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

[rosemarythyme]

Well, ok... I sucked at regular baking unless it came from a box mix, however I'm now a gluten free from scratch baking goddess. (And so modest about it too! )

I enjoy cooking, but I suck at baking because I don't enjoy having to measure things out. Hubby's actually very good at baking but makes such a mess in the kitchen I've long since asked him to stop.

I've been trying to get DD to cook for years. Now, all of a sudden, she's fascinated. She is current;y reorganizing my kitchen so she can find the stuff she needs and have more work space.

Well I guess that's one good thing that's come of this!

My mom taught me how to cook when I was still little. By the time I was in my teens I was doing the grocery shopping, making dinner and cleaning up after. She also had me weeding the yard, mowing the lawn, doing the laundry, paying the bills. I resented it at the time but it sure made the transition to living on my own as an adult a lot easier!

 

[seminolewind]

We didn't shut the economy down for aids or flu.

Lock downs and "bending the curve" actually delays herd immunity, and deeps economic slaughter.

I think the lock down is for all people not getting sick at the same time or so. We would not have the equipment . There would be more deaths from too many people requiring life support at the same time.
So yea, lock downs and "bending" the curve do actually delay immunity. But it's a nightmare to be ill in a lump sum of sick people. So a delay in Immunity or exposure will lower the peak . I think once the graph hits a certain low flattish line, we may be able to come out. It's never going to be "wait for zero"

 

[Beer can]

When this is all over I'm going to throw the biggest darn StPatrick'sEasterMemorialFourthofJuly party ever!!

 

[MROO]

Us northern country folk aren't usually caught with "our pants down" so to speak, we always have at least a small back stock of essentials because we never know when we are going to get snowed in, powered out, flooded etc. for days or weeks at a time. Young people call it "prepping" where I grew up it was just called common sense.

I grew up Italian with Aunts and Uncles who raised kids through the depression. As a kid, "around the block" was too far to walk. After blizzards, we rode horseback for essentials - like diapers for a neighbor's baby. As a result of both, I don't feel "safe" without a stash. I didn't even have to buy TP! The only thing I've gone out for has been meds - and I'm good on those, now, too. I'ma stayin' PUT!

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Making yogurt is actually much easier than you might think. I used to make it all the time. I've used regular milk, fresh goat milk (Oberhasli goats only...everything else was, well... goaty) and soy milk. If you have a crock pot with a low setting, or have a warm setting on your stove you can easily make it.
If you get serious about making it, there are good and inexpensive yogurt makers you can order which make it even easier.

ETA: Sorry, I didn't see where Rainey posted a recipe for you already.

It’s good to know I can use a crockpot. I have enough kitchen gadgets to open a restaurant. Thank you. Now I need to go shovel more dirt into the garden. See you all when I’m hanging with my peeps!

 

[MROO]

I enjoy cooking, but I suck at baking because I don't enjoy having to measure things out. Hubby's actually very good at baking but makes such a mess in the kitchen I've long since asked him to stop.



Well I guess that's one good thing that's come of this!

My mom taught me how to cook when I was still little. By the time I was in my teens I was doing the grocery shopping, making dinner and cleaning up after. She also had me weeding the yard, mowing the lawn, doing the laundry, paying the bills. I resented it at the time but it sure made the transition to living on my own as an adult a lot easier!

I was the same way. In my own household, the budding cook was, of all people, DS. I swear, that boy can make anything ... even pizza on an open fire. DD, not so much. She was always outside while we tended the home front. Unless she was mixing a warm bran mash for her toothless gelding, she had no interest in the kitchen, whatsoever.!

 

[MROO]

When this is all over I'm going to throw the biggest darn StPatrick'sEasterMemorialFourthofJuly party ever!!

I'm thinkin' about commandeering my sister's dairy farm & throwing a barn-dance-n-bonfire prom for DD and her friends.

 

[seminolewind]

Sorry if I upset you, I was just sharing what made it easier for me to understand.

The unfortunate truth is that everything is being made political. Not something I'm willing to get in to but I have lots of family and friends in the medical field and I now actually know people that are affected by the virus so it's not just through the grapevine information anymore. Hope everyone stays safe no matter their feelings on the subject honestly and I'm really looking forward toilet paper being back in stock!

Good thing those healthcare big shots and doctors are on TV every day. Good thing they are not political and just speaking first hand knowledge. Listen to the healthcare doctors who know what they're talking about. The political side -think of that as an entertaining game. Because it is very entertaining.

 

[Beer can]

My oldest DD bought me a bread machine for Christmas. I never thought I would like one but that thing makes it so easy, just toss everything in and turn it on couple hrs later you got a loaf of bread.
I still prefer the no knead artisan crusty bread baked in a cast iron dutch oven though. Pretty easy also.

 

[MROO]

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I saw a seine net online yesterday, in a package, how does one use it?
I'll be doing the fishing, not kids, but figured my creek's flow was too strong for a cast net.

We used to catch grass (glass-) shrimp like with one in the shallows of the Severn River ... back when the Severn actually supported grass-shrimp! It takes two people - one on each end. You stretch it across the water flow, like a dam, letting the water run through it. When it looks like you may have caught something (or somethings) you pull it up, you bring up the lower end, like a hammock, or like you're folding a bedsheet, longways. Ideally, you should have lots of little fishy-thingies caught in your net, which you them gather up and carefully dump into your bait-bucket. It's a lot of work, but it's kinda fun - and makes for some nice bonding time with your kids.