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Easter party 🎈at homes (parks closed) here the cops kept running them off they wait come right back or go to another home. One neighbor has 20cars the cops ran them off an hour before their was only 4 cars then. Went in the backyard was so loud neighbors out everywhere sounded like a school carnival 🎡. Wasn’t all the houses but the ones barbecuing had tons of friends besides family over (I could understand a couple family members depending who). One stole a broken treadmill from the yard... hubby got scared he was organizing the garage we thought it was the good one at first. Relief to know they hauled off the trash lol 😆. Wish I could see their faces when they plug it in lol.
Garage looks great we organized door closed at the end Opened garage hauled to the curb all we could ,but had to move a stove y treadmill by the cars to do it.We put the working stove they didn’t steal back in the garage. Hubby went inside for trash sacks that’s all the time they needed.7 -
JRsLateInLifeMom wrote: »Easter party 🎈at homes (parks closed) here the cops kept running them off they wait come right back or go to another home. One neighbor has 20cars the cops ran them off an hour before their was only 4 cars then. Went in the backyard was so loud neighbors out everywhere sounded like a school carnival 🎡. Wasn’t all the houses but the ones barbecuing had tons of friends besides family over (I could understand a couple family members depending who). One stole a broken treadmill from the yard... hubby got scared he was organizing the garage we thought it was the good one at first. Relief to know they hauled off the trash lol 😆. Wish I could see their faces when they plug it in lol.
Garage looks great we organized door closed at the end Opened garage hauled to the curb all we could ,but had to move a stove y treadmill by the cars to do it.We put the working stove they didn’t steal back in the garage. Hubby went inside for trash sacks that’s all the time they needed.
Wait... You got stolen from? On Easter? And the thing they stole was actually broken, so you're okay with it? Just making sure. I'm not sure if I should laugh at this, be amazed at the brazenness, or be angry on your behalf. Either way, some people are jerks, and I'm sorry you got stolen from.7 -
I dont get the Easter thing lol.... it's not christmas... cant people just miss easter? I'm not religious, so I understand that for some it has a religious significance... but those religious things dont have anything to do with bbqs and parties lol...14
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JustSomeEM- They just walked up the driveway helped themselves. Here they make you go online fill out a report. Not sure how you fill out a report for stolen trash lol 😂. Hubby figures folks out of work are getting desperate so he decided will not file an online report. That thing had a bad wheel going to be a bigger heavy y hard to move around I like to think their struggling about now to take it to a pawn shop or their home get to a plug 🔌 find out the motor burned up on it. We were saving it only to use the parts from it on the good one like the belt to magnetic 🧲 key or even the nuts y bolts if needed. Great news is the garage looks great!8
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Heh heh ...suckers 🤣4
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Lol... not covid related but I was on youtube and this video was on my feed of a 600lbs guy, and of course, youtube comments are always disgusting but this one guy lol... omg.. I had to close the video cause my urge to correct him was so awful
He claims he was 300 pounds and lost 150 pounds in 3 months... and that fat people just make excuses.
And I'm thinking.. that's 12lbs per week lol
....thats a 6250 calorie deficit per day...
Ain't no way in hell that is even real.. lol.. and yet 47 people clicked thumbs up lol...
It amazes me how someone can make a fake story, simply to put down fat people lol5 -
KrissCanDoThis wrote: »Lol... not covid related but I was on youtube and this video was on my feed of a 600lbs guy, and of course, youtube comments are always disgusting but this one guy lol... omg.. I had to close the video cause my urge to correct him was so awful
He claims he was 300 pounds and lost 150 pounds in 3 months... and that fat people just make excuses.
And I'm thinking.. that's 12lbs per week lol
....thats a 6250 calorie deficit per day...
Ain't no way in hell that is even real.. lol.. and yet 47 people clicked thumbs up lol...
It amazes me how someone can make a fake story, simply to put down fat people lol
It would slow down as he got closer to 150 lbs., but very obese people can lose weight really really fast early on. Someone who is 600 lbs. or 300 lbs. (I'm unclear which as you said 600 at first, then 300) has a very high BMR even when sedentary. In the absence of anything unusual that makes a difference, it would make sense that he could have lost almost that quickly if he did the right things.3 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »Posting this mainly to share the idea of looking into ordering from farmer market vendors, either for pickup at the market if they're still operational in your area, or to see if they're doing drop-off or pickup at a location in your area.
(snip good stuff)
*This is something else I've heard about restaurants in our area: apparently some of them have started selling groceries, toilet paper, hand sanitizer, in order to supplement their revenues from carryout and delivery of their own foods. So this is another possible distribution chain folks could look into.
