Quarantine update #3 and some replies

Hello everyone,  it feels good to be blogging again.  I know I need some routine in my day and this is a routine activity that I’ll enjoy doing.  

Today was more mask sewing.  I cut out 20 from a different pattern and did some chain sewing of them today.  I hope to finish them tomorrow and deliver them to City Hall.  

Today’s work above 

Yesterday’s finished masks, after laundering - I think there are 24

In the kitchen,  I made a salad 

And sliced lettuce and tomatoes to add to the sandwich ingredients box that we usually have in the fridge.  

Supper was a change from the 2 week menu.  We had leftover turkey lasagne from yesterday soo we had that with California vegetables and another 1/2 recipe of focaccia bread.  

I’m missing my grandchildren.  Today,  we had a yard visit with 3 of them and a FaceTime visit with 2 of them.  That helped a lot ❤️



 Replies - about the protection level of masks,  I cannot vouch.  But I do know our local hospital has been requesting them for several weeks and they want them 4 layers thick.  Our city also wants them and asked they be at least 2 layers thick.  

I did find this online but I don’t know if it is absolute truth 

About Jo Ann York,  I’ve never seen any more information or books from her after she did the cookbook and was featured in several magazines in the late 70s and early 80s.  I’ve done several internet searches looking for her and never found anything for sure but I did find an obituary for a woman by the same name, same age group and same geographical area who died of cancer.  I just don’t know.  

Lejmom- I feel the same way about blog friends- you are  like faraway family and  good friends.  

❤️ Rhonda 

Stay safe at home 🏡

Quarantine update #2

Hello everyone 

I’ve been sewing masks today.  There are many free patterns online and I’m not sure which pattern is best.  

I’ve sewn about 20 masks in the past week and have given some to our children and my husband has been wearing one when he does errands.  

He likes the style with the elastic loops around the ears and that bottom orange mask is his favorite and it has been laundered.  I’m glad it washed so well as  the masks need to be laundered after every wearing.  

Our local hospital asked for home sewn masks about 2 weeks ago and today, our city manager asked for masks for essential employees.  So I cut out about 20 more masks and am in the middle of sewing them. 

They all have the chevron print flannel on the inside to be soft on the face and I tried to pick darker, not feminine prints as I know many of the essential city workers will not want floral prints.  

My husband worked in his garden and picked some spinach and one strawberry. 

The spinach will be for supper and I ate that lone strawberry, it was very good! 

Supper will be turkey lasagna, a half recipe of focaccia bread and spinach.  

I boiled eggs and they will be nice on top of salad and for egg sandwiches.  

I saved the water that the eggs boiled in.  When cool,  it is good water for plants.  Some of the calcium and minerals leach out of the shells and act food for the plants.  

After I took this photo,  I decided I should put away those paper napkins.  My husband and I use cloth napkins and we have paper napkins when visitors are here,  but nobody will be visiting for a good while.   

That’s the highlights of today - 

 

Hope you all are well and coping OK with this isolation. 

 ❤️ Rhonda