GOT MILK
 

I was out of milk (which I must have for my coffee) and a few other things, and so got myself ready to go out into the big bad scary world. And as I got off the elevator, I saw a fridge in our lobby (which I kinda looked at with a wtf). However, there was a sign on the front saying open to get food. So, I opened the door and what do you know, a bunch of 4 litre jugs of milk !!! Yogurt and whipped cream too !!!

Our building manager is a peach, eh? :)

Now if only I could get him to get us all masks... :)

I still need bread and butter and a few other basics, so it's off to the corner market I go... bye (wearing my bandanna, saving my few masks for more dangerous times ahead)

My new across-the-backyard neighbor, who is clearly enjoying his new yard. I can see him from my kitchen window, where I sit to work. He worked in his yard all weekend, and about two hours ago he came out and plopped himself down in the middle of it. He has been there ever since, taking pictures of squirrels (or something) with his camera, lying on his back looking up at the sky, and just chillin'.

Feeling
 

Smiling today to see the sunshine now 3 days in a row. Spring is looking good. It is really nice to see things coming alive in nature after the long winter sleep. I do love spring.

While on my walk this morning, I heard an owl hooting to other owls (the parents, maybe?) and I also noticed there is a woodpecker pecking on a diseased tree, which is nearby too. Further out on my neighborhood walk, there are Mourning Doves too. I love their birdsong.

Heck, with all the trees off-loading their pollen into the air, it's a small wonder that anybody can breathe (birds included).

But hearing a variety of birds nearby (geese, crows, owls, the woodpecker, mourning doves) makes my heart smile. :stillheart:

Smile Today
 

I got a very unexpected easter basket of chicks and eggs. I usually don't eat any sweets but I do have a weakness for marshmello chicks. So that made me smile.

Title of Mind Map: Another 24 hours (by Paul Foreman, UK)
 

Happy, Smile
 

Nothing, I think I perturbed someone.

It often makes me smile when I know I've perturbed someone...

That i still have my job.

Smile
 

I was speaking to my brother and he asked me if I would like to go back down home where we were born and buy a house between us. I am looking at that offer very seriously as you can get a 2 bedroom house down there for about $20,000 down and we can split that. Really gotta think on this and start looking.

My co-worker came over to give me a different laptop. We stayed socially distanced! He left the laptop on the hood of my car and we talked through the glass door. It was just nice to see him and to talk to someone in person!

Last week my job gave us 5lbs of ground pork this week ground beef.

My new across-the-backyard neighbors have two little girls. One has a green bike and the other has a pink bike. They are so little that they have to be pushed around by an older brother or sister. Cute!

Lets pray the pork didn't come from Smithfield Foods in Sioux Falls, SD!

Food processing plants that have closed down during this have done so to protect workers not customers. There is no evidence that the virus is transmitted via food product or packaging.

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the virus does live on plastic and packaging ~ how long ? different times for different materials ~ at least 13 - 15 days on metals esp. stainless steal ~ this I saw a few weeks ago on a food safety segment ~ if more testing has been done and the numbers have changed I'm not sure about. it's a shame that everyone who works to accommodate the public are getting sick ~ where I live the confirmed cases are very high and still growing. we just don't know.

2 to 3 days on metal and plastic. Meat is stored and shipped refrigerated or frozen. Generally temperature has an effect on how long things last outside of the body. Long story short, if you were to contract it from food packaging, someone in the store is more likely to have shed the virus onto the packaging than to think it lasted from the processing plant to the store then into your hand.

I was chatting with someone on the phone while i was shopping today...

she puffed up her adorable little chest and stated how she could make me blush while i was shopping.....

Challenge accepted.....

turns out.. i actually made her do all the blushing.. :daddy: