Filling a Day of Social Distance – 4/23/2020

Continuing the blog post series prompted by COVID-19….

Here are the unique activities for yesterday:

Receiving a grocery delivery. This was our 4th delivery and the best so far. The shopper was very experienced…finish accumulating the items on my list in 30 minutes with efficient interaction when an item on my list wasn’t in stock…but an alternative was. For example, the brand of almond milk I usually buy was not available so she asked if another brand would do….exactly what I would have bought if I were shopping. The groceries were delivered to the front porch while I looked on through the front window…the eggs placed right under the window so they would stay safe.

After the shopper drove away, we collected the non-perishables to put in the back of my car to sit a few days (let any coronavirus die) and took the refrigerator items in to put away. I bundled the plastic bags from the floor to take out to store in the car. We washed our hand thoroughly. And my husband wiped the handles on the refrigerator and all the doorknobs with disinfectant.

It wasn’t a total success. There are still no disinfecting wipes to be found…and the type of barbeque sauce my husband likes is not available. Both of those were somewhat anticipated. I’d given up on Formula 409. It surprised me that there was no mozzarella cheese! Overall – we will eat well for another week or so when I will get another delivery…and I’ve already started a short list of items that includes what we didn’t get this week.

Savoring leftovers for lunch. There was a little stir-fried chicken, onions and bell peppers left from a previous meal. To make it enough for a meal I simply warmed it in a skillet then added an egg…..stirred until the egg was thoroughly cooked…then put it into a bowl and added some Fried onions on top for crunch. It was a quick lunch…very tasty too. One thing I’ve been pleased about as we’ve gone to grocery delivery is that we’ve never been short of food…and we are still just as good about letting none of it go to waste once we buy it!

Cutting Zentangle tiles. A pile of light weight cardboard from cat food boxes, canned soft drinks, and the backing to pads of paper had accumulated; it was time to cut them into tiles for Zentangles. My sister gave me an old paper cutter that is probably close to being an antique….with the green paint worn through on parts of the base board and the grid marked by hand because the ruler at the top no longer visible.

The 3.5 x 3.5 squares are the most frequent size I cut, although sometimes I cut different sizes to use the cardboard more effectively. There is always material to make tiles….I’ll never run out!