Filling a Day of Social Distancing – 4/30/2020 - Zentangles
/Continuing the blog post series prompted by COVID-19….
Here are the unique activities for yesterday:
Drama with irises. Day before yesterday I counted 5 stalks of iris buds in our flower beds…was thrilled with the prospect of having flowers this year.
When I came downstairs yesterday morning, one of them was gone! I wondered what would have eaten the whole upper part of the stalk and went outside for a closer inspection. I discovered that the stem had broken off and the upper part was hanging by a thin fiber down in the mint and daffodil leaves! Now the bud stalk is in a glass of water beside my computer monitor. It probably is not far enough along to continue its development…but I’ll enjoy the gentle curves of the bud for a few days. I checked the other 4 bud stalks and they are still intact.
Getting a grocery delivery on a rainy day. Usually we have the bags placed on our porch but yesterday was a blustery rainy day, so I changed the delivery instructions to have the shopper put then in the garage in the open hatch of my car. After they left, we retrieved the refrigerator items and then closed the hatch on the non-perishables to let them sit for few days to let any virus particles die.
Finding an article about starting an herb garden in the April 7, 1952 Life Magazine. Available from the Internet Archive here. Click on the images below to see them in a larger view. This is still a good list today although I use some more than others: basil, dill, chives, thyme, rosemary, oregano and mint. I have some mint coming up in my flowerbeds that I might start using in my morning smoothies!
Receiving an email from the grocery store about a new way to shop with them – once I start doing my own shopping again. It involves an app on the phone that allows scanning and bagging into your own bags while you shop then checking out at a self-checkout register. It will be another month at least before I start going to the grocery store again – but this app is another element of the strategy when the time comes along with a mask, disinfectant wipes and hand sanitizer/washing. Basically, this app enables ‘contactless’ shopping!
Links to my previous “filling a day of social distance” posts here.
Now for the April 2020 collection of Zentangle tiles…
I picked 30 since there are 30 days in the month. Only 4 of them were done on the iPad (the ones with the black background). The other tiles were all from recycled materials – lightweight boxes, pocket folders (the yellow ones) or dividers between small cans of cat food (the rectangles). It was not a huge month for Zentangle tiles – which surprised me a little. I have been at home and thought there might be times I would do a lot of tiles in one day but somehow I’ve developed enough other activities to not lean on tangling to keep myself occupied.
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