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RE: In your locality – what’s it really like?
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Piwin
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 RE: In your locality – what’s it... (in reply to mark indigo)
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Are you in lockdown? What are the rules there?
Are you talking to me or to  ?
For Madrid, let's see, the rules keep changing so tbh I'm not sure I'm up to date on all the specifics. Tbh I've probably been "overdoing" it, in the sense that there are a lot of things I just don't do anymore even if they're probably allowed now. Rules we've had for a long time include things live a curfew (11-6, just got moved up an hour so now it's 10-6), restrictions on how many people can be in certain indoor spaces at the same time, etc. But everything is open during the day and you can go walk about and all that. A new restriction they've added is that you can't have people over, except, apparently, if you live alone.
There are areas in full lock-down, with restrictions similar to what you're describing, but it's done per health district. Right now I think there's 1 neighbourhood in Madrid ciudad that's closed off like that (fortunately, not the one I live in). Most of the full lock-down areas are outside of the city.
Stay safe up there!
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Date Jan. 26 2021 13:49:02
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ernandez R
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From: Alaska USA
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RE: In your locality – what’s it... (in reply to rombsix)
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Nice. In the US it was found shocking that church choirs had almost 100% viral transmission so the shower curtain makes sense, or rather it’s better then nothing and shows consideration of others and a determination to keep living. Olé
Listened a handful of times whilst prepping some bomber moose ribs to bake, spices and thick Salk on the tops, 30 min broil then three hours covered with water to slow bake, later into the BBQ out in the porch for some carbon and sauce induced goodness.
Hands told me last night hat they would need to take a day or two off :/
English Covid varent has been found in our state so there is some concerns even if our infection rate is 10% what it was four weeks ago, it’s not over yet by a long shot, history tells us this is true. Our state, Alaska has the highest per capital vaccine rate in the US: we have less then one million souls in all...
Say, should start a new, I am going to... after I get vaccinated thread. Travel is high on the list that’s for sure, had planed to visit a few luthiers before all this started: ED, nor cal, Tom down in Tx... starting to get excited about getting out!
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Date Jan. 28 2021 21:05:37
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BarkellWH
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From: Washington, DC
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RE: In your locality – what’s it... (in reply to Escribano)
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Then you have the horrible spectre of vaccine passports, so you can go on holiday. A British obsession, because the weather there is really crap.
I have heard the idea of "vaccine passports" bandied about, but I don't see the necessity for them when the already universally recognized "International Certificate of Vaccination" (ICV) the yellow booklet approved by the World Health Organization, is available. Marta and I have so many vaccines noted in our ICV booklets from our Foreign Service career and assignments that you would think we look like pin cushions.
Marta received her second dose of Pfizer vaccine today, and I received my first. We not only received a CDC card noting the vaccinations, they were also noted in our ICV booklets at our request for use in future foreign travel. I would hope that other countries recognize the ICV notations on the Covid-19 vaccines.
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Date Feb. 24 2021 21:19:54
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BarkellWH
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From: Washington, DC
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RE: In your locality – what’s it... (in reply to Richard Jernigan)
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A couple of weeks after I get my second shot I plan to celebrate by getting a haircut. It will have been more than a year since the last one. My hair is a few inches over my shirt collar in back, longer than it was in 1969. I can pin it back, but it's not really a decent pony tail. Checking out Ricardo's shoulder-length "do" I detect years of dedication.
Marta received her second dose of Pfizer vaccine today, and I received my first. Neither one of us has been to a barber/hairdresser for this entire year of lockdown. Even when they opened up with protocols to be observed, we did not want to take the chance. So we have learned (after a fashion, so to speak) to cut our own hair and have done so three times.
We found the hardest part is cutting the sides, as they never come out even. One side appears a bit shorter, so you cut a little more off the other side in an attempt to even them up, but you invariably cut it a bit shorter than the first side, and so it goes until it is all shorter than anticipated.
Bill
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Date Feb. 24 2021 21:30:35
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Richard Jernigan
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From: Austin, Texas USA
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RE: In your locality – what’s it... (in reply to Escribano)
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ORIGINAL: Escribano
What does moose taste like compared to beef steak?
My first taste of moose was at age 11 on our 12-day road trip from Oklahoma City to Anchorage, Alaska. North of Edmonton, Alberta the pavement ended at Lesser Slave Lake. We stopped for dinner and spent the night at a big comfortable log building. The establishment was owned by a French Canadian, who also worked as chef. The main course that evening was a delicious moose meat pie. The crust was thick and flaky. The filling was seasoned like an American pot roast, the meat in bite size chunks. The chef, dressed in flannel shirt, "tin" pants and logger boots served it, along with an account of the hunt the day before when he bagged the moose. It was midsummer.
When I was in Alaska in October and December of 2018, locally raised reindeer was at least as common on the menu as beef in Anchorage and points north. Compared to moose it was mild but flavorful.
Some of my memories of eating moose are not especially fond. My Anchorage Junior High School home room met in the cafeteria. When we saw a moose carcass hanging in the kitchen in the morning, we had hamburgers for lunch at the drugstore across the street.
In the depth of winter there were miles-long stretches of the Alaska Railroad where the snow formed vertical walls six or eight feet high on either side of the track, with just enough room for the train to pass through.
If a moose was on the track in such a stretch, the train crew had no choice but to kill it and load the carcass into the baggage car. By the time the train arrived in Anchorage the carcass was likely to be frozen. It would be donated to one of the schools in town.
In mid-winter the moose were half starved, the meat was dry and tough, and it tasted very strongly of the spruce and fir foliage the moose had been subsisting on. There were often plentiful bone splinters from the moose's encounter with the train.
I'm sure ernandezR's preparation was far, far better than public school moose!
While we visited a half dozen families of my ex-wife's cousins in Norway, at one excellent dinner we were served "elk" roast and gravy. That's what they call moose in Norway. It was flavorful, tender and delicious. Its flavor and texture were different from beef, but not "gamy" like a Texas white tail buck in late season.
That visit was in midwinter. The moose had wandered into an apartment building in the northern edge of Oslo, and could not be safely herded out of the building. Its panicked attacks were dangerous, so the police had to kill it. The story made the morning paper. I have no idea why it was not half starved like Alaska moose at that time of year. We didn't ask our hosts how they came by the meat--but they seemed to be well connected.
RNJ
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