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Suggested time consumers while socially distanced
« on: March 22, 2020, 03:26:39 PM »
What are you doing to keep busy or possibly learn something?

YouTube: Heron's Bonsai This guy will make you believe everyone can make bonsai! Overnight! :ohmy:

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Re: Suggested time consumers while socially distanced
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2020, 04:47:10 AM »
From a columnist in one of our local papers:
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Here are nine little words from a reader that may actually save us: Treat everybody you meet as though they are infected.

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Re: Suggested time consumers while socially distanced
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2020, 09:07:49 AM »
Neil,
    I've been doing that for years!!! :blush: :p
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Re: Suggested time consumers while socially distanced
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2020, 11:23:22 AM »
How about this? TED-Ed@Home :thumbup:
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Re: Suggested time consumers while socially distanced
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2020, 12:38:18 PM »
My day is full. It is always full. There are not enough daylight hours really.  I may not actually have a job (don't want one) but I feed and look after my croft, rescue any animal that needs me, plus make a felted sheep a day (to sell) plus am transcribing my Great Great Aunt's diaries (covering 1894 to 1961), which is fascinating.  I work until 21.00 every night having hopefully achieved all this and am nursing my wee dog 24/7 too.

I have help. I have my two lovely daughters who are wonderful, helpful and brilliant.  We laugh our way through the day.  Elder one rides and does the horses with me, younger one helps me check and feed the ponies.  She also cooks delicious Chinese food too (the real deal).

We lead an isolated life by choice so nothing much has changed to be honest.  Spring is on its way so hopefully the horse load will get lighter as they become more self-sufficient.

For r&r I watch Chinese fantasy series on Netflix and my Mandarin is coming along nicely now.

Stay safe everyone.
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Re: Suggested time consumers while socially distanced
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2020, 03:12:19 PM »
How about a parade?! :thumbup: :clap: :cheer: :confetti:

Just heard a a car tooting a horn; multiple short 'beeps'. Looked out the window and saw a car with balloons or crepe paper streamers on it driving down our street. Wait! There's another car... and another! Some of them also had decorations! :Thinking: This is strange because there are only 43 houses on the dead-end street, I live exactly half way between the ends and you rarely see more than two vehicles a minute!

The cars keep coming! The first one has already turned around at the end and there are still more coming from the entrance!

My wife couldn't take the suspense and went out (ignoring the shelter-in-place rules!) to see what all the commotion was about. She said several of the cars had names on them... and the name of the elementary school where the 'drivers' taught! That school is where any of our younger children would attend. Since the school, along with all others in the area is closed, the teachers simply wanted to make sure their pupils are not forgot!!

I just hope the kids weren't disturbed by all the noise and traffic!!! :rant: :teacher: :inspect: :tomato: :scram:
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Re: Suggested time consumers while socially distanced
« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2020, 11:57:41 AM »
We're participating in scavenger hunt for the neighborhood kids. They will not be in one group, probably accompanied by a parent, also. They will not come into the yard, much less inside the house. Items must be in the yard, on the porch or a window, visible from the street of course. I stuck a pitchfork into one of our flower beds and put a roll of blue painters tape in one of the front windows. The roll of tape is not very large but it should easily be visible with the white shutter closed behind it.

Obviously, the organizer is a mother with possibly bored, out-of-school kids! :yes: :toothgrin:

Home schooling tips. I'm sending this link to some friends with home-bound kids.
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Re: Suggested time consumers while socially distanced
« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2020, 01:06:28 PM »
My nearest neighbour is 1/2 a mile away!  :whoosh:
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Re: Suggested time consumers while socially distanced
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2020, 04:02:23 PM »
Make any of your "window items" really big! :laughhard:
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Re: Suggested time consumers while socially distanced
« Reply #9 on: March 28, 2020, 10:00:56 AM »
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Re: Suggested time consumers while socially distanced
« Reply #10 on: April 02, 2020, 10:27:03 AM »
Some reading:
  • Smithsonian Magazine: How Epidemics of the Past Changed the Way Americans Lived How will this one change things?
  • Wired: Psychological reasons why every day seems so otherworldly.
A family activity?:
    • New Yorker: Turned a Fashion House Into a Mask Factory Might not be able to use this pattern, maybe just make a scarf? :coolio:
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Re: Suggested time consumers while socially distanced
« Reply #11 on: April 05, 2020, 09:44:28 AM »
Another task we (I) often put off for another time; deleting very old emails. While I was "walking down memory lane", I came across an interesting 'conversation'.

Contest for the hour:
Who wrote the following snippet and the year (+/- 5)?
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I think Graphic Converter has something similar, though I couldn't swear by
it, since my copy of GC is refusing to start up in Classic and I'm not going
to boot into 9.2.2 just to find out!

Well, back to the grindstone (actually have to go to my 6 year old's play
group...so it's more like "off to the zoo"!)
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Re: Suggested time consumers while socially distanced
« Reply #12 on: April 05, 2020, 05:11:32 PM »
Time Consumer #13: Kill two birds with one job! Eggs and Meat (as long as you don't kill all of the birds).
Raise some chickens in your back yard! Some towns have laws against that... so use your front yard! :Devilish: Or give the inspectors a few eggs!

Biology lesson: You will need at least one rooster.

PS: Don't expect to sleep late in the mornings. Roosters get up very early.
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Re: Suggested time consumers while socially distanced
« Reply #13 on: April 05, 2020, 09:27:20 PM »
  • So grateful that you can only have 2 (or maybe 3) chickens in my town and must be in backyard, with coop, blah, blah, blah.
  • Very grateful that roosters are NOT allowed.
  • Even more grateful that my housing division doesn't allow livestock of any kind.
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Re: Suggested time consumers while socially distanced
« Reply #14 on: April 06, 2020, 11:12:21 AM »
City slickers!!! :doh: :wallbash: :coolio: :dntknw:
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