Day 47 Thursday 4/30/20 COVID LOCKDOWN

Thursday April 30, 2020

Weather: Rainy Rainy Rainy

 

Day 46 Wednesday 4/29/20 COVID LOCKDOWN

Wednesday April 29, 2020

Weather - beautiful and getting a bit warmer - but clouded up in PM

Zoom with Denver girls

LUNCH - bagel and smoked turkey

Zoom CHEM dept meeting
Zoom with Chris
Zoom with Abby



DINNER: smoked whole chicken and rice, veggies
 
Zoom with CHOIR

Day 45 Tuesday 4/28/20 COVID LOCKDOWN

Tuesday, April 28, 2020 

Weather, bright and sunny, but still a bit cold

Trash run in AM, CVS, Brueggers

LUNCH - not necessary after breakfast sandwich
 
Zooming from 1 PM to 9 PM straight - AAAAHHHHHH!!!!!
Felt a bit of a panic attack around 2 PM, needed to walk around the house a few times

DINNER stew that Rich made in the Instapot

Zoom Church Council from 7-9 PM

Watched a french movie in the PM

Day 44 Monday 04/27/20 COVID LOCKDOWN

Monday April 27, 2020

Weather, rainy and cold

Email written Sunday night - scheduled to go out to class noontime - prompted me to get motivated to read up the last of the submitted drafts for the final projects.  Also did a reach out to some of the students (14) who had not submitted drafts, looked at Content Check-Ins, brought Moodle sight up to speed, worked out some Moodle WIKI issues with Asha and some Zoom paramters

2:30 PM met with Cathy to prepare for Tuesdays BCBP meeting
 
Then, on to preparing for Tuesdays thesis defenses (Soon-Young in Physics) and conversations (the ten BCBP students).

5 PM Kashew's thesis defense

6 PM leftover pork chops and mac and cheese yum!



 

Day 43 Sunday 4/26/20 COVID LOCKDOWN

Sunday, April 26, 2020

Weather turned partly sunny in the AM to cloudy to rainy in the PM to hail/wind overnight

Difficulty sleeping again. Not sure what it is about Saturday nights.  

Zoom church meeting at 10 AM
Zoom COVID Leadership at 11:30 AM 


LUNCH: smoked turkey on one of the last sesame bagels (toasted) with lettuce, cheese, mayo AND potato chips. 

spent much of the day hanging lights in the sunroom and putting up Keith's pictures and cleaning up

DINNER: Pork chops, leftover mac and cheese 
CHEM100: Final project reports - 36 to read got 24 read today - rest tomorrow.

Day 42 Saturday 4/25/20 COVID LOCKDOWN

Saturday April 25, 2020

 An absolutely gorgeous day - just right for a burn.  So, at 10 AM we started, and 12,000 steps later, at 3 PM, we finished.  Only one small out of control fire-let.  Quickly put out with the hose.  I also got out my lady sized chain saw and got prepped on how that worked.  Took down about a dozen saplings - finding it was quite exhausting, even with the chain-saw.

LUNCH was sitting outside, eating up leftovers from the week.

1 PM Family Zoom with the girls, who had had a game night by Zoom the night before.

Our IntaCart delivery also arrived today - quite a red-letter day.  So we categorized, cleaned, and put away our cache of food - 3 days from now we can dig in (except the potato chips that didn't last that long).

 Put together my bamboo plant rack - soon I'll be able to get some starters!

 DINNER in the sunroom, leftover beet salad and Brussels sprouts from Johnny's were all we needed.  Delicious and smokey.

PM - Call to Lynn and Mary - surprise when Dough picked up the phone...we learned that, unbeknownst to us, it was Mary's birthday.  More importantly, we learned that Lynn was in the hospital - a terrifying tale of a fever, shakes, difficulty breathing and a foot rash that led Mary calling 911.  First responders coming with full PPE terrifying Mary, but that a COVID test had been negative - yet still they were keeping him in the hospital for observation.

