As the
Yoshino Cherry blossoms fade, the Kwanzan's are in full bloom and Romeo loves
to help me mow.
We have
now completed our first 10 days of staying put and we are only interfacing
regularly with our close neighbors but we have had two carefully controlled
visitors from the outside. We are
getting some things done around the place including fertilizing the lawn and
planting some new grass. According to
the reaction of my new hip muscles, I overdid it one day pushing the lawn
spreader around, but I was happy to be able to do it – obviously continued home
therapy is in order.
As you
can tell from my recent posts, we have been eating well and can continue to do so for many more
weeks so we’re okay with the new federal guidelines to stay put another month
even though we will run out of some things. A recent meal, enjoyed on the patio, of grilled salmon and steak for SIL, Pat (not a salmon eater) along with fresh hot homemade bread.
Several of you have posted shots of your well organized pantries and that will be one of my upcoming projects.
Several of you have posted shots of your well organized pantries and that will be one of my upcoming projects.
Our
local county now has 8 reported Covid-19 cases and the nearest counties to our
house have 28 & 8 cases respectively while the further away but still
adjacent Knox County has 78 cases.
Serious About Containing Covid-19
One of the North Carolina counties just across the border from us has gotten very serious about controlling the spread of the virus in their county. Graham county with a population of around 9000 and no hospital has implemented strict control of movement in and out of the county and, so far, has no reported cases of Covid-19. It will be interesting to see how this works for them to see if this was the way the whole county should have behaved.
One of the North Carolina counties just across the border from us has gotten very serious about controlling the spread of the virus in their county. Graham county with a population of around 9000 and no hospital has implemented strict control of movement in and out of the county and, so far, has no reported cases of Covid-19. It will be interesting to see how this works for them to see if this was the way the whole county should have behaved.
“According
to a press release sent on March 21, the following highways will be closed or
have restricted access in order to control traffic into Graham County:
Cherohala
Skyway is closed to all traffic.
Highways
US 129 and NC 28 at Deals Gap will be restricted to local resident traffic and
commercial traffic.
US 129
at Topton will be restricted to pass through detour traffic and local resident
traffic only. Once the US 74 detour is ended then US 129 will be restricted to
local traffic and commercial traffic only.
NC
Highway 28 going east from Stecoah will be restricted to local and detour
traffic only and commercial traffic. Once the detour is ended NC 28 will be
restricted to local and commercial traffic only.”
We
hope you are making it fine through this very difficult time for America and I’m
so glad we don’t live in a large city.
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can be enlarged by clicking on them and the blue words are links.
Have a
great day and thanks for stopping by Almost Heaven South.
Larry
4/2/20
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Your meal looks delicious and that loaf of bread looks perfect! I'm glad you are staying safe and healthy at home. It's a scary time!
ReplyDeleteLarry, Your yard looks great! Romeo looks like a 'natural' when it comes to riding along on your mower... That salmon looks amazing and of course, the homemade bread...the bread...the bread! Interesting about Graham County NC. Worth keeping an eye on although for most other locations, the horse is already out of the barn. The President and a bunch of Governors, including ours, are way too slow on the draw. Just saying... Stay Well and Take Care Ya'll, Big Daddy Dave and Laurie
ReplyDeleteHappy to see that you and Bev (and Pat) are safe and carrying on. Food looks delicious. We are hunkered down at the lake. Stay safe Larry.
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