"It's the end of the world as we know it...and I feel fine!." Popular music lyrics and the current world situations? The recent few days/weeks have been crazy hectic with work and the current world situation. COVID-19 the Coronavirus has taken hold of the world and if nothing else temporarily taught a few people how to wash there hands, taught some crazy brothers that profiteering on 18000 bottles of hand sanitizer can cause you legal issues and other crazy stuff. Business industries like restaurants are now starting to offer employees sick time (imagine that...a restaurant that forces sick employees to come to work?) a major bane in the USA food industry, now resolved. Places are going on lockdown and businesses are shuttering for the time being. Trying to slow the progression of the virus. Memes abound and hilarious stories are going viral. The US media is still fear-mongering the whole situation. But I feel fine.
Lynn and I have not gone out and binge bought a mountain of stuff we could never use. We could survive a 2-week lockdown. Would we want to? It depends on the safety of it all. But I feel fine.
The plants are doing great. At least I know that if things continue for 60-90 days I will have fresh lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, beets, spinach, and yellow squash coming on without having to go shopping for it. If the pollen does not kill me first. My black truck is currently yellow. Please rain this week and wash this stuff away. I don't want to have to quarantine because allergies have given me symptoms that are too similar to COVID-19. But I do feel fine.
All joking aside. Lynn and I are doing great. Lynn did a good spring cleaning of the house on Friday, Saturday we say down with 5 yards of material and made new pillow covers and curtain ties for the living room, and a valance and table runner for the kitchen. It ties the house together well. Most of everything that we want to grow is planted. I have some spring onions and potatoes remaining. The spring onions will probably be planted in the next 24 hours and the potatoes are awaiting the delivery of a couple of grow bags that should be here in the next 48 hours. All told the container garden is starting off nicely. Will it sustain if the end of the world occurs? No. Will we survive anyway? Yeah. Is the world going to end? Only if the rock flying through our solar system that is supposed to pass earth late April has a slight course change and comes close enough to hit us. But as of the time of this writing, it is supposed to pass by something like 16 times the distance of the Earth and Moon. But I feel fine. Well, actually, besides the pollen causing allergies issues I feel really good.
6 months food war
Hello,
Apart from missing my family and friends which is massive, I miss food. Every nationality is different, cultures are different, What I think is normal is far from what Jake does. I think that scones should come with fresh cream and strawberries. Jake calls them biscuits and thinks they should come with Bacon n Eggs or gravy. A white sauce that looks like the scone, cream, and strawberries have made a reappearance from the night before. Battered steak em, that's a no from me too. Gritz is like finding a dollup of porridge leftover from breakfast on your dinner plate. All these foods Jake likes and I think em yuk and no thanks. I miss mothers pride bread, the outsiders toasted dripping in Lurpark butter. Square sausage, white and black pudding and decent bacon slices on my breakfast plate at the weekend. Eating out is nuts too, the portion sizes are just no need. I do love Texas Roadhouse and Cracker Barrell the food they serve is what I think is normal. Seafood is smashing but where is a decent chip shop in this place, nothing beats a bag of chippy chips smothered in salt and vinegar when you're in the mood and nothing is quite satisfying. Well, a roll and chips has that factor.
I think you're getting the point reading this, I can't cope with the food craves or when I am tagged in pics on social media of Nesquick Banana Milkshake, or a decent Indian kebab they are called Kabobs here and nothing at all like a kebab back home. Sweeties is a massive miss, what even is Hershey's chocolate? deffo no for me and Dove chocolate, em back home Dove is the soap for washing in the shower its deffo no chocolate. Same with Jellies, aye Haribo is here. Suppose I should be grateful, I could rant for while on this subject lol. I understand Americans would feel the same with Cadburys and Nestle but to me, I don't think you realize just what you're actually missing out on if your love for decent "candy" is like mine.
