The terror of no library card.........so glad you were able to fix your card!. OK, you got me with Artemis Fowl comparison......the first book is Shards of Honor right? I can always use more audiobooks to quilt to.......well almost always. Our internet is having a hard time with all the zooming going on. I have always streamed my audiobooks and may have to learn to download them. @Robin M Love the new avatar!

Maybe portable sinks could be utilized......... I do know from a neighbor who is still working in a business that makes equipment for first responders that they have set up a least 20 portable sinks around the building parking lot. He washes his hands, is screened by an RN including temp check. After he is approved to enter the building, layout has been massively changed to accommodate 6 foot distances. Last time I asked no one there has failed the daily screening or had CV.

For the first couple of weeks the employees were still working at my library....it’s on our bike ride path. They had a uhaul type thing in the parking lot and I think were putting extra books in that. The book drop is still there and there is a message regarding deep cleaning of the books........

Do your library books just keep having their due dates extended.......mine are now 5/15.

For Julia Spencer Fleming fans the latest (and London awaited) book has been released! Hid From Our Eyes https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45046695-hid-from-our-eyes is a book I am looking forward to! I am part way through a reread of the series so will be reading this one in a few weeks...... Speaking of rereads I am getting close to done on my Faith Hunter reread. Currently reading Curse on the Land which is the second in the Soulwood series https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28953491-curse-on-the-land?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=nUGDsCE6BN&rank=2 First time I have ever managed to copy a cover.......this is one of my favorite book covers. I love the swirling and the light!

I don’t consider that the US has put all it’s eggs in the hydroxichloriquine (sp) basket by any means. It’s promising, it’s somewhat known, it has other purposes.......I am sure it can be donated somewhere for malaria treatment. I thought ramping production of it up was smart. Why wait....now could save lives. One life saved is not a waste. Is it right to stockpile it individually at this point, no............a side comment.......I do wish we had bought our travel pack of it the pharmacist offered when we picked up our Tamiflu last summer in the U.K. before traveling to the US tor Uni. We skipped it because we were going to the US......it was common enough to be over the counter almost in the U.K.......you call a help line and get a prescription for travel meds then talk to the pharmacist who directs you to what you need. Supposedly the U.K. is starting production of the untested Oxford vaccine........simply so it will be ready to use if it works. Good common lifesaving sense......

I don’t think she will get scienced out......she is interested in most everything. Loves animals and has the greenest thumb ever. She really is a fabulous gal! Lucky to have her in our lives......her hubby was great. @Kareni will remember them as the people who taught my kids bell ringing several years ago....she was climbing the tower with them until 2018 and she is 82......tower had 94 steps so quite an achievement! i received this Easter puzzle which I sent on today also.....https://www.needlenthread.com/.....the link for the jigsaw is at the bottom. I had fun with it myself as I had never done an online puzzle!

@Kareni So glad your hubby is doing well and is back at home! Sending hugs and prayers.....

Beautiful! Thanks for posting the pictures

I had to google Bread of Easter Brightness.......looks and sounds good. We just finished Easter dinner which was a smoked turkey breast I purchased at Thanksgiving a put in the freezer.....glad I planned ahead for once! I also had an extra pecan pie from Thanksgiving time which we will eat tonight with leftovers........two pumpkin pies are still there for another occasion. Very grateful we bought a much bigger freezer than intended last spring! Reading.......I think I am going to give up on Robin Paige’s Murder in Whitechapel. I may skip ahead in the series as the first 3 were very good. I am halfway through Kellerman’s Museum of Desire which is yet another starring Alex Delaware and Milo. Enjoying it but not managing to turn the pages at quite the same speed as normal. I started listening to a new cozy historical mystery last A Useful Woman by Darcie Wilde. So far it’s really well done! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26067944-a-useful-woman

Take a look a Futurelearn too....this one looks good https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/object-oriented-principles

There are lots of free online opportunity for programming. Off the top of my head Coursera, Saylor, and Futurelearn for places to start looking. Take a look at those and do some googling......Ds is pretty awesome at programming and learned a lot of it in his early teens for free through online free classes. He now has degrees in CS and Cyber. Btw Coursera was where he did the python way back when.

I will send this one tomorrow........it has an odd village connection if you can believe it. One of the women in the female group several years ago is the granddaughter of someone who lives in the village. They gave a performance at the church on their European tour......I know Dd and I served the refreshments. I would not be surprised if my friend and her husband were not in the audience....... they always came to everything my kids were involved in and Dd probably baked the cookies! 😉.

I have now clicked on a few and I managed to entertain myself quite well! Thank you so much. I plan to send these over many days as she always emails a thank you back and let’s me know she is OK. @Kareni I just heard back from my friend and she can’t wait to watch the Met tonight........I think it starts at 12:30 her time. She enjoyed the story and is now off googling little free libraries. You just provided hours of entertainment for her so thank you!

I just went and really looked at tonight’s schedule and there is an opera at the Met tonight that I know she will love. I sent her the link.......thank you!

