Tractorhead 8,601 #1 Posted March 22, 2020 Since Saturday we have here a complete lockdown. Whilst we have both a normal fading Flu, we‘re not allowed to go outside. Because of the Weather in the last few Weeks it ain‘t wonders me about the Flu. But we are tested and non „C“ The only we can do for now, we using the time together to cook. We hope you all are also healthy as well and you all stay safe, except in this worse time. Hopefully this Pandemy ends up quick ! Regards Steve & Kati 7 3 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CCW 1,201 #2 Posted March 22, 2020 (edited) Good luck to you. My son is in Garmisch-Partenkirchen as part of the US Army and is not allow off base. Edited March 22, 2020 by CCW 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
squonk 38,902 #3 Posted March 22, 2020 I have to respond to emergency HVAC calls from schools 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Razorback 1,032 #4 Posted March 22, 2020 (edited) I support mainframe computer equipment for IBM at Walmart’s home office in Bentonville,AR. If a lockdown is needed here, I have been deemed “essential”. Already have an official letter to show whomever might want to know. Otherwise, we are home, being smart when we leave the house, etc. We have plenty of essentials and not so essentials. Made a huge batch of chicken noodle soup yesterday and a few days ago. I pressure canned 7 quarts yesterday so it could be put on the shelf to keep. Also doing some work on our 1969 Ford Falcon Futura wagon...... Edited March 22, 2020 by Razorback 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DougC 2,641 #5 Posted March 22, 2020 Steve and Kati. I hope you are at least allowed out of lock down to buy food and toilet paper. One kinda goes with the other if you know what I mean my friends....... 2 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tractorhead 8,601 #6 Posted March 22, 2020 @DougC yes we allowed, but the forrest is not so far, so if we run out of Toiletpaper, we simply collect Leaf. 😂 We allready are well sorted of Food, because we live in outback, and if we run out, forrest is not far, there are lot‘s of wild boar... 😎 Stay Safe fella‘s 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stevasaurus 22,229 #7 Posted March 22, 2020 Steve, that is a killer casserole you have there. We have lock down in Illinois now. Not every state has that yet. Wife made huge batch of chille the other day. We can leave the house for essentials, but the smart money stays home for now. I find myself more on SKYPE and enjoying the fire place. Look in the Gardening Section...there is a recipe section there...why not put in the recipe for that casserole?? Stay safe. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wallfish 15,918 #8 Posted March 22, 2020 2 hours ago, squonk said: I have to respond to emergency HVAC calls from schools Aren't the schools closed? If HVAC in a closed school is essential, then I'm also essential to work in order to keep from going out of business. What's the temperature down there? If they lock us down it's custom tractor build time and restoring some more O&R gas engine tools. There's always plenty of things to do around here. 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
squonk 38,902 #9 Posted March 22, 2020 3 minutes ago, wallfish said: Aren't the schools closed? If HVAC in a closed school is essential, then I'm also essential to work in order to keep from going out of business. What's the temperature down there? If they lock us down it's custom tractor build time and restoring some more O&R gas engine tools. There's always plenty of things to do around here. Schools feed kids breakfast and lunch every day. Even thru this. For some kids, it's all they get in a day. Also some school buildings are disaster shelters and have to be up, running and stocked with food. 6 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
953 nut 51,611 #10 Posted March 22, 2020 I have been getting a little extra shop time in and have actually caught up on a few "Honey Do" list items. My wife has been busey working on a few quilts for Quilts Of Valor which will be awarded once things return to normal. 1 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ed Kennell 35,708 #11 Posted March 22, 2020 Thanks for sharing the great pictures Steve. Good to hear you are self sufficient. I don't have any wild boars here, but if my venison supply gets low, I can harvest a few woodchucks that are coming out of hibernation. Sicher Bleiben 3 1 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Achto 26,537 #12 Posted March 23, 2020 I received a recorded message from our CEO explaining that the company that I work for is considered essential. So I guess the show must go on for me. Praying for this pandemic to pass soon. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tractorhead 8,601 #13 Posted March 23, 2020 8 hours ago, Achto said: I received a recorded message from our CEO explaining that the company that I work for is considered essential. So I guess the show must go on for me. Praying for this pandemic to pass soon. Take care of you Buddy 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cleat 4,936 #14 Posted March 23, 2020 I work as a Millwright for the worlds biggest marijuana company and sales are up so it's work as usual with a large number of people. My wife works for Tractor supply and they are open as usual. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ohiofarmer 3,157 #15 Posted March 23, 2020 I can always go where i need to on the way to the farm or rental houses that need to be kept in a safe and sanitary manner. If a cop stops me I can always cough during the questionong. Still have absolutely no interest in standing in line for anything. I thought it very foolish to stand in 200 plus people lines for toilet paper.Gonna take Mr Smith and Mr Wesson for a ride to the gas station at $130 for the last day of unrestricted travel in Ohio as I forsee rationing that commodity in the future as a means to limit travel by our esteemed leaders. We can even get out the tractor to go to the small farmers around here to buy eggs and such. I helped out a neighbor hanging a garage door and she has chickens. Probably can get eggs from her. Amish friends and your own garden are good to have. I do not like to bend over, so I grow my tomatoes in wood skids propped at 75 degrees vertical Little country butcher stores, even a water powered grist mill for corn meal and flour for baking make Deploraville Ohio a great place to live. the only thing i am concerned about is people from town roaming about and thinking they can take what they want or need. We have always saved rags for the shop and that will do as toilet paper once ours is gone. Just think outside the box to avoid people is my advice to you friends. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tunahead72 2,337 #16 Posted March 23, 2020 1 hour ago, cleat said: I work as a Millwright for the worlds biggest marijuana company and sales are up so it's work as usual with a large number of people... Umm... I thought I knew a thing or three about marijuana, and I have a vague notion of what a millwright does, but I don't really understand what a large marijuana company is, or why they would need a millwright. Can you explain please? I do understand why sales would be up right now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ed Kennell 35,708 #17 Posted March 23, 2020 We limit our contact to daily physical therapy visits to our dear friend that has been wheel chair bound for two years. Daily phone calls to our two sons, four grandsons, and Nan's mother (95YO). Mark is Special Projects Manager for Voith Hydro and able to work on line at home. He continues his 2 year battle with lung cancer. Mark's wife Julie continues her work preparing food in the school that continues to feed children. Mike is manager of his wife's 10 employee family plumbing business. He is very busy at home with estimating, purchasing, payroll and on site supervising and project scheduling. Mike's wife Libby continues her work teaching and caring for special needs students. I am missing the Grandsons school activities that normally fill every evening this time of the year....baseball and volleyball games , marching band, drum line, concert band, and jazz band events. The Grandsons are doing what they can online at home, but I know they are missing out and would like to be back in school. It is especially sad for the seniors students. Mike's son Reed 20 is finishing his third year at Penn State majoring in Astro Physics. Mark's son Clayton 18 will graduate high school and has committed to studying accounting at Penn State next year. Mike's son Jacob 17 will graduate high school and has music scholarship offers from Lebanon Valley and Gettysburg colleges. Mark's son Owen 17 is a Junior in high school and is expecting baseball scholarships from Division II schools next year. Daily walks with my friend Groovy (my neighbor's 10YO chocolate lab). Projects that have been keeping me busy …. hardwood floor installation , big show raffle tractor, shop cleaning and hardware sorting, roto tilling, building bird boxes and feeders. Probably could start mowing this week. Our Giant Grocery store has early senior only hours that helps limit contact for old timers. Stay Safe My Friends, Nan and Ed 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cleat 4,936 #18 Posted March 23, 2020 31 minutes ago, tunahead72 said: Umm... I thought I knew a thing or three about marijuana, and I have a vague notion of what a millwright does, but I don't really understand what a large marijuana company is, or why they would need a millwright. Can you explain please? I do understand why sales would be up right now. A Millwright is basically an industrial mechanic. We have a lot of equipment here to maintain right from the grow room HVAC, lighting, and irrigation equipment to trim machines. Then the product moves on to drying and then it can get packaged as bud at this point in large automated machines or it moves to grinding where it can get made into prerolled joints or put into ovens to activate the THC. After it leaves the ovens it gets sent to either C02 or Ethanol extraction. The extracted oil can then be added to the following items we produce on site: Chocolate bars Drinks Vaporizers sold as liquid oil Gel caps for the pharmaceutical market Soon to be producing gummy bears All of this equipment requires maintenance around the clock. We have over one million feet of production space with 1400 employees on site. There are 4 millwrights to keep the machines running at full capacity. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tunahead72 2,337 #19 Posted March 23, 2020 Wow! I had no idea it was this complicated these days, thanks for the info. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
midpack 804 #20 Posted March 23, 2020 work as usual here, we make defense related products 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DougC 2,641 #21 Posted March 23, 2020 4 hours ago, tunahead72 said: Wow! I had no idea it was this complicated these days, thanks for the info. Thanks for asking the question Ed. I also learned alot Just how far is Ontario from Iowa and can I still cross the boarder and Ed. You wanna ride along buddy? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tunahead72 2,337 #22 Posted March 23, 2020 Sure man, but I think we'd better head down to the basement to discuss the details. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cleat 4,936 #23 Posted March 24, 2020 Marijuana production just made the essential services list so we are at full production. 1 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tunahead72 2,337 #24 Posted March 24, 2020 That's … interesting. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stormin 9,975 #25 Posted March 25, 2020 Am I to old to be accepted for immigration to Canada? 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites