Dealing with the LOCKDOWN ??

Getting kind of mixed messages on it HERE .....

You can SUPPOSEDLY be walking or biking ... that’s OK ... but you can’t be driving in your car ??

I called the local sheriff Dept and got the vibes that THEY didn’t know the actual ruling.

I understand groups ... I understand beaches ... but just alone taking a cruise ? ... or driving to the shop ??

Was told by a bud that if they stop you and you can’t prove your actions are not considered a CRITICAL NEED ... the fine is 180$ !

Come on doc, spend some time at home. Tonight I made and froze 4 future nights of spaghetti/sauce, 10 pounds of real butter mashed potatoes, a pan of brownies, pressed out 10 lbs of hamburger/sausage patties. Changed three cat boxes.

Might go out and look at the stars in a bit and see if I can spot any owls.

Who needs to drive now?

pOtO .... Mashed potatoes and brownies... yum !

Butttt ... I just got THE FIRST NEW CAR I’ve ever had !

I just got THE FIRST NEW CAR I’ve ever had !

Really, I read you got a new ride, didnt know it was your first new one, thats great and a good car too.

It is a GOODY !

The least aged car I’ve ever had was the 98 diesel dually .., gotten in 2000. I’ve just bought well used and done all the service work needed. Never had anything that was close to major fail.

In our county we have zero cases with 60 tests completed. We cannot go out in public except essential activities. So, cleaned up part of the garden, fired up the kubota, tilled in the cover crop on one section and began laying out the new (rotation) spring veggie plots. Hope to plant some of the plants we picked up yesterday, set up the cold frames and plant some seeds in peat pots and recycled plastic dairy product tubs. We hope to substantially cut back on trips to town. The meat rabbit project has located rabbits (rex x champagne d' argent) and some good ideas for home grown feed that includes letting 2 bales of grass hay sprout out and sproted whole oats.
Probably get busy on that project next week. Then there is that dead sugar pine begging to be felled and have the fro taken to it. I have to make sure to budget some car and truck time to.

Next month I will need to head to my other house to do some soil testing and start preparing the fields
so I can plant.... yesterday I had to do a emergency run to the dentist to have 3 teeth pulled... I broke them
off, then when this stuff clears up I will get 3 posts type teeth put is... that was the first time out in 3 weeks

You SPECIFICALLY should just stay home dumb dumb.

We've been working on the house. Had to get a new water heater and replumb the house. Wasn't a real big deal though since the house was originally built without indoor plumbing most all the pipe is on the outside of the walls. The bathtub drain leaks so I need to deal with that. Cleaned up the garage, cleaned up the fenced in area around the chicken coop and fixed up the fence a bit so we could turn the dogs loose in there without having to constantly watch them. I need to replace a couple boards on the front porch steps and build 2 gates so we can sit on the front porch and let the dogs out. They don't run away but they like to explore. The puppy is a mountain climbing fool. She loves going up these mountains. My older big white dog wondered down to the neighbors the other day while we were working on the plumbing. They have horses, chickens, goats and a couple cows down there so she wanted to visit lol. Had to go fetch her and man was she filthy. Still had the water off so I couldn't even clean her off.

One of the wall heaters isn't working so i ordered a couple new ones, supposed to be here Monday so I will install them. It's 32 degrees outside this morning and 58 degrees in the kitchen area where the dead heater is. Just a little chilly Always something to do. I wish I had my Power Wagon up here now, plenty of roads I want to explore but will not take my D250 down for fear of getting stuck.

I don't know how you're supposed to prove you're going someplace essential short of keeping groceries in the car. I have a travel paper for work but won't do me any good Sunday afternoon. Around here the auto parts and home improvement stores are open and you can go in. Be interesting when they try to enforce it like other parts of the country.

Spend any time fabbing up the still while you were doing plumbing? I mean ya gotta adapt to the local culture and around here the booze stores are shuttered.

I think I'm taking mine out tonight...I had it out a couple weeks back when I had to run in and check on my parents...

That was the first time it was out since October...

Hardly anyone is out anywhere so when I go out at midnight or so and cruise around for a couple hours its not like your going to run into anybody...

Best thing is no one is going to run into you...

I'm going to have to look up how to make moonshine.

I don't see a problem with going out for a drive, as long as there's no human interaction.
If the local enforcement objects, throw a sack of canned food - ooh, better yet, paper products - in the car.
Me, I'm just getting all my indoor projects done, waiting for the weather to improve.
Just got 2" of wet snow this morning, jamming up my car & shop attic plans.

I wish I was locked down, lol. Had a job up in Dumas yesterday, 5+ hour drive just to get there. My job is considered essential and I have a letter to that effect from corporate for what good that may do. If it doesn't work then I'll just expense out the fines or have corporate send an attorney to deal with it.

I have been running into a couple of situations where some customers have a health questionnaire they want you to fill out and sign regarding symptoms and where you've been. Legal says I don't have to do that and its most likely illegal to ask. My privacy outweighs your butt covering. If you want to take my temp when get there or send me home if I got a cough, fine.

Had to ship my work laptop off for IT work, , so I took the Cambridge out to The Shipping Point and off it went. Lots of roundtuits getting done as well. I see that's common in this thread as well. Took a weeks vacation next week so I plan, of mice and men comes to mind, to get the Cuda to the point of at least being a roller, finish sorting out the garage so that I can actually work in it productively.

I have other plans for the week, but we'll see how it goes. Might see if I can get my son a couple days to hang out with and work on things with me.

What about that Biz man coupe you bought new and put 150,000 miles on before parking it out in the big field in Meeeechigan

it looks like the guy ahead of you has the same idea.

here in flyover country , we can move freely

He's a local...car is a 38 Chevy Gasser...

Being in any part of NY right now and during this whole incident you may move freely, you were asked not to.

If we want to be idiots we are free to be.

TY

K

do you have any history on that car ? was it possibly in new york at one time ?
trying to trace a car from here that was similar and the same color.

we only have statewide 106 active cases at this time --two deaths attributed to it .. nothing like there, nor will it be .., they expect 200 total deaths when its all said and done

One of the benefits of living out in open country.

Working on the garden and pruning a couple dead oak limbs made me do stir crazy stuff today.
Wife had a chuck roast out and I decided to drag out the dutch oven. Stoked a fire with the oak and got a good bed of coals, browned the chuck on the cast iron and set up the low and slow by tucking onion 1/4" around the sides and adding some red wine water and beef stock, 3 hours later added halved potatoes, home grown carrots cut in 1/3's covered the mess with more water and gave it another
90 minutes. Everything is better when cooked outside. We're in this what, 3 weeks, going to be a long couple months.

I've gone out a couple times and noticed the lack of traffic. Have half a theory that there's gonna be a big spike in traffic accidents when this stay at home thing is lifted. People that have to drive getting used to not really having to look for traffic.

Your theory is correct. Typically, we see huge spikes on the following days:

- first rainy fall day, because the roads have lots of wet leaves on them
- first warm day before spring actually starts
- first real snowfall
- first rain after a long period of dry weather

I would expect the first week or so after the stay home orders are rescinded will generate a huge volume of accidents. Not only will people not be used to driving, but EVERYONE will be out on the road, and everyone will be in a big hurry, very impatient, etc. It would be a great time for motorcycle riders to keep the bike in the garage.

I live in Northern Ohio on Lake Erie and every year about this time there is a big fishing tournament that brings people in from all over the country. Not sure about the tournament still going on but there are a lot of fisherman from out of state like it's still going on. Parking lots are full of trucks and trailers. Farthest state I saw was Montana. Our county only has about 5 cases so far I'm sure that it will grow with all the fisherman and birders.

Our county has the most Marinias in Ohio those were just shut down last weekend but you are still able to put your own boat in at the public boat slips and state parks.

Yes you read me right birders. And there could be a lot more of them.

They cancelled the birding activities for this Spring. (North Lakeshore of Ohio is a resting place for birds going back north before they cross Lake Erie so in recent years we get swamped with birders from all over the country) I'm not sure in the virus that will stop the birders. If they come, it will be late Apr., early May.

you sound [kinda] like "granpa jones" on hee haw. i'll respond : YUMM ! YUMM !
if ya got any X-tras, i'll be right over !

I bet in this area here you could change that to First "any type of" snowfall.

Around here, people find something to run into the second the 1st snowflake hits their windshield.
"Om my god... what was that... it's snow...ahhhhhh... yank wheel to left or right...screeech.... smash"

Just watched a couple vids on how to make moonshine, might have to order some supplies...

Thanks, If you were close it would be the risk to travel for a plate full. Idk who gp jones is, yet I'll take it as a compliment. That was one of the best I've made, and best I've had anywhere else. I plan to chop some up to make hash and eggs tonight.
I've been cooking out doors since boy scout days, honing skills in various ethnic foods as well as our good ol' usa regional stuff too. I'm so into it I have several methods and apparatus to bbq/spit/pit, also have a hi btu wok burner and nice camp chef that's used year round. Since wife's knee surgury feb 3 I've done most of the cooking about 30% outdoor, she said I have to cook from here out. I agreed provided she does the mowing, tilling and vehicle maintenance. She deciden not.
I think once we're done with this mess family and friends will be having a large family get together with each attendee doing their own favorite outdoor fare.

Shop work daily 1.5 mile Riverwalk, and I enjoy cooking. Two weeks ago I made meat sauce for spaghetti and homemade meatballs for sandwiches. Yesterday I made two pounds of baked spaghetti.

I cooked up 20 sweet sausages, green peppers, and onions for sandwiches last weekend

Are you going to eat all that or are you cooking for an army?

Lol. That’s for my 31 year old son that lives with me and myself. We both love leftovers and don’t mind eating the same meal for a few days.

I raised two boys so when I cooked I cooked a lot. It's taken me years to scale down my cooking for just the little woman and I. Lol

Would that be Ottawa county?

Yes, I live in Port Clinton. Yesterday the lake was very calm and there were more fishing boats out there than I’ve ever seen this time of year. If I would have been thinking I should have took pictures.

it indeed was a compliment !

"granpaw jones" was a character on the old "hee haw" TV series who always told viewers what he was having for supper. he then described it in detail, although it was always making fun of what hillbillies were presumed to eat. at the end of his diatribe, the "audience" would reply : "YUMM, YUMM !"

your pic plus description of the preparation made ME say : "YUMM, YUMM !" that really looked good !

Well, I'm honored!
Living in the country has it's advantages, and some drawbacks. New neighbor moving in next door, has 3 acres. On friday, puts his brand new horse pen made of pipe panels 7' off the back of shop and near our home and back yard. I tried to talk with the Jack 'ol and he's a real piece of work. His girlfriend (owner) is very nice, and yesterday moved the pen after our dog barked at least three times in the middle of the night because of the new noises at night, obviously thinking it was a big dog. Now last night I'm woke to our dog barking at a treed something, obviously the neighbors cat, a calico stuck on our arbor. We get it down, and this am cat is on top of our truck water pump, and dog chased it 30' up a tree. I need naps today, lol. Also need neighbor to come get her cat. No way to call so, a note on the fence. These new suburban transplants need to learn. They are not country just because they own a horse that's not in their rented stable. I'm hopeful they will end up good neighbors, she seems great, not sure about Jack.