Good Afternoon Everybody

CriticalMass
I soooooo want to hold and hug that big white Bunny!!! 😀
Those flowers are gorgeous.

I almost always take the lesser known/traveled back country roads.
Mainly anything to avoid that deadly highway.

WTG! Bunny boy for feeling better!
My sister had a horse that was always getting colic and those times were always stressful and painful to see the horse suffer.

Relieved you didn't have much going on there last night (((HUG)))

Stay safe and stay healthy 😀

Hi Tatoulia
Enjoy your little load of laundry 😀

It got hot here early but it's getting hotter still.

Got my water bottled filled.
The hospital auxiliary thrift shop was open,
only one car parked out front.
They request people wear face masks and have hand sanitizer placed all around.
I felt it was safe to be in there.
I had a BLAST!!! ;D
bought a 7 inch tall ceramic Tardis
a wonderful tea towel with Owls all over it
a pretty pink washcloth
two embroidered vintage pillow cases with crocheted trim.
a pretty white blouse
"The Revenant" DVD
A massive 3 wick scented pillar candle
a jar Yankee candle
Yankee votive candle
2 hand crafted tapers
another cinnamon scented jar candle

Was so much fun to do that and the social distancing was great.
Plus it was nice to talk to a few humans.
Last night Steven was ranting that I should pack heat when going into town which is ridiculous.
It is VERY peaceful out here.

I put the ceramic Tardis in my garden with the Chrysanthemums.

Great plans on the animals, CM! And yes, the side streets will be much less traveled. I hope you are getting your water Tillie. I believe it is humid today but I haven't opened a window so it's pleasant in here!

Doing one short load of unmentionables that then I will hang to try. I would like to do other laundry but don't want it to take over my day.

Boy bunny is back on track, yay! He has had worse episodes than this. One thing I'm realizing is that he does take longer to come out of the episodes. But some of my bunnies in the past also did, I just remembered yesterday.

With this little guy it just requires patient nursing and diligent observation to do everything we can once he's back to normal to keep him balanced. I'm wondering if we can give him some probiotics - but the trick is getting them through the stomach acids to the intestines. Our bunny club gal had one trick I need to talk to her more about.

Congratulations SubC on the twins and that you got a nice girl baby to keep. 🙂

Tatoulia, yes, she is going to board the doggie because normally he would want to sleep on her bed and won't be able to, and some other reasons I can't recall. He will enjoy and get lots of exercise, too, so win win. We've been making sure he's up to date on shots for that.

The cats will have to make do with me. I pray they can also coexist peacefully with one another! And of course I'll be taking care of all bunnies and the fish as well.

I'm glad things were relatively peaceful in Boston. Wichita had some more trouble at that spot a couple miles from me but I have no need to go that way for an indefinite time. I can go to other library branches if I need the library.

The Newmarket Square shopping center and the Dillon's across had protestors but it was mostly peaceful. Around 10:00 there were rumblings but sounds like nothing major and people mostly dispersed by 11:00.

I am going to go that way cautiously, I think, in just awhile, since it's payday and I'd planned to. I'll have my list, get in get out, be aware of surroundings, etc.

One crazy advantage of being an agoraphobic driver: I have awareness of lots of side street routes for when the big streets are more trafficky than I like! So I can use that knowledge to my advantage in situations such as this.

But like I say, I'm not going to meander around like I might ordinarily. And I'll keep track of the time. This morning has been full of interruptions; I would've preferred to get away sooner, but I think I'll still have plenty of time.

I just checked on Facebook and saw that my childhood neighborhood friend, Sgt. Yarberry, has indeed retired from the police force. I'm relieved. Such an officer of integrity, and a good man. Don't want him to have served so long only for something bad to happen right before he could retire.

There's been so much news I haven't said as much lately about decluttering goals, only mentioning them in passing. But I do still have them and intend to pursue them! 😉

I put a big white bunny from the shelter and a few new flowers on IG to keep everyone's spirits up.

OK, if I'm going to do this, I better get going. I'll be sure and check back in when I get home.

Good Morning

YEA! For the happy news Subclinical! 😀
May your Goat herd thrive and your Chickens stay off the Fox's menu.

