CoTT 2 House of Cards

[Marty]

4 hours ago, Headstall said:

Hey, Marty.

Hey, Gary.

Hope you're having a great Friday.  

[Page Scrawler]

2 minutes ago, Marty said:

Hope you're having a great Friday.  

Hey, Marty!   

[Marty]

4 hours ago, Headstall said:

A poem...

https://gayauthors.org/story/headstall/lyrical-laments/22 

A powerful poem! 

[Marty]

3 hours ago, Bucket1 said:

Off to bed for me...

Sweet dreams, B

[Marty]

24 minutes ago, Page Scrawler said:

Hey, Marty!   

Hey, Page  

Hope you're having a great Friday, as well  

[Albert1434]

Hey Marty how did your day in the garden go?

[Marty]

19 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

Hey Marty how did your day in the garden go?

It went really well, thanks for asking. 

Continued clearing out the final, badly overgrown, corner. That should be finished soon.There'll be another bonfire to get rid of all the brushwood. Should be the last big bonfire, though.

Also started turning a bit of soil for my vegetable growing.

 

[Page Scrawler]

35 minutes ago, Marty said:

Hey, Page  

Hope you're having a great Friday, as well  

We are, thanks.   

[Albert1434]

One of the biggest meat packing plants in SD now has 777 cases of corona19 and is closed. And there talking about panic buying and only allowing you to buy so much meats.

Edited April 18, 2020 by Albert1434

[Valkyrie]

1 minute ago, Albert1434 said:

One of the biggest meat packing plants in SD now has 777 cases of corona19 and is closed. And there talking about panic buying and only allowing you to buy some much meats.

I went shopping yesterday and the meat section was fully stocked.  They've been limiting buying to one meat item per person for several weeks here.  It wasn't crowded either and not much of a line to checkout.  Even with the plant closures, there's no shortage of groceries.  

[Albert1434]

Well I wish it would stay that way but we will have to see

[Marty]

With the lockdown and social distancing, I am finding myself often not knowing what day of the week it is...

When I remembered that today is Friday, I realised I hadn't taken photograph number 3 for the 52 out of 52 challenge I have set myself, to try and take one new black and white photograph each week over  a full year. And the rules state that each week's photograph should be uploaded before midnight each Friday. As I type this, it is currently 23:25 hours.

Due to the fact that I am currently, under Government covid-19 regulations, not supposed to leave the house or garden, I have limited choices of what to photograph at present. 

This is what I came up with:

Spoiler

 

Edited April 17, 2020 by Marty

[Albert1434]

Great Photo Marty

[Page Scrawler]

Just went grocery shopping this morning, and there was no visible change to the meat department yet, though the deli section has been partially closed for weeks now.

[Marty]

20 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

Great Photo Marty

They're just some of the bits of rock, fragments of concrete, and broken slate that I have found in the garden as I have been clearing it.  

[Headstall]

4 hours ago, dughlas said:

A true lament.

Yes, it was definitely in the right collection.   Thanks, dugh.  

[Headstall]

3 hours ago, Marty said:

A powerful poem! 

Thanks, Marty!  

[Marty]

Time for my cocoa

[Headstall]

1 hour ago, Marty said:

With the lockdown and social distancing, I am finding myself often not knowing what day of the week it is...

When I remembered that today is Friday, I realised I hadn't taken photograph number 3 for the 52 out of 52 challenge I have set myself, to try and take one new black and white photograph each week over  a full year. And the rules state that each week's photograph should be uploaded before midnight each Friday. As I type this, it is currently 23:25 hours.

Due to the fact that I am currently, under Government covid-19 regulations, not supposed to leave the house or garden, I have limited choices of what to photograph at present. 

This is what I came up with:

  Reveal hidden contents

 

Wonderful! Love black and white!

[Headstall]

I wrote 3500 words today, for a new short story... it is semi complete.  

[Marty]

The cocoa was delicious!

Good night, all

[Headstall]

1 minute ago, Marty said:

The cocoa was delicious!

Good night, all

Night, Marty! Sweet dreams.  

[Bucket1]

8 hours ago, dughlas said:

Just please tell me you don't eat mushy peas ...

No, there are limits  

Mushy pea consumption seems to be a state thing, very big in South Australia and some in New South Wales but the rest of the country, not so much

[Bucket1]

5 hours ago, Albert1434 said:

One of the biggest meat packing plants in SD now has 777 cases of corona19 and is closed. And there talking about panic buying and only allowing you to buy so much meats.

 

5 hours ago, Valkyrie said:

I went shopping yesterday and the meat section was fully stocked.  They've been limiting buying to one meat item per person for several weeks here.  It wasn't crowded either and not much of a line to checkout.  Even with the plant closures, there's no shortage of groceries.  

OMG I found toilet paper and lots of it. Only got one pack

Mince and sausages have been in short supply in supermarkets here. I’m not sure if that is panic buying, kids being home from school or a combination of the two.

 

And in another story of justice, a guy paid a group of people to buy toilet paper and hand sanitizer requiring 138 separate trips to the store. He purchased over $10,000 worth of product and was trying to make a killing on eBay. They shut him down so he took the receipts and toilet paper back to the store but was told to go away. No one likes extortionists 

[Bucket1]

4 hours ago, Marty said:

Time for my cocoa

Well deserved after all the work in the garden