Landscaping and Social Distancing

The guys from Copper Standard came yesterday to dig up the old bougainvilleas and plant the bottle brushes.  I am so happy we outsourced that.  Those plants had been in there for 20 years and had giant root balls.  They had to use a pick to get them out, and I am just not comfortable swinging a pick that close to a wall.  So, new plants are in.  I like them, they're low growing and not a showy plant.

They also planted the cactus we impulse bought at a nursery in the north end.  We must stop doing that!

Looking down the wall at the new bottle brush, my mini stonehenge and the recently deflowered geranium.

We got propane today at the tack and feed store.  They have baby chicks.  They're so cute, I want to pick them up and pet their heads, but it is forbidden.  Cute, just little fluffy balls of cuteness with legs.

The weather was very unsettled.  When we got back from Trader Joe's we thought we'd go for a hike, but then the temperature dropped a bunch, clouds rolled in and it rained.  So we steamed the floors instead.  They needed it.  Update to post:  at 5:15 we had hail bouncing two feet in the air.

This afternoon we got a text regarding future happy hours and the end of season pot luck.  I figured those events would continue as scheduled, since there seems to be some poo-pooing of Covid-19.  Jim and I are social distancing, other than brief forays running into stores, we're isolating from other people.  Anyway the question was put to the people on the street as to whether or not future events should be cancelled.  Cancel won.  We're an elderly neighborhood, some people have underlying conditions, so I'm happy that people are paying attention to the CDC guidelines.

Who remembers Y2K?  It was feared that all electronics would crash, bank accounts would be wiped out, civilization would collapse.  January 1, people woke up and nothing happened.  You know why?  Because programmers like myself went through thousands of lines of code looking for the hard coded use of "19" with the last two digits appended.  Preparedness won the day.

CDC wants us to practice social distancing.  Covid-19 is coming, the rate at which it arrives will determine if we end up like Italy, or if it can be managed in hospitals along with the current bad flu outbreak.

The area under both curves is the same.  How fast it spreads through the community will determine how many people die and how many don't.