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glad- it is sad Many of that generation and more reject the covid safety guidelines and, as you say, seem to need to "move" and have new experiences. I don't think we taught them that. I suspect technology. Mine are a bit older and are respecting what needs to be done for society so far It isn't easy but it is doable. We can create our own happiness.

ff - Oh gosh. Can I identify. I earned some physics watching water flow in the channels I made in melting snow. Didn't realize it at the time. There were always interesting things to do. I grew up without tv. I was a late teenager before my parents got one - black and white and you changed the few channels manually. Just the other day I was just talking with R about my push lawn mower activities - in the blazing sun, a foot tall grass one time when I had been away, I took a run at it and cut about 9 inches, backed up and did it again till the lawn was done. My grand kids can't even use a power mower. If you wanted skinless almonds, you skinned them yourself. Poured boiling water on them then after a while popped the skins off. You wanted ground almonds you ground them yourself. Loved the smell of clothes after you brought them in from outside. There was no reason to be bored and doing these things gave you a sense of accomplishment.
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gladimhere, have to blame the computer. As a kid of the 1950's, I could play for hours using my imagination. All the roads I built in my parents vegetable garden. I could ride my bike or roller skate on the sidewalks all day long. As soon as I was tall enough to push the lawnmower [push mower] I had a chore to do. Weekends it was washing my parent's car [cute boy lived across the street]. Or watching TV, gosh there were 3 channels to choose from and I always find something fun to watch. Kukla, Fran & Ollie, anyone?

My Dad kept busy inventing things in the basement, or doing fix-it stuff, and I was there helping him. Mom kept busy with keeping the house in order without many of the modern gadgets we have today. Wringer washer. Drying clothes on a [gasp] outside clothes line. No dishwasher or microwave.

Now we have that computer in our pocket.
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No wonder the COVID is affecting the 30's and 40's more. They are feeling cooped up, have families and have to have those vacations and activities. DD1 and the two grands flying to Minneapolis (of all places) with TS2 on Sunday, then on return, her now ex taking kids to Florida for Universal Studios. Craziness! I don't get it. Why is this generation so stir crazy? Cannot be content at home. Feel like they always have to be doing something! What the heck did we teach them?!
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Send, I just got to snipping and just snipped away. Poor thing. He looks like I cut his hair. Needless to say, he's been wearing his hat a lot.☺
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Gershun,
Did you first put a bowl on hub 's head and cut around it?
That is a good way to protect some of the hair, and is a well known hair cutting technique from centuries back. (Lol, a joke).
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allesandra, If you need to vent about care giving or get some advice, then this is the place to find it. Otherwise the caregiver forum isn't facebook so if you want to post completely political messages about abortion and taunts at other forum posters, maybe you should make those posts on other boards? We do have tangent political threads concerning care giving issues like healthcare coverage, driving privileges, senior civil rights, covid lock down rules and the like but we generally do not debate SCOTUS rulings on unrelated topics.
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TNtwchie,
I guess the protesters might have been saying, why should we distance and wear masks? Republicans don't. Maybe they are giving the South a little taste of their own medicine.
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So glad the US Supreme Court has struck down the anti-abortion bill in Louisiana, just as it did in Texas. A woman's right to choose is so important!!!
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What?! Neighborhood FB page. An accident closed the entry to the subdivision last night. A truck swerving to miss a couple of deer, truck rolled, driver eject, serious injuries. Then to glad he was not hurt that bad. Huh? How does one get from point a to point b? Maybe conversations, not part of FB thread, among neighbors today?

Kinda like here at times when people do not read the entire thread. Yes, I read the entire FB thread. 😳
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Shell: You're very welcome.
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Thank you so much Llama.
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Shell: Oh, so sorry for the loss of your Daddy 6 years ago. It's so hard to lose our parents, isn't it? You had your father longer than I had mine. My Daddy was only 50 years of age when he died. Virtual hugs coming your way ((( ))).
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On my mind...

Just thinking of you daddy. Today you have been gone for 6 yrs. In some ways it seem like just yesterday and other times it seems it has been longer than 6 yrs. I miss you so much. It is hard to believe that tomorrow you would have been 79 yrs old. Happy Birthday dad. I love and miss you. I cry almost everyday for you. I am taking good care of mom and your house. I hope wherever you are you are proud of me.🍀
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Lol@ Willie
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A local headline

Six escaped cows dead after collisions in D********.

I grit my teeth and accept it when city news sources call all cattle "cows", but a small rural publication should know better.