 

 

Day 41 Friday, 4/24/20 COVID LOCKDOWN

Friday, April 24, 2020

Weather: sunny, a bit less cold

late to rise 9 AM 

BREAKFAST cinnamon toast 
 
Reading Jose Andres 

LUNCH tuna melt 

Fri Chem Social - Senator Coons

DINNER Johnny's 
 
Pelham Glow

howling at 8 PM 




 

Day 40 Thursday 4/23/20 COVID LOCKDOWN

Thursday April 23, 2020

Weather: sunny, partly cloudy. cool 

 work,  work, work

Day 39 Wednesday 04/22/20 COVID LOCKDOWN

Wednesday April 22, 2020

 Weather - sunshine and snow, cold and windy

Zoom 10:30 AM with Denver Girls
Gutter guys came today

Lots of cancellations today

• 11 AM Mellon Meetings
• 12 Noon Dept Meeting
• 1:30 Meeting with Chris

So blustery tree fell down across the street and we had to call 911, took aobut 3 hours to clear the tree off the power lines and road

• 4:00 PM Abigail

 Dinner, made macaroni and cheese, and took a walk

Zoom with Choir at 7 PM
Howling at 8 PM  

Day 38 Tuesday 4/21/20 COVID LOCKDOWN

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Weather, cloudy temperate

Morning news: Squatting is a lost art

Day 37 Monday 4/20/20 COVID LOCKDOWN

Monday, April 20, 2020

 Weather, started out a bit cloudy, cleared later in day - temps about 50oF

 BREAKFAST: Bagels

• 9:30  AM Zoomed with Kat
• 10:30 AM Zoomed with Sarah and Becca
• 11:30 AM Zoomed with Kashew

LUNCH: salami sandwich, apple, granola bar HUNGRY!!!

• 2:30 PM Zoomed with Cathy - worked on BCBP stuff for dept. 

DINNER: Mediterranean Chicken, Feta, Basil, Olives with egg noodles..... YUM

Maintaining howling tradition - now out for about one week

 Made chocolate cake box cookies - OK

 

Day 36 Sunday 4/19/20 COVID LOCKDOWN

Sunday, April 19, 2020

Weather - beautiful day, high 50s, low 60s, sunny

Difficulty sleeping last night - up and down all night long ARRRGGGGHHHH

Breakfast #1 Grilled cider donut at 6 AM

Breakfast #2 Bagels with Rich at 9:30 AM

• Zoomed Wesley Service at 10 AM, beautiful singing (Alleluia and Gaelic Blessing), terrific sermon by Pastor Moo and Service Trip to Puerto Rico Report by Sandi 
  
• Zoomed COVID LEADERSHIP MEETING 11:30 AM (what am I doing here?)

LUNCH: grilled hot dogs with spicy dal - kinda grows on you

working on content for class, powerpoint, check-in, folders for draft of final project, video for final project

PeaPod order arrived 4:30 PM - so so disappointed, only about 2/3 of what I ordered and all stuff that wasn't too much fun (onions no garlic, black beans, no dal; salami, no turkey; ground beef, no roast chicken; etc)

Peapod Delivery FINALLY Arrives (wait 2 weeks)

with 12 bags - where's my chicken? bacon? cold cuts?

Mom's Memorial Tree

 took Sunday drive to Wesley to see Mom's Memorial Tree, walked around inspecting new garden and two new houses in construction, then around Hadley (North Hadley sugar shack open)

DINNER:  grilled hamburgers and pasta salad that was actually quite good. 

• Zoomed with Ladies at 8 PM, Zazie's back, Marilyn had lovely Nepalese dress, Sue is recovering from a bad back, and Judith resting after long walk with her boys.

 
late night, finishing up work, did last video
some nonsense on TV (Modern Family, Caribbean Dream Home)

Day 35 Saturday 04/18/20 COVID LOCKDOWN

Saturday, April 18, 2020

Weather: Woke (at 9:30 AM) to 3 inches of snow, there go our plans for a burn, rest of the day was cloudy - sun broke through around 5 PM - beautiful alpenglow sunset 7:20 PM

BREAKFAST pancakes with home made blueberry sauce, maple syrup, sausage

• AM CHEM100 Grading - Grading - Grading
•  Request to BCBP faculty to take summer students
• Family Time with Denver-ites 1 PM

LUNCH tomato soup with bacon bits, corn bread pebbles

• PM CHEM100 - Grading - Grading - Grading
•  Problem with BCBP student and with Richmond's lost students

Rich's Signature Quarantini Cocktail with Beautiful Sunset.....

