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I have been staying home for the last couple days trying to recover from my stomach flu. I looked at the green hills outside the window and recalled the time we had spent in Del Valle during COVID. Since my wife 's bicycle accident a years ago, we haven't been doing much hiking, let alone hiking the steep hills of Del Valle. Ths regional park is one of the beautiful places in the Bay Area for this seaon. Its rolling green would only last for a few months before it turns yellow and dry. I keep yearning to go back but other things are getting into my way for one reason or another. I took this shot back in early 2021 when the weekend crowd was still very thin. Now, this place is getting so popular that you could hardly find a parking spot at the trailhead.
Film: Kodak Portra 400
Camera: Yashica Mat 124G
Finally was working on setting up my little home here in Second Life. Been a while since I put one together and figured why not!
Let's Stay Home Sign: Seven Emporium
SLURL: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Seven%20Emporium/124/141/13
[FOURTH WALL] My Personality Board v2 - ISFJ (Yes, I took the test! lol. www.16personalities.com/isfj-personality) If you haven't taken one, it's totally interesting and honestly, gives you something to do ~~
SLURL: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Trace/44/112/23
BOOKSHELF: BAZAR - Toronto-Living room bookshelf 1
SLURL: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/L%20A%20Dreams/79/169/22
SKYBOX: Trompe Loeil - The Chatham Loft Skybox Dark (with surround) (I've had this in my inventory for a long time ... probably a few years...erm.. since 2014, still my favorite little hideaway)
MPURL: marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Trompe-Loeil-Chatham-Loft-Sk...
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My Outfit:
M.BIRDIE - Leah look-clothing.A1 Maitreya and the look-shoes as well. Snagged this from the gacha at the store location. (was 75L a shot and I got pretty lucky)
SLURL: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Fairy%20Woods/149/127/25
Pose: *PosESioN Statue 1 (was wandering around and found their store. Such a cool location.
SLURL: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Possession/129/73/2503
SKIN: MUDSKIN; Chiaki - 112 (BOM/CATWA Applier)
MUDSKIN SLURL : maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sweet%20Isle/117/114/1451
HAIR: [monso] My Hair - Somin /Black & White (same location as above)
HEAD: CATWA - Catya v4.0
MPURL: marketplace.secondlife.com/p/CATWA-HEAD-Catya/10228934
BODY: Maitreya Mesh Body - Lara V5.1
SLURL: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Maitreya%20Isle/207/165/26
SHAPE: Huebsch - Leah Shape for Catwa
MPURL: marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Huebsch-Leah-Shape-for-Catwa...
Just collected the loaner car this morning, 27 November 2021, after staying home the last four weeks. SO thankful that a kind friend came with me and drove it back to my place. I don't think I will be driving it further than the local shops, though. Horrified to see that the car is bright, bright red with big signs all over it saying that it is a loaner! Talk about standing out on the road! On top of that, it is like an ice rink (black ice) outside this morning! You have to be really careful when walking, and if you don't have to go out, it's safer to just stay home.
"Two days ago, on 26 June 2016, a fair-sized group of people spent the morning on a walk led by Erik Butters, out past Cochrane, NW of Calgary. This land consists of rolling, open hills and areas of woodland, with the Rocky Mountains in the distance. This event was the 8th Annual Flora & Fauna Fundraising for Ghost River Watershed Outing.
Fortunately, I knew how to drive to this distant location, so I was able to pick up friend Dorothy and off we went together. We allowed plenty of time to get there, just in case of heavy traffic or else we saw something interesting en route. This meant that there was time for me to stop and take a few photos of a Llama in someone's field, a couple of beautiful Longhorn cattle lying down and a small herd of maybe half a dozen Elk that we saw way off in the distance.
