OLD SCHOOL - - - OUR IMMUNE SYSTEM - -

Ace Trade Mark hand operated hair trimmer/cutter. 

My hair was cut during the late 1940's by my mother or father using this tool. It worked fine, but the person cutting the hair needed to keep them moving back and forth through the hair on each pass. If he/she stopped too early, the cutter would grab and pull out the hair. It was another skill set. 

The first or second time I jumped taught both of them to "keep 'er moving" through each pass. They worked quite well. 

My first trip to the barber must have been around the 5 year old mark. I did just fine and never had to rely on my folks for another mechanical haircut. But this hair cutter earned its keep in the family in those earlier years. 

This was one of the family treasures we have rediscovered over the past two months of clean-out. I could not resist brushing out the teeth with a small paint brush and adding a few drops of gun oil to the action. They work as well today as they did over 70 years ago. 

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FIRE CIDER BATCH 2 BOTTLED THIS WEEKEND - BATCH 3 ON THE COOK

Jar placed on its side for photo.

This immune-boosting mix works in my opinion. There are spin-offs of this recipe  that are easily found on the net.

All ingredients long-regarded as immune-boosters. All from the fresh fruit and veggie isle at local markets.

Taken in a cup of hot tea and honey. Read up on this.

In the months and years ahead, one of the very best take-aways from C19 is the health of our immune systems. How you eat and take care of that system will pay dividends as flu and viruses rolle through our lands. 

There are many lessons in plain sight. Question, learn, apply and adapt. What will you need on hand for the next go-around? And a next go-around is already promised in the fine print.

Questions for you.

Do you know anyone who has had difficulty breathing and a horrible cough over the past 7 months? They did not know what they had? Doctors did not know either?  Never a fever!

Some cases a little more serious than others? Some whose symptoms continued into months and were given horse-pill size antibiotics, steroid shots, cough meds, inhalers, and ultimately, chest X-Rays. Still, no conclusive diagnoses?

Ask around. It is very possible C19 has been around for awhile and a number of folks have already gone though the comings and goings of this virus.

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BACK SOON TO "THE NEW NORMAL"

I see "the new normal" being preached and teaching us that the days of old are over forever. Possibly. Much like our last president telling the nation we were no longer great and to deal with it. Waving the white flag.

I believe we will be returning to going back to work amongst the nay-sayers that want to keep the peeps at home forever for their own sake. The American spirit will win; we will be back out and about working and living; in the new normal.

CDC 040820- Exposed C19 folk can return to work.

IT'S WHATS FOR LUNCH

Go ahead, turn down a out-of-the-oven piece torn off, buttered and set in front of you. Not on your best day.

5 minute Artisan Bread

Just read and make it. Justify as a survival skill. 

Sent from a friend Thursday morning. He has been practicing while home and each photo and loaf are improving.





MORE THINGS TO PUT ON OUR LIST OF CONCERNS; IF TRUE

Nevada Sightings 

From the Moon 

If these are real, then C19 is just a walk in the park on our list of concerns.

I do like the moon one. Shadows and all. 

Given our technology, someone some where knows what on the dark side of the moon and the glowing cigar shapes. I bet that cigar has a name just like every storm coming up the east coast does now. 
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In some far off rusted container arrayed with antenna and gadgets, Bruce says to Clarice; "I see cigar Sam is on the move again."

"Calendar and time have predicted this, just not where" said Clarice. 

They sat, watched, photographed and logged Sam's arrival. Clarice set to immediately wash the photograph for public viewing. The public is not yet ready to see the clear portals or center cluster arrays."
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Could also be a couple kids years ahead in their CGI home computing skills. If so, I wish they would invite me over for hot chocolate and some storytelling. Their secret is secure with me.

Don't think I cannot go down this rabbit hole at the drop of a hat. 

I hope to live long enough to know truths here, regardless.

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Days and weeks now under C19. Lost count. 


We are keeping busy house cleaning, stem to stern. Throw throw and throw more. Sad that Good Will, local library and garbage dump are not open for the good stuff during this shut down. We are resolved to much of what we have saved, now into the dumpster. Life lessons here.


Today, the only way to clean out properly is throw away. All of these little things!?


Hints of opening up businesses and an economy early May. Not really an option as the long term down turn of shutting down the economy hurts more and lasts longer than than a passing virus. 

Troubling that some voices now warn of a second wave. Floating those ideas to see if there is any push back. Nope!! A grand scheme to keep all Americans very afraid and under the thumb of government control. 

