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[Jenn]

No, not for a few years now, but if I got a subscription against n I would fall right back in lol

[Janice, Moderator]

I wonder if I've been dropped from my guild. LOL!

[Jenn]

I definitely have by now lol

[Shirley]

So we've now had 3 days of homeschooling. Day 1 was very stressful, with technical issues (not the school's, but ours - in downloading the required app - it's a long story). We're feeling better about it today, and Harrison has been very diligent. The school has done a tremendous amount of work to pull it all together. The message has been that parents are not expected to be the teacher, just be an encourager. I'm ok with that but I'll be very pleased when schools reopen. I'm not into games, but Harrison and I played Monopoly (with a real cardboard gameboard).

[Annerlee]

New icon Shirley? I like it : )

[Sandra, Moderator]

The first few days are the hardest, Shirley, but you'll get through it. I'll be glad when schools reopen too. :)

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Shirley wrote: "So we've now had 3 days of homeschooling. Day 1 was very stressful, with technical issues (not the school's, but ours - in downloading the required app - it's a long story). We're feeling better ab..."

Good on you guys! I've heard that QLD has had some teething issues, which is totally to be expected. But I'm so glad they've encouraged parents like that.

We used to play super Monopoly as a teenager. We would set up the lounge room full of coke and snacks and then put four monolopy boards together in a massive square and play all day. It was very weird owning Old Kent Road, Avenue des Champs-Élysées, the MCG, and Tatoonie at once, when you had the original, the French, the Aussie, and the Star Wars boards smooshed together.

[Sarah]

Super monopoly sounds ace!

[Peggy]

Sounds awesome Rusalka!

The day before yesterday two big fires broke out in two national parks, one at 50km from where I live, the other much closer, 10km. The one at 50k is the biggest nature fire in Dutch history and about 50 people living in the area were evacuated. A complete town of 4200 people close to the 9km fire was also evacuated. There's no danger of the fire getting there, but the smoke contains high concentrations of co2 and it's too dangerous. Weird thing is, even though it's so close, we don't see or smell anything. Only some army choppers flyin over our house. Wind must be blowing in the other direction.

[Shirley]

Annerlee wrote: "New icon Shirley? I like it : )"Thanks Annerlee.

[Shirley]

Sandra wrote: "The first few days are the hardest, Shirley, but you'll get through it. I'll be glad when schools reopen too. :)"Thanks for the encouragement Sandra. Yes, no doubt we will get through it.

[Shirley]

Rusalka wrote: "Shirley wrote: "So we've now had 3 days of homeschooling. Day 1 was very stressful, with technical issues (not the school's, but ours - in downloading the required app - it's a long story). We're f..."
OMG that sounds awesome. How many fights did you have? My brother always cheated massively, and many a time I would go off in a huff saying "I'm not playing any more." Our poor mother.

[Shirley]

Peggy wrote: "Sounds awesome Rusalka!

The day before yesterday two big fires broke out in two national parks, one at 50km from where I live, the other much closer, 10km. The one at 50k is the biggest nature fir..."You don't need any more stress. Hope they can get on top of it.

[Saar The Book owl]

I think I'll also go looking on Boardgame Arena. Sounds like fun. I used to play WoW too, but that's a long time ago.

[Esther]

Rusalka wrote: "Happy to play some games with people if you need partners!! During the week we're a bit wonky with timezones, but we could probably make it work on weekends!"

I would be willing to join as well. I like boardgames but rarely get to play.

[Sarah]

This week has been lush! So hot and sunny. I tied our canoe to the back of our boat and sat in it whilst I read and sipped cider a couple days this week. It has been lovely. My boat neighbour gifted me a hula hoop which I promptly Milton'ed (as I'm doing with all my food shopping, post, and anything else that comes in to our boat). So this morning I have been learning to hula hoop. At first, it wasn't going so good. I knackered myself out and it ended up around my ankles more than my waist. I think I'm going to have a lot of bruises on my shins tomorrow. Haha. But I have now got it. The hoop stays on my waist for quite some time now. I'm excited. I think it will be a really good thing for fitness. I was struggling with the running recently. Because my asthma has been bad due to stress and the high pollen count. It felt like I was breathing in razor blades when I was running. So I've stopped, although I think Rob is going to carry on. But maybe the hula hoop can be my thing instead. The yoga is going really well though. We're up to day 14 now! On the subject of my asthma, I had an asthma attack during the week. I was already feeling anxious so when it started, I ended up having a bit of a panic attack too. A double whammy. That was a new experience for me. So it has been a bit of a mixed bag of a week. I guess like all the weeks have been of late. For most of us, more than likely.

[Sandra, Moderator]

Hula Hoop sounds like so much fun, Sarah! Sorry to hear about your asthma, though. I hope gets back under control soon.