I think everyone was more than ready for lunch by the time our hike was over! Going to our destination was all uphill, which I normally avoid at all cost. Coming down used less energy, but painful knees felt every step on the way down : )
Around 1:00 pm, Erik and his partner provided a great BBQ for those of us from Calgary and for the people who had joined us from elsewhere. As always, the food was delicious! Thank you so much, both of you! Amazingly, the sun shone and there was no rain, despite the weather forecast."
I have every good intention of brushing up on skills and learning some new ideas during this lockdown. However, the sun keeps shining and there seems to be a million other things that need doing indoors and in the garden (the sun sure shows up the dust!!) so for the time being my books of ideas sit proudly on the table waiting.
Thanks for viewing, stay safe and stay at home 😀
Phlox visits her grandfather, Morgan Freeman, unexpectedly, not surprisingly at lunchtime.
Morgan Freeman: Hey, Sweetie. Not that I'm complaining -- I'm always glad to see you, but what brings you to this neck of the woods?
Phlox: I was just returning your book.
Morgan Freeman: What book was that?
Phlox: The Man in the Iron Mask.
Morgan Freeman: Did I lend you that -- wait a minute. That was nearly five years ago. What did you think of it?
Phlox: Uh, I didn't finish reading it. To be honest, I didn't start reading it.
Morgan Freeman: Well, just put it back on the shelf. Do you want another book?
Phlox: Sheesh.
Morgan Freeman: S'up?
Phlox: I forgot to bring the book.
Morgan Freeman: Oh, dear. Tell you what. Why don't you just consider it a gift.
Phlox: Thanks. It's just what I've always wanted. But I'm glad, because I think I lost it, anyway.
Morgan Freeman: So you do need something to read then. It's the middle of summer. Wouldn't you have more fun going outside and getting some fresh air? Aren't you guys going on holiday soon?
Phlox: Jefa says we're not going anywhere this year. We have to find some entertainment in a book. I don't mind staying home, but I'd rather read graphic novels.
Morgan Freeman: Nothing wrong with those, but I gave all mine away a long time ago. I do have some science fiction, though.
Phlox: That's OK. I find plenty to read online. I really came over to have a look through your records again. Hey this one is out of its cover. Is that it? Wait, that's all scribbled up -- did one of your other grandkids write on it?
Morgan Freeman: Ha, ha! Actually this is the right cover. Monty Python was great for this sort of thing. I was just about to listen to it before you came in. I thought it would go well with lunch. Are you hungry?
Phlox: Always! What's for lunch.
Morgan Freeman: Spam sandwiches!
The picture is from an old photo shoot in November 2017. I was going to recycle it when I saw it had been less than a year ago and it occurred to me that Phlox and Grandpa needed another convo. I tried to use one with more difference in posture, but when the light was good on one of them it was bad on the other. Phlox is always hard to shoot.
Well with this virus going around and staying home to be safe I figured I would put the time to good use! Plus who doesn't like dressing up in a Maids uniform ! LOL
I hope that everyone is staying home, not mingling and keeping safe. Sending you all my love and hugs and please stay strong. We can beat this terrible disease! So far I and my family are fine and we are all isolated from each other also. The is sad but we can talk via FaceTime or Skype on Internet.
I used to have one of these little figures, can't find it since my move. I always loved their advertising. My favourite one was when the Energizer Bunny (a make of batteries) went through the Bermuda Triangle and came out on the other side. If I see the ad again I will try and capture it from the TV and share it. It is sooo cute and I need to laugh a bit due to the stress of this terrible Virus. Quebec Province has the highest number of infected cases for the Covid-19 in Canada.
I probably should have stayed home last night and focused on recuperating. But who could resist a full moon and clear skies? Not me.
It was bloody cold. My feet were soaked to well above the ankles. At one point, I lost my camera (having wandered off in a tangled stretch of wilderness, scouting for my next location, killing time and keeping warmish during a long exposure). Then I got myself lost amid all the winding trails and twisting trees and patches of standing water that look alike.
