I work for an insurance company and we were deemed an essential business so I've had no real trouble keeping busy. We've got about 70% of our employees working from home now. The first couple of weeks of roll out were a challenge but it's working pretty great. I've done my best to keep busy when not working to try to maintain some sense of normalcy.
I've been holding Zoom meetings with a small group of new scouts who had just joined before the shutdown. It's not the same, of course, but I have enjoyed interacting with them and demonstrating scout skills. We even had a virtual campout.
I've been riding my bike again. The roads, even the back roads, are little less crowded. I love riding through the corn and wheat fields around my house.
I've been hiking a lot too. I'm lucky to have a beautiful city park with fantastic hiking/biking trails so close.
I did have to make a trip up to our Tulsa office to check on things. The Tulsa airport was packed with these parked American aircraft. It was surreal to see.
Back to the fun of keeping busy, I finally became one of those people baking bread. I found a copycat recipe for the Outback Steakhouse honey wheat bread. It was delicious.
We are just in the beginnings of June already. Summer will be here soon. Things are just so weird and different. My youngest child has graduated from high school. All of the college camps for the summer have been cancelled so his freshman experience is going to be so different as was his senior experience. I hesitate to call anything "the new normal" as people are wont to do. I don't think anything has stabilized enough to be called any kind of normal. We just keep doing what we do. Making the best of it. Keep taking pictures!
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Oooo....I'll have to look for that bread recipe! I'm finding Zoom very exhausting and much prefer person-to-person interaction. Hopefully, that will happen sooner rather than later. I'm not brave enough to put myself on a plane! I refuse to call this the "new normal." This is not normal at all! Take care and keep hiking!
I consider myself lucky that I got to keep working at the regular office. Gave me some much appreciated stability and "normalcy".
Love how you rediscovered biking and even made your own bread - copycat Outback Steakhouse no less (huge fan)
I'm grateful for technology. While doing boy scouts activities via Zoom is not ideal, just imagine how isolation without our electronic possibilities would be.
Keep going, and keep taking pictures!
The virtual campout is the most creative use of Zoom I've yet seen (I thought the Zoom rehearsal for my community choir set the standard until I read your post). Otherwise, not loving Zoom (or competing video meetup platforms) all that much. Prefer a telephone call, actually. We have also been biking quite a bit, including an epic 112 km (70 mile) ride last week - our longest ride ever! Hoping to get out again in the next few days, as Parks Canada has closed a couple of secondary roads in Banff National Park to vehicles so there is more capacity for cyclists in the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks. As for getting on a plane, I don't feel ready for that and can't even imagine being ready to fly any time soon. The photo of the parked planes is pretty crazy...may have to ride up to the Calgary airport to see if there's a plane parking lot there, too. As for the advice to keep on taking pictures, it's solid. Thanks!
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