Today ...

[temporal1]

Today .. has been a lonely day on forum.

[Somebody]

Today, I transplanted my geraniums into individual pots.

[temporal1]

Today .. i turned off the furnace. Close to 60F.

Not for the season. Lows will continue below freezing.
It’s been nice having the furnace off all day.

Zone 5. Most planting is after Mother’s Day here. Freezing happens.

[ohio jones]

Today .. i turned off the furnace. Close to 60F.

Not for the season. Lows will continue below freezing.
It’s been nice having the furnace off all day.

I have one of these newfangled inventions called a "thermostat" that takes care of that for me. Very convenient.

[temporal1]

Today .. i turned off the furnace. Close to 60F.

Not for the season. Lows will continue below freezing.
It’s been nice having the furnace off all day.

I have one of these newfangled inventions called a "thermostat" that takes care of that for me. Very convenient.

i have a basic thermostat. i understand some programmable ones are supposed to be efficient.
i’m not convinced. i keep gas+electric pretty low using a more DIY method.

i find nothing is cheaper than “OFF.”

i’m on an electric coop. the service is great. bills are high.
their daily kW tracker is so detailed, i can just about detect an extra light bulb or use of the microwave, everyday!
i use a minimal amount of electricity, i pay over double that charge for delivery, surcharges, taxes, etc., they are not shy about adding monthly fees.

i’m fortunate to have natural gas in my rural location. i’m frugal, the costs have been manageable.
gas furnace, water heater, range.

[QuietlyListening]

Planted some snap peas and began to prep our sweet potato bed- not that we'll plant for another 2 months but moving cover cloth, fertilizing etc in prep.

It'll soon be that time of year for lots of garden planting etc.

[temporal1]

Page 144:

Aaron:
TODAY, hmmmm......, washing hands..... AND PRAY ...... and GRATEFUL ! ..... and "bypass those things" ! ....

all clues to what to do..... (one of the things known for a while ) .... (people who did what was right, avoided this >> )
(not 100% maybe, but enough that made a difference!)

"the Black Plague

According to Stephen J. Spignesi in the “100 Greatest Disasters of All Time”, the defeat of the Black Plague was largely due to improvements in hygiene, which prevented the fleas from transmitting the disease to survive. However, it took more than a century for Europe’s population to return to the pre-pandemic level. The disease had appeared a few times before but was not as destructive as the first time. It remained in history as the Great Plague of Vienna (1679) or the Great Plague of London (1665–1666), continuing to appear until the 19th century."

The quote above was from Page 2, 2016, back in olden times when people got sick and hoped to get better, without international effort to intervene.

Coincidentally, this year, i viewed my first lecture from THE GREAT COURSES:

“The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague” Course No. 8241
Professor Dorsey Armstrong, Ph.D. Purdue University
https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses ... lague.html

There are 24 lectures. i was able to view at no cost, but there was a time limit. i viewed over half, before the offer ended. so, not sure “how it ends.” a cliff-hanger for me.

i’m enjoying your walk through the forum archives .. i enjoy doing this, also.

One day ..
i hope to read about how all these present-day measures taken to prevent COVID19 may have prevented lots of colds, flu, and other communicable disease? my guess is, there must be lower numbers across the board? of many infections and deaths.

altho, possibly some statics have increased? possibly suicides? neuroses? anger?

i view this today as a big experiment.
i was born into a world without vaccines for chicken pox, measles, mumps, flu, even polio!
schools and work were rarely closed, altho, i know, for sure, sometimes attendance was very low.
it wasn’t by gov mandate. missing school, work, church, were serious matters.

often, children and adults would come to school/work, etc., with fevers, coughing, sneezing, and full symptoms of illness. typically, nothing much said. pass the kleenex! (red spots would get you sent home.)

eventually, children were required to bring a couple of boxes of kleenex at the beginning of the school year, knowing cold+flu season would come.

those diseases were awful. i survived most. i did not contract polio or scarlet fever. but, i remember my parents’ intense fear of them. whooping cough. so many serious diseases.

interesting COVID19 seems to go easy on children. so far, it’s not a common “childhood disease.”

i’m witnessing and experiencing this 2020 experiment, hoping it works.
i want to be with my family again.

.. i wrote: ^^
“The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague” Course No. 8241
Professor Dorsey Armstrong, Ph.D. Purdue University
https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses ... lague.html

There are 24 lectures. i was able to view at no cost, but there was a time limit. i viewed over half, before the offer ended. so, not sure “how it ends.” a cliff-hanger for me.

Ha-ha.
This series has returned to Amazon Prime.
i’m picking up where i left off. only a few lectures remaining.

[Robert]

Wednesday, my wife and I looked at the Social Security I would get if I started drawing this year at 62. It would be $1200. If I wait till 66, I can get $1800. So we decided we should wait. We also decided I should look for a part time job to help cover some of the increase of cost to live where we are. The next day I was in the local Ace Hardware. They had a sign up saying they were taking applications. I picked one up. I dropped it off Friday. I got a call in about 30 minutes asking if I could come in Saturday for an interview.

I met the owner at 2 pm today. We visited for about 30 minutes and he offered me a job on the spot. He said he has never done that before, but felt he was being lead in this whole process. He is also a Christian. We talked more about faith then business. Quote a strange interview, but one I will remember for a while.

So I start this coming week. I asked for part time work. Sounds like he needs me full time. I can't do that yet, but can carry a 4 day load for a bit.

So I guess I am no longer a shiftless, unemployed bum. I am just a shiftless bum now.

[Sudsy]

Wednesday, my wife and I looked at the Social Security I would get if I started drawing this year at 62. It would be $1200. If I wait till 66, I can get $1800. So we decided we should wait. We also decided I should look for a part time job to help cover some of the increase of cost to live where we are. The next day I was in the local Ace Hardware. They had a sign up saying they were taking applications. I picked one up. I dropped it off Friday. I got a call in about 30 minutes asking if I could come in Saturday for an interview.

I met the owner at 2 pm today. We visited for about 30 minutes and he offered me a job on the spot. He said he has never done that before, but felt he was being lead in this whole process. He is also a Christian. We talked more about faith then business. Quote a strange interview, but one I will remember for a while.

So I start this coming week. I asked for part time work. Sounds like he needs me full time. I can't do that yet, but can carry a 4 day load for a bit.

So I guess I am no longer a shiftless, unemployed bum. I am just a shiftless bum now.

And also a 'Saint', a multi-tasker.

[silentreader]

Wednesday, my wife and I looked at the Social Security I would get if I started drawing this year at 62. It would be $1200. If I wait till 66, I can get $1800. So we decided we should wait. We also decided I should look for a part time job to help cover some of the increase of cost to live where we are. The next day I was in the local Ace Hardware. They had a sign up saying they were taking applications. I picked one up. I dropped it off Friday. I got a call in about 30 minutes asking if I could come in Saturday for an interview.

I met the owner at 2 pm today. We visited for about 30 minutes and he offered me a job on the spot. He said he has never done that before, but felt he was being lead in this whole process. He is also a Christian. We talked more about faith then business. Quote a strange interview, but one I will remember for a while.

So I start this coming week. I asked for part time work. Sounds like he needs me full time. I can't do that yet, but can carry a 4 day load for a bit.

So I guess I am no longer a shiftless, unemployed bum. I am just a shiftless bum now.

I guess time will tell whether you are shiftless or not. Welcome to the semi-employed poor.