Then I got scared, thinking about the cougars and other wildlife that hang in the area (and kicking myself for not bringing a phone along, as I normally do). By the time I got home, my husband was worried, my extremities were numb and... for all that... I had a camera full of lousy photos. But this one turned out okay. Her name is Dorothy.
A continuing evolution which is only a couple of months into it's progress- and why I don't wind up answering IM's right away :D
Oceanfront, 3 houses and a spa building. Oh and the skyboxes, not yet shown.
South Health Campus Hospital YYC
Keep Safe Stay Healthy Keep Well Friends. Happy Fence Friday
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# stay home # keep safe # stay positive 💖🙏🌈
Let's put things in "Perspective"
We probably all think that it’s a mess out there now. Hard to discern between what’s a real threat and what is just simple panic and hysteria.
For a small amount of perspective at this moment, imagine you were born in 1900. Many would think that that was a pretty simple time of life. Then on your 14th birthday, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday. 22 million people perish in that war, including many of your friends who volunteered to defend freedom in Europe.
Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until your 20th birthday. 50 million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million.
On your 29th birthday, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, the World GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. If you were lucky, you had a job that paid $300 a year, a dollar a day.
When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet. And don’t try to catch your breath. If you lived in London England or most of continental Europe, bombing of your neighbourhood, or invasion of your country by foreign soldiers along with their tank and artillery was a daily event. Thousands of Canadian young men joined the army to defend liberty with their lives. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war.
At 50, the Korean War starts. 5 million perish.
At 55 the Vietnam War begins and doesn’t end for 20 years. 4 million people perish in that conflict.
On your 62nd birthday there is the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could have ended. Sensible leaders prevented that from happening.
Now, in 2020, we have the COVID-19 pandemic. Thousands have died; it feels pretty dangerous; and it is!
Now think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you survive all of that? When you were a kid in 1965 and didn’t think your 85 year old grandparent understood how hard school was. And how mean that kid in your class was. Yet they survived through everything listed above.
Perspective is an amazing art. Refined as time goes on, and very very enlightening.
So let’s try and keep things in perspective. Let’s be smart, we are all in this together. Let's help each other out, and we will get through all of this.
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Finally something practical and honest from the Head of the Infectious Disease Clinic, University of Maryland, USA: re.Covid19.
1. We may have to live with C19 for months or years. Let's not deny it or panic. Let's not make our lives useless. Let's learn to live with this fact.
2. You can't destroy C19 viruses that have penetrated cell walls, by drinking gallons of hot water - you'll just go to the bathroom more often.
3. Washing hands and maintaining a two-metre physical distance is the best method for your protection.
4. If you don't have a C19 patient at home, there's no need to disinfect the surfaces at your house.
5. Packaged cargo, gas pumps, shopping carts and ATMs do not cause infection. If you Wash your hands, live your life as usual.
6. C19 is not a food infection. It is associated with drops of infection like the ‘flu. There is no demonstrated risk that C19 is transmitted by food.
7. You can lose your sense of smell with a lot of allergies and viral infections. This is only a non-specific symptom of C19.
8. Once at home, you don't need to change your clothes urgently and go shower! Purity is a virtue, paranoia is not!
9. The C19 virus doesn't hang in the air for long. This is a respiratory droplet infection that requires close contact.
10. The air is clean, you can walk through the gardens (just keeping your physical protection distance, through parks.
11. It is sufficient to use normal soap against C19, not antibacterial soap. This is a virus, not a bacteria.
12. You don't have to worry about your food orders. But you can heat it all up in the microwave, if you wish.
13. The chances of bringing C19 home with your shoes is like being struck by lightning twice in a day. I've been working against viruses for 20 years - drop infections don't spread like that!
14. You can't be protected from the virus by taking vinegar, sugarcane juice and ginger! These are for immunity not a cure.
15. Wearing a mask for long periods interferes with your breathing and oxygen levels. Wear it only in crowds.
16. Wearing gloves is also a bad idea; the virus can accumulate into the glove and be easily transmitted if you touch your face. Better just to wash your hands regularly.
