How are you dealing with Covid-19 (Novel Coronavirus) ?

[Sunshine]

Sunshine I hate to tell you but succulents are extremely addictive. Be prepared for them to take over your home! My neice likes them and she lives in a tiny apartment in southern CA. The succulents take up most the space, but she keeps buying more and more all the time! At some point I’m expecting her and her husband to move to the balcony so there is plenty of room for her succulents!!

We built a small greenhouse last year to house my addiction through the winter. Now we have to add more shelves as I keep collecting more and more. I just can't stop!!

 

[addy1]

H Addy. There is a farmers market down the street from us every Wednesday. In the past we would go almost every week. This year it moved even closer to us but when I see the people waiting to go in and the social distancing involved I don’t even want to go. So sad

It is the market where we used to sale our honey, now we have a lady that sells cookies bread etc, she has a small display of our honey on her table. She sales a bit, we have made in two months what we normally would make in a day. We pay her a percentage, also pay part of the market fee, so a win for her.

We go every wednesday, before the market opens, to add honey to her stock, if she sold any. That is when I buy veggies, the customers are not there yet, so it is like private shopping. They have hand wash stations, everybody must wash as they walk in. They also limit the amount of customers in the market to ten.

I won't wait in a line, don't want that much exposure to people. We are still and will keep being high isolated.

 

[Lisak1]

So I actually hired someone to do construction for our company today

That's one - some18 million to go and rising daily.

Actually, reading, researching, talking to others (who agree or not), educating myself, keeping abreast of the information that I'm able to find on my own instead of viewing through the media filters... those are all ways that I deal with stressful situations. So that IS how I'm dealing with Covid-19. Figuring out what's real, what's hype, who's benefiting and who's being hurt. It's going to take a generation or more to recover from this - if we ever do, that is. There are plenty of people who would love to see America never be the same again. "Never let a good crisis go to waste" as we like to say in Chicago. I see Mayor Lightfoot was exposed to Covid. Got tested the same day - she's all good. Says she will follow the health department protocol, but she won't quarantine. So once again, breaking her own rules. I guess she still hasn't been "educated into compliance".

But I get it - it's more comfortable to think of everyone enjoying their time at home, doing jigsaw puzzles and baking bread and not consider the fallout. Unfortunately for me, I work with families who have lost jobs and will soon lose their homes, they can't pay their bills or buy groceries to feed their kids and are being forced to figure out how government aid works for the first time in their lives. Even if they have jobs, they can't figure out how they're supposed to go to work when their kids aren't in school, so that's great. And working in a school system it's inevitable that we will be in the next wave - if people aren't paying their taxes there won't be any money to keep schools open. But hey - we'll all be safer at home anyway. Just ask the Chicago Teacher's Union, who all took to the streets to protest how unsafe it would be to open schools. Go back and see what they were striking for last year - more "wrap around services" for at risk students. Who are now at home, unable to receive the services they so desperately need.

I could tell you plenty about how this has affected my own family but that cuts pretty close to the bone. Suffice it to say I have five grown children with families of their own and not one of them has gone unscathed. Job losses, deaths, big celebrations missed, lonely elderly parents who are struggling with depression... And if you're a parent you know every pain your child experiences is compounded in your own heart.

I'll stay off your thread @CometKeith . I'll stick to ponds.

 

[Burd]

the Next few Covids, I should have my house all remodeled. Like no one is at the restaurants, we walk rite in. I hope it stays that way. Paranoid people, please stay home. Lol

 

[Sunshine]

We just got back from eating in a restaurant, It was quite busy. No waiting though. They put tall dividers between booths. Which I love. I really never liked sitting that close to people before Covid. Kids always turning around starring at you, loud people talking, people using the booth as a hanger for their coats. Yep, I am loving the dividers!

 

[CometKeith]

That's one - some18 million to go and rising daily.

Actually, reading, researching, talking to others (who agree or not), educating myself, keeping abreast of the information that I'm able to find on my own instead of viewing through the media filters... those are all ways that I deal with stressful situations. So that IS how I'm dealing with Covid-19. Figuring out what's real, what's hype, who's benefiting and who's being hurt. It's going to take a generation or more to recover from this - if we ever do, that is. There are plenty of people who would love to see America never be the same again. "Never let a good crisis go to waste" as we like to say in Chicago. I see Mayor Lightfoot was exposed to Covid. Got tested the same day - she's all good. Says she will follow the health department protocol, but she won't quarantine. So once again, breaking her own rules. I guess she still hasn't been "educated into compliance".

