@Lookout
Just back from a very long walk through the neighborhood. The streets are empty except for a few workers and delivery trucks. A bit early for a lot of pedestrian types. Heh.

It's been cloudy here again. Not good for the growing season per se. Though who knows if we will even be able to get the workers here to pick everything. Looks like the lettuce growers are plowing their crops because the restaurants are closed. My potatoes are doing well. I need to start covering them with straw but I have not straw. Maybe eucalyptus leaves. Maybe not. Hmmm...

Be well and take good care.

We were just discussing what a "long strange trip" it has been...and we've a long way to go.

We had our first garden salad of the season last night. We should be harvesting lettuce into mid-June or so. Eating with the seasons provides lots of salads in spring and fall.

The doctors I follow are all recommending Vitamin D. John gave details yesterday. The other factor I'm hearing from them is the importance of being metabolically healthy (meaning low blood sugar and insulin) to maximize your immune system. Not a guarantee to be asymptomatic, but it is a proactive thing we can do to protect ourselves.

I keep coming back to the idea that this is a great time to develop a plan to change the system. To get off oil and transition to an equitable society with "liberty and justice for all". Currently all the money is flowing to the very people/corporations that are the problem. Now is the perfect time to discuss a new economic model. We need something concrete to aim toward after (maybe if) this unwinds. At any rate it would be productive exercise.

Wishing you all the best. Thanks for the OT, MA.

@QMS

...an America at war with someone else is an America at peace with itself

have a goooooooood one or two or three...

simpler times...

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@GreatLakeSailor
Whew. Just par for the course unfortunately. When will we ever learn.

Have a good one...

Today is 5 months since the Sacaba Massacre in Bolivia. Indigenous anti-coup protesters were shot at from military helicopters, flying at 40 metres from the ground. It was one of the first acts of the US-backed regime.

These are the names of those of who were martyred that day. pic.twitter.com/PNXcJYB9tl

— Ollie Vargas (@OVargas52) April 15, 2020

@enhydra lutris

You know, we just don't know. There are so many contradictory studies out now. I trust the early ones more I think. The more recent ones may be trying to obfuscate. I read one study (sorry no link) that said Sweden was doing well without any restrictions but just this morning I read one that said their numbers are way up.

Sweden: 22 Scientists Say Coronavirus Strategy Has Failed As Deaths Top 1,000
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2020/04/14/sweden-22-scientists-...

It does appear that social distancing is working here on the left coast. So there is that. Masks also are good in general. But it looks like the unwinding of this could take a very long time.

Take good care. May your garden grow well,

yesterday and my wife also planted a few plants in parts of our existing garden area that were fallow. I see that there are rumblings of a loosening of the process, but I'm not ssure that it isn't way premature, and not sure how much we will go along with it. I'm not feeling particularly driven to jump start "the economy" at the risk of serious illness of death, so maybe they should jump start testing, finding bona-fide treatments that work and vaccines. Instead, our corporate overlords and their political lackeys are, as usual, simply all about profits, profiteering, amassing power and wealth, and keeping the hoi polloi dependent and desperate.

be well and have a good one

@Raggedy Ann
Yes, Snowden reminds us again and again.

Your day sounds wonderful. You can put your phone in one of those old lead photo bags that were to protect the rolls of film from the xray machines when traveling. If you have one. No longer needed now with digital. It really says a lot that we have to do this.

Take good care and have a very good one.

Thanks for posting that Snowden video. I didn't watch it the first time it was posted, so I took advantage of it this time. He is incredible - so knowledgeable and here to guide us. A special being among us.

Beautiful day on tap! Can't wait until work is over so I can spend the afternoon outside. I always leave my phone in the house so "they" don't know where I really am! With lots of acreage to play on, I get lots of vitamin D (which, as Lookout has noted several times, is good for our immune system and I also take a supplement). Spring is finally in the air and we are enjoying planting, watering, and just the great outdoors.

Hope all are well. Live in the present moment and live in love.

@The Voice In the Wilderness
That is so sad about your daffodils. Can you save the bulbs? Don't they survive underground? Maybe it's too cold there.

So, with all the focus on The Virus it's easy to forget about The Climate Change. Right? Still happening, those wild swings of the jet stream. Yup. you said it. "We are so screwed".

Never the less, take good care and have a good one.

Snow and 23 degree (overnight) temperatures. My daffodils are laying over like dead onions. Had these for half a century. two varieties, one from my mother and the other from wife's father. I grew up with these flowers and carried bulbs to Buffalo Grove IL, Virginia, back to Bloomingdale IL and now to here. Plums and apples were starting to open flowers.
My daughter called to complain about abnormal temperatures - 40 degree lows. We are having 40 degree highs. Grocery stores having less and less. Cereal starting to disappear. And potato chips! Still plenty of wine and booze.

UPDATE: Three inches of snow predicted for tomorrow. this is mid-April, not mid-March.
There are people in the South that haven't seen three inches of snow in their whole life. Beleive me, I won't forget the 16 inches the day I retired. And that is not uncommon.