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

[MROO]

Ugh, I understand why but that still sucks, I'm so sorry

It's so hard to study for exams and keep up with everything going on. I just want to sink into the couch, drink some hot chocolate, and not wake up to a world on fire for once.
At least my chicks get here in a month...

I have some coming on Monday. Of COURSE I do ... just in time for the next heat wave. These are replacements for the ones that got detoured in the heat a couple of weeks ago. I think they're probably the last EE bantams left on the face of this virus-stricken Earth. If I thought otherwise, I never have ordered them in the heat of summer in the first place Hopefully, this batch will make it through alive and intact.
On another hopeful note, I sent an introductory letter through the proverbial "back door" of a prospective employer. Rumor has it that a position will be opening up there, soon and I want to make sure HR knows there's someone already trained and qualified waiting in the wings.
Fingers crossed ... It sure would be nice to get a good break, once in a while!

 

[MROO]

All of our local fairs and festivals have been cancelled too.

Some of the local communities depend on annual festivals to stay afloat and there is talk of great concern both for the people who are vendors. but the towns themselves and a portion of their annual revenues gone.

Understood! I know we're all in the same boat. That makes some of this mess a little easier to deal with, simply because we know others understand ... but it also makes it super difficult, because everybody's worried and there's no end in sight yet.
The hibernation option is looking better and better ...

 

[ChocolateMouse]

I mean, winter is usually such a big deal for me but between the usual flu season and covid and everything else I certainly won't be able to do my usual Yule festivity planning that takes up the majority of october, november and december. :T:T:T And it gets very cold here - no garden to speak of, the animals mostly shut down, the mud keeps the dogs indoors... No comfortable outdoors spaces to do a gathering in like there is now - halloween/samhain will be chancy as it is 'cause sometimes we get snow then. So... I will probably sleep through an uncomfortable amount of winter.

I'm honestly trying to think about how I want to manage it. I think I want to start working on structuring my days really intensely so I don't just spend my life doomscrolling and sleeping and refusing to get up every day. It's already bad enough when there's 2' of snow and there are places you CAN go...
I'm pondering ordering some dry firewood because we're a bit low and doing regular fires in the fireplace, setting up an hourly schedule to work on specific projects, etc. Maybe I'll get all those rabbit hides in the basement tanned. Idk. I can try.

 

[Walpurgisnacht]

I have some coming on Monday. Of COURSE I do ... just in time for the next heat wave. These are replacements for the ones that got detoured in the heat a couple of weeks ago. I think they're probably the last EE bantams left on the face of this virus-stricken Earth. If I thought otherwise, I never have ordered them in the heat of summer in the first place Hopefully, this batch will make it through alive and intact.
On another hopeful note, I sent an introductory letter through the proverbial "back door" of a prospective employer. Rumor has it that a position will be opening up there, soon and I want to make sure HR knows there's someone already trained and qualified waiting in the wings.
Fingers crossed ... It sure would be nice to get a good break, once in a while!

Oof, I think I accidentally took some of your EE bantams, then. I ordered mystery chickens off of MyPetChicken back in July because that was the only place selling chicks (all the TSCs around here stopped selling chicks and don't do fall chicks, apparently) and even then the soonest I could get them was September. Best of luck for your employment opportunity! Sending prayers and/or good vibes your way.

 

[MROO]

I mean, winter is usually such a big deal for me but between the usual flu season and covid and everything else I certainly won't be able to do my usual Yule festivity planning that takes up the majority of october, november and december. :T:T:T And it gets very cold here - no garden to speak of, the animals mostly shut down, the mud keeps the dogs indoors... No comfortable outdoors spaces to do a gathering in like there is now - halloween/samhain will be chancy as it is 'cause sometimes we get snow then. So... I will probably sleep through an uncomfortable amount of winter.

I'm honestly trying to think about how I want to manage it. I think I want to start working on structuring my days really intensely so I don't just spend my life doomscrolling and sleeping and refusing to get up every day. It's already bad enough when there's 2' of snow and there are places you CAN go...
I'm pondering ordering some dry firewood because we're a bit low and doing regular fires in the fireplace, setting up an hourly schedule to work on specific projects, etc. Maybe I'll get all those rabbit hides in the basement tanned. Idk. I can try.

