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Monday, May 11, 2020

Shortages - What We're Doing (Part 2)

We've all been dealing with shortages of all sorts of everyday items for the past 8 weeks.  Just this week I finally was able to find Charmin toilet paper and Bounty paper towels - the good stuff!  Of course, for a long time it was almost impossible to find ANY toilet paper or paper towels, and it's still iffy.

It's not only things for us humans that have been scarce.  Luckily, just before all this started, I'd stocked up on cat food.  Litter, on the other hand...!  Cats are finicky about EVERYTHING.  About a year ago, the cat food I usually buy went through a packaging change, and for once, I'd waited until I HAD to buy food.  Well, I went to the store and searched the shelves.  No salmon and rice cat food.  Chicken and rice, yes.  Salmon and sweet potato, yes.  Just about every flavor BUT salmon and rice, the only flavor the cats will eat.  Oh, I was unhappy, but there wasn't much I could do.  I was already out of the preferred flavor, so we just had to make do with the chicken and rice.  The kitties were NOT happy, but they muddled through.  We finally got the right stuff, and things got back to normal.

But here we were again.  I couldn't imagine going without our normal litter.  I mean, cats are known to avoid using the litter box if the litter wasn't acceptable.  Oh, GOODY.  I tried Kroger, then Walmart, then Meijer.  Nuthin'!  We had enough for a couple of weeks, but a couple of weeks goes by awfully fast!

Then I had a brain wave - Chewy.com!  As luck would have it, Chewy.com DID have our litter (not some others, though!), so let's order some!  Well, I'm not fond of paying shipping, so when I order stuff online, I make sure I order enough to get free shipping.  I ordered the litter, got the confirmation email, and the tracking information.  We'd have litter in just three days - perfect!

When the litter arrived, it was dropped off in front of the garage instead of on the porch.  One big box.  I grabbed a box cutter to open the box and spied a mountain of cat litter!  I hauled it all inside and piled it up in the laundry room.

I don't think we're going to have to buy cat litter any time soon!!!  LOL!

Monday, April 6, 2020

Staying Home and Social Distancing - What I'm Doing

With the coronavirus crisis, we're staying home like everyone else, except for periodic foraging trips to the grocery.  I cook - a LOT.  I clean.  I actually bleach my kitchen counters and sink, something I never did before.  I'm taking a short-term online American history course from Hillsdale College.  I'm trying to learn Tai Chi on YouTube.  I make to-do lists and try to check things off.  I scroll through FaceBook.  I'm working on painting watercolors.  I'm knitting hats for the 2021 NBA All-Stars volunteers.  I'm crocheting chemo caps.  Not all at once, of course!

We're also watching a LOT of television.  Thank heaven for cable TV while we're staying home.  Turner Classic Movies and MeTV really get a workout!

There are daily visits from the likes of Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Blondell, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Clara Bow, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, Ruby Keeler, and a zillion others.  I especially like the movies on Silent Sundays - I"m glad we can DVR those - they start at midnight!  Not that I wouldn't stay up all night to watch them, but...!  Not a good idea, when I'm doing home health care right now, and medicines need to be doled out at specific times.

There's a boatload of MeTV to watch, too - Leave It to Beaver, The Flintstones (!), Green Acres, Hogan's Heroes, The Andy Griffith Show.  And we've officially turned into Old People - after dinner, we watch Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!

Oh my.  We're turning into our parents.  I guess someone has to.

On top of all this, because of CDC recommendations, I've started making face masks for us.  I cut up material yesterday, and today I started assembly.  There's a nice pile to work on, as you can see.

So, plenty to DO.  I had long lists of things I wanted to do after retiring, but now my lists are somewhat different.  

But...

IT'S ONLY TEMPORARY.