I watched it this morning while trying to find my link of the day. I thought it was great........didn’t think it was right for my person this weekend..........it is going to be a rough one for her. Our village is normally filled with activities Easter weekend plus her daughter, who lives in London will not be visiting. I already sent Patrick Stewart.......she loves it! Will sent the NPR one tomorrow.......thank you! Her Dd is a professional musician and friend loves concerts.

One idea that I just discovered is being done by Morrison’s (a large U.K. grocery chain) is you order a box of food where you specify meat or vegetarian .......you pay £30 for the box and £5 delivery. You have no control over what they pack for you but a variety of food will be delivered at a pretty reasonable rate. The delivery slots are much quicker for the boxes too.

Praying

I believe @Robin M asked if others were having this problem on BaW recently.

Double post......hopefully I can get rid of the title too.

DP...hopefully this is now fixed!

I am sure my title is horrible.......let me explain. I have a dear elderly friend in England who is self isolating that is normally pretty active. I am trying to send something fun or interesting to her via email each day. My kids are her adopted grandkids....she is lonely and disappointed because they won’t be around this summer. I am trying to make her life a bit brighter......I know many of you are in the same boat with someone in their lives. Frequently I find my fun thing from links I find on WTM. She is loving the link to Andrew Lloyd Weber musicals https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9350021/andrew-lloyd-webber-musicals-free-online-coronavirus that @Robin M posted. Today I think I am going to send her this short story @Kareni linked over on the Book a Week thread https://www.tor.com/2020/04/08/little-free-library-naomi-kritzer/#comments Sometimes I send positive Covid news. Occasionally pictures of us, but not much is happening in my house right now. I am running low on ideas today and know others must be too. Cute kitten pictures funny clean jokes. Inspirational.........Online things that are happy, positive, interesting. Just something that says I care......... So I would love a thread of happy links, things to make us and others smile for just a minute during the day.......

Probably should go to another thread but for me having the measles as a child (and I was really sick btw) and numerous vaccinations did not make me immune....... herd immunity from vaccination needs to be high enough to protect people like me. It’s figured into the numbers per someone who I knew who was involved in deciding the numbers for US years ago.

My kids were supposed to have a really great summer in the country they grew up in. Be with their lifelong friends. We had huge travel plans as for the first time in years they were taking the summer off from classes. It’s all gone.......we are now sort of dreaming of Christmas there. It might happen........I am now more concerned about life next fall. My kids have made many new friends and they were so enjoying their experience.😕 Everyone’s plans have changed. In 20 years I hope this will be a distant memory that our kids (and us ) are able to look back on with somewhat of a blip in the road attitude with some awesome stories of tp hoarding and mom disinfecting everything while she sews masks instead of quilts. I don’t know a single person who is living normally right now. So my graduate student kids signed up for some classes today......cheap, undergrad ones, in areas they could improve in or are interested in. These classes will fill some time this summer. It’s something somewhat productive for them to do. They were actually pretty happy looking at their choices which if I am honest made me want to cry. My kids aren’t musicians but we know several kids on that path well. The ones I know are somewhat fluent in foreign languages (ones that you need for Opera especially) and also consider them a necessary life skill for their lifestyle to be. They want to be able tour and speak the languages. I know you said she has no other interests but learning a (or another ) foreign language, perhaps some business classes so she can manage her career would not hurt. There are so many ways this can be done cheap or free and they could add structure to her life. They might also give her other interests.

I have become a huge believer in restrictions by county not in general for an entire state Or country. I have to say super stringent restrictions in the UP are sort of humorous.unless one lives there. The people there are already spread out! Seriously haven’t the people in charge driven over the Mackinac Bridge? My elderly oldest brother lives literally in the middle of woods all by his lonesome and I glanced at this and thought he will now not be able to resist pushing back in some manner. I think fishing is an issue, hoping he will pick that as he can do that in front of his house. So you have the people who will not be able to resist violating and doing something they wouldn’t have two days ago, the list just got long. Certain people will feel the need now to violate......and I am related to some of them.😕 Another thing I am concerned about is some people may prove to be really hard to get back out of a hard lockdown. Sending people into hard lock down in many parts of MI is no different from Yorkshire (other than Northern England actually does have cases in places......want to add I know very well there are cases in Northern Mi, just not at the magnitude that I am seeing surrounding my village). In my U.K. village there is a huge concern because a surprising number of our elderly have literally barricaded themselves in the house. There are no cases in that village at this time btw. Refusing to sit in gardens, open windows, etc in some rather hot beautiful weather for there. All of which are allowed. These people do not own a fan much less AC. Summer coming is a worry. These people are not accepting groceries either......it is a concern that is growing. Nothing is allowed in by this rather odd voluntary group. Medications etc...... No way to evaluate how well they are doing, do they have food, and these are known individuals that are refusing to cooperate with known friends. This is something I had not expected......... People do not act as anticipated frequently...........