• 3 oz gin (home made spiced gin) - Rich made from kit from Homemade Gin Company
• 3/4 oz dry vermouth
• 1 generous ounce Kahlua (left over from ChemCochella 2018)

DINNER  - lasagna with home made sauce, ricotta, and fresh mozzarella

Day 34 Friday 4/17/20 COVID LOCKDOWN

Friday, April 17, 2020 

Weather: Cold, bright

up at 5 AM to set up delivery dates with Pea Pod - could not seem to get access without changing current order due to deliver on Sunday, will check then

• 8 AM Skype with Zeynep
• 9 AM Ava - doing well
• 10 AM Nicky - on campus - doing OK, computer isn't working

LUNCH PB&J
 

• 1:30 PM Tom Czernik (Ct) doing fine with his cast iron project - girlfriend exposed to COVID-19 as teller in Whole Foods
• 2:30 PM Jac Brooks (Tennessee)  - family left NYC to go to Grandma's home in wilds of TN, trump land...
• 3:30 PM CHEMsocial with alumni Kim, Leonard, Kaeli, Max, Jenny, Adithi, to join the Social

DINNER: Pizza from Leverett CoOp and some supplies 

PM Skyping with  Peter and Eileen, Brock and Cathy

Downloaded Settlers of Catan app, will play with girls

Day 33 Thursday 4/16/18 COVID LOCKDOWN

Thursday, April 16, 2018

Weather:  Snow this morning - like a beautiful icing on a cake, gone by noon

Busy Busy Day..  texted Janet, Kitty had a better night,

9 AM Science Center Planning Committee
11:00 AM India
11:30 AM Noah but a no show

LUNCH: smoked turkey on a Hawaiian roll

Two turkeys in yard, prancing about, setting up displays in yard, really something!
 
1:30-3:30 Office Hours (empty but allowed me to do a ton of grading)
4:00 PM
4:30 PM
5:00 PM
5:30 PM

DINNER: Leftover chili, cornbread, made sopapita (cheese quesadilla) for dinner

7:30 PM Town meeting with Senator Jim McGovern. State of the Commonwealth

PPM finishing up 11 CHEM100 Final Project Feedbacks - 
reading Heidi

Day 32 Wednesday 04/15/20 COVID LOCKDOWN

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Weather: brisk, bright, partly cloudy

• 8 AM went down to Home Depot to pick up my chainsaw
• 10:30 AM Denver check-in
• 11 AM Mellon meeting (adjust timeline)

LUNCH

• 12:30 PM Meet with Chris - tales from a junior faculty member
• ordered chain saw from Home Depot
• 3 PM Covid Webinar with ACS
• Janet calls to get advice about Kitty - who had a rough rough night with hallucinations and night terrors, should she let her sleep through the next day or wake her to try to get her food, water, and medicine.

DINNER: Leftover Potato Soup, peppers, celery

•  7 PM Choir Zoom - Cathy B and Kathy B, Glenda, Gladys, Richmond, Sarah, and Rich and I

Not sure what was in the air today, but it was a nasty day spirit-wise.  News coming in that the College's shutdown will likely extend to September at the earliest.  ACS Webinar was sobering.  I'm feeling NO MOTIVATION, and can't fake it that grading FORUM POSTS is important to the universe.  I'm not feeling well, with general nausea (perhaps mostly due to the food of the day (quiche for lunch, rich potato soup for dinner, BLAAAHHHH.  

PM did a puzzle (Irish Rose by Zen Puzzles) and read read children's book Heidi.

Day 31 Tuesday 04/14/02 COVID LOCKDOWN

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Weather - brisk, bright and partly sunny after a rainy stormy Monday

birds all over front lawn - probably about 20 of them searching for something in soil, chipmunks chased them away.
 
