Illustrations from Ernst Kreidolf’s 1922 book Alpenblumenmärchen. Full text with many other colorful illustrations here. https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/alpenblumenmayr00krei

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Dear pollen, do not make me a target! Yikes. https://www.instagram.com/p/B-gJWmTAP0a/?igshid=2t3zawn09ssk

She runs a gift shop, but shut down the store mar 12, because cleaning all the knickknacks would be nigh impossible.

UPDATE – she took another test and it came back negative, thankfully, but still. 7 days after her first 12 day wait.

Her timeline –

Got my test results today.
Covid-19 has been detected.
It says more info available on website (um, what website?).
I feel like Typhoid Mary. Like I’m a plague pit. Desperately trying to remember all my interactions for the 2 weeks before my fever started.
Here’s the timeline for what’s been up with me, for the sake of contact reference and progression of symptoms.
2/19-tooth infection, start taking antibiotics, finish course on 3/5 or 6
2/27-A has her surgery so I’m now in the shop almost every day.
3/2-Meck burgers, don’t remember which group of folks were there. THIS IS 14 DAYS BEFORE THE FEVER STARTED.
3/6-work a couple hours at Lost Dog, G had already instituted incredibly thorough additional sanitation practices. Dinner at Town Run with 2 folks. *This is the day I posted that everyone needed to stop sharing bongs, joints, and pipes.
3/8 dinner at Kome with 1 person.
3/10 lunch at Maria’s with my dad
3/11 lunch at Kome with 1 person. (I had decided this was my last time eating out, including carry out, for the duration of this emergency.)
3/12 Close my store for the social good because there is absolutely no way I can keep it safely disinfected.
3/13 Stock up on groceries at Aldi.
3/14 Buy the penultimate thermometer at Rite Aid for $60. Attend Shepherdstown Shares meeting. Wash hands as soon as I walk in, maintain 3 foot distance.
3/15 afternoon: Took temperature with my fancy new overpriced thermometer. 99.5. (My normal is 97.6) Went into quarantine, wondering if it could be tooth infection returned.
3/16-3/20: call a couple times about testing but haven’t been around someone whose been out of country and no cough so no test. Fever between 99.4 and 100.7, usually the low end. 2 days (not consecutively) over 100, slept all day both those days.
3/21 still have fever, call again, tell them fever, slight chest tightness but I have seasonal allergies, and tell them someone I know is waiting on test results (which is technically true though I hadn’t actually been in contact with them). Go to drive thru test.
3/22-3/30: fever still hanging around. 1 day with it over 100. Generally between 99.2-99.8. Notice a bit of phlegm deep in the back of my throat and kind of on the back of my tongue and have post nasal drip but the Bradford pear outside my open windows just burst into bloom. Gargle A LOT of Listerine. Have a couple twinges in the infected tooth, so really suspect the infection is still present.
3/31: fever starts being consistently below 99.2.
4/2: Fever finally under 99 consistently. My water heater broke. Test results finally in (it only took 12 days).
Spoke with Doctor. It’s pretty much what it has been: isolation minimum 14 days after symptoms start but until symptoms have been gone for 3 days.
Question #1: If I’ve been isolating and my friend has been isolating and that person tests positive, is it at least okay for the 2 of us to spend time together if we are both positive?
Answer: It’s not ideal. The virus has been mutating but they don’t know the rate. It’s possible people could pass this back and forth.
Question #2: What is long enough to stay isolated? I read that the virus has been detected in people as much as 35 days after symptoms end, with a mean of 20 days.
Answer: latest scientific paper indicates a mean of 8 days with most people showing clear within 2.5 days which is why the CDC is saying 3 days symptom free AFTER 14 days of first symptom.
Question #3: Is there a retest after symptoms are gone?
Answer: Not at this time. There aren’t enough testing resources and PPE to do that.

