Posted on 04/04/2014 12:54:31 PM PDT by greeneyes
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That’s what I was thinking. At least 90% mortality, and no one has a clue? I think it’s kinda amazing. We have known about this virus for quite a while. There have been survivors, and yet no one has yet come up with a vaccine?
You would think that someone would have by now. And now, here it is in a city of 2 millions people with international flights. I don’t have a lot of confidence that they’ll be able to isolate it this time. Sure hope it doesn’t escape and make its’ way here.
I have spoken to God about his failure to give us snap in new back vertebrae. I don't know if that is in the works for newly formed babies.
We are stuck with the backs we have. I have five smaller bags of potting soil in the trunk of my car and have a fabric shopping bag on wheels to put those in to pull the rolling bag up four not tall steps into my house and through the house into the garden. That doesn't hurt my back but you were lifting much more weight than these smaller potting soil bags. I don't have to bend much to pour the soil in these smaller bags into pots.
It's the great big bag I have left that requires me to bend to get the soil out as I can't lift that bag to pour the soil out. That is a lower back killer for me. I will have many big pots to fill when they get here this coming week.
Once those big pots are filled, the worst of the bending will be over.
The way so many onions are growing, there is no way to eat them all now so I need to can most of those and have to find a recipe in my Ball book or the Water Bath canner book. I have to get bottled lemon juice and Ball regular pectin for the strawberries and I'll have everything needed to can the strawberries and don't know right now what will be needed to can onions. My mother and father, deceased, would be amazed I grew food plants and canned something. I stayed as far away from the garden and canning as I could. I did shell peas and beans and plenty of them. They could grow any veggie plus we had fig and peach and plum trees. I gathered those figs/peaches/plums. Figs were not easy to do since wasps stay around fig trees. I never was stung by them.
I can use my little finger now that a wasp stung a few days ago. I've got vinegar and Benadryl tablets out in the open in the kitchen should that happen again - ice in vinegar, stung appendage in the cold vinegar and take two Benadryl pills and a pain pill - then cuss it happened.
To be fair, vaccines can be hard sometimes. They depend on the virus having some unique feature on its “skin” that the immune system can be taught to target. If, for example, the proteins on the virus’s coat are the same as proteins found in the human body, it would be a bad thing for the immune system to start attacking that.
That’s just one of many complications with coming up with a vaccine.
Power has been off since about 4:30 here. We had a big, close lightning strike. I’m running lights and internet from battery power, and freeping on the tablet.
/johnny
I think if that happened here, I would've slept through it. Our forecast said rain yesterday, and today, but so far, nada.
Power company is finally here, but the guy has to wait for someone else to be here for safety. I may be without power for a while longer.
/johnny
We're getting rain. Lots of rain. But it will be a while before commercial power gets restored.
/johnny
Well, I did drink some gin last night (for medicinal purposes, of course), but probably not enough to have slept through something that sounded like a bomb going off.
Did your cats freak out?
My gunsmith left this big honker stainless steel utility cart on my front porch yesterday that I thought I could recongigure to be similar to yours..well, he could reconfigure, which is probably why he left it, and drove off quickly.
We finally got commercial power back a little while ago.
The garden is on it's own until the rain lets up on Tuesday.
/johnny
It’s 10:25 am and no rain. Radar shows some blips to the south coming my way but nothing from your direction, north.
That would be a self quarantine lasting for a very long time and no one would be at work and power and water would go out with no one to keep them going. The country would not be as we know it now. You wouldn't be able to leave your property for fear any person you saw had it but it hadn't shown symptoms yet on that person. With 90% dying, the country would never be the same.
Whole cities would need to seal any access into their city if no one in the city had it. Any county with none in their county sick, all access to that county would have to be sealed. If a state didn't have anyone sick, all access into that state would have to be sealed and air travel into that state stopped, too. How realistic is it that no one would get into that state or county or city?
The only way to stay safe in this kind of situation, is to have what you need for a long time so you don't have to leave your property.
You watch Walking Dead don't you?
That will provide three shady bowers (knock on wood) for cats to hang out in. They are not happy I got rid of all of the ligustrum. They had a great time hiding under the cut branches when I had three big piles out in the yard.
Spring must be here as I've already killed some snails, and seen a few grasshoppers. I sure miss my chickens as they loved chomping those grasshoppers.
We’ve had just light rains off and on here on the north Dallas side of the Metroplex with occasional thunder—like just now. Hope you have power back soon and monkey for you to get socked with some rains. Thank God we getting some needed spring moisture. Southeast looks like storms on the way-—heads up down there.
Commercial power came back up at about 10am. Fortunately, I have backup power available, so it wasn't too much of a problem.
/johnny
Would like to order up these soak in rains come hot July and August too. Just glad we have some moisture going into the soil in early spring— charge it up—especially these clay soils we have in the middle of the Plains so bad on home foundations as you know. Doing some plantings in about a week so hopefully its dry for that event The garden plot looks happily wet today and Lordy thanks.
I've still got stuff to plant, but it will be Thursday at this rate before I can.
/johnny
Hmmmm thanks for the discussion of frost dates. Looks I’ll need to call my local county agent and get their advice. My little green babies are clamoring for dirt. Did I start them too soon, you think?
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