Hi Tatoulia
Yes, remove those pics and keep the site full of happy positive sights.
I was very impressed that the areas were already so clean, just boarded up broken windows.

Most all day yesterday everywhere was huge crowds of peaceful people marching through the streets.
Happy you had your favorite officer stationed near you.
So many police taking a knee in support and doing gentle crowd control.
There were very moving speeches given by people in the crowds.
I am happy your Mom got to see the well behaved protest march and you were all safe.

I believe the news reporters were wanting to report more than just the peaceful protests and were looking hard for the agitators.
But I want us all to keep focus on the positive movement for change. 😀

Going to town to fill the water bottles before it gets up to 95 degrees today.
TTYL

Congratulations on the twins, SubC!!!!! Wow!!!! And I'm so proud of you and your post it notes!!! WTG for finding a good system!!!!! I hope the gardening can help lift your mother's spirits even a little bit.

Cm, glad Bunny is getting the proper medication. I do think that your roommate's treatment will go well. She will just have to be diligent in following the diet (very easy and very healthy) and then be sure to keep toothbrush and other objects out of shared spaces. She must close the toilet before flushing it, and she must flush as much of her stuff as possible. Do you have any plans for the animals? I am admittedly not up to date so you may have told us. Could you refresh my memory?

Tillie I am keeping the faith! Last night was weird because it felt like the media was trying to stir up trouble. It feels weird even saying that. There was a lot of police activity by me but that was shootings and unrelated to the protest. Our protests were great and peaceful. And we got to see one of my all time favorite police officers Kim Tavares. She was outside, taking a knee, eventually got all the officers to take a knee. She's so great. Look her up. She's a singer and she's terrific in every way.

BF closed his shop but stayed in it til around 10 PM. I wanted him to come here but instead he stayed at work and had the police scanner on and we watched tv together over the phone. He eventually went home. My mom called around 9 to say there were hundreds of people by her place and they looked like nice people and they were well behaved.

I have a lot to do today. I'm not doing laundry because that distracts me from my work. I may do a bit I'm the afternoon.

Tillie I think I'll take down the pictures of the boarded up places. I just wanted you to see them. I don't think they have any other purpose so I will be deleting.

Boy-girl twins and kidding is done for the year!

(She's a keeper)

Hi CriticalMass

Well, if you don't go to the store tomorrow that's alright.
I believe in a few more days things should level out and become more predictable.
The new , new "normal".

Hope Bunny's tummy is better and he's eating without prompting (((HUG)))

Tomorrow morning I plan to go to town and fill my water bottles.
The county health website has added one more covid19 infection, bringing our total up to 7.

Watching "Dark Shadows, the beginning" tonight.

Happy for your mom with her flowers, SubC. And wtg on 5 post it notes gone! *applause*

Tillie, I know what you mean about the tiny shoes, though I think they are in more danger of me stepping on one than anything. Wherever they went when they dropped must be out of sight. Irony is that one of them I found some months ago after it had been lost, then soon afterward I dropped it again and couldn't find it! 😜 Plus our kitties are usually pretty obvious when they find a surprise toy. Heh heh.🐱

I've got some art pieces and some blank paper for future use to go through. I think one doll shoe may turn up as I do that. If I can avoid stepping on it!

Tomorrow will be... interesting. Targets closed down at 4:00 today. We have two older malls, Towne East & Towne West. East closed early as well. They have had security issues for a long time.

Then there is the further out, more upscale and busy west end area, Newmarket Square. Target, Walmart, and other big box retailers, restaurants, etc. There have been threats on social media re that center, and several stores and restaurants there closed early too.

The big Dillon's grocery on the corner across from it was where my roommate wants to go sometime, but we don't have to right away. I had been thinking a few days ago of stopping by there and Newmarket tomorrow. Plans may change... if I check the news and it seems safe, I will not dawdle.

Otherwise, more quarantine, and if I can stay calm, perhaps some decluttering and catching up focus in the time at home. Maybe even art, writing, and sewing.

And praying for everyone's safety, for healing, for solutions.

WAY TO GO!!! Subclinical! 😀
Finishing the evaluations and 4 more post it notes done!!!

