Hello fellow Yankees! I’m here in CT, the state where your neighbor is very likely to have just returned from China or Turkey or some other exotic locale. Anyone else?
CT here too Pixie.
Hey guys! Did you see the “prep” article in CT Magazine this month? The first section was about PF, the rest hurricanes or nuclear disaster. It actually painted a pretty dire picture (for once).
Hey Pixie - I’m afraid i’ve lost that email with your friends’ addresses. Can you send them again? I’d really like to contact the one who home schools her children. That’s another prep area I need to do some work on. Thanks!
Thanks for the heads up on the CT Magazine article. I am surprised they have painted a dire picture about anything (er, property values, ya know). I’ll pick up a copy.
I also homeschool one of my dd’s and can give you all kinds of info. Yesterday, another kid told my dd that she was planning to do a lot of knitting during SIP and asked what she was going to do. I told her to say “Algebra - and lots of it!” I’ve bought her math curriculum for the next 3 years. (Some kids will have more fun while SIP than others!).
speaking of knitteing — (and I’m not from Connecticut but just popped in to see what y’all were talking about!) (-:
I had been planning on homeschooling my son when he was of Kindergarten age next year anyhow and have been doing research — have you ever heard of Waldorf method of education? A big part of Waldorf is living a natural life (i.e no electricity, no TV, no computers at an early age, mixing things by hand, using hand tools, etc.) Knitting, sewing, hand crafts are a big part of the curriculum in early years anyhow. (Not so much for high school). Even if you don’t like the philosophy (and some parts are a bit odd) there are a bunch of websites and resources on the web for curriculum ideas, and most would be useful for a SIP with no power situation!
Also from CT………
Me too
ACM: there is a Waldorf school in our area and I looked into it for preschool. I love the philosophy, especially for younger ones, but as they get older the reality is they need more academics. But thanks for reminding of them as I’ll be their website has some good ideas of areas to focus on.
Pixie: I don’t know how you and others homeschool. I love my kids to pieces, but know that I am not cut out to be a teacher! In general I just need some basic resource/planning guides for different grade lelves. Hopefully they wouldn’t be out of school for an entire year (shoot me now!), but if there are any good generalized texts tht can guide me through basic instructional topics so I can help them keep up while SIP.
Oh yearh - if you’re anywhere near an AC Moore store today they have some kind of “wacky Tuesday” sale going on - practically everything in the store is on sale. Felt good to re-stock our craft/activity supplies + get some x-mas items for a whole lot less.
Greetings from MA - how goes the community preparedness?
;-) crfullmoon
Don’t forget me. i live here, too. ;-)
my town is taking their time….
Dem -
Which side of the state are you on?
crfullmoon -
Community preparedness is an oxymoron here, same as it seems to be in your neck of the woods. You are right - we need strategize some grass-roots plans to augment the official “JIT” plans. We are celebrating a major holiday now, so I haven’t had time to respond to your thoughts in the threads on that, but I’ve been thinking hard about it, and also about Average Concerned Mom’s questions about what the issues of the public health guys really, at root, are about.
Goju -
If your town has some insight as to the real time frame, which they must have if they are taking their time, can you ask them to come here and share it with us? They must have some concrete reason to believe they have plenty of time, right?
(not the we must have lots of time before it can go pandemic, because look how far down the current cfr has to come down to what the old CDC FluSurge spreadsheets said the fatality rate will be reason, I hope…)
Happy holiday, and hope we get another good year and Halloween.
The western CT-05 side.
What BF? the geese on the high school football field look just fine Pix!
Ah, Dem, the tense NY-style side, like most of the rest of us!
It was a great Halloween. My dd was a Bird Flu Zombie. No kidding! Full PPE, with small rubber chickens pinned all over, quarantine tape like Miss. America sashes, and she carried a rubber chicken. It was quite a sight!
Just the usual knights, ghosts, beasties and pixies (generic) here.
Goju - they keep the geese in your town healthy because they are breeding them for holiday pate and of course foie gras.
“Hope is not a plan” but, I know y’all are preppin’.
:-)
at the town meeting I asked about the geese - what would they do when HPAI arrived here? - they said “no problem… no geese” with a big smile on his face (police commissioner new canaan)
crfullmoon - Nope, we are not preppin’. We intend to ransack and pillage our northern neighbors instead. Watch for roving bands of investment bankers in green and pink golf pants headed north if pandemic hits.
Have to hope it’s a blizzardy week in Jan. when pandemic hits, then. Maybe everyone will stay home…
Well, a blizzard would get people into the stores to prep - you know how they all freak out when a “big one” is coming and flock to Stop and Shop like they’ll be snowed in for two weeks? Good lord, it is the NE after all. Don’t you people know how to handle SNOW! lol!
Pixie - that costume is too friggin’ funny!
Sorry, I’m nursing a Halloween candy hangover….must get more coffee.
Bird Flu - Should you be concerned
WTNH ABC TV Affiliate Hartford CT Channel 8 11 PM news. Niman interviewed.
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