Taste Like Chicken Memorial Day WE 5/23&24

nybuckeye,Thanks Chele, Im going out to the cemetary today and plant flowers at my parents grave. Going to splurge and have a nice fattening dinner hot dogs and potato salad I love potato salad. Sunny here today there saying chance of rain for the next couple of days. There was really bad flooding 2 hrs north of here in a town called midland the dam broke and it was a disaster it was even on national news I hope you have a really nice day.

moonriver, Denise, I hope you are having a nice sunny day for your trio to the cemetery. My DM is buried in Kokomo, Indiana and we usually go and have lunch with my cousin and his DW before we go to the cemetery, but we are delaying our trip to see how things go. Enjoy your birthday dinner. I am a potato salad fan as well. What do you like on your dog? 

Becky, an hour of PT with a mask has got to be hard. Half an hour in the grocery and I am ready to riP it off. That’s good you have PT in the morning and you don’t have to go into town twice. 

Liz, so good to hear from you. I am glad you have a 3 day weekend and you are scheduling time off. You need some time to decompress mentally and recover physically. How are the teeth doing? Are the knees still giving you problems? How are your DS and family and Gary’s DM doing? Is DN still in the islands at med school? Iggy and I are doing okay. His DB and his DW are quarantined for another 7 or 8 days. They have had fevers off and on, bit appear to be okay otherwise. Or least that is what they are telling us. I hope Zoe isn’t suffering from her allergies too much. How is that Wascally Wally?

Kathy, any plans to get together with the family this weekend? We are still playing it cautiously.  I still won’t let Iggy out of the car when we go to the stores. I miss going to the garden centers this time of year for plants. We ripped out some juniper bushes last year and were going to replace them this spring, but the nurseries have been too crazy packed to risk it. 

Karen, how did Dale’s trio go? Did he fit all the junk in one trip? I hope into run into any storms. I am glad your statewide meeting went well. I picked up some blueberries at Kroger this morning since they are from the USA. I wasn’t that crazy about the product from the Market Wagon, so we are back to regular groceries. Good lick with the squirrel now that he has learned how to climb up the brick. I have finally convinced Iggy we don’t need to feed the birds during the summer.

Linda, loved the cartoon.

We went to the butcher this morning and the line snaked through the parking lot, so we went to Meijer aMd Kroger instead. I wiped everything down before it went into the house and changed my clothes as per the new normal. Iggy is doing yard work and I just finished my workout. Now I have to go fix a nice big salad for lunch. Have a great Saturday.

Thanks for the start, Chele. I don't blame you for keeping Iggy on a short leash right now. Garden centers everywhere seem to be crazy this year. Maybe things will ease up and you'll still be able to still find juniper then. Are BIL and wife still having the intermittent fevers? Dale's trip went well. He did manage to make only one trip to the dump but also brought home a truck bed full of stuff he thought we could use here. He did run into some rain, but no storms. Sorry Market Wagon didn't meet your expectations. What kind of stuff did you get? One thing about our CSA is that we have never gotten anything we haven't liked. Sorry about the line at the butcher. Can you go during the week without Iggy? How crazy were Meijer and Kroger? We wouldn't dare go to a grocery store on the weekend here. Enjoy your salad. I'll have one of those for dinner. The squirrel showed up again late yesterday afternoon and hasn't been back. I'm anxious to run out of bird seed so we can take the feeder down.

Kathy, I saw that Universal Orlando is opening on June 5th. They didn't say what special precautions would be required. I found some masks online from Austin (Becky, on the Sue Patrick website) that are made from "soft swimwear fabric", which I hope will be more comfortable in the heat. It's also SPF 50, and I wonder if the new thing this summer will be a "covid tan", like the farmer's tan. I'll post a review on the masks once I get them.

Great to hear from you, Liz. I got my first mask off Etsy yesterday so I haven't gotten to wear it yet because it needs to be washed first. I hope you and Gary will have a pleasant weekend and that the pups are doing fine. How is Zoe's newest puggle bump? How is your chef friend who was readmitted to the hospital?

Linda, that's really scary on the doctor. I hope he'll be able to get back to where he was eventually. Isn't yard work just about a daily thing? I had the same problem last year with not being told to fast for bloodwork. But my BSL was still below 100, even having eaten breakfast. I'm surprised they are doing walk-ins at your place. I thought things were strictly by appointment everywhere. It has to be difficult to enforce masks when the person that Becky refers to as the "covidiot in chief" refuses to wear one. Someone said this morning if a person refuses to wear a mask, they should have to wear a t-shirt that says, "I don't care about you."