Yes, this is true here as well. And in at least one case here, the farmers market (my most frequent one) is now closed but has published lists of their vendors, and how to contact them for at-farm sales. So, looking at websites or Facebook pages of markets in your area may be a place to find these sources.
I posted in another thread by I think not here that another thing happening here is that one of the farm-to-table restaurants is using their supply chain to make up produce boxes, which they sell one day a week for pickup at the restaurant. This specific restaurant is expensive and a little on the precious side in their usual fare, but I thought the produce box prices were not super far out of line with what I'd normally pay for equal (i.e., very good) quality at the farmers' market. I split a box with a friend and got the items in the photo below (red potatoes, couple bulbs shallots, red onion, couple big watermelon radishes, fresh mint) plus two big heads of fancy leaf lettuce and some fresh mushrooms (I think oyster). My share was $13, and the restaurant kindly split the order in two for us. (Friend picked up at restaurant, delivered here contactlessly
.)
The produce is all local, from chilly mid-Michigan in April, so don't assume seasonality is widely a barrier to this being possible in (most of) your areas.
They offered a couple of different produce boxes, a couple meat boxes, dairy box, wine & cheese box, coffee box (includes coffee, dairy half & half, the restaurant's fancy vanilla/cardamom sugar cubes
), at varied prices.
I think I and others have said before: Some of the local craft distilleries (that normally distill vodka, whiskey, etc.) are making hand sanitizer for sale. Local one here I know about is selling it around cost in consumer-size small bottles.
Y'all know how they human brain is wired to see faces? When I first looked at the picture, my brain insisted that the spot of light or missing skin or whatever toward the top of the second shallot from the left was a Cyclops or Monsters Inc. single eye, and the striation in the middle of the shallot was a mouth, and the bits of stem and root at the sides were little stubby Monsters arms ... For a second I thought you had decided to decorate shallots for Easter instead of eggs, which are in short supply in many areas.
We have three distilleries that come to the local farmers market, and at least one of them was advertising hand sanitizer. Didn't seem worth the trip just for that, as I found three or four small containers of hand sanitizer around the house back around the time this thread started, and I hardly ever need it, since I spend most of my time these days within 20 feet of running water and soap.5 -
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KrissCanDoThis wrote: »Lol... I'm glad I cant see any parks here but that being said, anyone in a park or on a trail or whatever if caught gets fined and their car is towed... so.. it's probably not as bad here but I'd be full on rage on the inside watching those people
Our parks are opened or closed based on specific attributes and usage, I guess. I drove by one today after going out for guess and to deliver disinfectant wipes to my brother, so on a whim I decided to stop and take my daily walk with some different scenery. They rope off any playground equipment, and you're not supposed to play team sports with large groups, but it's OK to walk, run, jog, bike, walk your dog, take the kids out on their scooters, etc., so long as you maintain appropriate distances. It was nice for a while, but after the fifth or so person or couple seemed to go out of their way to crowd my side of the wide path after I stepped off the path to create distance, I had had enough. I was one of a smattering of people using face coverings, but that wouldn't have bothered if I felt like people were paying attention to distancing. I'm willing to consider that at least some of the problem was in my head, and that people weren't intentionally trying to get too close.5 -
JRsLateInLifeMom wrote: »Easter party 🎈at homes (parks closed) here the cops kept running them off they wait come right back or go to another home. One neighbor has 20cars the cops ran them off an hour before their was only 4 cars then. Went in the backyard was so loud neighbors out everywhere sounded like a school carnival 🎡. Wasn’t all the houses but the ones barbecuing had tons of friends besides family over (I could understand a couple family members depending who). One stole a broken treadmill from the yard... hubby got scared he was organizing the garage we thought it was the good one at first. Relief to know they hauled off the trash lol 😆. Wish I could see their faces when they plug it in lol.
Garage looks great we organized door closed at the end Opened garage hauled to the curb all we could ,but had to move a stove y treadmill by the cars to do it.We put the working stove they didn’t steal back in the garage. Hubby went inside for trash sacks that’s all the time they needed.
In our area some jurisdictions are asking people to please not do spring cleaning at this time and have already cancelled "large-item" haul-aways that residents are entitled to request about four times a year. Some things they would normally take with regular pickup are being left, as well. I guess they're having some staffing issues, and also are trying to eliminate situations where multiple workers have to get together to move something large.4 -
KrissCanDoThis wrote: »God love people here...
-- now 4 more people at ths nursing home my company owns have covid.
