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[room onthebroom]

you two are interchangeable in my head. Sorry for making you think you may have lost one!

That is an enormous compliment for me, but maybe not so complimentary for Orr. Just kidding. She’s my long, lost sister from another mother.

 

[Alaskan]

I know I complain about living up here... but it IS nice we aren't so crazy that the stores are bare.

Went to the store again today...

I needed to buy more granola... the healthy kind with flax seeds and other scary stuff... ya know...this whole be healthy horror (whine, whine)..

Anyway... meat shelves were not as full as usual... but no big whatever... I didn't check to see if the 25 and 50 pound bags of rice were back in stock since I was at the regular store, not the bulk store.

However, I didn't see any bare shelves (I did skip the TP isle though.... but then spouse came home with a package, so we are good).

Anyway... crazy the empty shelves down there... and crazy stockpiling people....

Just wow.

 

[kwhites634]

That's Costco, Sam's Club, Walmart, and just about every other place in the Lower 48.

MN schools have from March 18-27 to figure out resources for "extended distance learning". We can only assume that means we won't be going back anytime soon. During this mandatory shutdown, schools are required to provide daycare for kids of health care workers ages preschool to 12 years old. Our school is also offering daycare for staff members' kids as well. The paras are expected to do the daycare. I have requested an alternative job since my DH is 65 years old and susceptible to respiratory problems when he gets sick. I have not heard yet what I will be doing.

My son and family were here for the weekend. They will be coming back Wed. - Friday, and I won't be surprised if DIL and the kids stay here when he goes back for his weekend shift. They're ready to leave the big city ASAP. I don't know if he has put in his notice or not. He was going to be done in May, but he is talking about quitting sooner. Grandson is excited about making pancakes with Grammy. I bought a bunch of seeds today, so we can start some plants while they're here.

Room, I hope your boy gets home soon.

Pancake seeds?

 

[kwhites634]

They can't fight the system .And don't want to.The tale will be told when The chrildren are tested later to see what they retained.

Got a call this afternoon saying the center will be closed for 30 days. So i have a thirty day jail sentence more or less. I can pick up my feeds but not dog food .Can't go anywhere that has a magazine rack.TSC has a very expensive one .So Ben can't go there.It wll be a long thirty days .Going to turn off my alarms .Maybe catch up on lost sleep.Where Dw works everyone with unlimited internet.Has been sent home to work from home.We have limited hot spot internet .So she has to stay there to work.She works for a drug supply house ,a very large supply house . What gets to me in all this is the total selfesh way people are acting.We have 50 + rolls of TP ,,That should last a 100 + days
Watching tv today ,from the ultra highend district of the city.All the Tp they could pile on thier shopping cart. Not worring about others at all .People are buying cases of frozen dinners .So the stores are placing limits on how many they can by.Thing is every city has cold storage warehouses that stay pretty full .Cows have to be milked or they go dry .Dry cows means broke farmers.So milk will continue to flow.And with spring in the air ,production should increase.
How the hell did we let these fools get control of our country? Everyone needs to be tested and retested .I just can't believe there aren't swabs and pitry dishs enough to test the whole country .So what are in the millions of test kits they are sending out.A sterile cultur swap is a sterile sterile swab.We are being lied to yet again.So we wait for the test kits (a sterile swab and a sterile tube to put the swab in ) to be built .And the people who had a nagitive test this week might have a positive test next month .And we just won't know .We have to call to set up a test ,which we can't get unless we are showing systems .Unless of course your the President and his team of butt kissers . And all this is just IMO.But I ain't mad .

What are you supposed to do when you run out of dog feed?

 

[chickisoup]

Morning Ponders,
sounds like the pond water is heating up a bit
All good here. Unexpectedly it seems the powers that be focused on the private sector first and now getting to the gov employees (and contracted). First the call from my immediate census boss saying we are to purchase hand sanitizer (yeah, I know) and list it on our time/expense for reimbursement. Then the call came from above (aka the regional office) that we are no longer to go up to the door just gather what info we can by "observation" basically verifying the data I was paid to collect last summer, no more door knocking etc.

BTW if anyone is looking for the makings of your own hand sanitizer but can't find isopropyl alcohol (cleaned out even on line) I found plenty after some heavy searching at, believe it or not, Dollar General. You can use the 70% rubbing alcohol but really want the 91% Iso and crazy as it sounds, they carry it. I had looked everywhere, thought for sure at my farm supply, (dairy farmers use tons of the stuff) everywhere sold out. I was able to order the glycol, the other main ingredient I needed, online at least, should arrive tomorrow. I usually keep sanitizer on hand anyway because I have to be more careful about infections etc. now because of health issues and an aging DH but I don't think it's going to be able to find it in the stores for a while so I'm just making my own again like I used to when I was first on the chemo drugs and had zero immunity. Anyway, my homemade stuff works better anyway.

 

[chickisoup]

On a lighter note, thank you all for your concern, I'm fine this morning just A little sore still and look like I've been in a bar fight with my scratched up hands. Might actually work in my favor out doing census if I look more like a mean grandma instead my usual sweet little old lady "better not mess with that old broad!"

 

[orrpeople]

Thanks for clarifying! I realized after I posted that it was Orr's boy, but for some reason you two are interchangeable in my head. Sorry for making you think you may have lost one!

Orr - I hope your boy gets home soon!

Haha! Yep! Pretty sure Room and I are related somewhere...maybe that second-cousin-once-removed where the son is staying might know?!?!

 

[kwhites634]

Morning Ponders,
sounds like the pond water is heating up a bit
All good here. Unexpectedly it seems the powers that be focused on the private sector first and now getting to the gov employees (and contracted). First the call from my immediate census boss saying we are to purchase hand sanitizer (yeah, I know) and list it on our time/expense for reimbursement. Then the call came from above (aka the regional office) that we are no longer to go up to the door just gather what info we can by "observation" basically verifying the data I was paid to collect last summer, no more door knocking etc.

BTW if anyone is looking for the makings of your own hand sanitizer but can't find isopropyl alcohol (cleaned out even on line) I found plenty after some heavy searching at, believe it or not, Dollar General. You can use the 70% rubbing alcohol but really want the 91% Iso and crazy as it sounds, they carry it. I had looked everywhere, thought for sure at my farm supply, (dairy farmers use tons of the stuff) everywhere sold out. I was able to order the glycol, the other main ingredient I needed, online at least, should arrive tomorrow. I usually keep sanitizer on hand anyway because I have to be more careful about infections etc. now because of health issues and an aging DH but I don't think it's going to be able to find it in the stores for a while so I'm just making my own again like I used to when I was first on the chemo drugs and had zero immunity. Anyway, my homemade stuff works better anyway.

How long after chemo did it take for your immune system to get back to normal (if it has)? That's where I am now. Went back on Turmeric, which is supposed to help, 'til they decide to start more chemo.

 

[bobbi-j]

Pancake seeds?

Sometimes I think faster than I and it all runs together. However, I did buy some flour yesterday, so yes - I did buy some pancake seeds!

 

[kwhites634]

Sometimes I think faster than I and it all runs together. However, I did buy some flour yesterday, so yes - I did buy some pancake seeds!