Take care of you and yours. Every detail. Plan for more bumps in the roads ahead.

Never wave the white flag and never get on the government buses. Never!!

Thanks for the visit.

  

 

CONCORD NH MONDAY MID MORNING 060420

Back roads road trip to "SAMS". Swung through Concord Hospital and found Covid-19 screening tents empty. Light breeze moving the hanging tent doors. Four workerfolk inside. 

My current understanding is that one needs paper work from a doctor to get into a screening tent. 

There were more construction workers and landscapers working the hospital property than the movements of patients and or support/medical staff. Parking lots at 10% capacity. Skilled labor is essential and these folk are working.

Main hospital parking lot with three Covid-19 tents at the ready. 

Other Covid-19 test spots closing this day due to lack of need. Although they do have to add a side-note of lack of sufficient PPE equipment. What to believe? 

Dartmouth Hitchcock just a block away screening tents with flaps moving in the morning breezes, too, appeared to be empty like the parking lots. Two tents here. 

Does it mean anything? Don't know. Curious, though.

Downtown Concord NH looked much like a ghost town at 09:30. On any given normal weekday, this main street is a hustle-bustle of delivery trucks parked in the middle lanes, parking spots full and traffic on the move.

So what? Downtowns are quiet across the nation. 

Concord is not different other than to my wife and I having to see it for ourselves. (Yea, I can hear the stay-home stay home for crying out loud!! My guess that stay-at-home will be a mandate within days). We are out because we cannot believe the news media anymore. And we were out because we still can be.

Yep, we the get the seriousness of the virus. No doubt. No joke. The coming economic downturn, ever-so popular bell curve and hints of food shortages suggest our tomorrows of norms are soon DOA. The political cures for this virus will most likely be worse than the virus and longer-lasting.

SAM's was easy, normal, orderly one-way shopping routine other than masks and lots of disinfectants. Cooked chickens for take out. Plenty of fruits, vegetables and breads. Plenty of stock with some holes. Frozen food choices, too.

Folks improperly wearing masks everywhere. Adjusted and placed over the mouth only. Nose bands improperly adjusted. Many fine homemade masks doing a better job.

Yep, a face mask option.

Part of our coping is a get-out-of-the-house road trip. Getting out of the house while we still can will give us a window memory of the way life use to be. So much we have taken for granted living in the "......or Die State."

Old folks have already lived wars and freedom. We know deep in the heart of hearts what is at stake. 

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HF Ham Radio listening to some of the south eastern states chatter.  

Peaks on the waterfall visually show real time voice activity. Tune and listen. Hard to get into a chat so just listening to folks through out the day fills time and sheds light into other talking of the Rona. Most all with similar stuck at home stories. No one crazy, just filling time. 

Large spike right center indicates very strong watt out put from calling station. 

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Chicken Little is telling us "the sky is falling, the sky is falling."

Keep your knees bent and for goodness sake, get out and get what you still can right now. Rice, noodles, canned goods, band aids and beer. Long long line for food in Florida (if true) now. Get out, get it, put it in. You will regret not doing so. 

Over the counter meds available yesterday, rationed today.
 

Thank you for the visit.

 

  

LEVER ACTION 30-30 - - -PEOPLE ARE GETTING "WINKY EYED" - - - - - - - - THE TRUTH AND HOW IT IS DELIVERED

Some talk of an old gal with a checkered past this post...an early 1964 Winchester Model 94, lever action 30-30. 

I first heard of her from a friend of a friend.

When she was first put in my hands for a look see, she stuck like glue from the years of cosmoline doing its job. My hands peeled on and off at every grab. 

Some rust, some bluing peeling and a wood stock in much need of love. Maybe, just maybe she was a.....had never been shot. 

To me, this was a chunk of gold found at the bottom of a small freshwater stream. How much I asked. "A hundred bucks," he said. 

"Let me shoot it and if all works fine, it is a deal." 

After, as I quickly walked away, to myself I kept saying "a hundred bucks----a hundred bucks!"

Later that day, some oil was applied to smooth the lever action. The inside of the barrel cleaned to shiny. No rust. Lands and grooves appeared as good as the day she left the shelf. If I ever wondered about why gun manufacturers apply cosmoline to new rifles, I will doubt no more. It works in protecting all of the metal parts against the elements while in storage.

My stomach fluttered as I inserted the first 30-30 round into the magazine tube and chambered it into the breach with a lever-down and a lever-up action. Hammer cocking in the action. I held her level at my waist and squeezed the trigger. 

