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One of the super markets is doing click and collect in store, but even if the website lists it as in stock half the time it won't be when they sort your order. It's maddening. Put an order in for what you need and get about half of it.
Us country folk have a new problem though and it's really getting people's backs up here. City dwellers are fleeing them into the country side on mass, going to holiday homes or moving in with rural family for a while. They're wandering all over private property and swearing they're going to self isolate but get bored after 4 days and start wandering around the streets. Local shops almost had to call the cops on a few because they get lippy and threaten to punch the shop keeper when he refuses to sell them 12 loafs of bread or loo roll.Local green grocers great though. Doing cheap deals for locals and fast turn around. Get a box full of vegetables and fruit for pretty cheap.You guys seem to be having more fun in this pandemic than I am..
Here in a few weeks...the store will be so jam packed with TP...they'll be giving it away!
My daughter in Denver scored a package of paper towels this morning.
We just got back to our hometown so don't quite know what situation here is. I hope it more like John's, which sounds half-promising.
In my quest for flour, I went to Smart and Final and finally found some. But only in 2 lb bags, not the usual 5 lb bag.
I grabbed four, get up tho the cashier.
One per customer.
Modeling is an excuse to buy books.
I went shopping at my supermarket today and everything has been restocked except for the following: paper products including TP, cleaning products, flour??, and salt for water softeners??
Your comments and questions are always welcome.
stikpusher I’ve seen Javelina in Central California at Camp Roberts. Never heard them though. And one somehow managed to find its way into our unit end of training BBQ as the main course one time... absolutely delicious! Coyotes? Our last neighborhood was overrun with them. Seal Beach Naval Weapone Station had reintroduced them to the area to please the animal folks while trying to deal with an overpopulation of rabbits on the base. Once the coyotes cleaned up on base, they began hunting cats and small dogs in the surrounding communities... I saw plenty late at night when I’d come home, and hear the packs howling away on their hunts nearby. Couldnt poison the rabbits after all. Much better for them to be ripped apart and eaten by voracious predators. Once all the dust has settled from this mess Gray Snake, I’ll gladly meet up for a beer somewhere in between.
I’ve seen Javelina in Central California at Camp Roberts. Never heard them though. And one somehow managed to find its way into our unit end of training BBQ as the main course one time... absolutely delicious! Coyotes? Our last neighborhood was overrun with them. Seal Beach Naval Weapone Station had reintroduced them to the area to please the animal folks while trying to deal with an overpopulation of rabbits on the base. Once the coyotes cleaned up on base, they began hunting cats and small dogs in the surrounding communities... I saw plenty late at night when I’d come home, and hear the packs howling away on their hunts nearby. Couldnt poison the rabbits after all. Much better for them to be ripped apart and eaten by voracious predators.
Once all the dust has settled from this mess Gray Snake, I’ll gladly meet up for a beer somewhere in between.
And there is Sedona. Too many tourists, but it's a neat enough place my vote says it's worth it. Jeep tours there are fun.
Not too far from Sedona is an old mining town called Jerome. Small, not a tourist magnet like Sedona is. The two big things to do there, visit the cheesy Mine tour thing, which isn't really a mine tour at all, more one of the coolest collections of old junk I've ever seen. And The Asylum, an old Asylum turned restuarant.
Hit the grocery store the other day. Nothing special to report...it's the same everywhere.
It was bizarre though...felt like a movie scene. Everyone was semi-frantic, looks of doom and gloom on their faces. Felt like I was in slow motion...perfectly content. "I don't NEED anything from here". (I was just there to get some pop, so I could kick back with a rum-pop).
I wouldn't consider myself a "prepper" by any means...but it feels great to know that I really was prepared. Spent enough time in the woods and water last Fall...got meat to last until next deer season...enough veggies to get through until things can be grown again. FOOD. If our well fails, I live by a lake...it also rains, and boiling water isn't difficult! WATER. We have a house that's paid off. SHELTER. Needs are met...and the means to protect those needs is in possession. (not that I believe any of it is in danger...yet)
Gettin low on the TP...but summer is coming, and t-shirts can be turned into tank tops! I can also wear sandles...no need for socks!!!
Could definitely use a fresh bottle of Tamiya extra thin. I'm down to maybe 2 builds worth.
We've just been given the "shelter in place" directive from Dallas County. Have to stay in our home starting at midnight tonight through Friday the 3rd. I think I'm going to use this week to finish up a few shelf of doom projects.
Chad
God, Family, Models...
At the plate: 1/48 Airfix Bf109 & 1/35 Tamiya Famo
On deck: Who knows!
GMorrison We have the big brothers up here in Big Sur. Good excuse to carry a holstered firearm. Stik, why do I see a pig in a sling under a UH? You are into history, read up on Fred Harvey. Also the ATSF railroad. The Harvey houses helped build the state.
We have the big brothers up here in Big Sur. Good excuse to carry a holstered firearm.
Stik, why do I see a pig in a sling under a UH?
You are into history, read up on Fred Harvey. Also the ATSF railroad.
The Harvey houses helped build the state.
Ill do that... I know a bit of CA history... almost nothing of AZ history, so I will look into it.
As far as our Javelina BBQ, there were no choppers involved... but think more along the first part of Blackhawk Down... “Hey who’s hungry?”