Immunity is greatly weakened by always staying in a sterile environment. Even if you eat immunity boosting foods, please go out of your house regularly to any park/beach.
Immunity is increased by EXPOSURE TO PATHOGENS, not by sitting at home and consuming fried/spicy/sugary food and aerated drinks.
Live life sensibly and to the fullest. Be smart and stay informed!
Just collected the loaner car this morning, 27 November 2021, after staying home the last four weeks. SO thankful that a kind friend came with me and drove it back to my place. I don't think I will be driving it further than the local shops, though. Horrified to see that the car is bright, bright red with big signs all over it saying that it is a loaner! Talk about standing out on the road! On top of that, it is like an ice rink (black ice) outside this morning! You have to be really careful when walking, and if you don't have to go out, it's safer to just stay home.
"The seedpods are at first green and fleshy with sharp, soft spines, becoming a large (2-5cm, 4/5-2in. across), dry, hard seedpod covered with very sharp, harsh spines and containing numerous black, flat, round seeds." All parts of the plant are poisonous. From www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/facts/ontweeds/jimsonw...
"Yesterday afternoon, 23 October 2014, I finally did a drive south of the city and found an old barn that I really wanted to see, plus a few others. The photos of this barn that I had found on the Internet were obviously taken by trespassing, or possibly before a No Trespassing sign had been placed there, as I could only get a view of the back of the barn from the road, lol! On this drive, or rather when looking at Google Earth the previous evening, I discovered that as well as having no sense of direction, I also have no sense of distance!
Then I went in search of two grain elevators joined together by a long, low building. The most northerly one is one of the oldest in Alberta (built in 1905 I think, certainly before 1909). I had pulled over and parked, taken a few shots right into the sun unfortunately and was just checking them back in the car. I was conscious of a man in a bright orange sweater approaching close to my car. When he stopped by my car, I opened the door – he seemed a bit puzzled as to what I was doing there, so I explained that I was photographing the elevators. Ha, it was the private owner of the elevators! I read on the Internet just now that he has a furniture manufacturing company in the long, low building that joins the two elevators together. I asked him if there was a better place to photograph them, and he said to take the previous little road. Much better! Some nice old train cars parked near them, too. Maybe I was parked on private ground when the owner was talking with me.
After the elevators, I explored a few other roads further south and ended up not far from the Saskatoon Farm. Called in and had quiche again : ) Couldn’t resist a quick shot or two of one of these spiky seedpods. Not sure what plant it belongs to, perhaps a Datura species, but I think it’s quite attractive. Couldn’t get a good composition from the tangle of dead stems and pods, but at least it’s a colourful image. When the seedpod dries out, it eventually breaks open, releasing the seeds to fall on the ground. Must make the most of colour at the moment, as I noticed a snowflake icon on the weather forecast for Monday : (
Yesterday had started well, too. I found an e-mail from friend, Sandy, saying that they had just seen a Barred Owl in one of the local parks. Thanks to Sandy, I got over there just before noon and bumped into a few of my friends who had just finished a walk. Two of them said they would come with me and look for it again – and we found it!! This was the first 100% wild Barred Owl I’d ever seen. I had seen a family of them near Edmonton, when we went to see ones that had been banded. They were wild birds, but I still hoped to one day see a completely wild one (no nesting box). Yesterday’s owl was beautiful – crummy light, with a mix of harsh sunlight and dark shadows, but I did find one to post today."
"Stay home" is not a hindrance to a sisterly "Catch me if you can" alone, Granpa watching at a distance, with his mask on, at the building playground.
Stayed home today. Weather was a bit wet to say the least, and I had to sort his wardrobe. Not a nice job that but actually had more than he thought he had lol.
And so another chapter is opening in my life with a new job. Same kind of work just now I will be working for an insurance company instead of a small independent workshop.