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I continue doing things
Apr. 30th, 2020 11:08 amThings I am up to:
* Renovating the chicken coop. Current point: caulking all the tiny gaps in the interior of the coop. This is maddening and smells like cleaning pennies.
* Homeschooling Morgan. This has switched from homeschooling proper to mostly school-provided materials now that the school district has, like, realized it won't be reopening this year and taken actual steps. Unfortunately they are trying to do a lot of things via Zoom, which Morgan is more or less violently allergic to (as versus pre-recorded videos or email or any other possible method of transmitting information) so their steps are not really working as well as my steps were. But there are fewer of them, so M is a bit less stressed, maybe?
* Baking. The other day we made a beautiful braided loaf of challah from a recipe in a children's book. Both kids helped with the kneading. Morgan did the braiding part all herself and was very proud.
* Deciphering 19th-century handwriting. I've been transcribing anti-slavery correspondence for the Boston Public Library. This is more or less fun depending on the specific handwriting in question, but a nice useful thing to do from home. I found them via Zooniverse, which has many other citizen science type projects you can help with.
* Writing postcards. Do you want to be politically involved but hate making phone calls? Me too. So I signed up with Postcards to Voters. The kids helped me decorate the first six or so postcards, so those are adorable and the rest of them are rather staid. But informatively and encouragingly staid! I hope they tip the balance of someone's decision to bother filling out that ballot. Several someones, ideally.
* Renovating the chicken coop. Current point: caulking all the tiny gaps in the interior of the coop. This is maddening and smells like cleaning pennies.
* Homeschooling Morgan. This has switched from homeschooling proper to mostly school-provided materials now that the school district has, like, realized it won't be reopening this year and taken actual steps. Unfortunately they are trying to do a lot of things via Zoom, which Morgan is more or less violently allergic to (as versus pre-recorded videos or email or any other possible method of transmitting information) so their steps are not really working as well as my steps were. But there are fewer of them, so M is a bit less stressed, maybe?
* Baking. The other day we made a beautiful braided loaf of challah from a recipe in a children's book. Both kids helped with the kneading. Morgan did the braiding part all herself and was very proud.
* Deciphering 19th-century handwriting. I've been transcribing anti-slavery correspondence for the Boston Public Library. This is more or less fun depending on the specific handwriting in question, but a nice useful thing to do from home. I found them via Zooniverse, which has many other citizen science type projects you can help with.
* Writing postcards. Do you want to be politically involved but hate making phone calls? Me too. So I signed up with Postcards to Voters. The kids helped me decorate the first six or so postcards, so those are adorable and the rest of them are rather staid. But informatively and encouragingly staid! I hope they tip the balance of someone's decision to bother filling out that ballot. Several someones, ideally.