But I get it - it's more comfortable to think of everyone enjoying their time at home, doing jigsaw puzzles and baking bread and not consider the fallout. Unfortunately for me, I work with families who have lost jobs and will soon lose their homes, they can't pay their bills or buy groceries to feed their kids and are being forced to figure out how government aid works for the first time in their lives. Even if they have jobs, they can't figure out how they're supposed to go to work when their kids aren't in school, so that's great. And working in a school system it's inevitable that we will be in the next wave - if people aren't paying their taxes there won't be any money to keep schools open. But hey - we'll all be safer at home anyway. Just ask the Chicago Teacher's Union, who all took to the streets to protest how unsafe it would be to open schools. Go back and see what they were striking for last year - more "wrap around services" for at risk students. Who are now at home, unable to receive the services they so desperately need.

I could tell you plenty about how this has affected my own family but that cuts pretty close to the bone. Suffice it to say I have five grown children with families of their own and not one of them has gone unscathed. Job losses, deaths, big celebrations missed, lonely elderly parents who are struggling with depression... And if you're a parent you know every pain your child experiences is compounded in your own heart.

I'll stay off your thread @CometKeith . I'll stick to ponds.

Hi Lisa. I hope you were not offended by my remarks. I tried to say it in the nicest way possible. You have given me wonderful advice about my pond and I really appreciate it. It’s just the intent of this thread was for personal stories. I’m sure you could start another thread about covid with a focus on what the government is doing. If people like debating the pros and cons of what the current rules, regulations, etc. are they could go there. There are probably over 1000 threads on either why my fish is sick or why there is algae in my pond. Why can’t there be more than one thread about covid since it’s such an important topic? Obviously you and others like discussing the government‘s role in this once in a century pandemic so it makes sense there should be another place to discuss it. Unfortunately it has become very political to discuss how our government is handling the response to the disease, but we can’t change that. Thank you for your understanding. Keith

 

[addy1]

That is one reason we don't want politics in the pond forum, people have very strong opinions on those subjects. I belong to two other forums, non pond, they have covid threads, a face book group (marina) has a covid thread. All tend to get into non pleasant discussions, from conspiracy to government takeover theories. To the right to not wear masks to other saying you should etc etc etc.

We prefer this stay in the line of what are you doing today tomorrow maybe even next year to handle this.

We live in different states that have different issues, different governors, different rules. That won't change unless we had a national mandate.

So back on subject. Use this thread as Keith intended it, state what you are doing today, tomorrow, next year to handle this mess. If another thread is started about all the other issues, it will still need to stay calm, polite, respectful of others and their opinions.

I spent the day, yesterday, adding some aftermarket stuff to my car. Today, bee work, tomorrow, maybe even pull some weeds. Isolated and safe at this moment. We do need to break down and go to a store again, been two months, supplies getting a bit low at the home range. We double mask, wear googles, strip clean when we get back in the car, clean again after putting food away.

 

[Tula]

One of my favorite plant farms is having a 20 % off sale this week end. We're going to look for plants / shrubs that are native and best suited to planting on a hill side. This should keep us busy and away from the news, with a little project

 

[reefsr]

Just got in an email the other day from our school district's superintendent saying he recommends ALL schools in the district to go back to full virtual classes. This will be fun.

 

[addy1]

Well we worked the bees, adding mite treatments, of course one of those little suckers stung the very tip of my left thumb. That HURTS! Working with formic acid could not even do anything except say OUCH!

 

[Tula]

I will take pictures of the hillside once we plant what we bought today. Just home and it is heating up again outside......need to cool down a bit

 

[addy1]

Washed/vacuumed both cars today, trying to get the tree sap off honey's camaro, some came off some still there, need to try something else.

 

[mrsclem]

We are redoing the drains on the outside after Tuesdays storm. Our development was cut off most of Tuesday as both access roads were flooded or blocked by trees. Added 25 feet to the downspout drain that was already100'. It ended right at my blueberry bushes and then went to pond area. Front drain I put in last year kept driveway from flooding the house but the sidewalk was under water and it was deep enough to go over the block foundation. Installing 20' of channel drain tomorrow. Ponds got a full water change!

 

[Tula]

Wow @mrsclem , sounds like you really got drenched !!!

Hubby started planting some of the new stuff we bought, but it was too darn hot for me.

Sadly, I found a dead bird in the pond This is the first time this has ever happened . I wanted to get the wide weave 5 inch net, but had to settle for the 4 inch as it's what was available this Spring. I wonder if this contributed, I just don't know. I've seen squirrels and chip munks wiggle through the net to the water's edge. This poor bird was just floating among the lily pads

 

[addy1]

Mine is 4 inch weave, I would not think it was the net. I have watched owls make it through the weave when they goofed and got under it. Even watched a green heron get through.