Grocery store shelves are being emptied all over the country...

The latest hoarding rush: chickens --

"Many Texas residents have decided the chicken does come before the egg, and it's led to many of them buying up live chicks during the COVID-19 outbreak, ...

Folks in the San Antonio area have decided that the best way around an egg shortage at local grocery stores is to buy their own chicks. So as toilet paper and hand sanitizers fly off the shelves in typical retail stores, chickens are leaving the coop at feed stores and other businesses in San Antonio that deal with agriculture."

 

it would if they were goose eggs.

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I hope the COVID-19 pandemic is well under control by the time those chicks start laying eggs. 5-8 mo into the future.

 

[QUOTE="Stevewoods, post: 3022213, member: 123394"I tried to talk her into growing "hemp" -- you know -- for the "war effort," but she just glared at me. Honestly, it has been so long, I am not sure I remember what to do with "hemp." [/QUOTE]

I was going to say "hemp" is about the only thing I have not tried for my various pains but, I nearly forgot, I did try CBD lotion in spring 2019 and found no relief. My physical therapist as well as a couple of my MD's still recommend sativa/indica (you know, "hemp") but my job (if I still have one after all this) says: Nope no Dope.

The way it is around here, I am surprised marijuana is not sold in grocery stores. Of course, here, we don't let you pump your own gasoline and we don't let you buy booze at the supermarket, either.

 

You, sir, have NOT seen my hounds eat!!!

 

Down here, hippie free range (or is it range-free ) hens can run around for more than 2 months out of the year without turning into frozen chicken.

 

CDN $'s though? Currently around 0.71.

 

walked by a whole foods this morning, people lined up in the parking lot, no separation

 

social distancing doesn’t apply to full contact sports

 

I am going to check out the Sams Club concierge shopping tomorrow where they take your order from the car, shop, & deliver the goods to your car. I am senior enough to try that,

 

One thing I found, shopping day before yesterday (first time in about 18 days): I had to make a number of compromises, substitutions. Going in you can make changes on-the-fly.

Depends on the store, how dependable their supply is. Also, shopping first thing in the morning during "senior hour", the staff had done an excellent job: many items were obviously in short supply, and there was some unusual brands, and supplies pretty meager, but they were really trying to get some out. Later in the day they'd likely be cleared out.

I would concentrate on "hunker" items. Brown rice for example, a bag of that can be a life saver when the the perishables run out.

I'm kinda losing patience, with folks (my family members included) who continue to rely on take-out, shop day-by-day. This isn't a game, and every contact messes with the odds.

 

it's funny how fixed in our ways we can get. mrs. b obsesses over the least little thing they don't have in stock.
i'm like, whatever, is there food?
but i have other problem areas.

delivery coming tonight, no paper products, no cleaning supplies

 

Anybody still doing some take-out, by choice?

I have a friend who was planning to order take-out one time a week, cycle through the favorite local joints, help keep them solvent.

I did that a couple times. Been more than a week now though.

 

I haven't either for over a week myself. Self preservation has taken over now.

 

We don't have many restaurant meals when home, so our complete lack of take-out since getting home 18 days ago (from an aborted ski trip) is not the least bit abnormal.

The losers of our business are the restaurants at our intended ski tourism towns and along the road trip routes, where roughly 1/3rd of our dinners would be out. And the grocery stores supplying the goods for the meals we eat in. And the lodging providers. And the ski resort worker bees.

But we are supporting the local grocery stores now, buying close to the same stuff and quantities as if nothing unusual happened. Spouse fully restocked on TP with a new case several weeks before the trip began (a few days before the panic buying started), as the prior case was down to half. I also grabbed some opportunistic stock-up items on Costco sale back then, which the spouse questioned at the time, but let go after the first reported panics.

Though grocery shopping quantities and choices are about the same, her number of trips has sharply reduced, cutting sale-seeking and shifting towards one-stop shopping.

 

I scored some 500 mg chewable vit C my last outing. And..., a turkey.

Yeah a lot of meals are some sort of sauce poured over some carb. A fair bit of frozen meats, rolled oats for breakfast, or fried potatos, eggs and sausage.

We'll be waddling out of quarantine, lol.

 

One of our local restaurants is doing take-out and delivery. In addition, they are also doing grocery delivery for elderly people living in the town as well. Not sure if they are charging for that service or not, but a very nice gesture. Unfortunately, we live too far away.

 

Not here. At least for my household.

Our Governor's Stay-At-Home Proclamation explicitly lists walking, running, hiking, and biking as "essential activities". While many State Park and trailhead and beach parking lots had to be closed to control overcrowding and severe social distancing violations, from the huge number of people out of work and school, many (not all) of the open spaces beyond are technically still open for those willing to hoof it in from home or distant parking.

We are doing a lot of bicycling from home, though needing to get more creative about alternate routes to avoid the most popular bike-walk paths, which crowd up too quickly. Fortunately, with car traffic way down, the non-arterial residential streets are very quiet. Especially the streets with 'traffic calming' obstacles such as planter circles in the intersections. Today we noticed more kids than normal playing out in those streets. This is a great time for street-averse bicyclers to practice up on their street riding.

Over the weekend the wide arterial along the Seattle waterfront tourist attractions was wonderful. With tourism and the cruise industry shut down, there was little vehicle traffic, so bicycles essentially owned the outer lanes, the few cars sticking to the center lanes. And the few pedestrians on the sidewalks didn't have to share space with bicycles. And the nearby port operations were also not working that day, making East Marginal Way a pleasant truck-free ride, for once.