How are you coping? What are you doing

[ian]

The 60 day sweet corn I started indoors 3 weeks before last frost is getting close to ready. And the raccoons tried to beat me to it, night before last like they always do.

The sounds of raccoons screaming in pain and frustration while getting zapped instead of munching sweet corn in the moonlight are music to my ears. They will have to learn to fly if they want any more of mine.

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Can you put a camera outside at night and capture some of their misery? I need some video therapy.

 

[M1k3]

Can you put a camera outside at night and capture some of their misery? I need some video therapy.

 

[Bert2368]

I will see

Can you put a camera outside at night and capture some of their misery? I need some video therapy.

I have a couple of trail cameras, I will try to dig them out and see if these critters are photogenic. Then, if I have teh mad skillz to get any video from them uploaded with only an android phone.

 

[ecchef]

Well, looks like our July re-opening has been postponed, so I’ve been farmed out to Base Safety. Today was hazmat day. Oh joy!

 

[Luftmensch]

Well, looks like our July re-opening has been postponed, so I’ve been farmed out to Base Safety. Today was hazmat day. Oh joy!

Sorry about that. Looking serious though!

 

[WildBoar]

Well, looks like our July re-opening has been postponed, so I’ve been farmed out to Base Safety. Today was hazmat day. Oh joy!
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I have trouble feeling sorry for anyone who gets paid to live in San Diego

 

[ecchef]

I have trouble feeling sorry for anyone who gets paid to live in San Diego

I don’t get paid to live here. LQA is only for overseas postings.

 

[rickbern]

Anybody in the mood for some inconclusiv news that qualifies as being guardedly optimistic?

https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/14/moderna-covid19-vaccine-first-data-show-spurs-immune-response/

 

[rickbern]

Markets seem optimistic about it, but they’re so divorced from reality, who can tell?

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/14/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html

 

[Keith Sinclair]

This was my project during covid. Grass is more filled in now. Restoring some curly koa tables got cheap off Craigslist.

 

[Keith Sinclair]

 

[boomchakabowwow]

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That came out awesome

 

[Bert2368]

Landscaping looks nice! Also, like you've got some volcanoes in the neighborhood. What kind of grass works in Hawaii?

Koa for cheap because, it's common? I have a stash of hardwood pulled from dumpsters for free or picked up cheap at yard sales. On a good day, 5/4 hard maple, quarter sawn white oak, cherry and very occasionally, butternut or black walnut as used & abused coffee/dining/end tables. Was intending to use them for laminating turning blanks when I collected them 20 or 30 years ago, but considering they haven't split or delaminated by now, maybe they SHOULD be table tops.

 

[Keith Sinclair]

Got Koa end table & coffee they were grimy water stain etc. No deep gouges so not hard to restore. Could see the curl it came out nice very nice Koa tables from 1950's. Paid 150.00 total for both.

El Toro Zorsia grass works well. Actually one of the last post erosional eruptions on Oahu was in Paoa valley where I live. Soil is rich volcanic. We make compost with kitchen scraps, grass clippings, steer poop. Have a spin bin 40 gallon. Organic garden back yard between two old lava rock walls.

 

[Luftmensch]

This was my project during covid. Grass is more filled in now. Restoring some curly koa tables got cheap off Craigslist.

Was really hoping you would post a photo. Thank you so much. Thats really cool! Nice cheery hibiscus bloom going on there.

 

[Keith Sinclair]

Yellow Hibiscus Hawaii State flower, have three the two Hybrids are nice too.

Grow Orchid in shade between houses.
Live near Paos stream when it rains hard swells runs fast. The ducks come up to our place.

 

[naader]

Soaking up government neetbux and polishing knives all day isn't so bad

 

[podzap]

Not coping well. I've mostly stopped cooking since my wife has mostly stopped eating and all the teens have moved out.

 

[Michi]

Not coping well. I've mostly stopped cooking since my wife has mostly stopped eating and all the teens have moved out.

Find a project (any project), and have at it. Just sitting around is never good. Maybe you can conjure up something that you and your wife can do together? Just being together doing something is healthy!

 

[big_adventure]

Not coping well. I've mostly stopped cooking since my wife has mostly stopped eating and all the teens have moved out.

Seriously, like @Michi said, find something to do. Download an exercise app, follow some yoga videos, learn to bake bread, something to avoid a downward spiral (unless you are talking about an NIN album, that's fine).

 

[RDalman]

Seriously, like @Michi said, find something to do. Download an exercise app, follow some yoga videos, learn to bake bread, something to avoid a downward spiral (unless you are talking about an NIN album, that's fine).

Some album that! Have to revisit.. Todays shop music.

 

[Luftmensch]

Not coping well.

I am sorry to hear that

I'd do what @Keith Sinclair did... gardening... furniture restoration.... . Keeping my hands busy keeps my mind still... But I recognise others are different. You have reconnect with what compels you!! Maybe its socialising... friends? Family? Maybe its literature? Maybe its exercise? Maybe its nature?

Perhaps get out there with your better half and see some of your stunning fjords? Nature always makes me happy...

 

[Bear]

I've got to run her or my socks catch hell

 

[podzap]

Find a project (any project), and have at it. Just sitting around is never good. Maybe you can conjure up something that you and your wife can do together? Just being together doing something is healthy!

We've been cooped up together for so long that I need to keep any potential weapons out of her reach.

 

[podzap]

I am sorry to hear that

Perhaps get out there with your better half and see some of your stunning fjords? Nature always makes me happy...

We don't have fjords in Finland. We do go out driving around sometimes, pack up the dogs and drive for a few hours.

Depression has it's grip on both of us. Hell, we're not even drinking anymore since last summer..

 

[lowercasebill]

We don't have fjords in Finland. We do go out driving around sometimes, pack up the dogs and drive for a few hours.

Depression has it's grip on both of us. Hell, we're not even drinking anymore since last summer..

Sad to hear that.. Depression has it's grip here as well. I do cook for my jobless adult son. And i cook good stuff just no motivation to post. Maybe you can cook her favorite and post the pics here? Or cook a classic Finnish dish that we (meaning I) can learn/cook.

 

[lowercasebill]

Sad to hear that.. Depression has it's grip here as well. I do cook for my jobless adult son. And i cook good stuff just no motivation to post. Maybe you can cook her favorite and post the pics here? Or cook a classic Finnish dish that we (meaning I) can learn/cook.

I meant sad to hear about your depression not your lack of fjords.

 

[Keith Sinclair]

It's taken its toll. I catch it cuz she has to stay home instead going out with friends. Complains I'm watching too much TV movies.

We go get our shots today.

 

[lowercasebill]

Can she socialize with friends outside? At the beach. I occasionally distance in the driveway with neighbors and bourbon.

 

[Keith Sinclair]

At the YMCA zumba & yoga she would go out
after and eat lunch with friends from the Y.

Now everything streaming does zumba in open garage with laptop on my small work bench.

Most places are still takeout here. Hope changes soon. We just got first covid vaccine shot today go back for second shot in 28 days.

We picked up Korean food on way back.