Up early again…. worked on UTMH branding further.
Attended 10am Columbia County Chamber Meeting about the pandemic, local feedback. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Exercise
4/19/2020 – Sunday NY Times, Zoom with family and friends, walk…..
Bought Sunday NYTimes paper. it included a separate section on Quarantine Parenting. Travel section was 4 pages, similar for Sports. Made whole wheat pancakes. Think I will experiment with half and half next week.
Visited Walmart for shopping and prescription.
Longish letter to Walter Stitt in production.
Visited with Leiden crew at 12:30. Good visit. The top floor house project is moving slowly. Only two guys working on it. No Andrea and her crew. Not even a note that they wouldn’t attend. I’m not surprised. Reflects her long term priorities.
Out for a walk…..2pm. Down to river and back up the 2nd st. Stairs, up Allen beyond the court house then home down Warren. Many, many more people out and about. Warm weather. Feels very Spring like. Continue reading
4/18/20 – Saturday – library, exercise……
Up early. Listened to Only a Game podcast.
HAL Board of Trustees mtg – active, happy meeting. Received $58,500 PPP money from SBA. Good for 2 1/2 months salaries etc. Lots of talk about new fundraising strategies. Emily made extensive report on our online library programming.
Went to Letterbox Farm to pickup order of eggs and greens.
Karen participated in Balance for Seniors from the library. I did my exercises for the first time in weeks.
Ordered grab bars and other bathroom stuff from Amazon. This will allow us to make the first floor bathroom safe for us to shower in. Short term fix without all of the work planned for a walk in shower.
Karen made meatloaf and sautéed spinach. We drove a portion over to Dave Drake. Had lengthy drinks with Ted and Anne.
Watched the first 30 minutes of China Moon (1995). Gave up at that point. Back to Person of Interest
4/17/20 – Friday – various and list of Zoom meetings
Sent notices out to HAL board. Spent most of morning doing digital housekeeping.
Also time spent learning new things about Notability. Interesting feature of recording a lecture or meeting while making notes. The notes are synced to a time stamp during the recording. So, you can tap on a note and it moves the playback to that point.
Bought lunch at Cascades.
Talked with Kim Bach outside her store Verdigris. She complained about lack of workers to help with her online business. Her part time employees are financially better off on unemployment than coming back to work for her part-time. Continue reading
3/18 – 4/7/2020 – Coronavirus Isolation
Wednesday 3/18/2020
Hudson Area Library closes; all programs stop.
Friday 3/20/2020
Gov. Cuomo announces shit down of all non-essential businesses.
Saturday 3/21/2020
HAL hold first online Board of Trustees meeting; library closed
Tuesday 4/7/2020
Today marks the end of the third week of isolation. Excepting for a couple of trips to the grocery, bank, and liquor store we have had no contact with any one closer than 6 feet.
Walks
Fortunately for us we have been taking daily walks, sometimes lengthy enough to be called hikes. It has been remarkable how few people we see during these walks. You might think that people would be getting out for exercise, air, nature…. maybe this reflects how sedentary we have become as a society. Our walks have mainly featured a route up Warren St. around the hospital and then back down the hill to home – about 2.5 miles (4K). We have extended and varied this to make it both longer and more challenging.
Here are reports for a few.
7/29/2019 – exercises, puttering, HAL, nonfiction book group
Monday
After breakfast did exercise routine. Puttering. Created some questions for the book group meeting on White Trash. Karen was off in Cambridge at Soup Group. Greeted one of the 50 photographers in the gallery to see her work. Read more of Stalingrad.
Broke up the many computer boxes I had brought down from the 2nd floor of barn. First step in a clean out.
Met with Emily Chameides at the library at 5pm. Talked through lots of issues.
Nonfiction book group at 6 pm. 8 people attended despite promises from four or five more to show up. Two new people: Anna Maria Assevero and Peter Daley. She has joined the library board. He is a friend of Erika and Nick from another book group. Good discussion.