Trying times

80º with 74% humidity at 12:40 pm on Monday 3-16-20

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Since the public buildings on the property are all closed, due to the Coronavirus, so we had choir practice on our patio Friday. 

Sunday we had church services on our patio and chairs set to the west on the grass.

These photos were all taken from my position in the choir section, against the house.

These are the postings on the doors of the rec hall and the indoor swimming pool.  City officials requested that the building with the laundromat, toilets and showers be opened.  All gatherings now are outdoors at someone's place.

This sign was over the urinal in a unisex restroom in the pool room that our Barbershop Chorus warmed up a couple weeks ago.  Unique sign.

 We have the trailer plugged in so can run the refrigerator and freezer to keep some food in until we head home.  With all the restrictions on gatherings, etc. we will not be traveling, with the trailer, very soon.  Hope things settle down regarding the Carnivorous.

Last Friday I spent 4 or 5 hours helping Carl Pingleton load his car so he could go to near St. Louis.  He returned Saturday night, with some medical problems.  He has dementia and is very troubled.  I finally got him to have a serious conversation with one of his sons there and they decided that Carl should sty down here for 30 days, until the Carnivorous settles down.  One of the park residents who stays here 12 months a year is trying to get him into a health facility.

Sunday afternoon Phyllis & I helped him get some of his stuff back in the house.  He is not stable at this point.

The tomato plants have been "standing still" for at least the last 3 weeks.  Sprayed many times for the white flies that seemed to be bothering them.

I finally took out the four plants in the big tubs this morning.  There are some tomatoes set on the smaller plants, but they have not changed in the three weeks.  Will give them a little more time.





Our daughter was going to fly down here from Columbus, OH to help Phyllis celebrate her birthday a week from this Saturday, but she is now declining to fly and hoping to get flight credit which can be used later.  She had bought the tickets some five weeks ago before this Carnivorous thing.  Son was going to drive down, but that is now cancelled, also.

At least 4 RV units pulled out this weekend, a little earlier than planned, and several more are leaving this week, heading north.  We will wait, not leaving before March 30th, and maybe later.

 GROANER'S CORNER:((   On a bus trip to Canada a group of American Seniors stopped at a cheese farm, a young guide led them through the process of cheese making, explaining that goats milk was used.  She showed the group a lovely hillside where many goats were grazing.  "These", she explained, "are the older goats put out to pasture when they no longer produce."  She then asked, "What do you do in America with your old goats?"  A spry old gentleman answered, "They send us on bus tours."
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Three trees & a woodpecker

     Two tall trees, a birch and a beech, are growing in the woods.  A small tree begins to grow between them, and the beech says to the birch, “Is that a son of a beech or a son of a birch?”

     The Birch says he cannot tell, but just then a woodpecker lands on the sapling.

     The birch says, “Woodpecker, you are a tree expert.  Can you tell if that is a son of a beech or a son of a birch?”

     The woodpecker takes a taste of the small tree and replies, “It is neither a son of a beech nor a son of a birch.  It is, however, the best piece of ash I have ever poked my pecker into”

 
Lynn