A Parlour for a Plague

One of my favorite scenes in 'The Life of Brian' is where Brian approaches a small group of people talking together and asks "Are you the Peoples Front of Judea?" and John Cleese spits out "Nooo, we are not the Peoples Front of Judea, we are the Judean Peoples Front"......It perfectly describes the lunacy of organized religion and the irrationality of religion and special interest groups.

The stay at home order expires in a few minutes. They have rules about being careful, yadda yadda, but the huge fleamarket near the racetrack is said to be opening. You will be able to eat in at some restaurants. Malls will be open. As for me, I'm mostly staying home.

Here in Annapolis just about everything is still closed. I see delivery people in masks dropping things off at neighbor's homes...I haven't been off our property since about mid-March. I can walk around outside and check the plants..everything is starting to green up.......but I'll stick close to home until I'm more confident that it is safe. Our Gov., Gov. Hogan bought 500,000 test kits from South Korea and is keeping them in an undisclosed location under national guard protection. The Federal Govt. has been seizing the tests paid for by local and State Govt's.......it's an amazing time to be alive, there are many days I don't recognize this country.

I heard about that. I'm kind of proud of your governor.

Locally, New Mexico is starting to lighten up a bit on the first. Restaurants are still limited to take out, though, which is what I miss most. Breakfast was kind of a ritual beginning of the day for me. Gov. Lujan says they might be cleared to open on the 10th - if we act right.

Almost forgot. Bathroom tissue (as they like to call it) is back on the shelves, at least for the moment.

We are very happy with our Governor, he didn't waste any time and he's been a straight shooter. Paper products are showing up on the shelves...but meat, veggies and fruit are in short supply. Stay healthy Roger....

Happy with our governor too. (NYS, Cuomo)

Testing sites are now available in NYC.

Everything is still closed.

Everyone still has to wear a mask.

DuckAndCovid2020
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To stop the spread of #coronavirus avoid cooking dishes with bat or monkey for the time being. We apologize for this restriction of your freedoms.

Oh crap edgar.

NOW what am I supposed to make for supper?
I had it all planned out.

Eggs? There's been a lot of talk about them lately

All this talk of poached eggs has me nostalgic. We've been unable to go out for breakfast now for weeks -- always poached eggs and usually on the table in front of us moments after we sit down. The cook sees us as we walk across the parking area and knows what we like. Once we thought about changing our order but eggs were already on the way. The cook said "Tough". Now I want poached eggs....

So what do you think? Should Chai have eggs for dinner?

I vote yes.

I vote for egges, too. Although we don't got none. We'll have to rectify that. People talking about going to restaurants, I just mentioned to The Girl that we never went to restaurants that often. Usually it was because we were meeting someone else.

I'm glad you voted. She might be a little itsy bitsy so we'll have to jolly her out of it.

Re: restaurants, same here. At least we seldom went to any good ones. I miss the days when there was a good mom and pop chop house on every other corner. Hasn't been like that in years!

That's not to say there aren't any good ones. I kinda like your stomping grounds.

If its ok with you, I glomed your bat/monkey notice and I will use it as a sig for a short time. You can send me a contract. What color eggs you like. We got blue, dark brown, brown, really dark brown (like Hershey syrup) and OD. Our chickens lay all the neat browns and several shades of blue. The OD , its ok but its rather military looking.

How big are the blue ones?

I saw my first bit of toilet paper on a supermarket shelf since this began two days ago!

not overly large, the blue layers are pullets

I was out most of the day yesterday and Sebastian got upset and pissed on my bed.

I couldn’t believe it.

Just had to let him finish because I have a special sheet to protect the mattress and if I’d picked him up to put him on his tray he’d have pissed all through the house.

My cats drink massive amounts of water, so their pisses go on forever

Clearly hasn’t got back to normal from all his trauma. He NEVER did this until his eye and the fire.

I still haven't been to the Ethiopian place I mentioned to you some weeks back. The Girl swears by the place. I hope they survive this. They had bands or stand-up comics every weekend.

I knew a woman who had French hens (like in the song) that laid green eggs--they were kinda OD green. She got just ridiculously high prices for 'em from the local hippy health food store. Eggses is eggses, no matter what color the shell is.