A crisp bark with noticeable recoil. I knew then she will always have to be held close and tight.

The next several rounds were pushed through into the magazine tube, chambered and fired from a sitting bench rest. Thirty yards dead on.   Some seat of the pants elevation adjustments for longer distances. 

Ten rounds in all. My shoulder reported her recoil with some soreness. That notwithstanding, from that moment forward, this old gal would forever be by my side. She was home. And she will still be here when I leave. Then in another good home.

The following week found her on the bench. I watched several you tube videos on tearing her down, cleaning, oiling and putting her back together.

The wood stock was sanded and loved with coats of stain and oil. Each coat a good soak, wiping, sanding and then another coat. 

The newly assembled rifle in my hands felt like I was holding my very own part of American history. This model and this gun that will never ever be built again. 

She is irreplaceable now. 

If her history, beauty and lines are not enough to warm the heart at ever look and embrace, her performance, in good times and in times of trouble, equally match her beauty.

Carrying mid-gun, the Winchester moves easily though the brush. I worry not of dragging her though the brush nor resting her against a tree. She raises to the shoulder with iron sights easily on target. Resting against a tree helps with the aim small, miss small.

The 30-30 cartridge is a hunting cartridge. 170 grains of powder and an expanding bullet upon contact leaves a wound channel best not described.  The hunting cartridge is designed to bring down an animal in one shot with little to no suffering. A good aim and rightly placed shot, the animal falls where it stood. 

The western movies showing these rounds bounce off of corners of wooden buildings is all Hollywood. I do not ever remember seeing any movie ever showing the real violence of one of these rounds. Never. 

But more than anything to me, she is art. Art in the viewing and art in mechanical action. She is art in the shooting and plinking. She is art in the act of hunting if needed and for self-defense as in the days of old. She carries 5 cartridges, 6 if one is chambered. Whatever the job, she will have to get it done in a first go-around.

 

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KEEP READING

 

By the time I write and you read this, new sets of rules will be in place. Changing daily to hourly now.

One way traffic inside Walmart now. Only 5 people allowed for every 1000 sq feet. There must be math on this. Ummmm, each person get 200 sq feet. Ten foot by 20 foot. Am I required to wear a mask, gloves, wear red and walk in a straight line? (At posting time all of the rules are further expanded)

Our local chain market has shoppers and baskets lined up single-file waiting to get in check-out line with in the 6' safety limit. Lines waiting to get into lines now blocks shopping isles all in the name of a safe distance. The market has sacrificed quick, safe, efficient shopping for jump-through-your-ass rules.
BUT MEDIA PROOF THAT GREAT CARE IS NOW BEING USED FOR ALL OF OUR OWN SAFETY.

Institute new practices fine, but do not FU what works in the process. The rule makers have little concept of the extra hardships put on families shopping with small children, an alone parent with children or the extra in store travel and standing for the elderly. Not impossible, but the extra time inside a closed environment with lots of people increases the sharing of the Rona.

Upside for us is other mom and pop stores with in 15 minutes. Their businesses will increase this day forward as shoppers who can avoid long lines will and shop at the smaller markets.

One of the reasons peppers prep is to be able to avoid these kinds of rules that slow down commerce and force people to group and wait wait wait. Long lines for basics are here now and may get worse. The other big problem is it is these kind of practices may make people "winky-eyed." 

Do not be surprised by violence. Do not be surprised by long lines everywhere. 

Do not be surprised at long lines for food distribution. 

Do not be surprised that every American will need to be carrying official papers to move outside of the home by month's end.

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Now suggested we all wear masks outside when out and about. Folks not doing that may be shunned and probably verbally corrected by those who know better.

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Banking now only by drive through. We witnessed a gal several days ago so dumbfounded and discombobulated that she stopped the drive through line for 15 minutes. Getting in and out of her car. Talking with the drive-through attendant. Confused. Did not have what was required and so forth. AND for some reason, no one drove around to the extra drive through lane. We did and were in and out while the lady performed in the lane next to us.

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THE TRUTH AND HOW IT IS DELIVERED

My opinion. My belief. Two weeks now hard at home for us. Why? This is why!!
Read it!!! Act accordingly. 

"Doubling every 3 days and has done so 6 times...."

Ask for help if you need it. Give help if you can. Step back, slow down and be smart in the daily processes of living and loving. 

Thanks as always for the visit.  
 

"AND THE BEAT GOES ON....14 DAYS QUARANTINE COMPLETED IN PERU

......HISTORY HAS TURNED A PAGE....uh...huh..."