Yes, my world is that dull
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I did a butcher job on him. Well he asked😂🤣
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😳

Just been looking for headbands to keep my hair out of my face - I've got a haircut booked for July 7th but no confidence it will go ahead.

I'm blushing because I looked at a whole webpage of them on young models and thought "omg, they look like complete scrubbers - !"

Are we even allowed to say "scrubbers" any more? My bad.

(But they do)
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I'm drawing a big blank Send. It's too late.

I did cut hub's hair tonight. :)

I'll leave it at that.
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That was what was on my mind Gershun.
It wasn't very much, was it?

Short answers are best, don't you think? No, really, do you think anyone worries about following the instructions at the start of a thread?

What is on your mind?
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Inquiring Gershun's want to know.
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What is on your mind Send?
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Recalling how short my answers used to be....when I was younger.
This thread is great because what's ON MY MIND is different than what is on everybody else's mind.
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cwillie, I think the fear of not being able to work played in the migrant workers here too. They really seemed surprised to find out they could stay in the migrant worker quarters and the community would provide food and other supplies until they are CV negative. One farm lost a fair amount of money when they had to shutdown strawberry harvesting but others were planting tomatoes and other veggies . No farmer likes planting delays but delaying one planting by a few days doesn't cause too many problems.
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The commentary I've read/heard implies that some of the workers hid symptoms because they were afraid of being excluded from travelling here or being sent home after they arrived, since there is very low community spread in those regions that makes sense to me. I wish we treated these people better, but that is a whole other topic.
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cw - I read that in the news. I'm not convinced that 14 days is always enough. All it takes is one of a group to incubate longer than that and you can get a flare up of infections, That's one of the hallmarks of this virus. It is so very infectious.

I had a property maintenance guy come to assess my gardens for a job, I said right away "6' " but had to keep backing up as he didn't observe it, nor did he seem the least bit concerned about maintaining it. I think I will give the company some feedback. I know outdoors is safer but...

Add to the heat and warmer climate, sunlight doesn't do it either. The wavelength UV-C (which does kill most viruses etc) emitted by the sun is stopped by the ozone later before it gets to us.
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We have had major outbreaks among migrant farm workers here as well (Ont Canada), this despite them having been quarantined for two weeks after their arrival and efforts made to increase personal space and safety in their bunkhouses. The horrifying thing is that some of these reasonably healthy men have become severely ill and even died, a stark reminder that it's not always the old and frail who suffer the worst effects.
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From NE TN, travel still seems to be the major threat here. After weeks of 0-2 cases a week in the 8 county area, we experienced 46 new cases in one week across 2 counties, all related to migrant farm workers. Farms have started requiring workers to get a free CV testing now before starting to work. We're expecting more infections as the college kids come back into town in the fall.

Some of us are very concerned about CV spread from the protesters who don't seem to care about social distancing or good hygiene at all. Although most of the crowd here is local (90-95%) there are or have been out of town organizers.

After a week of completely peaceful protests, the outside organizers came up from Nashville to encourage blocking approaches to the area trauma center and were apparently surprised to be arrested when they refused to obey law enforcement directions to move to the sidewalks or parking lots. After bricks were placed at corners in the downtown, the outsiders were uncomfortable with downtown business owners sitting at a table in their window displays with a firearm and coffee cup visible on the table top. LE advised the outsiders' stated intention to take their bricks out of the downtown and business districts (where LE maintained a over-watch presence) to more rural areas would probably not work out well since our area is highly populated with armed homeowners and former military who would call for LE but could be counted on to handle any threat to their families promptly. The outsiders moved on (back to Nashville?) and the protests have continued peacefully without any additional arrests. Never more than at any time in my life, I thank the Lord I am living in a rural community without major crime or racial problems. Where even if we don't like what you're saying/doing, if you're not harming anyone we let it go.

I'm praying the violence ends while peaceful protests and police reform talks return to our country soon. I feel such sorrow for the defender deaths, property owners with looted or burned out shells, and people who must now live in destroyed areas without basics like grocery stores and pharmacies. If a mob has looted and burned your local CVS, how safe can you feel in your nearby home? It's hard not to feel 2020 is (to paraphrase the Queen) a horrible year - and its not even half over yet.
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Ah, I see. I was kind of surprised to see it coming from you...
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We are all living in one big Petri dish.

CW, it was a cynical question.
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Nobody credible ever said covid19 was killed by heat or a warmer climate, the virus has already spread rapidly in every corner of the world regardless of the climate or season.
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