We have found some Scottish Tressures in the shops here, that's another thing I call the shops and Jake calls them stores. At nearly a fiver for a tin on Heinz Beans, I have one can in the cupboard to look at keep for a special occasion. I still can't get over its nearly a fiver a tin, it might actually frame it. Jake cures bacon for me, so we have decent bacon slices and not just streaky bits of fat. He has also made square sausage for me, the rolls in the local supermarket are as close to morning rolls from back home that we can find. As this is really just only the beginning and I am still learning a lot am sure there will be more on this subject at a later date. I think so far I am not to keep on a lot of the foods but its a learning experience. My understanding so far is certain foods just don't go together and have a certain time that they should be on your plate. I understand it is what people are used to, like us in Scotland with Haggis, a lot of Americans think that's bogging Well I'm here for a long time so I best open up my palate. I still stand for one thing "biscuits and spew" I mean "biscuits and gravy" are deffo no for me.
Until my next rant take care
Lxxx
Apart from missing my family and friends which is massive, I miss food. Every nationality is different, cultures are different, What I think is normal is far from what Jake does. I think that scones should come with fresh cream and strawberries. Jake calls them biscuits and thinks they should come with Bacon n Eggs or gravy. A white sauce that looks like the scone, cream, and strawberries have made a reappearance from the night before. Battered steak em, that's a no from me too. Gritz is like finding a dollup of porridge leftover from breakfast on your dinner plate. All these foods Jake likes and I think em yuk and no thanks. I miss mothers pride bread, the outsiders toasted dripping in Lurpark butter. Square sausage, white and black pudding and decent bacon slices on my breakfast plate at the weekend. Eating out is nuts too, the portion sizes are just no need. I do love Texas Roadhouse and Cracker Barrell the food they serve is what I think is normal. Seafood is smashing but where is a decent chip shop in this place, nothing beats a bag of chippy chips smothered in salt and vinegar when you're in the mood and nothing is quite satisfying. Well, a roll and chips has that factor.
I think you're getting the point reading this, I can't cope with the food craves or when I am tagged in pics on social media of Nesquick Banana Milkshake, or a decent Indian kebab they are called Kabobs here and nothing at all like a kebab back home. Sweeties is a massive miss, what even is Hershey's chocolate? deffo no for me and Dove chocolate, em back home Dove is the soap for washing in the shower its deffo no chocolate. Same with Jellies, aye Haribo is here. Suppose I should be grateful, I could rant for while on this subject lol. I understand Americans would feel the same with Cadburys and Nestle but to me, I don't think you realize just what you're actually missing out on if your love for decent "candy" is like mine.
We have found some Scottish Tressures in the shops here, that's another thing I call the shops and Jake calls them stores. At nearly a fiver for a tin on Heinz Beans, I have one can in the cupboard to look at keep for a special occasion. I still can't get over its nearly a fiver a tin, it might actually frame it. Jake cures bacon for me, so we have decent bacon slices and not just streaky bits of fat. He has also made square sausage for me, the rolls in the local supermarket are as close to morning rolls from back home that we can find. As this is really just only the beginning and I am still learning a lot am sure there will be more on this subject at a later date. I think so far I am not to keep on a lot of the foods but its a learning experience. My understanding so far is certain foods just don't go together and have a certain time that they should be on your plate. I understand it is what people are used to, like us in Scotland with Haggis, a lot of Americans think that's bogging Well I'm here for a long time so I best open up my palate. I still stand for one thing "biscuits and spew" I mean "biscuits and gravy" are deffo no for me.
Until my next rant take care
Lxxx
The mornings of getting older.
It is an undeniable fact that the older you get the earlier you get up until we all turn into our parents/grandparents and get up before the sun is up. Doing so also usually means being productive early in the day. I have noticed at several points in my life so far where I made a sudden transition into a slightly earlier wake up time where it was a choice to get up at a certain hour and not sleep in later. Now don't get me wrong, there were years and years of time where I had to get up earlier than I ever wanted to. For the first year and a half of High School I had to get up at 4:30 am in order to catch the bus to school. There was that year in college where I had to take mandatory classes for my degree, but they were both taught by the same professor and he only taught classes from 7 am-10 am. These were times that I was getting up earlier than I wanted.
