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1. 9 minutes ago on Pluggers

   When we lived in an apartment before we bought a house, we started a hand-crafted business to try to make money towards, yes, buying a house. We did not want mail for the craft business coming to the house and I did not want to use my dad’s office address (I worked for him) so we got a PO Box at a local Post Office. (It was not the PO which delivered to our apartment as there were 2 other post offices – one of them almost next door to our house – which were closer to us than the one which delivered to us.)

   Business never made it, but we kept the PO Box. In the interim we bought a house and moved here – about 1/2 mile from our apartment – about 35 years ago.

   For some time the delivery here was not good – if we put in a hold on the mail as we were going away (up to Covid we would take a summer vacation and also go away several weekends a year) the carrier would deliver the mail anyway. So we switched our personal address for mail to that same box. Worked fine as if there was too much or too large a piece of mail they held it in the back for us to pick up.

   Then Covid hit. Did not want to go out, but our mail was going to the PO not to our house. We would go in late Sunday nights every couple of weeks with the idea that the PO had closed around noon on Saturday and only a limited number of people would be coming into the PO in the interim.

   At the same time we did find that we had much a better delivery person at home than before so little by little I switched almost all of the mail to come to the house instead of the box. We have kept the box just in case and also because sometimes someone who has the other address still mails to same – especially those in our reenactment unit. During Covid I had signed up to get emails when we received first class mail at the box, so know when something goes there instead of here.

2. 23 minutes ago on Pluggers

   His sister called us a week or so into Covid – she is always oblivious to anything not about her – shocked she could not buy tp. We gave her some suggestions including trying RV places as they have different TP (dissolves faster than regular) or to try ordering it. No – we did not offer any of ours as she would not have done so if the other way around as if it is not about her – it does not matter. (They are currently in Rome for their anniversary – pulled both daughters, one of whom is in college, out of school to go on the trip with them. The schoolwork missed does not matter, just that she had the family go to Rome for their anniversary because SHE WANTED TO.

3. 28 minutes ago on Pluggers

   When I went to school I was a Girl Scout so sold GSA cookies – but I was only allowed by my mom to sell them to my grandmothers and one aunt. I was never anywhere near the big seller.

   The Hebrew school I went to would have us selling Passover items and in the fall "tag day. This was a donation thing where we gave people a window sticker with a picture of menorah (regular one 3 branch one, not Chanukah one) for dime or something like that. I was not allowed to do either at all by my parents.

4. 36 minutes ago on Pluggers

   We used to go to a Wendys in the next county and then to Costco and BJs there on Sunday afternoons (for something to do). On what I am guessing is either Sunday March 1, 8 or 15th of 2020 (not sure of exact date) we went there after lunch at the Wendys and husband had said that due to the news on the car radio of a “some serious disease” coming we needed to buy – yes, MORE TOILET PAPER – as what turned out to be the start of Covid was happening.

   When we got to Costco – we had never seen their paper goods department COMPLETELY EMPTY before. We did mange to find some TP at BJs up the road and bought one of their huge packages. At this point I thought I was just indulging his fears.

   While eating dinner at home during the week his sister called in a panic – she could not find any TP to buy (understand she is one of the oblivious people in the world) and she needed our help to find some. (She only calls us when she has a problem or to brag about a trip they are taking – currently now in Rome.) We gave her some suggestions including going to a RV supply place to see if they had RV TP.

   We don’t let the TP go below half a package any longer.

5. about 1 hour ago on Pluggers

   Best of all – since Covid on Friday and Saturday nights we “go to the movies” in our living room. While we have always had “Saturday night date night movie” (at the real movies before Covid) and during Covid we added “Friday night midnight movie date” something we had at the local art cinema while in college and afterwards until it closed – first date was one of same.

   I will need “to go” several times during the movie (and after features which can run another hour or more) having had dinner just before the movie started. There is the light of TV until I get to the entryway, which I cross through to the dining room. I turn left, place my hand low on the wall (he has reenacting things hanging on pegs as the room is decorated 18th century) and I don’t want to catch my hand on a sword or a bayonet (even if they are in leather holders) or hit the edge of the doorway into the kitchen. When in the kitchen I feel where the wall indents as I walk in. At end of indentation I turn left and walk forward 3 steps. Why? Well there is a sort of archway at that point and one of the first times I did this I was turned slightly to one side and hit my head. I walk through the archway at the 3rd step and turn right and walk into the bathroom with my arm in front of me – when I feel the wall in front of me the commode is to my right.

   Going back is easier as I am walking towards the dim light in the living room. He says – just turn on the lights.

   I figure by knowing all this we can find our way out of the house and get out safely in case of anything God-forbid happening at night in the house.

6. about 1 hour ago on Pluggers

   Since I have worn eyeglasses since I was in second grade, combined with the movie “the Miracle Worker” which I saw as a child, I have always been afraid of losing my sight.

   Husband gets upset with me as I will do things such as walk down the stairs in the dark . I know our main staircase (main floor to second) is 13 steps and at the 8th step down (5th up) the staircase gets wider (as a check on where I am when going down the stairs). Going up the stairs I put my right hand just under the decorative molding at about shoulder height and let my hand follow it up the stair until it hits the light switch which is adjacent to the top step.

   There is a path around our bed that I can follow to the door to go to the bathroom in the dark.

   Stairs down to the basement from the kitchen is 12 steps. I hold the banister with right hand, left hand low on the wall, when I feel the connection under the banister where it attaches to a pole I am at the last step down. Turn left and walk through door to work side of basement, once inside oil tank in front of me, one of his work tables to my left. Past the worktable and straight ahead is the sink on a raised platform, turn right there (just past the furnace) and walk to the wall where the circuit breaker box is.

7. about 1 hour ago on Pluggers

   After what we have gone through over the decades there is no need for any question about whether either of us loves the other. If not I would have been gone long ago.

8. about 1 hour ago on Pluggers

   I go on my laptop at night (such as now) it involves a lot of juggling to plug it into the extension cord (outlet is under the kitchen table and I am nowhere near spry enough to keep plugging and unplugging devices from under the table so I need to use the extension cord) . I then have to juggle the outlet on the cord it is plugged into, as well as the small box in the computer cord onto the top of my briefcase leaning against the food storage boxes (we have very little storage space in the kitchen) under the table (where my feet should be).

   If I am plugging the laptop in for a short time (as opposed to most of the evening) I tend to run it on its battery as it is much easier to do. So there are reasons to do so.

   We do not leave anything (including our RV’s battery) charging while we are away from the house – for safety.

9. about 21 hours ago on Pluggers

   And the possible loss of vaccinations to protect us.

10. about 21 hours ago on Pluggers

    There are people we are friends with – we just do not discuss politics to remain friends.