We put up with Sonny just to watch Cher. A looker.

We are living through a few pages being turned yesterday, today and many more tomorrows. RONA...there is no other news.....Well, there is the onslaught of everyone a hero and all of that.............

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 An visual example of telling businesses and folk they are non essential.

Tearing down the old, installing the new. One structure at a time

In an out of the way nook, lineman are practicing distancing in their everyday offices. Linemen "linemenning"!!

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040220 

What day is this now for being self-quarantining? The bigger question lies in the talk of months rather than days or weeks ahead. Now ,I hear that hope is we will be recovering by June.

From The Daily Mail Online. "Food banks near Disneyland....40 fold increase in people asking for help.."

Is this another wave we need to be concerned about. I ask myself, is this too just over the horizon. How many days before this is a story in all 50 states. We do not bounce back from this one. Not from major food shortages. Not from the lack of available food to feed yourself and your family.

This morning, our local major food market chain announced they are limiting folks inside their chain stores. Distancing the reason. The shopping carts will be disinfected by an employee. We saw that yesterday at SAM's Club. Each cart's push handle was wet with spray disinfectant. An employee pointed us to carts ready to use for shopping. 

Dinner conversation tonight. "This is what we have been planning for." A matter of fact comment from her after a home made dinner from the fridge and pantry. "We are in THE AFTER" I said. 

These are the days that teach of the one you love after all these years is also your very best friend. 

A few friends check in daily. An older couple than us touch base too. Family check in and we are getting a daily dose of how family and friends are working their self defined quarantines.

HAM radio VHF contact up north via a repeater. Just chatting. 

New HF radio and antenna up and running, but the leaning curve is steeper than vertical. 

Every one thing I learn brings on a half dozen other questions. I have picked up chatter from south eastern states, Portugal and Venezuela. I have yet to make contact for reasons I am still searching. 

Atmospheric conditions dictate high frequency communications. Add a thing or two I do not know about my antenna set up and it is a work in progress.

Reading and asking you tube video from HAM's who cover just about everything under the sun is very helpful. If only most of them would just get to the teaching. 

For all of their knowledge, they kill the lessons with over my head jibber jabber and self importance. Why can they not see that?

The good stuff though I will watch several times.

 

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ITCHY BOOTS COMPLETES 14 DAYS QUARANTINE IN PERU. 

Her problems are far from over.

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Tired this evening.  A mental tired more than physical.

But if you eat the elephant one bite at a time, it can be more manageable. 

Thanks for another visit. 

GLASSING THE OPEN FIELDS -- RONA A TWINKLE IN SOME BATS EYE

Glassing the open fields does not put us behind fortifications this day. The serenity of the visual calm and quiet stirs mixed feelings. 

Signals from the hills far away still tell of the rising tide. It is still coming and everyone will be touched. 

According to police reports, folks coming north are finding empty vacation cabins in the lakes region and moving in. Squatting. Worrisome and opens the door of what else is coming and what is that going to look like? 

We have talked of times like this.

Meat loaf, corn, carrots, mashed potatoes soaked in a little gravy.

Sunday was a stress day for me and mostly self-induced. Ducks not in a row, low clouds, rain, drizzle, damp cold. Northwest coastal weather. The kind of weather that sends young couples, who have moved to the excitement of Seattle, back to family in less than a year's time.

Topper was son's birthday and we chose not to hug. Birthday party 2.0 later in the weeks/months ahead. 

We delivered a small, just out-of-the oven prime rib for him and his gal, chocolate cup cakes and a couple gifts. Good heart gifts. Emotions surfaced that we could not cement with holding family close. Difficult, but not impossible. 

The heart just ached that day for all of us. But in a world turned up-side down, we were not the only folk with heartache. We move on. We always move on.

Her and I had nothing at home waiting as dinner. We were not going to cook. We decided to stop in at our local market and pick up some wings and a couple meatloaf dinners. She is a fan of the locally prepared meatloaf meals. Four meals for two cents over $15. 

A half-hour before closing at the market. Quiet and noticeably clean. It felt clean. The walk in and the surrounding aisles and people; fresh; bright. Nothing out of order, floors bright and displays neat and tidy. The few customers and staff were practicing some distancing, polite, helpful and getting it done. Not sure what other markets look like around the country, but ours has the whole package together working daily in tough times. We thank them over and over and it all helps. 

Dinner was on the table, piping hot from the microwave as quickly as we turned up the heat and took off our jackets.

There is still order in the world. Simplicity reigns.

