How are you all doin through this coronavirus thin

People are stuck at home and using their plumbing a lot more than they were before . Any problem that they have been putting off is now much more serious . Friends tell me I need to stay home but loyal customers need my services . A nurse I know has supplied me with good facemasks and I have a stockpile of nitrile gloves . Trying to only run emergency calls , but everything is an emergency now. Customers are a mixed bag ,some don't seem to care and tell me to take the gloves and mask off . Others are spraying me down with bleach and spraying everything in my wake . I replaced a water heater the other day and I never saw the customer . She would yell down to the basement and then she left the check in the garage . Trying to be careful but keep thinking that running these service calls I am putting myself and customers at risk . Hard to judge weighing risk , spreading virus verse leaving someone with sewage in their home , no hot water , toilet not working . Where do you draw the line .Wholesale houses set parts outside and require 10 foot separation from employees .They may shut down this week , will see what Monday brings. As long as Lowes and Menards stay open I will keep working as when parts are done so am I .

Hell of a world we are living in . Arguments with friends over freedom vs public safety . I have always sided with freedom and will continue to but common sense tells us to listen to the experts . Problem today is who do you listen to ?

Be safe everyone and look out for your friends and family .God Bless

Yes prom being most likely cancelled was another hit for her. At least she hadn't yet bought a dress...... if that can be considered a good side

I am just trying to stay away from people and avoid my folks until this passes (other than the 6 pounds of meat I took them Friday). I am working remotely and my better half is an essential worker so she goes in every day. Just playing it day by day, but mostly staying indoors, even though there's plenty of outdoor projects to do. At least it is snowing today. No reason to go out. Stores are a zoo here in IL lately, as every couple of days the clamp down is more serious. We've got 6 confirmed cases in our county here so far I think.

here she is sleeping

Just behaving myself, keeping distance from wife as she gets a little testy when cooped up. Have the old Allis crawler as a project, pick up more and more around the shop or in the house garage as Order is more important that the chaos.

Franklin county is now pretty much a bad day, nurse at Mercy Hospital Washington diagnosed with CV19 she lives in STL County where the Washington hospital is currently under quarantine with her. Pretty well surrounded Callaway Cole Franklin and Pulaski counties close in. Scott to SE, Jackson, Cass and Henry to West. St Charles and STL Counties East with city of STL.

Nothing has really changed for me. I guess I live a boring life.

it's the first time I wished we had UHT Milk (like Canada) that is bagged, stores without refrigeration and has a 6 - 9 month shelf life. I can live without coffee, but I need milk !!!

Lonn wrote: Yes prom being most likely cancelled was another hit for her. At least she hadn't yet bought a dress...... if that can be considered a good side

We are sitting on two new dresses for prom because the boyfriend goes to another high school! I told her we could have prom on the farm but they came out with no gathering of 10 or more people. Like Ed I have my own shop on the farm so we are still working. Wife works at hospital in OR no more non essential surgeries for now. Daughter is a junior and I have waited for three years for this years softball team to make. Had a legitimate chance to go all the way this year. She has been playing since she was five and I know it’s just a sport but after so much anticipation for the season we played 4 games before they cancelled schools and sports. But there will be next year I hope.

Coronavirus Pandemic, day 16.
If anyone is still out there, I’m alive but struggling. Food is running low. Down to only 459 days worth. My hands are super sanitized and my butt is super clean. Down to 15993 rounds of ammo (dropped 1 round down the heat vent while doing daily inventory). Power still on, but for how long? Missing human interaction but I have my dogs.. for now.. (I'm soaking their food in BBQ sauce in an attempt to marinate them from the inside in case I have to eat them) . I fear dark days ahead. News is all bad. Neighbors have attempted to leap from windows to their death, (or near death... most have single story homes so they are badly bruised). Blew through most Netflix series so may have to rewatch some again..Basic Survival is a definite challenge. I vow to persevere to the end, I am a survivor! Please, if there is life out there, communicate with me to help preserve my sanity..

Yesterday, Jean and I got in the car to drive around.  Did not want the car to sit too long battery would go down.  In fact when pushed the start button was reminded of low battery.  We drove around our neighborhood in Bel Air, MD   Interesting.  Grocery Stores had cars out front, Macy's and Kohl's had empty lots.  Drove by Best Buy and saw some yellow jacketed people roaming the parking lot.  Stopped by one and was told they were delivering items that had been called in to the store for pick up.  Gas $ 1.99 -really low for Maryland.  Shopping centers empty - course they are closed except for food stores that have outdoor access for carry out.  Dick L hang in there. 

Armand(AZ) wrote: We live in a gated community here in Mesa.

I have a pair of gates across the only entrance onto the property; I hadn't thought about it before, but I guess I live in a gated community as well.

My mother lived in a gated community for several years; it was sort of amusing; open rusty gates on rotted posts at the steep gravel entrance, steep narrow gravel and mud pot-holed roads between the constantly falling trees, little old ratty-looking rundown houses everywhere with the most peculiar people living in them, a big swimming pool taken over by frogs and a big recreation hall with plywood over the windows.
Since it was a "gated community", the county would not maintain the pitiful roads.

Worse rundown homes just outside the community will sell quicker and for more money on account of having access to county water and county road maintenance.

If its like the lockdown around here, its very loose as Walmart parking lots are packed at all times of the day-  what a joke

Buck Skin, Now that you mention it, I guess I lived in a gated community back when I a kid in SD.  We closed the gate so the sheep could mow the lawn!!  


Edited by Armand(AZ) - 23 Mar 2020 at 6:17pm

I realize that the lockdown and school cancellations are difficult on the graduating seniors, and they will miss out on an important part of their youth with proms and graduation ceremonies.   I saw something that puts it into a bit of perspective.