I'm sorry. When you mentioned justice, I thought of your mother. I'm so sorry.

Have the book suggestions been updated? I know some from the 1st edition are out of print.

are there significant differences?

I was reading a post yesterday and a group of people were referring to someone else as a garbage person. Garbage. (Not race related.) Yeah, I think it brings out the worst in people, especially because it tends to create echo chambers. I rarely post anything political or controversial and always regret it when I do. I also rarely post about issues that mean the most to me. I talk about education a lot, because I care but not too much. I'm sure I have been judged these past couple of weeks, but I am past worrying about it. I am far from perfect, but I try to do good to all people. And I feel like now is a good time to invest more of my energy in the people of my physical community. And the deep discussions I am having these days, I am having with my kids.

One of my sons and I have decided to volunteer along with my oldest daughter when schools will allow it again. We chose the school she volunteers at years ago because it has (had at the time, I've no clue now) 21 languages represented in FOOs and a fair number of kids come to school without much English. It won't solve the world's problems, but it is something concrete we can do.

She looked pretty little going in. She always goes back alone, so I guess the the only main difference was walking in the door and waiting for someone to claim her. And the mask, which made her seem smaller.

That sounds similar to our dentist's precautions, but Dd5 had to go in by herself.

Mostly like me unless something about the setting, physical description, name, lifestyle, or cover of the book would indicate a difference. Speaking of the cover of the book, does anyone else notice that sometimes the person on the cover of the book doesn't match their written description?

Our camp has not canceled, but it will look very different.

Some of our favorites for this age group: Summer of the Monkeys My Side of the Mountain The Hobbit (and LOTR actually) The Chronicles of Narnia The first three Harry Potter books (we have just allowed HP in our family recently, but they all enjoyed the read alouds) Dd10 is currently enjoying Redwall. I also read aloud some history/historical fiction/nonfiction books during school. She is not a big reader. She can decode fine, but we think she may have tracking issues because my husband has tracking issues and she is slow and gets tired easily. So, I read more of her school books to her than I did the others. She prefers our novels from family read alouds.

Dd17 will hopefully be doing some DE classes this fall. If that happens, she'll so relatively little at home for me. I've spent a lot of time thinking about it, and I think the most effective way to feel like I am working with each child enough and have a cohesive feel to our homeschool is to actually split the kids up. I am going to be doing a separate read aloud/morning time for the little girls first thing in the morning. Then I will work with them for the things they need me for. After I am done working with them, I will read aloud to the boys and work with them on their individual subjects. If they are split, I won't have 4-5 kids wanting me to prioritize working with them at the same time. I'm looking forward to reading the little girls books that they are a great age for instead of an okay age for. Same with the boys.

A high school classmate of mine has been a police officer all his adult life. He is a good man and, I believe, a good officer but that is only a guess because I knew him growing up. He spoke out in condemnation of this officer and urged other police officers to speak out against him, too.

I thought it might be in the news. I know when they were first testing about 96% of positive cases were asymptomatic. It would mean pretty different things if 90% went on to develop symptoms as opposed to 20%.

Ohio people, did you ever hear how many of the asymptomatic prisoners went on to develop symptoms? I was going to try to look it up but haven't yet.

I watch the numbers. I was much more relaxed at my parents' home (we quarantined before traveling), because they hadn't had a positive test in weeks, and only had a few overall. A couple of surrounding counties hadn't had any cases. Our county spiked while I was gone, coming home we have been more careful. Cases are trending down here, but it isn't the same as my parents' rural county with no new cases at all.

Our academy is open now, but only for private lessons. And only noncontact private lessons, so basically for forms technique. Two of my people are teaching private lessons; three of them will be taking them starting next week. All staff will be masked and everything will be wiped down between classes. It isn't zero risk, but it is a risk we are comfortable with at this time in our location.

What would people expect to happen when most businesses are closed?

This makes me feel so old. I taught high school briefly before kids. I taught during 9/11. My former students could be on this board, which is logical but still weird to me.

For me, it would depend on what the area is like. Our home county is has many open cases right now. My parents' county had its last (of 6) cases weeks ago. We quarantined at home before visiting to make sure we wouldn't make anyone sick, but we've been down here for weeks visiting freely between my parents and sister. It is just a totally different situation here.

Dh is less optimistic about pork than he was. The new rules for packing plants decrease production an additional 20%. That has pushed more farmers to euthanize their hogs. Since the vast majority of the pork available in the grocery stores was butchered in the past 3-4 days, it would have turned around fast as soon as production increased again. But if the farmers don't have confidence that they will be able to send the hogs to the plant, they won't feed them out. So, it looks like there will be rolling availability for the next nine months even if plants got up and running quickly. Although quicker would obviously be better of course.

14 for my older two. Ds13 will be 14, too, at the earliest.

I don't know. I could ask Dh. His company sends a lot of product to China. Me: Are you still doing business with China? Dh: Yeah. We just sold some (his product, I don't want to get too specific since I already pretty much drew a map of where I live) to China this week. Me: Will it increase with the new trade deal? Dh: Yes. Me: What about pork? Dh: Yes, it will increase demand on pork. There is a lot of agricultural stuff in it. Me: Will there be enough? If we send more to China, will that create a shortage here? Dh, with a short laugh and shake of his head: We have plenty of pork. It was obviously not a deep conversation. LOL But just today he heard that farmers in our area are changing the formula back to a growth formula (rather than trying to slow rate of growth), so there is more optimism that they'll be butchered. If we have a longer, more detailed conversation, I'll be happy to pass along any actual information. Plenty of pork (and other meat) does not mean that there won't be shortages at the store at times. It is like tp in a number of ways. There was actually plenty of tp, but between hoarding, different supply chains (tp in large rolls for public/office buildings, for example), and no good way to markedly increase production and shipping quickly, there were shortages at the store. Dh was telling me about a chicken plant that is somewhere around here. I think. I wasn't paying attention to the location. It processes chickens for Costco rotisserie chickens. There are plenty of chickens, but the plant isn't set up to section and package the chickens for retail sale. That is one of the confounding issues I mentioned earlier. The plant is very efficient for what it does. It would be difficult and expensive to change the process. We don't have a Costco here, so I don't know if they are selling rotisserie chickens now? Sams didn't the two times I've been in the past 7 weeks. When Costco is selling rotisserie chickens again, those chickens will be back on the market.

About 5. I am not a minimalist, but I prefer to spend money on the kids and books.

I have cut Dh's hair for almost 20 years and the boys' hair all their lives. I told them they wouldn't look any better in quarantine (I hate cutting hair and am never going to equal a hairdresser. ) but they won't look worse. Dh has some body to his hair. I think it would be curly if it grew. The boys have really straight hair. I do the boys with clippers - #3 on the bottom, #8 on the top and then blend between in a taper. Dh is similar, but he wants more than an inch on top and has body, so I use scissors on top. Honestly, I comb a section up, cut a r as ndom length and then get the rest as close as possible. LOL His hair is very forgiving. With really straight hair, I would stick with the clippers.

How much hair does he have left and what type of hair does he have?