Weekend activities

Yesterday was another work on the shed/coop day. Last weekend we had stained the concrete base around the chicken coop with the stain I used on the posts and we liked it, so we decided to stain all the visible concrete foundation. We have tons of this stain leftover from the house, so might as well use it. DH caulked all his nail holes everywhere and I touched up with the trim paint. Up and down ladders for several hours. Boy, my back felt it by afternoon/evening. All my muscles in my back pretty much seized up on me (reminded me of the first few years after my car accident).

We decided to plant some wild flowers in an area of our driveway island and some small areas in back. I found some online for $10 that will more than cover the area we want. They don't start shipping out until the week after this one. Our neighbors just planted two maple trees in their backyard, near their dog run. Hoping to provide shade for the dogs. I'm afraid they are probably going to have to wait a very long time before those will be big enough, LOL. She ordered some online from Home Depot and they are bareroot and only like 3 or 4 feet tall. DH wanted to know what they were and where they got them. We want to plant a couple of maples out front, but I think we'd be better off to spend the money on larger trees. But, just trying to figure out how to get home with them. We can't drive 80mph home on the freeway with them in the back of the pickup, LOL.


For dinner I made chicken fried steak and mashed potatoes and country gravy. I didn't really feel much like making a big meal, but I had already taken the cube steak out to thaw the day before and it needed to get used before it went bad. It was tasty and afterwards I went to lay on the bed, which always seems to help relax my back muscles. I eventually fell asleep and woke up at 7:20pm LOL.

Tomorrow the wire for the coop we had to order is supposed to be in. Our lumber store guy said he ran out quick, as it all of a sudden was chicken coop and baby pigs pen season (apparently for 4H kids) and he sold out.

My eye has been good now for 4 days, so I am thankful for that.

I see the natives are starting to get restless with quarantine life. It is time to start getting back to work and life, especially in areas, like here, where we have had zero people infected with it in our county and only 399 in the whole state. If staying home for over a month hasn't helped, well then nothing will. I was talking outside with my neighbors Saturday morning. They are in their late 60's. She works at a bank and her bank decided to put them in 2 groups, one week on and one week off, that way if one in a group gets it they will only have to have that group stay out of work and can have the other group back full time. She said she knows her age group is more susceptible, but her words were "if I get it, I get it. The country and the world shouldn't have to crash because of it". I said that's my thoughts exactly. We all can do what we can to try to protect ourselves and those most vulnerable to it, but to crash an entire economy is insane. This past month has been wise and prudent, but it's obviously not a sustainable solution for this country and for people to survive economically.

Our little town restaurant and cafe should be opened back up. I have been to that restaurant dozens of times and honestly, it was already doing social distancing, just out of the usual amount of customers they get and the size of the place. I'd say there are about 16 tables in there and other than a Saturday morning (which they could regulate # of guests allowed in at a time) there has never been more than 4-5 tables filled up at a time and of course, just out of people's natural tendency, everyone spreads out (it's a seat yourself place). They don't get a ton of business, but obviously it was enough to keep open all these years. There's no reason they can't be open now, practicing spacing out the dining guests and sanitation. Our little town is dead enough, as far as business go, we don't need to lose any more.
 
That Michigan governor (sorry Lucy!) is something else. And a friend in Washington shared a post of a "protest" in eastern WA, at a lake. Bunches of boats spaced out on the water, fishing. One sign said fish don't have covid. I have another friend with an ocean beach house. She can't even take a walk on the beach.

I've got $10 in Kohls' cash to find something to buy. DH was in need of a new pair of tennis shoes to rotate into his "good pair and work pair" cycle and I earned $10. I'm not even sure what to buy. Maybe a new summer t-shirt for me. At least there is a free shipping code for card holders.