Subj : Resend New normals To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Tue Jun 23 2020 17:29:00 Hi Nancy! BM>>> While I think of it back from the store - did buy some Ginger Tea. BM>>> Oddly didn't see the house brand Green Tea; did see national brands. NB>>> Never know what will be sold out of... especially now... ;) Have NB>>> you tried the Ginger tea yet...? BM>> Yes: did and didn't seem odd for them to be out of the Hy-Vee brand of BM>> Green Tea. I'm thinking a combination of 'tight stock' ==> keep the BM>> overhead down -- and maybe some news report reminding people of the BM>> benefits of green tea spurring a spike in sales. Or happens the BM>> Hy-Vee Green Tea Drinkers all ran out at the same time! NB>> Or the shipping was disrupted in some way.... BM> It seems like the shipping disruption seems to be the more logical of BM> the options. NB> Things haven't really gone back to normal in some areas... I NB> notice some unexpected holes in stock at the store, no real NB> reasons obvious... like the Wegmans canned quartered artichoke NB> hearts have been out of stock for over a month now... they've had NB> the whole, off and on during that time... and another brand is on NB> the shelf, in whole and quartered (one week, didn't have the NB> quartered for that brand either)... it's something I like to have NB> in stock for the occasional meal... :) Yes, and I would suspect the food supply isn't going to return to normal for several more months, if not longer. (Just guessing, based on assumptions and very litle facts.) I would guess the sources have been disrupted and so need to get up to speed. I'd guess the government is double-checking food quality. Haven't heard of anything but thinking if a worker tests sick at a processing facility a few prior production runs might be destroyed rather than risk passing on a contaminated product. As for your quartered artichoke hearts, it would seem logical to guess if whole hearts were available so would be quartered -- just slice before sticking in the can. Probably more than just that -- maybe larger hearts are needed to make the quartering appear right. BM>> Did try the Ginger Tea -- slightly spicy but with an overall BM>> smoothness; I'll probably get it again. Haven't had for a week or so BM>> as has gotten hot here and I rarely drink anything hot other than my BM>> morning coffee. Will have to look into it as an iced tea. NB>> It should make a nice iced tea, too... :) BM> Yes - I will have to try. For some reason the past few summers not BM> 'into' homemade iced tea/sun tea. OTOH have occasionally plopped a BM> tea bag into the bottom of a glass, put ice over, then added chilled BM> water -- sort of iced tea on the fly! Was mostly to give the water BM> I've been drinking a different flavour, sort of like Daryl's flavoured BM> waters. NB> I tend to get Wegmans flavored carbonated waters... various fruit NB> flavors and also a very nice ginger flavored one... no NB> sweetening, real or artificial, in any of them... Daryl just perked up at that one! I tend to go cheap and plop a tea bag in the bottom of my glass, weigh down with ice, add cold water, Or add a slash of lemon juice. Am starting to drink more plain ised water as the weather warms up so probably see if I can find a inexpensive flavouring kit -- should be easier with the remodel mostly done! BM> They seem to have all sorts of possibilities and therories -- at first BM> dogs couldn't get COVID-19, then a case indicated they could, then BM> that seemed to be a false positive; not too long ago a different dog BM> had a definitely positive test. ...At this point I'm petting a dog BM> being walked if allowed and the dog comes up to me. NB> We've been joking (mostly) that our cats got covid... one had a NB> dry hacking cough for a couple weeks or so, the other acted like NB> she'd lost her sense of taste and smell... both seem to be ok NB> now... they are strictly indoor cats, so only way they could have NB> gotten it would have been if somehow we carried it inside on us NB> somehow... and we've not been sick.... Lots of unknowns here... NB> :) Being inside cats they probably either would have caught an illness from one of you, as you said, someone visiting, a potentially contaminated food the human food inspectors caught and redirected to pet food..... More than likely some sort of 'cat cold' one or the other caught and passed on the other. Now close all the windows, seal the drafts, install an air lock at the door..... BM>> I'm a little surprised I'm not required to wear a mask also. Certain BM>> places like doctor's offices require but I haven't been yet. I'm also BM>> half-suprised when entering larger places like Hy-Vee there isn't a BM>> temperature-checker person. NB>> There is a lot of variance between states, and even localities and NB>> particular stores, as to what protective measures must or should be NB>> kept, and how much is left to be voluntary.... BM> Right -- I have been (hopefully) maintaining a healthy distance with BM> strangers, more as abiding by the now-normal distancing rule. As I BM> mentioned in an earlier message (which may have been in the lost BM> packets), I'm more taking the attitude people in general are healthy, BM> but as it was before, the closer one is the more likelihood of BM> unintentional transmission. NB> That's always been the case, for whatever bug is around... a NB> healthy caution but not paranoia seems to be called for.... :) Yes: it's flu season: wash your hands and cough into your sleeve. Summer cold do's and don't's. COVID-19 is just a much worse version and essentially the same health precautions apply, just this time people got smacked in the face with finally doing them because of the severity. LIS in earlier messages, I'm hoping a good degree of the extra cleaning continues as well as some of the social distancing. BM>>> Sort of along the large gatherings part, they just announced the Bix 7 BM>>> -- seven mile foot race up Brady St. Hill, up and down along the top, BM>>> then back down -- will be done virtually this year. Not quite sure how BM>>> and of the details: as long as done in July (race is usually held the BM>>> end of July). One comment said all seven miles could be done on a BM>>> treadmill, NB>>> That will be an interesting variation... not really the same as a NB>>> proper race, though.... ;) NB> [snip] NB>> I suppose... I still can't wrap my head around how that virtual NB>> race would work out with the audience.... BM> Nor I -- plus the virtual part isn't all being done at the same time BM> so not a real-time competition. Will have to see how it is done and BM> turns out! NB> And have to let me know... :) OK. :) Hopefully "Ch 6" will broadcast coverage again this year so I can also give that link. (More detail than www.KWQC.com. :)) BM>> They were out of the room at the time; probably had set boundaries BM>> early on Dad needed to be alone in the Family Room during certain BM>> times. There have been a few of the morning broadcasts where we (the BM>> viewing audience) could hear his kids fighting (bickering) in the BM>> background over breakfast. The 'hot lava' was from a game "on pause". BM>> Autumn has also done the hot lava thing, as well as make a throw BM>> rug/area rug water or a swimming pool. NB>> At least Autumn's is all in her imagination, not augmented by NB>> virtual tours.... ;) BM> So far! And she hasn't done the 'hot lava' game for a while, though BM> it could simply be on pause and revived in a week or three, like some BM> of other games. NB> Just never know what might brewing in her head... ;) Lately with the better weather I've/we've been ponies. Well, I'm a horse and play it between Mr. Ed from the old TV show to an old swayback with an attitude. Autumn's the caretaker, and why is this starting to sound like a Charlie Sheen plot on the original Three and a Half Men??? Autumn will sometimes play a pony. Neighbours probably think we're nuts. ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... I played a great horse yesterday. It took seven horses to beat him. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .