Royal Caribbean Cruisers -- How Are Things Where You Are? (was "Routine" ​ 😁 ​day in lockdown... how was yours?)

[Norwich Cruiser]

23 minutes ago, DaniDanielle said:

LOVE it!!!!  We have been making this cake for so many years, I can’t remember when it started.  My oldest son, who is 46, was a young little guy.  I remember using mult-colored chocolate chips that I bought in KMART to decorate it.

This was our first attempt don’t think it’s going to be the last.

It was actually pretty good.

Well the grandchildren definitely thought so.

[DaniDanielle]

You did a great job😉

[Norwich Cruiser]

4 hours ago, DaniDanielle said:

You did a great job😉

For how long it took it wasn’t bad roll on next year.

 

At least I’ve had some practice now.

 

Don't think they’d have displayed it very prominently in the Windjammer though.

 

Still it’s the taster that counts.

[DaniDanielle]

Can’t go wrong with cake!

[A&L_Ont]

I finally got around to getting this done today. It’s been sitting around since last fall. 
 

The house is now fully clean.  The garage starts tomorrow, after Owen’s homeschooling. This will become garage wall art, to be hung with a gathering of other items, to which I have waited years to put up. 
 

That’s a lot more fun and exciting than the 10 cubic yards of wood chips that awaits their placement around the pool in the week to come. 
 

Edited April 19, 2020 by A&L_Ont

[A&L_Ont]

We are also have a frequent, if not daily visit from a fox. This was from earlier tonight. Lucy has been laying low as it gets closer to dark. 
 

 

[Midwestgal]

I guess on the whole it’s all good. However I should of been boarding Harmonic today. 
Right now i should be enjoying Grease😓😓

[ReneeFLL]

On 4/8/2020 at 4:48 AM, Biker19 said:

Use an app like gasbuddy.

Gas buddy doesn't show the marinas down here.

[Norwich Cruiser]

3 hours ago, Midwestgal said:

I guess on the whole it’s all good. However I should of been boarding Harmonic today. 
Right now i should be enjoying Grease😓😓

Is that the sister of Harmony?

[JamesEM]

Good news for those of us in SC, as of Tuesday the beaches and stores are open, however there can only be 5 customers per 1,000 sq feet, bars, and restaurants are still closed. 

[bobmacliberty]

6 hours ago, JamesEM said:

Good news for those of us in SC, as of Tuesday the beaches and stores are open, however there can only be 5 customers per 1,000 sq feet, bars, and restaurants are still closed. 

 

And so it begins.  I hope this is the first of several steps to follow.

[Paulette3028]

On 4/2/2020 at 10:41 AM, dani negreanu said:

Hopes that the lockdown will ease after Passover/Easter.

 

Are you in favor of some of the 'lessening of lockdown restrictions' now on the horizon after Passover/Easter timeframe?

 

 

[zonacruiser25]

Happy Birthday to me!  Went and bought myself a container of Rocky Road.

[island lady]

6 minutes ago, zonacruiser25 said:

Happy Birthday to me!  Went and bought myself a container of Rocky Road.

 

Happy Birthday!!  

 

 

[dani negreanu]

4 hours ago, Paulette3028 said:

Are you in favor of some of the 'lessening of lockdown restrictions' now on the horizon after Passover/Easter timeframe?

 

 

 Absolutely. Otherwise, our economy will go down the drain.

 

BUT, and that's a big one, I think that the lockdown should continue in cities where the percentage of the infected and sicks is very high -- [religious] orthodox cities who don't "do" social distancing.... and refuse to obey the "shelter at home" as the rest of us.

 

[KelSny1011]

I've come to realize that I have the biggest lounge chair hog inside my own home.  She also doesnt practice social distancing 

[Midwestgal]

14 hours ago, Norwich Cruiser said:

Is that the sister of Harmony?

Lol , yes evil twin...this dam iPad just changes every I write....I’ve had some doozies 

[Norwich Cruiser]

27 minutes ago, Midwestgal said:

Lol , yes evil twin...this dam iPad just changes every I write....I’ve had some doozies 

So have I.

 

Predicted text.

[DaniDanielle]

We have a couple of turkeys roaming the neighborhood.  Real fowl and not miserable people.  Have to get a pic to post.  Yesterday we gobbled together!   Just drank my pointsetta, that I had to make myself😳 I do miss having someone make my cocktail.

Can’t post pics of my refrigerator as it does not measure up to dani negreanu!!!!!

[purduemom1]

On 4/7/2020 at 4:32 PM, A&L_Ont said:

We brought the front porch chairs out on Saturday, and Lucy has rediscovered her favourite sleeping spot.
 

Please excuse the windows, we are still cleaning the inside of the house, before we get to the windows. We hope to have the house fully cleaned from top to bottom by Saturday. 
 

 

 

Maybe time for more food porn?  The ribs were delicious.

 

Good to see Lucy again! Yep, window washing-on our “to do” list too.

[mugtech]

Another fun day in the Philippines.  Went to the barangay captain and got our passes to allow us to do banking and buy food and medicine in the provincial capital of Vigan.

               When we got to Vigan we were told that only one member from each household can enter the city, so I had to get out of our van while my wife and nephew entered to go shopping.  I hung around for about 30 minutes gradually moving up the road towards the city.  My last obstacle was another polis (police) tent with a guy taking the temperature of everyone entering Vigan.  They brought out a new temperature guy and I stepped into the street and got behind 5 people riding bicycles into the city.  The guy wanted to see my pass and then he asked me why a was going to Vigan  "Food" was all I said and he let me in.  3 block walk got me to 2 Brothers store where I turned $100 US into 5,055 pesos and went to Jollibee fast food, ordered a yum burger and fries for 75 pesos ($1.50) and waited outside for 15 minutes.  It was mostly burger, not much yum.  Walked back to the entrance and found a shade spot at the end of the bridge across the river.  A lite breeze was coming from the river, good to have in 94F bright sunshine.  Half an hour later our van returned to pick me up loaded with 500 kg of rice for our barangay.  Only 42 more days of this.

[A&L_Ont]

More snow today, then sun, then snow. No real accumulation thankfully. I hate this time of spring. 
 

Lucy has been liking the somewhat warmer weather. Our neighbours sent us this pic, when she stopped for a visit at their house last week. 
 

 

 

 

I think she’s starting to feel like us with quarantine.
 

 

 

 

Edited April 22, 2020 by A&L_Ont

[John&LaLa]

On 4/19/2020 at 7:49 PM, A&L_Ont said:

I finally got around to getting this done today. It’s been sitting around since last fall. 
 

The house is now fully clean.  The garage starts tomorrow, after Owen’s homeschooling. This will become garage wall art, to be hung with a gathering of other items, to which I have waited years to put up. 
 

That’s a lot more fun and exciting than the 10 cubic yards of wood chips that awaits their placement around the pool in the week to come. 
 

 

Grandson and I built Lola a couple years ago.

 

We're supposed to build this someday

[island lady]

13 hours ago, A&L_Ont said:

 

Lucy has been liking the somewhat warmer weather. Our neighbours sent us this pic, when she stopped for a visit at their house last week. 
I think she’s starting to feel like us with quarantine.

 

Aww...thanks for posting pictures of Lucy...she is adorable!  🙂 

[bobmacliberty]

2 hours ago, island lady said:

 

Aww...thanks for posting pictures of Lucy...she is adorable!  🙂 

 

I think we need a dedicated Lucy/Bella thread.  Another good diversion.