Corona Virus 3-28-2020 1,246 dead

Just about the entire country is now shut down.  In Cleveland, Helen and surrounding towns ALL restaurants are closed to "in dining" eating and are only providing take out service.   Toilet paper is still scarce, but I managed to score a 24 pack from Amazon this week.  Crazy that I'm excited about finding freaking toilet paper right?  Sigh.

CA and FL are in completed lock down.  The governor of CA has ordered people to stay in their houses.  Yeah, right.  Good luck CA!  hate that state and I was born and raised there.

All we have done in the last 14 days is go to the grocery store.  Sometimes they have what's on my list and sometimes they don't.  It's a crap shoot at best.

Here are the stats in the USA as of today:

• Total cases: 85,356
• Total deaths: 1,246
• Jurisdictions reporting cases: 54 (50 states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and US Virgin Islands)

New York city is the worst ( go figure) with New Orleans a close second.  Apparently New Orleans is still having Mardi Gras and stupid people are attending.  Many people are infected.  So stupid.  Oh well - more air for me!

CoronaVirus 2020, 473 dead

Holy crap.  It's March 23, 2020 and the WORLD is on lock down due to a virus that was released in China a couple of months ago.  It gives people flu-like symptoms,  can be deadly to people with bad health issues OR just plain deadly to people over 60 years old.  Here are the latest stats:

California, Washington, New York and Ill. are all under "shelter in place" orders to try and stop the spread of this highly contagious virus.  No gun sales in CA.  No liquor sales in Illinois ... the list goes on and on.

We are lucky.  We're at our spot in GA and are about as "bugged out" as we can get.  Kathy and I have been sitting in our cabin for about 3 weeks now and except to trips to the grocery store for food, we don't go anywhere and we stay clear of our neighbors.  Something called "social distance."  That means stay at least 6 feet away from everyone.  

There is a shortage of toilet paper across the country.  I don't know why people decided that toilet paper was the thing to hoard, but is HAS happened.  I've been to the local grocery store 4 times in the lase 9 days, and there is NO TP available anywhere.  Luckily, I bought a couple of packs BEFORE the shortage just because they were on sale - but that was just dumb luck!  We have plenty of emergency food that I bought years ago, so I feel confident that we are OK... for now.  

There ARE some food shortages though.  Especially chicken.  I haven't seen any chicken at the store in 2 weeks.  Ground meat (hamburger) gets gobbled up when available.   I haven't been able to buy any in a week myself.  Guess I need to get to the store early!

Justin is freaking out.  He sells insurance and because of all this I'm pretty sure he's not making any sales.  He really hasn't told us one way or the other though.  Nicole is happy.  The virus gives her an excuse to sit at home and not have to worry about work.  

No one knows how long this will last or what kind of effect it will have on the economy ( the DOW stock market has gone from 30K to 19K in the last 2 weeks).  Hopefully the economy can bounce back.  We'll see.

Stay tuned...

Snow Day at PVC - 2-8-2020

So here we are in Savannah, GA enjoying a 9 day "escape" to give ourselves a break.  Before I left I checked to 10 day forecast and it said it wasn't going to get below 37 degrees.  TWO days later, the temp drops to 25 and it's freaking snowing at PVC.  WTF?  We missed it!

Our place is the farthest back behind the big cabin.

The bridge to side two

Winter at PVC & New Roof

Today is 1-18-2020 and we're getting ready for what is to us - cold weather!  Tomorrow it's supposed to get down to 19 degrees, and then it warms up to 40 or so and that's the forecast for the next few days.  Winter is coming!

We're using oil filled radiator type heaters in our cabin and in our trailer and so far everything keeps us nice and toasty.  If it got much cooler, I'd have to plug in some Lasko heaters.

Lasko heater

Oil filled heater

In addition to keeping warm we had to put a "roof cap"  on the trailer that cost us a few $1,000.  The existing rubber roof on the place finally started leaking BAD after 20 years and I couldn't get the leak stopped.  A roof cap is where you lay down 1/2" foam, then 3/8" plywood over the foam and THEN cover all that with aluminum sheet metal.  Works really well and now we can sleep knowing that there are no more leaks!  

Here's what the new roof looks like:

Slick huh? 

Christmas 2019 at PVC

Time for the annual Christmas get together at PVC with all us old farts.  We brought a ham - cooked low and slow and it turned out great.  Someone else brought a turkey, mashed potatoes , corn bread and of course several variations of turkey dressing.  Tons of desserts.

We're doing just fine and love staying here almost full time.  It's quiet.  It's peaceful.  Not many people.  NO traffic.  It's great!

Anyway, I only have two pics.  One is a group photo of everyone who was there and the other is one of Kathy and I.

Kathy & Steve, Christmas 2019 at PVC

The group who attended the Christmas pot luck dinner.

Halloween at PVC 10-12-2019

Here are some pics of the Halloween party for 2019.  The weather was GREAT and it looks like there were a little over 100 people.

Kathy Burnett - literally IN FB Jail at this time.  30 day sentence. LOL

RIP Patricia Ori

Saddest day of my life.  September 14, 2019.  My sweet Mother, Pat Ori, passed away today.  She would have been 95 in 3 weeks.  We will all miss her with all our hearts.  She was a wonderful Mother and Grandmother and Great Grandmother.  I will miss our "Ladies Day Out" lunches at Olive Garden and Panera's.  I'm so happy to have been able to take her to the Symphony in Jacksonville for about 3 seasons.  We also saw "The Rockette's" Christmas Pageant there one year.  I miss you Mama.  I hope you found your parents and brother and my Dad.  And your dog Peggy.  Rest In Peace beautiful lady.   I love you with all my heart.

Time to leave Jacksonville...

Time to go away.  From Jacksonville that is.  After living in an apartment for a year we have come to learn that we hate apartment living!  Thump,thump,thump is the noise from the people who live above us,  there are screaming kids next to us, and trying to avoid other people walking dogs when we walk ours, etc.  AND the raised our rent $150 a freaking month.  That's insane.

So at the end of this month we are undergoing another adventure in our life.  We are moving out of FL and are going to stay in GA.  While we are in GA we'll start looking for places to live in TN to closer to the grand kids.  Here we go....  :)