9 AM Started talking with Waleed from Pakistan (5 PM), neuro major, wants thesis opportunities for summer, next year

 AM trying to get video up for Foams Cooking Demo

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Office Hours for CHEM100 - was able to look through outstanding work and send emails, office hours pretty quiet

Advising
4:00 PM Nawoo Kim (declaring BCBP)
4:30 PM Brock Gonzalez (Florida) College Advisee
5:00 PM Isabella Zappi (new Chem Major)
5:30 PM Kyle Jones (Advise - BCBP

Evening - I have no idea what I did......

Day 30 Monday 4/13/20 COVID LOCKDOWN

Monday, April 13, 2020

Weather Rainy, blustery winds to 40 mph

Laurie's Mask Project - ordered 4

Lots of work today - catching up with thesis students, BCBP business, editing video, 
DINNER Chili. 

Shannon's tie dye in Denver

Becca's tie dye in Denver

Day 29 Sunday 4/12/20 COVID LOCKDOWN

Easter Sunday April 12, 2020

Weather: sunny and clear

Lovely sleep in till 8:45 AM, sunshine streaming in window.  Rose to get coffee started and grilled a cider donut for Rich and I before church.

Easter Zooming - a blend of pre-recorded and live church - with 80 people in attendance including Doris, Deanna and Dick, Ginny, Louise, Connie, etc. I read the Gospel John 20: 1-18, so weird because I could n[t hear anyone else.  Watched our singing of Alleluia last year, and sang hymns with gusto.

COVID leadership meeting

Easter brunch Mimosas

Easter brunch in Denver - BJB

Easter Brunch - fritata with asparagus, pamigianna and ham; Easter Mimosas (no champagne so OJ, white wine, seltzer, amaretto, and a final grilled honeybun with amaretto syrup (YUM).  Best thing about fritata is that it was done in 20 minutes (thank you Alton Brown).

Later talked with sister Janet, who managed to score a small ham curbside from her butcher, and innovated a pineapple bake from a can of pineapples out of the back of her cupboard.  Kitty is a bit up and down - a lot of sleeping, and up and down emotionally.  She sobbed about Arnold's death as though it had just happened one day, then another 3 AM moment was in full conversation with him as though he were right in the room.

still bundled up to work outside

Shrubs blooming despite the cold

Afternoon out in the garden, clearing the front east woods of saplings and brush - SO MUCH WORK! and so much more to do. Great conversation with Eddie, agreed to howl at 8 PM.








 PM - Zooming with my Buddies - Judith couldn't make it.

97 year old Lois Zooming in Church service

PPM - reading thesis drafts from Kat and Kashew
PPPM - Netflix - Baptiste but TOO SCARY!!

Day 28 Saturday 04/11/20 COVID LOCKDOWN

Saturday, April 11, 2020

Weather, again breezy, cold, mostly sunny

Up before 7 AM, did some reading and listening to jazz radio in the sunroom
Sent Paperless post birthday card to brother Rob, scheduled card for Kashew and Easter Cards for the girls

BREAKFAST. half a jelly donut

AM handling some email correspondence (BCBP extensions), major declarations

LUNCH: made broccoli, red pepper, cheddar quiche

PM - Zoom with Becca (also worked to go through stuff from her room)
PM - Zoom with Sarah 

Pat and Rich at Atkins Reservoir

Went on a hike, got 10,000 steps before 6:30 PM for first time in awhile.  Windy and cold, but if felt so very good to get out in the fresh air.  The fields are greening up, but no tadpoles, and not sure where the robins went.  
Daffodils are in quite a party down the hill.  
Went through the woods for the first time in awhile.  Not too too muddy, but we had to skirt shoulders on occasion.  
Lots of people on the road, and also in the woods.  But that's a good thing, right?
Felt pretty good about the hike, but a bit achy in the body. 







Group Chat with O'Hara Family

Made CHEM 100 foams video - Yukon Gold Potato Espuma

DINNER:  scallops, asparagus, potatoe espuma
 PM - Call from Barb in Florida

Potato Espume started here with 500 g potato

...and ended up here with potato espuma

Day 27: Friday 4/10/20 COVID LOCKDOWN

Friday, April 10, 2020

 Weather: Breezy, cold, sunny with scattered clouds

Checking in on the Forum - six students have not posted, but two have extentions - send the rest email reminders

Checking in on the Final Project submissions - as of 1 PM 24 of the 38 CHEM100 students had posted.  Got some email from my two five college students that they couldn't post, so I changed some settings.  Jack M. also had trouble, but in the end, it worked for all. YEAH!!