Happy Birthday, Denise. Enjoy planting petunias for your parents (easier to write than to say). Enjoy your special dinner. Do you make your own potato salad? My favorite is from Bill Miller's Barbecue in Austin, so I haven't had it in several years.

Becky, it would definitely be more convenient if you could get a.m. PT appts. Is there a chance you could get on a wait list of some sort to change or will it not be worth the effort for the number of weeks you have remaining on your order? We have a problem around here with very few people wearing masks and those same people don't seem to know how to social distance either. I hope your weather is a little cooler and less humid today so the AC does't run all day. How is the orthopedic surgeon with covid doing?

I was out for a little over 2 hours this morning weeding around the blueberries, and yes, I did it about a month ago. With all the rain we've had, the weeds had once again taken off. Two of the new plants I put in just early April did not survive. I have an email to the company seeing about replacements. I don't think I will be getting many of my own blueberries this year. According to the east Tennessee blueberry expert, the clay soil we have here makes it difficult to grow blueberries because it doesn't like to be acidic. They are recommending growing blueberries in raised beds or containers as a result because of the better pH control. I won't do anything until they go dormant in the fall, if they survive. I'm resting for the remainder of the day and right now I'm watching one of my favorite movies, The Birdcage. Robin Williams was capable of doing just about anything as an actor. The lake is wide open today, so good thing we aren't on it. Tomorrow I plan to go out and remove the weeds from around the elderberries. It got too warm too fast this morning and I couldn't get it all done this morning.

Karen, I'm going to have to go to the butcher and the gourmet grocery during the week. They are way too crowded during the weekend especially this weekend. Do you have room for the stuff Dale brought back? We got 3 different lettuces and none have any taste. The carrots were okay but for the price we have had much better. We also ordered some bagels since our Breadman downtown went out of business right before the lockdown. They were just regular bread with a hole. I don’t think they boiled them first. I made quick trips to the produce dept of both Meijer and Kroger so it wasn’t too bad. The mourning doves pooping on the driveway and garage roof changed Iggy’s mind about continuous feeding. The chipmunk has started parking his tiny butt in the lemon tree pot and surveying the backyard from there. He has gotten plump from the seeds that fall from the feeder.

Kathy, we have not expanded our quarantine circle beyond the two of us.

Linda, your people are more civilized that our people. In the grocery we are limited to 2 ground beef packages and 2 pork packages. No limit on chicken. Our mail comes in the late afternoon and brought tne stimulus check. I won’t be able to deposit it until Tuesday. We got a whopping $20 back from our car insurance company. You were plenty ambitious today.

kaycee, Thanks Kathy for the bday greeting

retiredinaz, Thanks for the bday greeting

Karen, I probably saw the same story on Universal and didn't see anything about precautions either. I would guess it will be similar to Disney with a lower capacity crowd and masks required. I really don't see how you can social distance in a theme park even when it's less crowded, but I guess we'll see. I'm glad the tourist area is way over on the other side of the county and into the next county. I can't imagine wearing a mask all day in this heat and imagine trying to get little kids to keep them on. I'm curious to know how the swimwear masks are. I got some from a site called Johnny Was that look pretty nice. DM isn't sure how they'll work with hearing aids though. I heard one of the talk show hosts joking about a covid tan last night. It wouldn't take long to get one if you're out in the sun with a mask on. I haven't seen The Birdcage in years, but remember loving the movie. Robin Williams was great. DS was lucky enough to see him do standup when she was in college.

Chele, DM and I haven't really had contact with anyone else, other than deliveries where we've kept our distance. DS and DBIL also haven't been out, although they've had DN and some of DBIL's family in the house at a distance. One problem I'm having with not picking out the groceries myself is on expiration dates. I've gotten a few expired things and some that I can't use up since they're so close to expiring. I can just picture that plump chipmunk in the lemon tree pot. Don't go wild with that car insurance refund! I can hardly wait to see what mine comes up. My renewal is in June and the bill doesn't have any credit on it. Then again, I might not have noticed if it's only $20.

Linda, I'm glad your stimulus check finally arrived.