Give yourself a Winter Challenge - learn to master fireplace/campfire cooking. Get yourself a good, cast iron dutch oven - the kind with both feet and a sturdy handle, so it can either sit on the stones or hang on a tripod. A flat lid is best, so you can add coals/wood on top (it helps regulate temperature.)
With a good dutch oven, you can make everything from cinnamon buns to stews to fancy breads and meats - but the true challenge is making dutch oven pizza. That's a fine art and much harder than you'd think!

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Give yourself a Winter Challenge - learn to master fireplace/campfire cooking. Get yourself a good, cast iron dutch oven - the kind with both feet and a sturdy handle, so it can either sit on the stones or hang on a tripod. A flat lid is best, so you can add coals/wood on top (it helps regulate temperature.)
With a good dutch oven, you can make everything from cinnamon buns to stews to fancy breads and meats - but the true challenge is making dutch oven pizza. That's a fine art and much harder than you'd think!

Uh oh MROO. I have two cast iron dutch ovens, one big one small. Small one has feet, big one came with a tripod, both have flat lids, and I've already done bread, soups, roast chicken, oatmeal, pancakes, sausages, and yes even pizza in them. I cook outside over a firepit all the time in the summer - we don't even own a "real" grill, all our grilled food goes over a fire on a metal grate.
Probably doesn't hurt that I grew up camping several times a year, participated in a medieval society, and have an eagle scout in my household.

So, um. Well that's done. Now what? XD

 

[SnapdragonQ]

I have some coming on Monday. Of COURSE I do ... just in time for the next heat wave. These are replacements for the ones that got detoured in the heat a couple of weeks ago. I think they're probably the last EE bantams left on the face of this virus-stricken Earth. If I thought otherwise, I never have ordered them in the heat of summer in the first place Hopefully, this batch will make it through alive and intact.
On another hopeful note, I sent an introductory letter through the proverbial "back door" of a prospective employer. Rumor has it that a position will be opening up there, soon and I want to make sure HR knows there's someone already trained and qualified waiting in the wings.
Fingers crossed ... It sure would be nice to get a good break, once in a while!

..... ..... and...!!!!!

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The hibernation option is looking better and better ...

I know, right?

 

[SnapdragonQ]

I mean, winter is usually such a big deal for me but between the usual flu season and covid and everything else I certainly won't be able to do my usual Yule festivity planning that takes up the majority of october, november and december. :T:T:T And it gets very cold here - no garden to speak of, the animals mostly shut down, the mud keeps the dogs indoors... No comfortable outdoors spaces to do a gathering in like there is now - halloween/samhain will be chancy as it is 'cause sometimes we get snow then. So... I will probably sleep through an uncomfortable amount of winter.

I'm honestly trying to think about how I want to manage it. I think I want to start working on structuring my days really intensely so I don't just spend my life doomscrolling and sleeping and refusing to get up every day. It's already bad enough when there's 2' of snow and there are places you CAN go...
I'm pondering ordering some dry firewood because we're a bit low and doing regular fires in the fireplace, setting up an hourly schedule to work on specific projects, etc. Maybe I'll get all those rabbit hides in the basement tanned. Idk. I can try.

I used to live a few hours from there just over in PA and the dark cloudy winters got to me really bad. Snow before Halloween, and sometime for Easter too... with hardly any sun in between got to me really bad.
Upping my Vitamin D in October and keeping it up until the snow melted away seemed to help make a difference in my degree of becoming a sleeping slug. It's not like I was jumping out of bed in the morning dancing or anything...but I could get through the day doing adult stuff that I had no chioce but to do a little bit better with it.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I gave Luna a can of wet food for the first time in a while (like at least a few months? But I lost track ) and she could not get to it fast enough lmao she couldn’t even wait for it to be out of the can and jumped up on the counter to try eating it as soon as I opened it lmao

 

[ShrekDawg]

She literally yelled at me earlier today so I figured I’d better go get her some before I get murdered by cat

I actually promised her I’d buy her one the other day and I swear she remembers cause she literally yelled at the top of her lungs at me today