I remember the first time that I woke up "early" and kept the schedule and it was for personal reasons. I started getting up about an hour before anyone else in the house did so that I could use the time to play video games. It was the only chance I had to do anything for myself. It was liberating. There were other times as more normal work entered my life, I started jobs that worked normal working hours of 8 am- 5 pm etc. Some of these were forced on me and some were elective earlier times. There was a period after one of my deployments that I would get up at 5 am and just sit around doing nothing. Always the promise of being productive early in the day but mostly it was about sitting there in the quiet and being able to hear the quiet.
In the last couple of days I have run across quotes and memes that talk about doing things early in the day. One alludes to doing things you don't like first thing so as to get them out of the way, another says doing all of the important tasks first means you have more time to play later and so on. The things that most of our parents actually told us when we were kids and we never believed/ignored because play time was more fun. A lot of this has been coming across my screen lately. Not sure if the content I am looking at has become slightly more mature or if there is a sudden realization of productivity in the world. The one thing I have not seen posted yet but I will post here for anyone reading is the old adage "The early bird gets the worm". Cliche as it sounds that is what most of these other things I have come across state, just in different words.
The whole point of this is to say that as we get older and more responsible we typically lead healthier more stable lives where we get up early and be productive first thing in the day (which also means that we typically go to bed at an earlier hour as well). Is this me entering the next phase of getting up earlier in the day to perform at task? Are the plants I planted calling me to get up just a bit earlier in the day to take care of them before work? Is it a phase or will it last? Or was it the fact that one of the curtains in the bed room did not get shut fully and a bit of light crept in and hit me in the face just so that I woke up early? Was it a single occurrence or will it last a couple of days, a week, a month, till daylight savings hits this spring and it gets light an hour later? Wait... is my sleep schedule being dictated by how bright it is? All of these important questions on why someone who sleeps like a baby does not know why they woke up an hour early, took the trash out and made sure all of their bills were paid before their first alarm went off this morning.
Oh, and this post was written before work as well...
I remember the first time that I woke up "early" and kept the schedule and it was for personal reasons. I started getting up about an hour before anyone else in the house did so that I could use the time to play video games. It was the only chance I had to do anything for myself. It was liberating. There were other times as more normal work entered my life, I started jobs that worked normal working hours of 8 am- 5 pm etc. Some of these were forced on me and some were elective earlier times. There was a period after one of my deployments that I would get up at 5 am and just sit around doing nothing. Always the promise of being productive early in the day but mostly it was about sitting there in the quiet and being able to hear the quiet.
In the last couple of days I have run across quotes and memes that talk about doing things early in the day. One alludes to doing things you don't like first thing so as to get them out of the way, another says doing all of the important tasks first means you have more time to play later and so on. The things that most of our parents actually told us when we were kids and we never believed/ignored because play time was more fun. A lot of this has been coming across my screen lately. Not sure if the content I am looking at has become slightly more mature or if there is a sudden realization of productivity in the world. The one thing I have not seen posted yet but I will post here for anyone reading is the old adage "The early bird gets the worm". Cliche as it sounds that is what most of these other things I have come across state, just in different words.
The whole point of this is to say that as we get older and more responsible we typically lead healthier more stable lives where we get up early and be productive first thing in the day (which also means that we typically go to bed at an earlier hour as well). Is this me entering the next phase of getting up earlier in the day to perform at task? Are the plants I planted calling me to get up just a bit earlier in the day to take care of them before work? Is it a phase or will it last? Or was it the fact that one of the curtains in the bed room did not get shut fully and a bit of light crept in and hit me in the face just so that I woke up early? Was it a single occurrence or will it last a couple of days, a week, a month, till daylight savings hits this spring and it gets light an hour later? Wait... is my sleep schedule being dictated by how bright it is? All of these important questions on why someone who sleeps like a baby does not know why they woke up an hour early, took the trash out and made sure all of their bills were paid before their first alarm went off this morning.
Oh, and this post was written before work as well...
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