Well, I'm all caught up and thoroughly concerned.
Kentucky has been having multiple deaths every day now. One day we lost 11(don't remember if I posted that). Thankfully the past 4 days or so we have only had around 90-100 new cases each day. We still have fewer than a thousand cases as of yesterday. Kentucky is effectively closed. We are not supposed to travel. Period. And outsiders are only allowed in for a particular list of reasons, or must quarantine for 14 days and then follow our social distancing orders. We have a couple nursing home cases. An amazon distributer was shut down over a positive case and disinfected.
We picked up all of the feed order that had come in, but we are waiting on the next shipment for the rest of the order. Apparently 3 vans crammed with people pulled in to the feed shop asking for directions to Daniel Boone National Forest. Our property is not *in* the National Forest, but our forest is the same forest. All that exists between us and the National Forest are a couple small country roads and imaginary property lines. The people were from New York. Feed shop guy told them the forest is closed(the camp grounds and such are, but IDK how the actual forest could be closed, people live in there.
) Anyway, lately I have been concerned about inexperienced backwoods campers spreading into our forest and property.
There were loud drunken voices screaming obsceneties down by the main road the other night. Could hear them shouting and make out some words, mostly cussing. Sounded like more than 1 voice.
Sirens have become MUCH more common. Our poor fire department is being run RAGGED with these city folk setting campfires stupidly. The local department is home response, volunteer only, and has only 11 members. Eleven. Police seem way more present on the road. As it is still before most leaves, we can still see the road from our hill. It seems almost every time I look out to the road I see a cop cruise by. VERY unusual for Kentucky. Road Law and Order isn't such a thing here outside of the big cities(and even in them really).. "good enough for government" out here is said as "good enough for Kentucky driving!". "Kentucky motorcycles" are common(1 headlight), people drive ATVs and side by sides and tractors on the main roads cuz, well, why not?
None of our family members are coming here, tho our governer is decent enough to allow it, saying frequently "If you want to come here from another state and ride it out with your family that is alright, but quarantine yourself for 14 days and then follow social distancing. But we cannot be allowing 2 day trips." Our families remain stubborn in their city homes.
We have been staying busy with projects around here. I'm rearranging some furniture in the kitchen and upgrading the boa constrictor into a larger enclosure. She has outgrown her current enclosure and is starting to crush the plants in there. After that I think the plan is to focus on garden stuff. Going to start some seeds today, plant the onion starts, and put up a new electric net fence we bought to try. It is supposed to stop chickens so we are hoping we can use it as a garden perimeter. The orange construction fencing we used last year is destroyed by chickens, UV light, and a puppy who didn't like to be on the other side of the barrier from me.
I hope you all are well.
Sorry for your loss Scott
