Daily Notes- March 23

                                   

Pandemic Sugar Supplies.  In additional to wiping down all surfaces, Word Search puzzles, Suduko puzzles, planting seeds, cutting back dead stems, raking perennial beds, repotting plants and Law and Order.  G likes Sweet and I like Salty.  My Salty is down to zero right now.  The oversalted soup sort of tamped it down.

We are staying busy and staying at home.  The count went from 70 to 89 with the virus last night.  One person has recovered. Nothing like other States but we have only 1.2 million people in the entire vast State of Maine and most of them are old and living in Senior Living Communities clustered around our larger cities and hospitals. Sort of like being on a Cruise for 365 days a year. With that level of contagion possible also.  Residents are confined to their rooms- no dining together or lectures or cocktails.  They do get copies of word puzzles each morning.

I called in my two prescriptions and was notified by the recorded voice that they are VERY busy and will TRY to get to MY prescriptions TOMORROW.  But maybe NOT.  Makes me feel all warm and cozy.  One is an inhaler and the other is tiny pills that need to be counted into a bottle.  Still a problem for most Mainers to get toilet paper so family owned take out food places are giving you a complimentary roll with each order.  Everyone is enjoying that.

I potted up more seeds yesterday and made sure everyone was moist and happy.  G cut back the peony stems we left up- We had other concerns in the Fall with Riley and didn't get to the Fall Cleanup chores other than the leaf blowing.  I like to rake leaves but G likes the very noisy leaf blower as did all the service providers hired by all of our neighbors.  The leaf blowers were a constant from morning until late in the evenings.  Someday we'll be hiring people to do things. But not yet.

I did almost all of the easy Suduko puzzles in my book.  They were not easy..  So I am not even attempting the medium and hard ones.  I did all the easy puzzles on the right hand pages of the book and now have to go back and do the ones on the left hand pages.  I don't like the left hand pages. This morning's puzzle is only 30% filled in.  So I checked out the internet and found a do it yourself fruit fly trap and made it from a jar filled with white vinegar and dish soap, covered with plastic wrap and then rubber banded to jar and holes poked into top.  Now we are waiting for the arrival of the pest fruit flies.  Actually, here in our house its dirt gnats.  They are drawn to G's candy filled yogurt each morning and the jelly on his bagels.

Well, as you can read--Life here is not all that thrilling.  I am going down to the sewing room to pick litter off the carpet and to stuff all the scrap cloth back into the bags.  I have been thinking of doing some eco printing but find reasons not to do it each and every day, so far.  I have also considering baking bread. I have not done that, either.  It just doesn't seem necessary.