MO-63GY-7PMT-DG6M = coat,  MO-7PMJ-DW5Q-XRWS = hat

I like the solo Lockjaw sculpt better, but if my boy hairball is there, got to have a ginger cat along. #heroclix #petavengers #inhumans https://www.instagram.com/p/B-cxiQEg8T_/?igshid=xidcsw434b6z

I like the solo Lockjaw sculpt better, but if my boy hairball is there, got to have a ginger cat along. #heroclix #petavengers #inhumans https://www.instagram.com/p/B-cxiQEg8T_/?igshid=xidcsw434b6z

I like the solo Lockjaw sculpt better, but if my boy hairball is there, got to have a ginger cat along. #heroclix #petavengers #inhumans https://www.instagram.com/p/B-cxiQEg8T_/?igshid=xidcsw434b6z

BHK has a co-worker has the virus. It appears that he got it from his mother, and spread it to his husband.

Thankfully, she has been teleworking from home with me rather than at her building with him. I don’t know what the odds are of the rest of the office having been contaminated.

I am fortunate to still have at least one degree of separation from the disease… If odds hold, I imagine that will change sometime in the next six months.

Friendly reminder-

I don’t suffer fools gladly on any day, doubly so on April 1.

No “practical jokes”, please. Not now. Something fun and funny that doesn’t hurt anyone, fine. Hurt someone’s feelings or scare people, or just lie about something very concerning to folks… Well, that firecracker is going to blow a few of your own fingers off, at the very least.

Keep it friendly, goofy and fun.

Don’t be mean. Now isn’t the time to be a dick.

Hey by the way while I’m thinking about it I’ve settled into a collection of extensions I really like for FireFox and I thought I’d share.

Auto tab discard – “discard” is the wrong word, don’t let this scare you off; this pauses background tabs so they’re not constantly running scripts or refreshing and eating up memory. You can set how long you want it to be before it “discards” (pauses) the tab, you can set certain tabs to not discard, you can tell it to not discard tabs with media playing; 100/10, HUGE HUGE speed and functionality improvements to my browser/system with this extension – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-discard/

UblockOrigin – adblocker – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

Mind the Time – tracks how long you’ve spent on the pages you’re on (so I can see that I’ve spent four hours and sixteen minutes on tumblr today and reassess my life) (i like the IDEA of productivity apps that prevent me from getting on sites I spend too much time on but if my computer ever tries to tell me what to do I get immediately fighty so this is just a mindfulness thing) – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mind-the-time/

Multi Account Containers – VERY GOOD LIFECHANGING PERFECT EXTENSION; opens tabs in isolation so you can log in as different users in the same window without logging out. Basically I can be logged into multiple gmail/tumblr/amazon accounts without having to open private windows and that’s Very Nice – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

Facebook Container – keeps FB from tracking you all over the place and isolates it into its own little biohazard container and good riddance – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-container/

Privacy Badger – EFF tool for blocking trackers – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-badger17/

Auto tab discard – “discard” is the wrong word, don’t let this scare you off; this pauses background tabs so they’re not constantly running scripts or refreshing and eating up memory. You can set how long you want it to be before it “discards” (pauses) the tab, you can set certain tabs to not discard, you can tell it to not discard tabs with media playing; 100/10, HUGE HUGE speed and functionality improvements to my browser/system with this extension – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-discard/

HTTPS everywhere – forces HTTPS connections everywhere they’re supported – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/https-everywhere/

Decentraleyes – blocks tracking from centralized content delivery hubs (google, yandex, etc.) – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes/

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this is oddly close to real

‘ard’ is a real suffix in the english language just like ‘ly’ or ‘ify’, it just isnt common enough for us to notice its usage. ‘ard’ means ‘too much’ or ‘too easily’

so ‘mustard’ is something that is ‘too pungent’, just as ‘wizard’ is someone who is too wise, ‘coward’ is someone too easily cowed, and ‘drunkard’ is someone too often drunk

strega nona, the grandma witch from italy her pot runneth over with magic pasta rest in peace tomie depaola❤️ https://www.instagram.com/p/B-ZMJefATzO/?igshid=dhp3j1w9c017

My current biome is :

Temperate Deciduous Forest

BREAKING NEWS: Maryland Governor Larry Hogan has put the state under a stay-at-home order as coronavirus cases surpass 1,400.
It goes into effect at 8PM MONDAY NIGHT. Will be enforced with violators facing misdemeanor charges.
NO MARYLAND RESIDENT should leave their home unless for essential job or essential reason (food, medicine, etc).

Fair enough. DC and VA should follow soon, if they haven’t already.

Thankful to delivery people for replenishment of supplies.