So much to say, so little time to write it down, now that the sun is shining a bit more. Saturday was a big outdoor work day: prepping the grow beds for planting, mowing the big honkin’ yard, taking down the Christmas lights (yeah, I know). It was good to get out into the sunshine, build up some additional immunity with God’s own Vitamin D. The worked stretched into Sunday afternoon after “going” to live-streamed Church.
It included dusting several fire ant mounds. You have a problem with that? You obviously have not had a deep personal relationship with fire ants. They are intruders to our latitude and do much harm well beyond their blasted biting.
It was good to get away from social media for a few hours. The level of imbecility and sheer propaganda is hard to take.
A positive of self-isolation is that I am cooking more often, occasionally trying new recipes. But once a week, we will order take-out from a local restaurant to support the “little man” (or woman) who is struggling to stay in business during the Great Covid-19 Panic of 2020. Saturday night’s search for a restaurant was discouraging. So many of the good ones have shuttered for the duration, leaving few in operation.
The longer the rule-makers keep us locked down, the less likely the closed restaurants emerge from quarantine. The fast food chains have fared better because they knew how to do “drive through.”
We settled on Si Senor, a Mexican restaurant in Wister. They adapted by adding a drive-through and keeping their help busy. Great food, reasonably priced, and well worth the 12-mile drive.
On Sunday, we had pot roast, okra, squash and mashed potatoes, to remind us of God’s bounty (and perhaps a reminder to get those seeds in the grow beds). Just as our country should not rely on foreign sources of critically needed items – like medicine – so we Americans should not be totally beholden on grocery stores chains to provide for us in tough times.
My children used to mock me for my prepping efforts. Today, they are asking for advice. Truth is, prepping is an investment of time, money and effort. I spend too much time working and writing to be a good prepper, but I don’t tell them that.
After the Gold Rush 