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Home is where the potatoes are
Mar. 31st, 2020 07:33 pmTwo weeks into sheltering in place, and I'm barely scratching the surface of things to do around the house. So far I've been spending most of my time reading ebooks from the library and clearing space on my DVR, with spurts of working in the garden when the weather is good. I spread compost around and dug up all the volunteer potatoes so that the raised beds will be ready when it's time to plant the beans and corn in a couple weeks. I also got a bit of cleaning done.
I haven't yet touched the mountain of manga and novels that I have sitting on shelves waiting to be read, but I may start doing another manga purge next week. Once I have more space, I can put away the stacks of read-but-not-filed manga that have been cluttering up multiple surfaces for months. I did empty out a basket of old receipts and junk mail, which is progress, because then I could stuff some manga into it.
I haven't done much knitting yet either. I have three projects in progress, and a bunch more in mind to work on when those are finished. I've also been wanting to haul out my paints or my colored pencils again, but that's a low priority. Even with the quarantine, there just never seems to be enough time to do everything.
I took my beagle to the vet as I mentioned in my last post, but before they could do the surgery, they tested his blood and found high calcium levels. This required sending the blood out to a lab for further analysis. I finally got the results back today, so now I can go ahead with re-scheduling his procedure. The surgeon has a spot available next Wednesday, so hopefully I can get it done then.
My food supplies are fine...I grew up on the story of the Ingalls family and the Long Winter, so I tend to hoard food even at the best of times. Even though I didn't get a chance to go grocery shopping before the lockdown, I'm doing okay. The only thing I'm running low on is sugar, and I still have probably a week's supply left, plus a couple quarts of honey and some maple syrup and molasses for good measure. A neighbor said she'd pick some up for me when she did a grocery run, so I won't have to go out shopping for a while. It's fortunate that I stopped buying dairy milk back in December; I don't have to worry about constantly replenishing any perishables.
At work, flights have almost completely dried up, so they're starting to give the staff paid time off. I got two days off this week, and I'm scheduled to get another three days off next week. Since so many people have had vacations canceled (sadly, my trip to Europe among them), the union is pushing management to allow people to carry over more unused vacation hours to next year. I'm now hoping that my August plans don't get canceled too. It would suck to go a whole year without taking any vacation time.
I haven't yet touched the mountain of manga and novels that I have sitting on shelves waiting to be read, but I may start doing another manga purge next week. Once I have more space, I can put away the stacks of read-but-not-filed manga that have been cluttering up multiple surfaces for months. I did empty out a basket of old receipts and junk mail, which is progress, because then I could stuff some manga into it.
I haven't done much knitting yet either. I have three projects in progress, and a bunch more in mind to work on when those are finished. I've also been wanting to haul out my paints or my colored pencils again, but that's a low priority. Even with the quarantine, there just never seems to be enough time to do everything.
I took my beagle to the vet as I mentioned in my last post, but before they could do the surgery, they tested his blood and found high calcium levels. This required sending the blood out to a lab for further analysis. I finally got the results back today, so now I can go ahead with re-scheduling his procedure. The surgeon has a spot available next Wednesday, so hopefully I can get it done then.
My food supplies are fine...I grew up on the story of the Ingalls family and the Long Winter, so I tend to hoard food even at the best of times. Even though I didn't get a chance to go grocery shopping before the lockdown, I'm doing okay. The only thing I'm running low on is sugar, and I still have probably a week's supply left, plus a couple quarts of honey and some maple syrup and molasses for good measure. A neighbor said she'd pick some up for me when she did a grocery run, so I won't have to go out shopping for a while. It's fortunate that I stopped buying dairy milk back in December; I don't have to worry about constantly replenishing any perishables.
At work, flights have almost completely dried up, so they're starting to give the staff paid time off. I got two days off this week, and I'm scheduled to get another three days off next week. Since so many people have had vacations canceled (sadly, my trip to Europe among them), the union is pushing management to allow people to carry over more unused vacation hours to next year. I'm now hoping that my August plans don't get canceled too. It would suck to go a whole year without taking any vacation time.
