Sorry to hear you're not feeling great, Medusa. All this about the vaccines is very jolly (until yesterday, when it suddenly got real in terms of production processes) but there's another wave brewing out there, ecological issues are intensifying, financial issues are off the charts, several other crises are bubbling along ready to have their day
Honestly, I think of the main issues, and I'm still trying to use this time to catch up on things: my finances, my garden, my fitness (effort is needed most there, but ... ), and my broader prepping efforts. I don't have any control over the macro events level, all I can do is take care of the micro that actually faces me day by day.
As far as shopping is concerned, I don't do it in person either, since long before Covid. It would take all my energy, I wouldn't be left with anything spare, so while I *can* get online shopping, I will. I've ordered a click and collect to try to get some goats cheese, but actually, I'm going to turn that into a delivery order with another supermarket.
Infection rate round here is really low now - dipping under 20 per 100,000, though when I looked around the country, I saw a few cities were still over 100 per 100,000. But one thing I'm going to try really hard to do, when it opens again, is join my local "miniature rifle club" - it's just about walking distance, and if my plan to buy an electric folding bike turns out well, it will be even closer. I went to an open evening one time, and it really put me off - started at 6.30, and because there was a group of schoolchildren there, no one even spoke to me till 8.30, when I *eventually* shot 5 pellets. But I've found out that they give tuition during the day, and have air pistols and air rifles to use there - that'll be great, as I can make a knowledgeable choice on what to buy. What really concerns me is pest control - the little local nature reserve (it follows a stream, its 5 minutes walk to cross it) is a huge reservoir of rats - I've had them in the house twice, and both times it was really difficult to get hold of any pest controller. Poison in the attic works fine, eventually, but I want something more proactive. And if push came to shove, I'd certainly be able to abandon my vegetarianism to go out shooting rabbits (probably on the same little nature reserve! Or the playing fields around it, either will do).
Medusa, is there something local to you you'd be able to do this summer? Or a new "hobby" that would help prepping wise? Or am I teaching you to suck eggs
? Sorry if so!
Will have to be a bit more paced today. Have just done a shop and replenished some stores so feeling happier about that. Dug up a shrub that was past it's best and planted rhubarb in it's place, slowly turning a flower/shrub bed to a fruit/flower/herb plot.
