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

[SnapdragonQ]

That "short" ponytail hangs to his waist when wet ... and he's a six-footer!

Oh I know. 2 feet of hair when wet draws up to 6 inch ringlets. People have no idea when they see someone with shorter or shoulder length dry curls that it's really hair that goes down to the waist.

Nor do they know of all the product needed to tame the wildness....especially on humid days.

 

[Sequel]

Mine is a Bosch, highly recommended by Consumer Reports. Last year our old kitchen, with it's dying appliances, was redone (Yahoo!) finally, and this new one has been really nice.
Mary

I have a Bosch too and I love it! Quiet and water and power saving.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Heard something today I think goes in the "good news" file: although we've passed the 2 million mark of number of cases of Covid-19 in the US, without taking the pro-active steps we did, that number likely would have been 60 million by now! So when we think of all the sacrifices that have been made (thank you, front-line workers, Class of 2020, people who are working from home, everyone who is doing their part, you know who you are!), just know that it has been and continues to be so very worth it! Wash hands, stay home, mask up, social distancing, it's all working to save lives, keep it up! Be of good courage, there will be a vaccine someday!

 

[Sequel]

I also might've done that as a kid... honestly we never used the dishwasher much (I was the dishwasher) so I didn't realize that regular dishsoap would turn into a bubble bath nightmare in a dishwasher!



I actually avoided using the dishwasher even as an adult, until hubby finally made a request - he said try it out (and it was with a brand spanking new dishwasher that had never been used.... I had been using it as a dish rack for years and only ran it to clean it out!) and if I wasn't satisfied with the results, he would never ask me again why I was so fixated on handwashing everything.

So I tried it. And everything came out shiny. And I stopped handwashing everything. Still need to handwash about half the stuff, but it is a time savings.

That and as you use plates or glasses or whatever they aren’t cluttering up the kitchen!

 

[CapricornFarm]

We were just starting to get back most of the money we lost in the stock market and down it goes again. I swear the market is making my hair turn grey!

 

[Folly's place]

Yeah, it's been fun to watch...
Like a bad roller coaster ride.
Mary

 

[rosemarythyme]

Well apparently I have a Covid story for the day too . Went to a small farmer's market (like 4-5 booths small... I'll take what I can get) and they have a guy in the front to monitor traffic and check for masks. Well guess someone wanted in and didn't want to comply, so the worker turned him away. Guy immediately starts screaming "You're all government sheep! This is a conspiracy! There's no disease! Don't be fooled you sheep!"

Everyone paused to look at him (never know who has a gun or whatnot nowadays) then went back to shopping. Guy skedaddled pretty quick when some cops who were also shopping began making their way towards him.

That and as you use plates or glasses or whatever they aren’t cluttering up the kitchen!

Oh they still clutter up the kitchen. In between wash cycles the dishwasher is still my drying rack for everything that needs handwashing, so all the dishwasher-able stuff gets piled on the side.

 

[electrycmonk]

It's hard not to cuddle them when they're afraid, especially a little dog, like a beagle. Crazy Dog is not fond of thunder, either, but she's not truly phobic. Still, at 50 insistent pounds, she's not the easiest to have clinging to you in a storm. Last summer, we started giving her a quick snuggle, just to reassure her, then breaking out the toys or treats for a training session. Playtime didn't help, but a good, mind-bending lesson seemed to do the trick. By the time the "game" was over, either the worst of the storm was past or she was so mentally exhausted from the new challenge that she slept through the rest. Summer storm season hasn't really begun here, yet, so who knows how she'll do, this year, but she should be better. She's still young, but old enough now to start settling down ... a teeny, tiny bit, anyway. We don't call her Crazy Dog for nuthin!

Out of the "what the hell" side of the brain, I tried my personal B-12 vitamin on our two fur-kids with storm issues..... I knew a storm was inbound from forecasting and the view on the horizon as the afternoon progressed. Knowing that nsaids, and vitamins usually take ~20-30 minutes to digest to get somewhere near their target. I gave the girls each a B-12 chewable tab in a piece of hotdog.
This storm was a doosie. The girls were a little upset but, nothing like a few recent storms of comparable strength.

 

[electrycmonk]

We have a dishwasher. Sadly it had an "unfortunate incident" early on that I didn't know about and it doesn't dry the dishes properly, so the kids have to hand dry them. Or rather they are supposed to. The unfortunate incident involved them using dish soap instead of a dishwasher pod one night when DH and I were out at a restaurant celebrating an anniversary and MIL told them it would work just as well. It blew the seal. I'll get a new one some day. As soon as they move out, probably.

A "seal" is usually a mildly time consuming easy task.
Our close washer has a front loading door and I've changed its door gasket/seal 4-5 times since we got it in 2007/8. Over all I really like it. Inn omparison to the previous toploader that used a "typical" 60/odd gallons per load and this bosch used at Max 23 gallons per load. So that's my tangent for the night......

 

[electrycmonk]

I know, right. Do not dare stay away from this thread for more than a day, 2 tops...or you will be wading through posts like a swamp.

Swap, it is... Just shybif 100 pages.
/Taps out

Goodnight