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4 hour wait crossing from Alabama into Florida. Check points.

My bet is this is a new normal of crossing state borders and will be common a week from now.

 "Well sonny, I can remember the day when we could cross this whole country top to bottom and side to side with only the welcome signs to and from each state................." said the old man.

Add Texas to stopping and checking all of their borders as of Tuesday. 

Coast to coast to coast on a Road King, 2005.

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Not proud of filling this dumpster. Even less proud that I was still throwing and tossing when the fellow came to pick it up. 

We had it for a month. Paid up front. Initially, I thought we might had wasted our money.  Not so much.

Flat surfaces have become a problem. I fill them with stuff. Stuff not put away. Stuff I think I will need, use or add to another stuff to make a larger stuff. 

Found stuff I never knew I had. Found stuff I had forgotten about 10 years ago. Say what you will, I/we had stuff. 

There are more clean flat spaces now. Feels open and good. 

I set down a roll of electrical tape and a screw driver a few minutes ago on one of the clean flat surfaces by the chop saw. I will get to putting it away next time I go downstairs. I promise.

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OLD BRISKET FROM THE FREEZER

We purchased this roast when the 'Rona was just a twinkle is some bat's eye in a wild food market in a land far far away.

It has been passed over a dozen times for other freezer foods. To the point where it appeared that it was never going to make it to the dinner table. That would have been a mistake. 

 

290 degrees F for five hours. Some garlic salt, olive oil and several sliced onions on top. Always cooked fat side up.

Glass pan covered with tin foil. Set it and forget it. 

A cup of left over beef broth to stir up the dregs. Sliced against the grain till it started to fall apart. 

Pulled apart when plated, a few potatoes added and several spoons full of broth. 

The only thing missing was home made bread for additional soaking. Next time. 

This is comfort food to the Nth degree. 

Dinner for two old folk x2. 

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The passing of west coastal rain and filled in behind with cloudy and warmer. Attitude better.

Headlines say that April is cancelled and from snippets around the world, that fracking bell curve will be peaking mid-month. Maybe, just maybe May will be a month of positive up-ticks. 

Chances are we all will come to a point of "F===it, we are getting on with getting on." Eventually the survivors will be the story. Time will tell as it always does.

Long days of housework cleaning have given into a day off. Her wants to again get out of the house. A brief list was made over breakfast. I do want to do some photography. Recording of the times and all of that. 

We plan to drive back roads north to one of our favorite stores and then circling clock wise as far south as the skirts of Manchester, then back home. The shopping we would like to do will be dictated by people out and about; or not. Mostly a road trip and enjoying the signs of Spring.

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Downtown Dallas 33120

 

The story in the above photo is the absence of traffic. 
Photo taken by her nephew in his Cessna 210

 April one today. Keep your knees bent. 

Thanks for the visit.

14 DAYS QUARANTINE COMPLETED 32920 --CELL PHONE TRACKING - -LOCKED DOWN IN PERU

The last pre-dawn snow fall for the next 8 months.

Before daybreak of recent snowfall. Samsung S7 never ceases to amaze me in the quality of a quick photo. In this case, the cell phone camera captures the morning view of snowfall, from outdoor garage lights, wonderfully. 

Seniors can shop early in some local markets. "O" dark thirty the other morning found a dozen oldsters lined up for doors to open. Many with gloves and masks and a few very worried about the 6' spacing. No time to talk and some masked couples walking and shopping as if the Cvirus was chasing them through the store. Getting in their space produced a kind of body language one might expect reacting to displaying large open sores. Apparently, this is their first rodeo!!

Staff were busy, polite and very helpful.   Other staff were in wipe-down mode. 

The store was well re-stocked with some items now rationed. The checkout lady took my extra cans of diced tomatoes and tomato paste.

Flour on the shelves, but rationed. Paper product rack filled but now rationed to one each of most items. No pork to speak of. Some chicken whole and pieces. Beef very expensive. Plenty of bologna, hot dogs, eggs, cheese and fresh fruits and veggies. Some of the frozen bays replenished. 

Her says she needs to get out of the house. Stories now surfacing of local government folk grabbing power to tell people to stay home or some kind of else may happen. The longer all of this goes on, the more convinced this is a full on power grab and will continue through elections is some fashion. Will continue into the years ahead some say.

Every state surrounding NH is on lock-down. Then, "just like that," only essential workers announced for us this past week. 

