Grant Carlson
Sheltering scene
For this weeks Flickr Friday challenge "I Stay at Home", I had an idea similar to many others - to portray the primary activities we're keeping ourselves busy with during our sheltering related down time.
For me the list (in no particular order) is this:
>Photography. (for example, this very image, and several others that I've created recently using Photoshop in a more creative editing capacity than I ever have before. This comes along with watching lots and lots of YouTube videos!)
>Puzzles. (like many others out there, we've done several during the lockdown, including a couple as part of puzzle challenges, when we competed with some other family members to be the first to complete a similar puzzle using a set start time - communicating during the "race" via text & Facetime)
>Zoom/Skype/Facetime virtual hangouts with friends & family. (the "puzzle" in this image is a photo of a zoom meeting we had with our friends Mike & Jean, with their 5yr old daughter, and our friend Raphman and his mom yesterday afternoon, but beyond that we've utilized various communication technologies to catch up with, or have full fledged hanging out times with friends, including a Jeopardy style trivia contest hosted by friends of ours with five other teams around the city & country using Zoom)
>TV shows & movies. (as fate would have it, our old plasma TV crapped out shortly after the start of the stay-at-home orders, but we did purchase a new OLED set that has a terrific picture - making our favorite shows and moves that much more enjoyable. Plus, the additional down time has allowed us to catch up on shows we've been meaning to get around to for some time)
>Craft beer. (ok, this is nothing new, and really has nothing specific to do with sheltering, but we're doing our best to support our favorite microbrewery, Maplewood in Chicago, which, thankfully for us, is just down the ally from our place, so take-out orders are super convenient!)
These are strange and difficult times for all of us, and I understand how much we're all looking forward to some kind of return to normalcy, hopefully sooner than later, but do appreciate the sacrifices people are making to help "flatten the curve" on this virus.
Stay safe out there!
Sheltering scene
For this weeks Flickr Friday challenge "I Stay at Home", I had an idea similar to many others - to portray the primary activities we're keeping ourselves busy with during our sheltering related down time.
For me the list (in no particular order) is this:
>Photography. (for example, this very image, and several others that I've created recently using Photoshop in a more creative editing capacity than I ever have before. This comes along with watching lots and lots of YouTube videos!)
>Puzzles. (like many others out there, we've done several during the lockdown, including a couple as part of puzzle challenges, when we competed with some other family members to be the first to complete a similar puzzle using a set start time - communicating during the "race" via text & Facetime)
>Zoom/Skype/Facetime virtual hangouts with friends & family. (the "puzzle" in this image is a photo of a zoom meeting we had with our friends Mike & Jean, with their 5yr old daughter, and our friend Raphman and his mom yesterday afternoon, but beyond that we've utilized various communication technologies to catch up with, or have full fledged hanging out times with friends, including a Jeopardy style trivia contest hosted by friends of ours with five other teams around the city & country using Zoom)
>TV shows & movies. (as fate would have it, our old plasma TV crapped out shortly after the start of the stay-at-home orders, but we did purchase a new OLED set that has a terrific picture - making our favorite shows and moves that much more enjoyable. Plus, the additional down time has allowed us to catch up on shows we've been meaning to get around to for some time)
>Craft beer. (ok, this is nothing new, and really has nothing specific to do with sheltering, but we're doing our best to support our favorite microbrewery, Maplewood in Chicago, which, thankfully for us, is just down the ally from our place, so take-out orders are super convenient!)
These are strange and difficult times for all of us, and I understand how much we're all looking forward to some kind of return to normalcy, hopefully sooner than later, but do appreciate the sacrifices people are making to help "flatten the curve" on this virus.
Stay safe out there!