[Janice, Moderator]

I remember as a kid we'd not drop the hula-hoop for ages. Now it goes straight to my ankles. LOL! Enjoy, Sarah!

[Shirley]

Oh Sarah, what a peaceful picture I have of you in your canoe, reading and sipping cider.

[Margo]

Shirley wrote: "So we've now had 3 days of homeschooling. Day - in downloading the required app - it's a long story). We're feeling better ab..."

Hope the home schooling goes better this week Shirly.

[Margo]

Sarah wrote: "This week has been lush! So hot and sunny. I tied our canoe to the back of our boat and sat in it whilst I read and sipped cider a couple days this week. It has been lovely. My boat neighbour gifte..."

I'm sorry to hear about your ashma attack Sarah. I know they can be scary! For the hayfever, I'm wondering if you've ever tried homeopathy? I think I posted that I'm giving it a go for my psoriasis, well it has had the unexpected side effect of reducing my hayfever! This is the most comfortable summer I've ever had :-)

On the down side, it is quiet expensive. My first session cost 90euro, follow ups are 30 euro. I can claim 50% back from my health insurance. But I'm lucky that Pete is still able to work from home - don't get me started on another rant about the unequal distribution of funding during this crisis!!

[Jenn]

Hope that you are safe and dry Janice, I’m hearing that Grand Prairie is flooding too 😞 Good luck!

[Shirley]

Margo wrote: "Shirley wrote: "So we've now had 3 days of homeschooling. Day - in downloading the required app - it's a long story). We're feeling better ab..."

Hope the home schooling goes better this week Shirly."Yes it is much better this week. We are into a good routine.

[Janice, Moderator]

Jenn wrote: "Hope that you are safe and dry Janice, I’m hearing that Grand Prairie is flooding too 😞 Good luck!"

I've not been affected by any flooding, though there are areas that are pretty wet. But I saw pictures of Fort Mac! OMG! Has it affected you?

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thats not good i hope everyone is okay

[Janice, Moderator]

Welcome to YLTO, Coco!

[Jenn]

We are fine, being strongly encouraged to go, but to where? All of the hotels are full, so we would be going all of the way to one of the camps? We are going to stay and keep watch on water levels, and be safe and comfortable at home, until everything goes sideways and we have to leave.

I am so ready for Mother Nature to stop kicking us 😞

Be safe everyone ❤️

[Sarah]

Fingers crossed that the water subsides Jenn. Yes nature has been pretty full on this year with fires, floods, volcanies andd this virus.

We have heavy rain here. It's the first day in what feels like ages that I won't be going outside. And we have a week of this forecast. Booo. Birds are still singing in the rain though.

[Margo]

Hope your OK Jenn. We have a lovely day here, sun is shinning but we are forecast rain and thunder tomorrow.

[Sandra, Moderator]

Jenn, I hope it is not necessary that you leave your home. I'll pray for you and your family. Stay safe.

[Janice, Moderator]

Jenn wrote: "We are fine, being strongly encouraged to go, but to where? All of the hotels are full, so we would be going all of the way to one of the camps? We are going to stay and keep watch on water levels,..."

I don't think people have recovered from the fire that devastated Fort MacMurray. And now you're looking at another evacuation but for flooding. The stress has got to be very high! Please keep us posted so that we know you're okay.

[Sandra, Moderator]

I've been doing a lot of garden work this last week. I started again my compost (I stopped when we went to France and never resumed when we were back), planted many vegetable seeds (many herbs, squash, pumpkin, zucchini, corn, cabbage, peppers, tomatoes, carrots, watermelon, cantaloupe), and my husband built a garden box for me. Let's see how it works. I've never been known for having the green thumb, but whatever.
I did a huge cleaning of the shed (squirrels have made their nest in there while we where gone) and we installed a new park style grill in the backyard (and already used it :P).

Also a few days ago, during my insomnia, I ordered a bag of 3,000 seeds of perennial, bee friendly flower plants for our front yard. Very excited about it!

If we have to spend this whole summer at home, at least I want it to look like a f*ing botanical garden. :)

[Sarah]

Yesterday was international dawn chorus day. So i decided to get up to listen to thee birds singing their little hearts out. I was up and outside thee boqt at 5am. The first time i've done this. And with lockdown and no traffic and planes about, the birds we're so loud. It was a great experience!

[Travis]

194 messages lol. Been awhile

Well I had gotten an opportunity to sign up for 2 online classes that were farming related. They were available only for the month of April so that kept me busy. Then I got a pain in my abdomen and am doing Dr appointments and tests and crap. We'll see. They think it's either skeletal or muscular or else my gall bladder.

Anyway that's where I've been.

But on my way home I saw a box and I thought it was the curbside library deals but I looked at it and it said blessing box. And it was filled with all sorts of canned food items. With so many people struggling to stay fed from being laid off and such someone set up a curbside thing for people if you need some food take some food and if you have food to spare give some.