My bet this morning; 39 days will not be long enough. Suggestions:
Make sure you and yours can completely isolate for months. Think national shut down and quarantine. Think Martial Law. I bet there are New Yorkers telling themselves, if only we had left 2 weeks ago. If only!! Pay attention: learn: act. Or not!  
We are all on our own and the sooner that sinks in and we act on taking care of ourselves, the better each will be. Helping where and when we can without the need to be on headline news.

I have thought that all of this was a test. Just how might all of us act including government. Then the big one. The REAL AFTER. 

But this morning, I am thinking that this is the event we have been talking about and, in some sense or another, planned for. I do not think we are ever coming back to the good old days; EVER. Like it or not, irrelevant.

**CELL PHONE TRACKING 

Technology here provides some excellent insights. So this kind of tracking technology exists and let there be no mistake, if you have a cell phone on you, "someone somewhere" knows where you have been, where you are and probably much much more. The only future solution to this kind of invasion is to go cell phone free. If you drive a new car, that will not solve your private traveling wishes.

**YOUR NEIGHBORS ARE BEING ENCOURAGED TO WATCH YOU AND REPORT TO THE AUTHORITIES.

Talk about never ever coming back to the good old days

Does this cause you any alarm at all in The After?

**LOCKED DOWN IN PERU

I have been following this gal and her around-the-world ride on a motorcycle. She does a very good job with video and sharing her trip in real time. Looks like she is now locked down like the rest of us. Check out some of her video. You might become a fan.

**FROM 90 MILES....AN END AND A BEGINNING

A most wonderful story and read. Good heart stuff.

In the later parts of our lives, I have joked with her that just maybe the end will be living to 105 and the joke will be on us. 

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I am happiest with the TV off. 

Hunkered down in chores. A million little things. Homemade soups for comfort food. A good night's sleep helpful. More serious about staying away from other peeps. The outside weather has been wonderful the past few days. Her and I even saw children outside playing in their yards. Who knew?

"Cancel Christmas, kids." A perspective from folk closer to the center of all of this. Stay tuned.

Thanks for the visit.

READY FOR "COVID-33" IN THE AFTER - - WEEK 2 C#19 QUARANTINE 032420

Full Hazmat Shopping. Photo originated somewhere on FB last week.

The store looks fairly well stocked in this photo. I am guessing this is an older gentleman. He appears to be ready for "Covid-33."

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Entering week #2 of quarantine, social distancing and living in The After. 

The president indicated in last night's speech that the cure should not be worse than the virus. Something to that effect. Sounds like common sense. Gives me some hope that we will not all go too far down the rabbit hole, but I would not bet on it. 

Made some chicken salad this morning from a can of chicken breast, mayo, chopped red onion and a big spoon full of home made zucchini relish. A splash of black pepper and then in the fridge till lunch. Stand alone meal for two, too. 

Frozen chicken strips out of the freezer and on the thaw for dinner. And so it goes. Some food from storage and some from the freezer. 

Up at 04:00 which is the norm here. We both have 8 hours of sleep and instead of staying in bed, we are up checking blogs and enjoying talking of current events. Good conversations and a wonderful way to start out a day.

Heavy wet snow starting mid-afternoon giving us the morning for any last minute outdoor chores. Plenty to still do as we are steeped in spring cleaning. 

Not ones for having nothing to do. There is always something to do around a home. Always.

Two cords of wood on order and filling the oil tanks. In keeping with this time of the season prepping for the coming winter. Once delivered, we can check off these two "must do" items. 

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A daily shot of Fire Cider, spoonful of honey and cup of hot tea.

Will go to three teas mixed like this if and when flu symptoms appear. Until then, once a day, more for learning and testing than anything else. I want to make sure my system can cope and so far all is fine. It is made from all natural spices and ingredients. "You could look it up."

I woke this morning and for the first time (in a long time) was not stuffed up from mild allergies due to dust, etc. Old old time remedies, working with herbs said to aid improving the immune system and giving these mix of spices a try, will not hurt me. I am of the opinion it works.

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C19 or SNOW FALL - WE ARE HOMEBOUND 32420

Makes no difference this day that C19 or 7" of fresh wet snow on the ground: we are not going anywhere. Snow blower has been removed and it will be a cold cold day in New Hampshire before I put it back on. 

 

Wood stove constant at 500 degree F, blog checking on the temperature of the world and a small roasted chicken planned for dinner. 

 

Her and I enjoying each other's company and visiting with family and friends. 

 

Tomorrow is a new day.

 

Thanks for the visit. This is post #200 and goes to press w/o fanfare.

 

 

Morning sun and the trees are shedding the wet snow.