Glad your Mom got out and got her flowers.
Hope having her pretty flower beds will give her some normalcy and comfort (((HUG)))

Have a good day tomorrow and I hope you get the opportunity to have a shouting conversation with a few people. ;D

HELLO TATOULIA
Hoping you all are well and doing fine (((HUG)))

CM, I hope the bunny feels better quickly!

I will have to find my links and go see all these pictures!

I got rid of FIVE post it notes today and one was the evaluations. They are all turned in!

Today Dad drove Mom to the Little local nursery where she always gets her spring impatiens for the flower beds. It is outdoors and there were three other women there, all wearing masks. Mom got her wagon (wiped the handle) and used it to block off The whole row. Then she carried her flats over to it and started to pull it to the counter, but the girl waved her off and said "load first, then come pay" because she was wiping the counter. So mom loaded, paid, sanitized and rode home. She said she was very shaky by the end of it, but it was good to get away from the house.

Tomorrow is my busy day away from the house - recycling drop and clean my classroom.

Good Evening Everybody

Hello CriticalMass

Glad Bunny has his tummy medicine.

We can only plan day by day with the country as it is.
Your errands can be put off and anybody would understand why.
You need to put your peace of mind and physical safety first.

How about considering driving to a grocery store a little farther out?
They may also have a better selection of foods Roommate needs to get.

Hummmm.....
Tiny little missing Barbie shoes.....
Maybe, just maybe, and I am not pointing any fingers
but they would be perfect toys to bat around and stick under furniture and appliances. 😉

Yes, George's funeral is planned for the ninth.
But we sure don't know when things will settle down.
When all four of those police involved in his death are properly charged and arrested and put in jail, maybe then?
But there are so many other police murders that have yet to be addressed. 🙁

We got the medicine no trouble. Gave bunny a dose. He's about the same, no worse. Ate a sprig of cilantro. Just have to hover over him and make sure he eats something regularly, till he starts eating on his own again.

We'd started watching some of our nightly Dark Shadows back in the bunny room and at first this little guy was nervous but then he seemed okay. We kept the volume down. But he could be sensitive to some frequency... have to monitor that. But he is one to get gas in his tummy now and then. Just his body's little quirk.

Well, today was supposed to be the day to catch up from yesterday's delays and sidetracks... sigh. But if bunny does better I shan't complain. Tomorrow is my payday and I normally do a few errands, but between everything going on I may just do most of it differently.

This morning I was neatening my Barbies and their little shoes and things. A couple shoes are missing but I know they dropped somewhere in my room. Put each pair or single in a little ziplock bag. I store the shoes most of the time precisely because they're so tiny and come off and get lost. My dollies don't mind going barefoot around the house, heehee.

On a more serious note, sure do hope the streets and shops will be safe soon. My roommate has to start that low iodine diet the 12th. She'll have to grocery shop for things the diet allows. George Floyd's funeral is on the 9th. Who knows. The people who get violent don't care about the myriad ripple effects.

Hi CriticalMass
No need to apologize
that wasn't really a rant anyways.
Just you telling us what's going on in your life today. (((HUG)))

Wishing Bunny to get well soon.

Just make sure to run any shopping errands early in the day and be safe home long before sundown.
Nearest rioting to me is about 80 miles away.

Good luck with the zoom appointment.
I'm sure she knows well that you all are experiencing a lot more stress these days.

Hung sheets out on the line and got a skeeter bite for my efforts. 🙁

Target stores closed early here last night. I understand they, CVS, and Walmart have had closings around the country in the hot spots.

Also learned about 2 miles from here is an area where crowds gather in the evenings and that gets scary.

I have that Zoom appointment with psych doc on Thursday. She'll ask me the cliché mental health questions, and I'll want to laugh hysterically and ask are you kidding me? Ask me again when civilization is rebuilt. Phooey.

Roommate's little bunny guy having tummy trouble again so we have to go pick up meds. I can probably find a little traveled route to take. One advantage of living here my whole life.

Sorry for the vent; promise I'll make a better post later. Stay safe all.

Good Morning Everybody
"Clink!"

Hello Subclinical
WAY TO GO! knocking out those evaluations!

Have fun shouting to the other Teacher at the school tomorrow.

So sorry your Mom is fretting about things months away and feeling like a prisoner.
Best if we only focus on things day by day and let the future come as it will. (((HUG)))

Darn! that Fox has your Chickens on the menu again! 🙁
Wishing you all the best of luck getting rid of it.

Hi Tatoulia
Thank you for posting the photos.
I especially enjoyed the sleeping kitty and the wedding.

Today I plan to do some laundry and wash my hair.
Supposed to get into the upper 80s with some clouds and no rain.

I talked to my mom for a while yesterday. She sounds depressed. It worries me. I think she feels like she is under house arrest with a shoot to kill guard outside. She is already mourning Christmas activities and visits. I tried to get her to just focus on June.

I did extra evaluations yesterday! I have 12 left. I am going to do them today! (Evaluations take 15-30 minutes each) I also have a couple of things to email kids about and a few loose ends to tie up for one class. Plus I need to turn in my reimbursable forms for spring.

Tomorrow I signed up for 4 hours to clean out my classroom. There is only one other teacher signed up during the first two hours, and I want to talk down the hall at her. Our rooms are on different ends of the same floor.

The fox come back yesterday. I chased it off when I saw it, but I am missing a chicken. If the fox would just settle for rabbits and groundhogs we could be such good friends....

Good Night Tatoulia
Sleep soundly (((HUG)))

The President has ordered cities to have police and national guard stop it before it has a chance to start tonight.

It is already better tonight by disbursing the crowds at curfew.

Going to bed. I posted some pictures. I hear the helicopters. Don't know what that means. I do know that the city is bracing for tomorrow night. I just don't want BF's office to get looted and scare that old cat. He could come here but he gets agitated and is happier at work.

Good Afternoon

The cloud cover has kept it very pleasant here today.

Got the kitchen cleaned after I did some cooking and tea brewing.

Watered the garden and am almost finished watering the grass.

Have been watching "Hoarders" and "Dark Shadows, The Beginning" today.
Hope none of you are watching much news.
Please just watch enough to know what's going on in your areas and then turn it off.

Good To see you all this morning!

Hi CriticalMass
Our library just opened today but it's by appointment only.
Most all libraries are not bothering with any over due fees.
YEA! the brakes are under warranty. Hope the stuck caliper is a cheap fix.
I never got any of that stimulus money 🙁

Hi Subclinical
Glad your family was not in the mess of the protests.
YEA! for planting & weed pulling.
Good luck with the evaluations.

Hi Tatoulia
You made me laugh out loud with how Lord & Taylor was personal for you. 😀
The looters and vandals in Boston were mainly staying where the shops were and leaving all else alone.

Some cities were hit a lot harder because militarized anarchists and white supremists were coming into these cities in stolen vehicles loaded up with fire bombs.
These criminals did not live in these cities but came to cause trouble.
They distributed flyers to try to recruit more people to riot.
So many I saw arrested were white. Many in the black uniforms of the anarchists.
They would set their abandoned stolen cars on fire to try to destroy any evidence of their well planned attack.

But all over the country there were huge peaceful marches with peaceful people protesting.
These are the people who speak for me.

Nice overcast cool day here.
Plan to water some things and clean the kitchen.

Well, dd1 is technically in a city - she's inside the beltway and the city limits, and her neighborhood school is a magnet, but the city is stretched out funny and if you made it rounder she would be in one if the first neighborhoods ejected. Her street is really nice, but you can walk down it one way and hit heavy industry at the end and the other way and hit public housing and store fronts That are empty or pawn shops and payday loans. It's an old neighborhood.

Ds is legally in the city but he's functionally in the suburbs - he has a yard, no public transit, and no sidewalk, but he can easily ride his bike into downtown.

Dd2 is right in it.

I planted squash and pulled weeds. Time to start evaluations.

SubC I am so grateful for your kids being safe!!!!! I didn't fully realize they are in cities! Cm yay for good sewer news! Okay enough from me.

This is so great to have you as friends! And trust me, Boston's damage is a mere blip. Other cities are faring much worse.

We know that our neighbors and friends are scared. We worry for our current and former employees and our neighbors and friends because they could be the next George Floyd. And they've always known that, we are now having it sink in deeply and permanently into our consciousness.

I was glad mom wasn't scared.

We will all come out better in the end. It has to be a better world.

Quick check in. Was long asleep once the looters hit the Prudential Center and Copley Place (the malls I walked at night pre-COVID. As soon as the National Guard we're going down my street, I went to the back.

