D&D and the rising pandemic

[Zardnaar]

I haven’t really been a brand stickler since this started, but sometimes...

I managed to score some dry red beans for the first time this year. Mom said, “Great! Are they Camillias?” I gave her a rather dry expression in response.

OTOH, when Campari tomatoes reappeared at the grocery for the first time in weeks, I bought an extra container.

But stuff like Mom’s favorite pickled turnips? No, not driving across town to buy those, sorry. Maybe in August.

I've bought some generics. Not so much due to price but more to find out what I'm willing to eat.

Not sure what's going to be available in a few months. Already seeing some things disappear. Even if it can be produced, can it be transported and can people afford to buy it to make transporting it viable.

And the do you really want to go to the supermarket factor.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Looking for the helpers:

If you don’t follow the link, that’s members of an Amish community helping make masks for a clinic.

 

[Zardnaar]

Looking for the helpers:

If you don’t follow the link, that’s members of an Amish community helping make masks for a clinic.

Sewing is a skill lost in modern generations. My mother taught me the basics and we got taught at Intermediate.

That was in 1990 though.

All the kids did metalwork, woodwork, art, sewing and cooking.

Maybe I had a weird childhood. First year of high school had agriculture as a subject and the school had a small farm attached.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Sewing is a skill lost in modern generations. My mother taught me the basics and we got taught at Intermediate.

That was in 1990 though.

All the kids did metalwork, woodwork, art, sewing and cooking.

Maybe I had a weird childhood. First year of high school had agriculture as a subject and the school had a small farm attached.

I was taught cooking, laundry and the fundamentals of sewing at home, plus some minor woodworking & shop at school. Plus even more sewing.

I should have studied sewing more, because Mom was damn good at it (she doesn’t do it so much these days)- she learned it from her grandmother, a much sought after modiste in New Orleans.

 

[Zardnaar]

I was taught cooking, laundry and the fundamentals of sewing at home, plus some minor woodworking & shop at school. Plus even more sewing.

I should have studied sewing more, because Mom was damn good at it (she doesn’t do it so much these days)- she learned it from her grandmother, a much sought after modiste in New Orleans.

I wore homemade clothes in the 80s. Mum died couple of years back but mother in law has sewing room, wife's old bedroom.

 

[tomBitonti]

Do you mean the entire population of those in the study or the entire population of the nation to be wearing trackers?
I can get behind the former but not the latter.

Of those in the study. But I could get behind a national testing program. if there is an eventual vaccine, that should be for everyone; so should be testing.
Be safe, be well,
Tom Bitonti

 

[Umbran]

Which is perplexing. I‘d want to select several populations of statistically significant sizes and give them all tests on a regular basis.

Yeah. If wishes were fishes. Unfortunately, we don't have the capacity for that at the moment.

 

[Umbran]

I was taught cooking, laundry and the fundamentals of sewing at home, plus some minor woodworking & shop at school. Plus even more sewing.

I got fundamentals of cooking in the Boy Scouts - rounded that out in college when I wound up in an on-campus apartment with a kitchen. My mother, however, was not going to have a child not able to sew a straight line on a machine. So, I got taught, and when I moved away from home, my Mom got me a basic sewing machine.

Side note: Singer sewing machines last just about forever, as I broke out this same machine to sew masks for my wife and myself.

 

[Son of the Serpent]

I got fundamentals of cooking in the Boy Scouts - rounded that out in college when I wound up in an on-campus apartment with a kitchen. My mother, however, was not going to have a child not able to sew a straight line on a machine. So, I got taught, and when I moved away from home, my Mom got me a basic sewing machine.

Side note: Singer sewing machines last just about forever, as I broke out this same machine to sew masks for my wife and myself.

They are practically immortal. Totally true.

 

[tomBitonti]

Yeah. If wishes were fishes. Unfortunately, we don't have the capacity for that at the moment.

I am aware.
Taking a break for a bit. I have very strong opinions regarding testing in the US.
Be safe, be well,
Tom Bitonti