Social Distancing Diaries: Day 41

Dear Diary

Just some randomness from today…

Seriously. Wash your hands!

Tell me I’m not the only one—how many times a day do you wipe off the fridge handles? Why are our hands not clean when we use the refrigerator??

(+) It’s great when the kids take the initiative and clean out their bedrooms! (-) In order to get it out of their bedrooms, it gets stored in my bedroom until I donate it. There’s nowhere to donate it right now…

Thrift stores are going to be SO busy when they reopen!

Lily jumped on the trending whipped coffee bandwagon. Having only a very limited supply of instant coffee, her experimentation was less than ideal. Yesterday when I shopped at BJs I fulfilled her heart’s desire and bought instant coffee. Unfortunately I was at BJs where the only option was a lifetime supply of instant coffee. (+) She has perfected her technique. (-) She doesn’t like the taste very much. Shocker there (did I mention this is instant coffee?). Hit me up if you want to try your own whipped coffee. I’m happy to share from my lifetime supply!

Not sure who the Tasters are, but they did not make good choices.

Beautiful eggs. Brown and blue.

Can we take a moment to admire the beautiful colors of these chicken eggs? If you thought white and brown were your only options, you were mistaken. We have a flock of “Easter Eggers”, the common name for various breeds of chickens that lay colored eggs. When I collected eggs today, I noticed a hen sitting on the eggs. Time will tell, but she may have “gone broody” which means she’s sitting on the eggs with the goal of hatching them. Normally I’d shove her off and take the eggs away from her. But we have a rooster that was mistakenly included in our order of female chicks last spring. That means that some of our eggs may be fertilized and therefore, if this broody hen is successful (and the eggs were fertilized), we could have chicks! The best part of that is that we want chicks but I much prefer if the hens raise their own chicks. I’ll know the outcome in 22 days…

That’s the randomness in our home. What’s the randomness in your house?