Zoom Meetings:  
NIcky Research Meeting 10 AM
Sarah Special Topics Meeting 11:30 AM

LUNCH: nacho chips, granola bar 

Department Chairs Meetings 3 PM

Phone Conversation with David Hansen

DINNER: We were so very tired, we just reheated spanikopita from Trader Joe's

Called Onawumi to alert her and Charri about 7 PM service

Zoom:  Good Friday Service - Weeping Tree

Evening: Watched Netflix Love, Marriage, Repeat - pretty and fluffy - perfect for our tiredness

Day 26 Thursday 4/9/20 COVID LOCKDOWN

Thursday, April 9, 2020

A kaleidoscope of clouds, sunlight, raindrops, and breezes

DAY 2 of Sourdough Starter - no bubbles yet.

Rich went off at 7 AM at Atkins in South Amherst to pick up Easter Dinner ingredients, processed them on the intake with Chlorox, soaps, social distancing -etc.

• 9:00 AM Zoom Meeting - Science Faculty Steering Committee
• 11:00 AM Zoom Meeting - Maya (pasta)
• 11:30 AM Zoom Meeting - Camille (cheeses)

Lunch with Rich - leftovers

• 1:30 -3:30 PM Zoom Office Hours - Sasha, Elinton, David,  
• 4:00 PM Noah
• 4:30 PM Tom
• 5:00 PM Waleed - from Pakistan - missed his entree
• 5:30 PM Ebru 

DINNER: Ultimate Potato Soup (tarragon and cilantro) YUM!! Reisling to accompany

Howling at 8 PM with neighbors!
Paragraph of hope to WUMC quarterly statement.

Afterward - Green Book on SHOWTIME.  This movie is set in 1962, the film is inspired by the true story of a tour of the Deep South by African American classical and jazz pianist Don Shirley and Italian American bouncer Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga who served as Shirley's driver and bodyguard.excellent and no commercials and no additional fees.  Really liked the great big Italian Family in Queens and the friendship that grew up between the two.  Frank V.  to Don S. --> I am more black than you are (but he's talking about accoutrements of being black (music - Aretha Frankly, Little Richie, food: fried chicken) rather than actually being black - trying on suit in a store, using restroom, staying in a hotel)
 

Day 26 Wednesday 4/8/20 COVID LOCKDOWN

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

The day dawned cloudy, but clouds lifted, the sun came out, and the day turned into a glorious night with the full moon rising, the stars crystal clear, and the space station ablaze at around 9:00 PM in the western sky.

Woke up a bit later than usual (7:45 AM), but anxious to get a go on the day as it felt that there was a lot to be done both with regard to class work, department work, and house work.  Sleep score was 84!!!

Started up a Sourdough Starter.....
Cleaned kitchen, guest bathroom, mudroom and vacuumed entire downstairs

Zoomed with Sarah and Becca at 10:30 AM - they are both feeling a lack of motivation as we all realize how serious this is and that it will get worse before it gets better and that it will likely be months before things get back to normal.  

Bleached front walk, swept up front porch area and the front bench.

Had my AM meetings with my Mellon colleagues and the Chem Dept.  
 PM meeting with Abby and David H.

DINNER leftover pork ternderloin and roasted sweet potatoes and roasted fennel, carrot, onion, caraway seed medley.  DELICIOUS

Senator Chris Coombs will visit with the Department April 24th.

Rich got the Small business loan application in to the church

ZOOMED with Choir tonight. Connie from FL and Keith from Maine.  Great to catch up with everyone.

Here's a prayer I really like:

Holy God,

Keep us mindful of those who lack basic resources in these times. We pray for those who are hungry or without a safe place to stay. We pray for those in homeless shelters, in prisons, in detention centers, where close quarters make social distancing even more difficult. We follow a Christ who looked out for the most vulnerable, the least, the last, and the lost. Help us too, in these anxious times, to serve first the ones who need the most.

