How We Are Sheltering In Place

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Apart from going nuts, we are finding ways to keep busy.  Without a gardener, there is plenty to do.  I cut a little grass, clean a little pool, do some inside housekeeping as well.  Even though we are not having public contact I am still doing my 10km brisk walk/run each day.  A couple of pounds have melted off which is better than doing the gym.  There are lots of tips and tricks for doing exercise at home.  I also do planking, seated planking, and pushups.  

There is more than enough food in the cupboard and it's a chore to keep away from it.  We do our grocery shopping during the senior (arghh that's hard to say) hours from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.  The same goes with pharmacies and banks.  

At the bank, we have to stand outside and it is one person into the bank and one into the ATM area if they are separate.  A bank employee stands guard with antibacterial wearing a mask and instructs everyone to maintain the six-foot rule. 

Supermarkets are pretty much the same but they are going to the extreme on cleaning the carts.  Many shoppers are using masks and disposable gloves.  We are using masks in all public areas as I believe it worked in China apart from their shelter in place.

This is where I am doing my exercise now.  I changed this week as the route I was on had too much litter.  This is going up in the hills but it is less stressful as the litter really burns me up.  As you can see in the picture, people keep distance as well as go around each other if and when we cross paths.

In Monterrey, all public parks, plazas and open markets are now closed.   You can see that when you get off the bus at major transfer points from other lines as well as the subway, you go through inflated tunnels where you are disinfected.  Our state, regardless of the federal government, is taking this very seriously.

The kitchen took quite a long time to get remodeled.  We only allowed one worker to do the job.  We took his temperature every day (along with ours) and asked him some basic questions about his home, wife and kids.  Working with concrete and block is always a mess but we got the house back in order as of yesterday.  Lots of dusting, mopping, vacuuming and touch up.  Cement flies when you're chopping it with an ax and chipping the old tile.  We did tile over tile using a special adhesive but you have to help it stick by chipping the bottom layer.

New tile, appliances, and the quartz countertop.  It may not seem like a big deal to those of you north of the border but for us, it's truly luxurious.  Shows you how we each take certain things for granted.  But it's done and we will enjoy it until the time comes to move.

We had received an email from our resort south of here saying they were closing.  I was insistent on calling them to see why, if we are landowners there, why we couldn't come down with the rv.  We called today and they have shut down all the services but there are people who live there fulltime.  No pools, tennis, clubhouse, the internet turned off to deter gathering, no water in public areas, and so on.

We got permission from the manager to park away from all services as long as we are self-contained.  We may take the rv out.  I have wanted to test drive it since I turned the hitch upside down to give a little more height off of the rear end of the SUV.  Sound fun?  Now the rains are coming.