted a whole field of pumpkins---too much rain/rabbits/woodchucks and only a couple puny pumpkins. Then we noticed over the front porch the biggest most lovely pumpkin. Must have been from the previous year jack'o'lantern. Beast pumpkin we never even planted!

Hope that happens with mine!

 

[CapricornFarm]

I really don't know. The outbreak in that summer camp in I believe Georgia is what I fear in our schools. Our kids are old with college age kids of their own. 2 have graduated college, 2 are in college, and one is a senior in high school. Here in NJ things have been better with folks following suggested guidelines until - lifeguards thought it was okay to have parties, someone thought a 700 person party was a good idea, someone thought a graduation celebration without precautions was fine - past several days have shown an uptick in cases here.

Go figure. Shakes head.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Hope that happens with mine!

My pigs planted pumpkins once and they grew up a tree. Pumpkins make great tree ornaments!

 

[SnapdragonQ]

One year, before I knew that potatoes would overwinter just fine, I saw new plants coming up one spring but I swear I had gotten all the spuds the prior fall. I never got around to digging them up because they were really deep in the ground and I started a specific potato bed elsewhere, but was surprised that they kept coming up year after year until we had a particularly bad cold spell one winter.. -30F. They didn't come back the following spring.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Went out for feed and groceries today. First time since all this began that I saw nearly everyone at the grocery store wearing masks. I guess it took our hospital getting full and schools switching from hybrid to full distance/virtual before people would wake up.
Nonetheless, I was happy to see people being much more careful.

In super happy news...we have a Rural King coming! They bought out an empty Lowes and it's going to be a huge store!! I've never shopped at one before because there has never been one around, so I went and checked prices online for the things I get at TSC and was thrilled to see the same feed brands I buy for quite a bit less!!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Thanks for sharing, @KDOGG331 ! You deserve some sort of award for remembering all this. I'm seriously impressed.

I knew about the great vowel shift, and I can read Middle English well (forget Old English - I tried but didn't have the patience), but this is cool stuff. Makes me miss learning for the sheer joy of learning. So often, I end up spending time and effort learning what I have to learn out of necessity (work stuff, instruction manuals, for sick chickens, etc). Gotta make time for the good stuff, like history and art and language and culture.

Thanks for the reminder! I will make learning for fun a priority this month.

there’s not many fellow history nerds on here!

And aw yeah I totally get it!! I was the same way for a while! And still sometimes am. School made it not as fun but I’ve been getting back into it lately. I love reading cool articles or watching cool videos or whatever haha I don’t really read like actual books anymore but I’m always looking something up lol

I especially love researching dog training and psychology stuff! like last night I was up late reading some random article/interview thing on the physiology of addiction but it was fascinating to me! LOL I’m weird! I read all sorts of other random psych and animal stuff too.

I know this isn’t really your domain but do you know about the spies in Vermont? Lol I read something about that recently too