Amen.

 

Day 25 Tuesday 4/7/20 COVID LOCKDOWN

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

 Another beautiful day, sunny, just into 60oC, mostly clear blue skies.  

morning sunlight on Mosquito Creek

Woke to bright sunshine, birds singing, good sleep.

Chore morning, visiting the town dump in the AM (new procedure to minimize contact), over to Marilyn's to drop off a b. card in her mailbox, off to Cathy B's to pick up Weeping Tree from a plastic bin on her front step - waved to her inside on a Zoom meeting with friends, and then to post -office to mail Easter goodies off the Denver girls.  Tried hard to practice good hygiene with gloves, masks, wipedown after contact with outside.

Back home, I went for a short walk on the beautiful weather, clarity of sunlight just unbelievable.   
Lunch on deck - ham and cheese sandwiches - really enjoying the warm weather (60oF) and sunshine.



CHEM100 

• 1:00 PM Zoom for AmherstBakes@Home - Andrew, India, Noah, Cassidy, Elijah, Cindy - Wesley and Jac couldn't be there 
• 1:30 - 3:30 PM Zoom for class (Michael, Janelle) 

ADVISING

• 4-6 PM Zoom Yusrah, Danny, Sean, Elizabeth

DINNER: Kielbasa-pepper-onion-potato bake, salad

PINK MOON RISING" and Howl out for Marilyn's Birthday

Later, sad to hear of the death of one of our most beloved songwriters, John Prine from Covid 19

Day 24 Monday 4/6/20 COVID LOCKDOWN

Monday, April 6, 2020

 Glorious sunny day, blue sky, temps in the high 50s.

Another.... "never did I ever" moment - this morning 5 AM, Rich and I are sitting up in bed trying to grab a coveted delivery slot from Pea Pod (thanks to Sue's advice last night).  Managed to snag one for two weeks from now - on Sunday, April 19 2-6 PM ($3.00 savings for flexible delivery time, thank you!).  Sitting in bed asking, should we get one container of toilet bowl cleaner or two, puts the romance back in the bedroom at the Blatchly Chalet.

Had a tiny bit of trouble getting back to sleep but then slept in till 9 AM - another first in this COVID  crisis.   Since my meetings started at 9:30 AM, I hopped in the shower, grabbed a quick granola bar and cuppa, and off I went.  

The day:

• 9:30 AM Zoom with Cat (thesis going great - she's now in Boston)
• 10:30 AM Zoom with Denver (Sarah's boss quit, bosses boss is going on maternity leave, a bit worried about vacuum.  Beccca's room re-organized so that office can be private from bedroom area and she got a better mattress out of it, girls swapping books, recipes, packing crates and cauliflower rice.)
• 11:30 AM Zoom with Kashew (my wireless flaked out - Kash's charger died, and I'm working with IT to get her a replacement
• 12;00 PM Zoom CHI Inclusive Pedagogy Workshop John Rager - everyone don't work so hard!
• 1:30 PM Zoom Sheila and Amari - research
• 2:20 PM Zoom Cathy Stillerman BCBP

Jaya Kannan from ATS connected with me to ask if clips from my videos could be shared with faculty/administrators to show what it means to teach with empathy.  She said she showed my video that welcomed back students to the course after spring break (just after the start of the COVID Lockdown) to Provost Catherine Epstein who was very "impressed." I'm really humbled and flattered.

By 4 PM or so, both Rich and I were finished, so he showed me the SGN youtube phenomenon of John Kazinsky whom I love now more than ever.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oilZ1hNZPRM

I forwarded the link to everyone I knew, told my friends I would watch it once per day until this nightmare is over to make sure my heart was screwed in right.

DINNER: Rich mad lamb and barley soup with vegetables. 
PM visitors, a lone turkey, on the east side, no deer tonight.

7 PM Howl....We tried to participate in the 7 PM howl- -neighbors on Shutesbury Road were urging us all to show our solidarity and thanks to the health care workers -  but we were the only ones outside howling.  Couldn't hear anyone else.   Sure neighbors were thinking of calling the police. 