Humanity is still out there in people it's good to see and remind us.

[Janice, Moderator]

The blessing box sounds like a wonderful "pay it forward" type of thing. I like it!

[Renee]

I love the idea of a blessings box

I think my husband has a project for today. He is worse then a kid right now telling me he is bored. LOL

[Saar The Book owl]

The blessing box is such a lovely idea.
The last days I did a lot of gardening too. It keeps my mind of other things and it makes me totally zen.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Hi all. Just checking in. Sorry I haven't been around much lately. The weather's changed, getting colder and greyer. Still isolated and working from home.

The university is moving to get researchers back on to campus at the beginning June who can't research at home (ie need labs) so I'm in a hell of covid protocols, risk assessments, and lab schedules for rooms I still haven;t seen yet due to the move to new job. And hours and hours and hours of zoom meetings.

Our chicken who has been a bit ill all isolation, got very strange at 1.30pm last Wed, and started having trouble breathing. By 3.30pm she had dropped dead, so we are also now down our beautiful, friendly, honest little Kara. Maro is now the boss chicken, thrust into the position, and spends all day beating up little Kakashi who was just being nursed out of the trauma of loosing her brother by Kara.

My little brother, who I am really close to, works as a contractor on defence bases all around NSW and got pretty sick himself two weeks ago. He got tested last week, and came back clean. But hit a bit too close to home for me.

So. All alive and relatively okay. Just been a hard few weeks and haven't spent much time reading. And when I haven't been working I've started playing WoW Classic with our old guidies for complete escapism, and it is just as good and absorbing as it was 15 years ago. Usually time difference is a problem but they are out of work from all being in the arts and entertainment industries in San Francisco, so it's a bright spot to a shitty situation. So you know, I could be worse. But wanted to come let you know that all is well here, just needing to get my head right for a bit, and I miss you all. Hope you are all okay :D

[Kristie, Moderator]

Rusalka - So sorry to hear about your beautiful little Kara.

[Janice, Moderator]

Glad to hear from you Rus. Sorry to hear about your troubles in the roost. Glad to hear that your brother is on the mend.

I've been thinking about getting back into WoW. Classic might be the way to go. I didn't like that last expansion that I had played. While I decide, I downloaded the free version of Final Fantasy XIV. It's a lot like WoW, but not as good.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Thanks guys. All is well, just needing to get over this little divet. Kara was just not expected and incredibly sudden, which really did not help.

Lexx has played all the FF games, and quite likes them. I am scarred from said little brother playing them on repeat with the sound on all day every day on the playstation growing up. Lexx loves the noises, as they mean happy things to him. They trigger rage in me lol.

Azuresong, US East, Alliance (boo says this Hordey) is where I'm playing if anyone wants to join the darkside, let me know. I will warn it is as much as time sink as it always was, I thought I knew all their tricks and I wouldn't fall for it all again. Nope. Bastards are good at the sucking you in. But I agree, the latest xpacs haven't been great. Nearly 40 and have 20 more gold to get for my horse! See, simple problems with clear answers with no consequence - brilliant!

[Janice, Moderator]

Yup - down the rabbit hole!

[Shirley]

Sorry to hear about your chook, Rusalka.

[Sandra, Moderator]

Sorry about Kara, Rusalka. I also hope your brother is feeling better.

[Saar The Book owl]

Sorry to hear about Kara, Rusalka. It's a big loss. Hopefully your brother will be beter soon. Take care. I used to play WOW to, but stopped. My man is playing the vanilla version now.

[Sarah]

Sort to hear about your chook Rusalka. I hope your brither recovers quickly. Good job it wasn't the virus. I hope you get the escapism you need from WoW.

[Renee]

Sorry to hear about your chook.

I have been having the most wonderful conversations with my husband. He is a huge fan of Winston Churchill. His father was a fan and passed it on to him. He reads everything he can about Churchill. I have hit his shelves in my search for things to read. I started with The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz because I enjoy this author.

My husband was so excited I was reading the book that he pulled out a couple more. We are now having great talks on the subject.

I first found the splendid and the vile in one of those tiny libraries. I am now a fan of both Churchill and those little libraries

[Esther]

Russalka, so sorry about Kara.

I just had a great experience. A theatre in quebec organized something called "au creux de l'oreille" (more or less "in your ear") I just had a 15 minutes phone call during which an actor read a text to me. Really fun.

[Janice, Moderator]

That sounds interesting Esther! Is it random, or do you get to pick the text?

[Kristie, Moderator]

I'm not sure where to put this, but I thought some of you might be interested. Sinful, Louisiana (from the Miss Fortune series) has its own web page. I know several of us have read or are reading the series. http://sinfullouisiana.com