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

[ShrekDawg]

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!!

That’s awesome!!!! We don’t have one here but we do have a couple TSCs and also a local feed store that I love too!

 

[MROO]

My girls that just started laying won't eat everything. It's so hot here, I gave them some watermelon yesterday. Only two liked it! Crazy. All of my other flocks have loved it.

I was rooting through my freezer (trying to organize a bit) and came across some dead-ripe strawberries that I'd tossed in, way back in May. They were too squishy to eat, but not ruined, yet, so my plan was to freeze them and use them in milkshakes or smoothies. They ended up going to the biddies, instead, still frozen.
Oh, Good. Heavens! What a free-for-all THAT was! Sure wish I'd thought to video it, but by the time I did, all the fun stuff was over. I'll know better, next time!

 

[MROO]

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

Don't be silly, there are LOTS of history nerds here!
The Vermont spies ... do you mean the start of the Pinkerton Agency, back in Lincoln's time (the beginnings of organized secret service) or the guy who spied against Japan in WWII? They're both pretty cool stories!

 

[FortCluck]

I bought some masks on etsy... I went with the best seller I thought

 

[CapricornFarm]

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!!

I love rural king.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Don't be silly, there are LOTS of history nerds here!
The Vermont spies ... do you mean the start of the Pinkerton Agency, back in Lincoln's time (the beginnings of organized secret service) or the guy who spied against Japan in WWII? They're both pretty cool stories!

I guess I need to find them then!!! Hahah

And I hadn’t heard of those but those sound awesome!! Gonna read about those now haha I guess I mixed it up and they weren’t really spies but still. Well, there were some.

Here’s a bunch of interesting articles/stories haha and also in the first one some of the comments are interesting too and if you scroll down there’s one about the spies but I’ll provide a link to that too. Apparently they were huge failures haha I had no idea the civil war was so interesting

Spoiler

https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/3h3c4q

http://www.stalbansraid.com/history/the-raid/

https://www.historynet.com/confederacys-canadian-mission-spies-across-the-border.htm

And this one’s about a different war but still interesting IMO.

https://www.historyextra.com/period...laration-battle-yorktown-george-iii-colonies/

 

[ShrekDawg]

Sorry, I can’t get that one to post as a link!!! It keeps doing the preview!! I’m gonna put it in a spoiler.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

That’s awesome!!!! We don’t have one here but we do have a couple TSCs and also a local feed store that I love too!

We had a wonderful family owned feed and seed place up north, a Southern States and TSC, plus several local mills I bought from too. I miss those. Here TSC and a tiny tiny Southern States (with questionable quality) are my only choices. I hear RK is a good place to shop.
Hopefully soon I will know how good!

 

[ShrekDawg]

We had a wonderful family owned feed and seed place up north, a Southern States and TSC, plus several local mills I bought from too. I miss those. Here TSC and a tiny tiny Southern States (with questionable quality) are my only choices. I hear RK is a good place to shop.
Hopefully soon I will know how good!

Oh wow hardly anything anymore! I’m lucky we have lots of feed stores around here haha I only really go to TSC and the local one though. I like the feed that the local one carries but I haven’t been there in a while ha maybe today

 

[Aunt Angus]

There are a few feed stores here. I've only been in this area a little over a week, so I haven't had time to visit them. There are 2 TSCs within reasonable driving distance. There's one called the Hay Barn and 2 others whose names I don't recall. Looking forward to finding a good one!