Day 23 Sunday 4/5/20 COVID LOCKDOWN

Sunday, April 5, 2020

 ZOOM Church at 10 AM, Ginny in from France, Liz got on, Dick and Deanna Pearlstein, all told about 60 people.  Super great to see everyone. Lian shared with all of us his baby chick - I so wish I had gotten a screenshot of that!


 ZOOM

mini Stone Henge on Shutesbury Road

First Forsythia

A very YELLOW bunch of daffodils

Some very fuzzy little buds

A very beautiful chicken and she knows it

At Betty Steele's gravesite

Leadership Meeting at 11:30 AM, everyone seems OK, small business loan to help out church, changes to language of website (all face to face meetings suspended until May 4 at least.

LUNCH - western omelet, salad

Working on videos for class, loading up the Moodle site, 
trying to help with Kashew's dead charger issue

WALK at 4 PM out to Betty Steele's gravesite - Why is there no headstone or any marker for her?

DINNER - smoked pork, sweet potatoes, veggies,  made gingersnap cookies

 Visitors to woods tonight included four dear on the western perimeter, casually walking past, nibbling at the new buds.

ZOOM with ladies (pea pod - get on first thing in the morning) Atlas Farms in South Deerfield, tips on handling groceries, Zazie's in Connecticut - Rachel's challenges with the small business loan, etc.


 

Day 22 Saturday 4/4/20 COVID LOCKDOWN

Saturday April 4, 2020

 Day is partly cloudy, still cold, but not so windy

BREAKFAST - cashew buttermilk pancakes with maple butter and maple syrup (JoAnna Gaines recipe), sausage

Work
Powerpoint Lecture for Module 5 - putting the last third of the lecture together on beer making and the foams that you get in the beer head

FACETIME with Becca at 1 PM to go through stuff from her room

Putting lecture up on MOODLE

LUNCH - lamb bite with mango chutney, apple
ZOOM with girls at 3 PM

More work on CONTENT check-in for Module 5

Howling from Sarah in Denver an 8 PM Covid Custom

Weekly book update:
Finished:
Jojo Moyes: The Ship of Brides: voyage of 655 Australian women to England aboard VICTORIA, an ancient wounded air craft carrier at the wend of WWII

Heather Webl: Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe (woman returns to southern family home/cafe after grandmothers death - has inherited cafe which interrupts her plans to go to medical school.  Finds love, a purpose, and a new family in Kentucky town.

Olivia Hawker: One for the Blackbird One for the Crow story of  a complex blended family consisting of Nettie Mae and Beulah Bemis (Ernest murderer) /Cora and Clyde Webber (Substance - murdered)

Day 21 Friday 04/03/20 COVID LOCKDOWN

Friday April 3, 2020

Grey, rainy, and cold day

BREAKFAST oatmeal

SKYPING WITH ZEYNEP, Esin dressed up Kutsi and Zeynep for the Covid-Gala of Istanbul - gotta love the footware!



More work on 

• lecture for Module 5
• review several videos - trying to get a handle of elasticity and surface tension
• read McGee for science of whipping cream
• Forum 3 - set up to include new interview with Michael Pollan - "Eating, Gardening, and Shopping in a Pandemic" at 8 PM  screening on FACETIME with Everbrite ticket to SF coffee shop owner interview, 
• more work with AmherstKidsCook@Amherst - good link through America's Test Kitchen

LUNCH lamb sandwich with mango chutney 

• putting Nicky's work plan and reviews in EVERNOTE for him
• student correspondence regarding majoring in BCBP - added to the appointment list for Advising (Tues, Thurs 4-6 PM next two weeks)
• BCBP final vote on NOT accepting P/F for major passed with 2/3 majority 6/3, but we will accept for S2020

DINNER shrimp with lemon and mozzarella

CDC came out with recommendation that ANYONE leaving their house should wear a mask.  Oh dear, we don't have them, Rich is hot to make them.

watched Pollan's interview - Will we be OK, depends on who WE are - migrant workers most at risk and this puts our food supply at risk - have a garden!!!

watched Sorry to Have Missed You - an Amherst Cinema movie directed by Ken Loach

To bed