-- a pizza place employee, despite delivery only here, tested positive and now there is potential contamination for their co workers and anyone who ordered food..
-- an 18 and 19 year old were just charged 3000+ dollars in fines for stunting, driving a car 140km per hour in a 90km zone and not obeying social distancing..
-- two more nursing homes also have more positive tests.
My mom and grandmother ordered chinese then other day and all I could think was what if someone who made their food has it... everyone has to go grocery shopping at some point... 4 grocery stores have already had people who work there test positive... why increase the risk with takeout food
I haven’t been ordering any takeout that can’t be heated to kill the virus or left in the fridge for three days before eating. Covid dies pretty quickly at high temperatures and doesn’t like steam either. So, no salads, coleslaw, etc.
Pay online so no need to sign anything, delivery leaves at end of driveway, put on gloves, food bags get taken into foyer and set on newspaper. Small table in foyer has containers and clean implements. I open containers and hold them while my husband ladles food into containers with clean hands. Containers and newspaper and gloves taken outside and put directly into trash. Then we both wash hands in case anyone did something without realizing. Food in containers gets reheated before eating. We both also assume that anything which has come into the house from more recently than three days ago is infected, regardless of our process, and wash between touching it and eating or touching face.
At this point in my community, our zip code is a hotspot and it’s safer to assume everyone you meet has it, especially delivery people with front facing jobs. But you have to eat, and groceries are no cleaner than takeout.
Re: nursing homes. I wrote a long angry post way back last month about how hapless the staff at nursing homes tend to be and how expecting them to maintain hygiene was a disaster waiting to happen. I am sorry to be right, I would rather have been proven wrong. There was an article in the Boston Globe about how one third of nursing homes in the Boston area have repeated violations about not maintaining sanitation standards during normal times, much less during Coronavirus.6 -
I'm not concerned about delivery (I wash my hands after handling as with everything else), and given the numbers in my city I do assume anyone might have it. I limit delivery because of the reasons I did before this (high cals), but am mostly getting delivery ingredients (just ordered from a nearby farm for delivery on Tuesday), which seems to pose the same issues, as would any ingredients you don't plan to cook.2
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lynn_glenmont wrote: »JRsLateInLifeMom wrote: »Easter party 🎈at homes (parks closed) here the cops kept running them off they wait come right back or go to another home. One neighbor has 20cars the cops ran them off an hour before their was only 4 cars then. Went in the backyard was so loud neighbors out everywhere sounded like a school carnival 🎡. Wasn’t all the houses but the ones barbecuing had tons of friends besides family over (I could understand a couple family members depending who). One stole a broken treadmill from the yard... hubby got scared he was organizing the garage we thought it was the good one at first. Relief to know they hauled off the trash lol 😆. Wish I could see their faces when they plug it in lol.
Garage looks great we organized door closed at the end Opened garage hauled to the curb all we could ,but had to move a stove y treadmill by the cars to do it.We put the working stove they didn’t steal back in the garage. Hubby went inside for trash sacks that’s all the time they needed.
In our area some jurisdictions are asking people to please not do spring cleaning at this time and have already cancelled "large-item" haul-aways that residents are entitled to request about four times a year. Some things they would normally take with regular pickup are being left, as well. I guess they're having some staffing issues, and also are trying to eliminate situations where multiple workers have to get together to move something large.
Often with bigger items left in alleys here, it's assumed someone else might take it away before the garbage service comes. Not uncommon on NextDoor to see "chest of drawers in alley at ___, if you want it." I've dumped plenty of large (and potentially usable) things in the alley over the years not sure if the garbage service would take them, and they were quickly gone even without Nextdoor posting.
At the moment, no clue, as I haven't dumped anything large or out of the ordinary. But we haven't been instructed to change habits.2 -
KrissCanDoThis wrote: »I dont get the Easter thing lol.... it's not christmas... cant people just miss easter? I'm not religious, so I understand that for some it has a religious significance... but those religious things dont have anything to do with bbqs and parties lol...
Easter is a big deal here just like Christmas, so skipping it for us will be like skipping Christmas. This will suck. We did make Easter sweets, but this time instead of serving them we will be eating them lol. We will have a barbecue and prepare a bunch of other food with relatives on Easter eve (they live really close). I'm not very comfortable with the idea of 9 people being in one place together for hours, but it is what it is.9 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »JRsLateInLifeMom wrote: »Easter party 🎈at homes (parks closed) here the cops kept running them off they wait come right back or go to another home. One neighbor has 20cars the cops ran them off an hour before their was only 4 cars then. Went in the backyard was so loud neighbors out everywhere sounded like a school carnival 🎡. Wasn’t all the houses but the ones barbecuing had tons of friends besides family over (I could understand a couple family members depending who). One stole a broken treadmill from the yard... hubby got scared he was organizing the garage we thought it was the good one at first. Relief to know they hauled off the trash lol 😆. Wish I could see their faces when they plug it in lol.
