Sadie-f
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What a couple years. I have the (good?) fortune to live in an urban area that's weathered the repeated waves well, & the area is highly vaccinated. Downside, my area was also one of the very first epicenters, my boss and another colleague had both contracted the virus by April 2020. Our high population density makes it hard to keep a pandemic in check, and when a new variant hits, we're always first in line for it.
Anyway, how have folks here adapted? For me the first step was picking up guitar after 30 years of not playing, and I bought myself the Martin I'd always wanted before the serious rush hit our music stores.
I wrote some fiction in the first year of covid also.
I've designed & executed several electronics projects, mostly analog, one analog + digital.
Then obviously, I built a warmoth (& musikraft) electric, also pedal board and speaker cab. The second warmoth is in progress.
In early spring '21, not too long before I finally got vaccinated, GF and I started beekeeping. This has been super rewarding, and we're glad that our two hives look on track to surviving a colder than usual New England winter. We didn't harvest any honey last season, the girls needed all they'd made. I'm hopeful we can steal away some this year, and we're expanding to 5, maybe 6 hives.
The newest project has been making mead (again a resurrection of something I'd done many decades before). We plan to bottle a barleywine styled mead on Mar 15, a more wine-styled product that wants a longer bulk aging we'll probably bottle midsummer. We've been using raw honey made by our beekeeping guru dark and rich flavored.
Below, bees, hives in winter, and 2 batches of mead.
Anyway, how have folks here adapted? For me the first step was picking up guitar after 30 years of not playing, and I bought myself the Martin I'd always wanted before the serious rush hit our music stores.
I wrote some fiction in the first year of covid also.
I've designed & executed several electronics projects, mostly analog, one analog + digital.
Then obviously, I built a warmoth (& musikraft) electric, also pedal board and speaker cab. The second warmoth is in progress.
In early spring '21, not too long before I finally got vaccinated, GF and I started beekeeping. This has been super rewarding, and we're glad that our two hives look on track to surviving a colder than usual New England winter. We didn't harvest any honey last season, the girls needed all they'd made. I'm hopeful we can steal away some this year, and we're expanding to 5, maybe 6 hives.
The newest project has been making mead (again a resurrection of something I'd done many decades before). We plan to bottle a barleywine styled mead on Mar 15, a more wine-styled product that wants a longer bulk aging we'll probably bottle midsummer. We've been using raw honey made by our beekeeping guru dark and rich flavored.
Below, bees, hives in winter, and 2 batches of mead.