F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!
U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!
N is for NO SURVIVORS...
- Plankton
LSM
My experiences in Az were nice. A bunch of business trips to Tucson, where I got out to the desert museum and the San Xavier mission.
Pima is sort of worthwhile, if you like dead airplanes (I don't)
Phoenix, well the Biltmore is worth a tour (Frank Lloyd Wright) and Taleisin West (his academy) is too.
Although touristy, the South Rim will take your breath away.
Up to Flagstaff, high desert.
Go east over the Arizona Strip into Southern Utah, Zion, Arches.
Mormon Dixie, St. George Utah. Buy the alcohol at a "State store" and take it to a "club" where you pay the $1 membership and a couple more for the set up.
stikpusher haven’t heard or seen any signs of Javelinas on my walks so far...
castelnuovo Phil_H Greg I have been wondering how many hoarders are getting home only to realize they haven't the freezer space to hold all of the frozen stuff they bought? People here in Australia have made a run on freezers. As a result, all electrical/whitegoods stores are sold out and there's up to 3 months waitlist if you want a new freezer now. So when this circus is over, Craigslist will be full of ads :freezer for sell....
Phil_H Greg I have been wondering how many hoarders are getting home only to realize they haven't the freezer space to hold all of the frozen stuff they bought? People here in Australia have made a run on freezers. As a result, all electrical/whitegoods stores are sold out and there's up to 3 months waitlist if you want a new freezer now.
Greg I have been wondering how many hoarders are getting home only to realize they haven't the freezer space to hold all of the frozen stuff they bought?
People here in Australia have made a run on freezers. As a result, all electrical/whitegoods stores are sold out and there's up to 3 months waitlist if you want a new freezer now.
So when this circus is over, Craigslist will be full of ads :freezer for sell....
Sounds like after the first few days of the ‘92 L.A.Riots. We drove thru the projects in Harbor City after things had died down and the locals were all having yard sales... all old stuff... guess they had to make room for all the new stuff that they had stolen...
Nino, no milk. We don’t get along very well, except in small amounts. A bowl of cereal or White Russian is fine.
GM, yes, that is the Sonora desert, the terrain and vegetation change markedly just east of the Colorado River. Quite different from the Mojave desert that I’m most familiar with. And yes, snake does taste like chicken.. as does rabbit... haven’t heard or seen any signs of Javelinas on my walks so far...
Greg, there is very much an aura of that magic around here. I can’t wait to explore more of the state.
I have loved the AZ deserts since childhood. There is something magical about them to me.
Thanks for sharing the pics, really enjoyed them.
I hear rattlesnake...tastes like chicken!
I think that's the Sonora Desert, right? It's a beautiful part of the country.
Look out for the Javelinas!
stikpusher,
Did you remember to bring milk?
Jim
Social distancing in the great outdoors
Quite a view from the tallest hilltop
Somewhat ironic, I'm assembling the memoirs of a man who oversaw the restoration of the california missions in the early 20th Century. He was also a friend of my wife's family, she knew him late in his life.
In one interview he describes how he was three in 1906 and remembers the San Francisco earthquake quite clearly. His family, as were most, were living in a tent in the hills after the fire and everything was in short supply.
Milk was rationed only to families with infants. And that was after standing in a long line.
So Harry was borrowed by all of the neighbors and went through the line many times.
Bill
Phil_H People here in Australia have made a run on freezers. As a result, all electrical/whitegoods stores are sold out and there's up to 3 months waitlist if you want a new freezer now.
Gary
Oh my, I hadn't thought that far ahead. That is interesting info, Phil.
GregI have been wondering how many hoarders are getting home only to realize they haven't the freezer space to hold all of the frozen stuff they bought?
Greg JohnnyK I was at the supermarket this morning. There was a sign at the TP, "One pack per customer". A woman arrived at the checkout with her three kids and four packs of TP. The cashier said, "One pack per customer". The woman with the three kids said, "One pack for me and one pack each for your three other customers". Wow, I actually find myself siding with the customer(s) here.
JohnnyK I was at the supermarket this morning. There was a sign at the TP, "One pack per customer". A woman arrived at the checkout with her three kids and four packs of TP. The cashier said, "One pack per customer". The woman with the three kids said, "One pack for me and one pack each for your three other customers".
I was at the supermarket this morning. There was a sign at the TP, "One pack per customer". A woman arrived at the checkout with her three kids and four packs of TP. The cashier said, "One pack per customer". The woman with the three kids said, "One pack for me and one pack each for your three other customers".
Wow, I actually find myself siding with the customer(s) here.
As long as each kid pays for their package, then they are customers. If Mom is paying for all of it, then it is one customer, that happens tobe there as a "family unit".
Just my nickle, and that won't get you 2 squares of paper right now.
Reminds me of the old Donald Duck shtik.
One for Donald, one for Huey.
One for Donald, one for Dewey.
One for Donald, one for Louie.
Yes, did the grocery store thing this morning. True to their words, Safeway was stocked with meat, chicken, canned vegetables and pasta, no flour, no TP.
CVS had nada.
Hardware store had 409.
Lucky had no TP.
Rite Aid had Niquil.
Whole Foods had a long line, beans, bread, grains, whole milk.
All in all a successful outing.
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