All is well. I never even heard the goings-on. Nothing happening on my street. I heard this AM that Lord & Taylor was looted. Now this is personal.

Honestly, I can understand some of the violence.

I support tearing down confederate statues. I think the street fires around the White House are probably making a point.

I would even support burning failing infrastructure - is your school in bad shape because of poor funding? Go ahead, burn it down, the kids aren't using it right now anyway and I hope that we come to our senses and replace it with something good!

Our library is accepting book returns today as well. I'm not sure about due dates.

The crib took an interesting turn. Without asking anyone, mil decided that she and Dh sister and brother should buy it for the baby and had it delivered. Dd was a little stressed out, but it is ok now. We are going to wait until after the shower and buy them things they need. I have no emotional attachment to being able to point to some "significant" item and say "we bought that".

I also wish this was not happening during a pandemic. I was supposed to be at their house with their dog to welcome my grandson home. Now I will be at my house with their dog and I don't know when I will see my grandson not through a glass door.

Yes, please everyone stay safe.

There is nothing wrong with peaceful protest. There is everything wrong with violence, vengefulness, and looting. With terrorizing and traumatizing people who had nothing to do with the tragedy that happened. Who would most of them wish to help if they could. It's just sickening.

Then there's the endless sad and angry posts on social media. I closed the tab to Facebook finally after I angry-reacted to something from a stranger in my hometown (I removed the angry react emoji a few seconds after I put it there, taking that as a sign that I'm in no state to handle this stuff.)

Thinking of you Tatoulia and hoping you will be protected from danger and also from anxiety. {{{HUGS}}}

Wichita had some protests that were said to be "mostly nonviolent," whatever that means. I said to my roommate that even though we aren't going many places, we should be careful to avoid downtown and other areas that might have activity that could turn in a heartbeat to something ugly.

It probably isn't that bad here, but I strategize out of an overabundance of caution. Taking my van to get the brakes done tomorrow should be safe provided we take a route through residential neighborhood streets. Her dog needs to go to the vet to be up to date on his shots because she's going to board him when she's radioactive. That is even closer to home, so okay.

I have some library books that are finally due tomorrow, after many Covid-19 extensions the library automatically applied. Of the two likely branches I'll probably take them to the one in the 'burbs. Not going to the main library downtown, and the other branch may be fine but I'm not sure.

Other than that, it has been a good day. In answer to the question about the sewer repair, yes, it is done! 🙂 And my brake pads are still under warranty, so that's good. The caliper seems to be stuck though, so dunno what that entails. But I think I'll survive.

I've heard we may all get a 2nd stimulus payment? Since the automotive repairs have made a dent in the first one, if we got another, it'd give me more seed money for a place of my own if I could hang onto it. Not till after roommate's health is okay and the quarantine is over in any case, though. Too early to tell about all that. I'm just glad these past 24 hours ended on a much happier note. Now if the world could just get some better news...

Well Tatoulia
If you were thinking of going shopping for you & your Mom...

I'm heartbroken for The United States Of America.
I'm crying for us all.

Hi Subclinical

I completely and wholeheartedly support the peaceful demonstrators.
It's the anarchists, looters and vandals that are ruining the entire message.
They are there only to destroy all that is good.

We will all be watching the virus numbers closely in these cities.
Along with all the places where people decided pool parties and other gatherings were ok to do too.

Very relieved your kids are in safe areas of the big cities (((((HUGS)))))

They better keep updating you with any changes even the quiet things.

WAY TO GO! for evaluations, weeds, dishwasher and a plate!!!

Did you get the crib?
You must have cake or something special when the virtual baby shower is happening.
Such an exciting time!
Wishing it wasn't during a pandemic quarantine ((((HUGS))))

Stay safe everybody
these are interesting times
Love, Tillie

YES Tatoulia

Sleep in the back tonight away from the street view windows.

Glad Mom is not fretting ((((HUGS))))

Very relieved BF is home safe and you are at home safe too.

I saw Boston on TV and it looks like the police are making good strides in keeping it contained.

(((((HUGS)))))

CM, I did not mean to leave you out! I am happy for your sewer miracle and hope you get a brake miracle to go with it!