Northwest Metro Atlanta area

We really enjoyed a recent stay in Rehoboth Beach. Flat cycling to be sure, but we found the Delaware shore towns charming and the food was wonderful.

Well known side effect. Glad she's okay. Scary business.

Was supposed to go to Asheville today to visit in-laws, but COVID.

Yes, it was! Just the thing for someone with anxiety issues!

You or them??

We are familiar with the Delaware shore. It's lovely but TOO FLAT.

Them, via one of their kids. We have been spared so far. It helps to have no life.

We have a similar protection plan.

We have also been spared. We are uber-cautious, plus lucky. For example, when we went to Asheville we refused to eat inside at any restaurants. We still have not done so, we do either outdoor seating or carry-out and always wear Kn95 masks when indoors in any public place.

Google Says 13 hours. 2 hours past my day trip limit. The Doug meet up will have to wait.

Amen. Boss's whole family got it thanks to a HS senior class event. This also drives the next house requirements.

We go to indoor restaurants, but not crowded ones, and don't go to large social gatherings. LSS masks for shopping etc. and I usually do if it's more than just a dash in and out. My work is still 100% masked, except alone in one's own office.

A chipmunk has been pissing me off by eating all of the tomatoes in the garden, about a week before they'd be ripe enough to pick. So, I done caught it.

It would scurry to the gutter downspout extensions when threatened, so I just plugged it up inside there. Then I disconnected the extension (taking care to ensure that the chipmunk was in there and not scrabbling up the elbow) and then upended it in to a 5 gal bucket with lid.

Now, I'm undecided on what to do with the annoying little bugger. The kids know about the chipmunk but are unaware that I've trapped it. Do I just off it and give the kids the classic, "well, it must have ran away"? Or do I take it, and the kids, to release it at a nearby (but far enough away) park?

Decisions, decision.

So here in NY, it’s illegal to transport rodents such as chipmunks, squirrels or woodchucks to another location and free them. I’d go the must have run off route.

:twitchy:

We eat out about once every three months.

I mean, it's cat food. Why be squeamish?

We do take out. Mrs. GeneJockey and I have largely avoided eating out for over 2 years now. And we don't do large social gatherings, because we're both introverts. I always mask to shop.

It's always possible we got IT at some point and had no more than subclinical symptoms. I kinda wish they had a widely available, cheap antibody test for that, but given that neither the vaccines nor prior infection prevent infection, there's no crying public health need for one.

What's that like?

Harsh. I ended up taking it, and the girl, to a park to release it. The girl enjoyed it.

Ha. Yeah, right. We've got one cat left, she's ~17 years old and hasn't had an ounce of prey drive in all of that time.

It did *not* look like any of the following -

https://geekanything.com/wp-content/...hipmunks1a.jpg

Oh, I just meant in terms of regards for it, not to feed it to an actual cat.

Oh, lord. Them. Cripes.

There are chipmunks in Mom and Dad's flower garden (I suppose it's now Cheryl's garden), which are always fun to watch zipping around. Also squirrels and rabbits, though the local cat population does what it can to keep them in check. Probably why the chipmunks move so fast.

We do much the same. Try to stay away from the known and obvious bozos.

I know what I’d do. But then I don’t think a 30-06 is overkill for our feral cats that sheet on the patio furniture. *

*Does not apply to domestic kitties.