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Hopalong:
There's a couple months' pipeline backup on cellulose, so wound up with blown-in fiberglass. I think it feels warmer in here already. Done and dusted.
Crow procedures update:
1. I am not on a schedule.
2. Crows are not on a schedule.
3. Crows come in the yard and march around impatiently.
4. A couple who seem to like me best add caws to get my attention and perch fairly near. We chat a little bit. (Some still spook when I suddenly walk across living room.)
5. If I'm wandering through adquately caffeinated and spot them thru the big window, I come out and toss the peanuts. They wait until I go back in.
6. Then they swoop right in and gobble. Sometimes a few spat with squirrels who are waiting too.
It works fine and always feels happy. Trying to be scheduled just didn't.
hugs and caws,
Hops
lighter:
Nice to read your update, Hops. The crows are lovely birds. So big, black and healthy looking.
We're fighting a bug of some sort. Testing Neg 3 nights in a row, but that might change tonight. All 3 if us voted in masks today. Done and dusted.
Lighter
Hopalong:
Awww, Lighter. I hope it's not one of the damn variants. Keep testing!
This week I went 3 times to cardio PT, for which I'm verrry grateful. Same time, I was gobsmacked by the giant hole in their precautions. They're really good at limiting the number of people (no drop ins, fixed exercise times) and disinfecting everything, but the mask requirement is a joke. Low-ceilinged sealed space, zero fresh air (some comment about "upgraded ventilation" but you can't detect it). Folks huffing and puffing on machines (I always ask for the more isolated ones.)
Both staff and 90% of the (older) recovering heart patients are wearing only those little blue paper surgical masks -- big gaps at the sides -- which were months ago deemed totally inadequate against the virile variants that zip through the air. (And there's no vaccination requirement.) They should be wearing N95s and at least educating folks about them! They also all cluster together at the monitoring counter ....so forget distancing.
Oh, right. It's a health-care corporation. I rest my case.
I use a KN95 covered by a cloth mask, because that combo is equivalent to an N95. Exercising in a double mask is weird (gasp) but I'm adapting. Had a big argument with myself about it and decided I have to risk it because it'll save my life, basically. I used sanitizer so often I'll need a hand transplant before I'm done.
I'm tedious about it, but consistently tedious! Heard an encouraging report about the possibilities of future vaxs that will eventually get us past the scramble-and-boost that's the best science can do right now. They're working SO hard on it. This virus is different; people forget the "novel" part. Apologies for the rant!
And GOOD on you and your Ds for voting early.
hugs
Hops
lighter:
The masks and distancing and testing don't add up to make much sense to me, Hops. Everyone in my circle has had Covid. Some very serious and some less so, but everyone.
You do what you can,then stop worrying.....good on'ya for getting to your appointments and getting the most out of them.
We had another night or Neg Covid tests, so I think it's just allergies and regular colds. I swear by the xylitol nose spray to stop secondary infections, I usually get. I travel with it in my purse, daily,bc self care usually goes down the tubes when I'm layed low. I can at least do THAT one thing, if nothing else.
Lighter
Hopalong:
Most people in my circle (more elderly I'm sure than yours, and mostly highly-educated because my church is my main orbit and the denomination draws more than average advanced-degreed folks) have not gotten covid. Most are quietly (unlike me) going about wearing N95s, minimal mingling, social distancing consistently, using delivery or curbside, trying not to expose others or themselves. Some (like me) haven't eaten indoors at a restaurant once in three years. For me, the various deprivations aren't really that, they just feel like necessary adaptations if I want to go on. I squawk but I do it.
It's all tedious but in purely rational terms, it does make sense to me. I yak about it a lot because I'm so determined not to get it if I can avoid it since it could upend my life with permanent bad consequences (not just the short-term illness). Those consequences would be worse than present worrying (for me). I believe one can avoid it. Everyone I know who did get it took a specific, proven extra risk. Freedom. A misunderstanding of nature-consequences has dominated the country for emotional herd-behavior reasons, unfortunately. Despite all the opinion and hysteria (in either direction) ginned up online and in media, which has led to a societal meltdown in so many tragic ways)--the virus doesn't care if we declare our own reality. (We all do, in different ways.) Evolution don't care either. Honey Badger.
Anyway, I'll try not to rant too much more about it here, and I'm sorry. Anxiety over friends gets me hyped up I think because friends are my (only) phamily. One dear one has recently been exposed and it's been a heartache to watch her host a houseful of young people who just flew across the country and aren't wearing masks in her home in common areas because as an old-school -- and old at 80 -- hostess, she just can't bring herself to ask them to. She whispered it to me over the phone, sounding scared.
I'm glad your approach is working for you, Light, mentally and physically. And I learn a lot of good from your examples and ways of thinking that has often changed my direction!
hugs
Hops
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