Garage looks great we organized door closed at the end Opened garage hauled to the curb all we could ,but had to move a stove y treadmill by the cars to do it.We put the working stove they didn’t steal back in the garage. Hubby went inside for trash sacks that’s all the time they needed.
In our area some jurisdictions are asking people to please not do spring cleaning at this time and have already cancelled "large-item" haul-aways that residents are entitled to request about four times a year. Some things they would normally take with regular pickup are being left, as well. I guess they're having some staffing issues, and also are trying to eliminate situations where multiple workers have to get together to move something large.
Often with bigger items left in alleys here, it's assumed someone else might take it away before the garbage service comes. Not uncommon on NextDoor to see "chest of drawers in alley at ___, if you want it." I've dumped plenty of large (and potentially usable) things in the alley over the years not sure if the garbage service would take them, and they were quickly gone even without Nextdoor posting.
At the moment, no clue, as I haven't dumped anything large or out of the ordinary. But we haven't been instructed to change habits.
Yeah, in normal times, more often than not I have to call back to cancel after I've scheduled a "big item" pickup because somebody spies it and decides it still has some value, which I'm very happy about -- would rather have it go to someone who will repair it and use it or sell it, than into a landfill. With everybody afraid to touch anything somebody else has touched right now, I don't know if that would still happen.3 -
KrissCanDoThis wrote: »I dont get the Easter thing lol.... it's not christmas... cant people just miss easter? I'm not religious, so I understand that for some it has a religious significance... but those religious things dont have anything to do with bbqs and parties lol...
I think for many people who are religious, the fact that they can't celebrate the religious aspect communally makes the traditional but not-strictly-speaking religious family celebrations all the more emotionally important. I'm not defending people who are breaking policy on not mixing socially with those outside your household, just offering an explanation of why for many people it may be hard to "just miss Easter" (which, by the way, in the Christian religion, is far more important than Christmas).13 -
In the Christian Commumity Easter is the reason for Christianity. Christmas has hyjacked the Pagan mid winter celebrations and probably continues some of their inherant features. There is nothing better than a big winter get together when the days, northern hemisphere, are so wet and cold. I suppose Christmas could be said to mark the start of the road to the "Green Hill outside the City Walls" and the Cross and the Resurrection, on what is now Easter Sunday, then there will be Ascension Day.8
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lynn_glenmont wrote: »KrissCanDoThis wrote: »I dont get the Easter thing lol.... it's not christmas... cant people just miss easter? I'm not religious, so I understand that for some it has a religious significance... but those religious things dont have anything to do with bbqs and parties lol...
I think for many people who are religious, the fact that they can't celebrate the religious aspect communally makes the traditional but not-strictly-speaking religious family celebrations all the more emotionally important. I'm not defending people who are breaking policy on not mixing socially with those outside your household, just offering an explanation of why for many people it may be hard to "just miss Easter" (which, by the way, in the Christian religion, is far more important than Christmas).
I think this is a good explanation.
Because Easter is not normally (or at least not reliably) a nice day where I live, we have no outdoor grilling associations with it. Usually I go to Easter Vigil and a big party after, but that's inherently church related, and then at time I've met people for an Easter brunch or, more commonly, have a dinner with a number of people, kind of similar to other holiday dinners. Since there are no young children in the circle of people who would normally come (or in my closer family), we don't do the usual hiding eggs or chocolate stuff. We did a small Zoom dinner this year, and earlier in the day I watched Easter mass streamed by a church I went to for a long time (last year was my first Easter at my new parish, as I moved just about 2 years ago).
I didn't happen to feel any particular emotional need to do more than I did, and no one in my circles was suggesting it, but I do understand why it might be a tough time for some, as you said.5 -
I know we all believe differently, I think my disconnect here is mostly just, putting faith before your health, your families health.. I understand this day has religious significance even tho I myself dont practice it, but right now we are all making hard sacrifices, not just during this holiday but everyday, by not being able to see our family and friends, but I know that if we all stay safe and follow the rules and do everything we can, all those people will be there for me later, I can handle a little sacrifice now, worship today if that's who you are, but cant you do both? Your worship today definitely comes with a sacrifice that your used to, but why risk those peoples health for potentially one easter...
Am I explaining myself correctly?13
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