Up, down, and sideways...
We are promised actual teacher-led curriculum next week, which may or may not actually require my child to be online at 8 am (We're the absolute latest timeslot in the county when schools were in-person, so we're used to leaving the house to walk to school at 9.) Meanwhile, my child's priority for today is playing doll & pony hair salon in her room with an audiobook going, so at least it's quiet when she's not jumping off her bed & shaking the smoke detector in the living room off the wall.
Maryland is on food- & medicine-only lockdown as of 8pm last night; grauwulf's work has moved to essential personnel only, and his direct-report company (another round of being acquired by someone he didn't sign up to work for) is going around in circles about whether that applies to them again...
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sideria recommends those who wish to food garden jump now. I should put seed starts on this week's list, although I know I'm terrible at consistent edible gardening. But I have an awful lot of weird food seeds & some buckets of dirt already here, so I might as well. The keyhole garden bed I have been slowly filling won't be ready without at least a cubic yard of dirt imported, so that probably won't happen this year, but an extra bucket or two of something we can eat leaves off of might.
For the craft-inclined with free time, mybluprint.com (formerly craftsy) has all their video classes free through April 9, though connection speeds are about what one would expect for a service that's suddenly seeing many times their usual traffic... I'm watching a beginning watercolor class with the Megatherium, though sadly I gave away my tube watercolors and can't find my watercolor paper, so we don't have anything decent quality in house. Next up might be phone/tablet-version digital photography. And meantime, I am cherry-picking applicable bits out of machine embroidery classes & bookmarking other things of interest. So far I have not gotten my child to settle down and watch virtual tours of national parks, but I did convince her to walk to her bestie's Dad's house half-way across the neighborhood this morning (to drop off a lucky fish in the mailbox) so at least there was a moderate bit of exercise.
We have also been introduced to the weird world of "Go Noodle is Awesomesauce" which explains a bunch of the odd things the child has been chanting in the last year or so, but um... for those unfamiliar it's the modern kiddy love-child of Badger/badger/mushroom-style internet memes and the 1980s in-school programs, and suddenly everyone is wandering around the house chanting, "Do the peppy puppy dance!" and "A moose! A goose! A llama on the loose!" It's been very.
Maryland is on food- & medicine-only lockdown as of 8pm last night; grauwulf's work has moved to essential personnel only, and his direct-report company (another round of being acquired by someone he didn't sign up to work for) is going around in circles about whether that applies to them again...
sideria recommends those who wish to food garden jump now. I should put seed starts on this week's list, although I know I'm terrible at consistent edible gardening. But I have an awful lot of weird food seeds & some buckets of dirt already here, so I might as well. The keyhole garden bed I have been slowly filling won't be ready without at least a cubic yard of dirt imported, so that probably won't happen this year, but an extra bucket or two of something we can eat leaves off of might. For the craft-inclined with free time, mybluprint.com (formerly craftsy) has all their video classes free through April 9, though connection speeds are about what one would expect for a service that's suddenly seeing many times their usual traffic... I'm watching a beginning watercolor class with the Megatherium, though sadly I gave away my tube watercolors and can't find my watercolor paper, so we don't have anything decent quality in house. Next up might be phone/tablet-version digital photography. And meantime, I am cherry-picking applicable bits out of machine embroidery classes & bookmarking other things of interest. So far I have not gotten my child to settle down and watch virtual tours of national parks, but I did convince her to walk to her bestie's Dad's house half-way across the neighborhood this morning (to drop off a lucky fish in the mailbox) so at least there was a moderate bit of exercise.
We have also been introduced to the weird world of "Go Noodle is Awesomesauce" which explains a bunch of the odd things the child has been chanting in the last year or so, but um... for those unfamiliar it's the modern kiddy love-child of Badger/badger/mushroom-style internet memes and the 1980s in-school programs, and suddenly everyone is wandering around the house chanting, "Do the peppy puppy dance!" and "A moose! A goose! A llama on the loose!" It's been very.