Friday, September 24, 2021

Signs Of A Return To Normal

On Friday mornings for more than ten years I've attended a meeting that starts at 9:30 in the morning. Before March of 2020 the meetings were all in person. Then things shut down and we moved to Zoom. Two weeks ago we started offering the meeting in a hybrid format, with people attending whichever format they were most comfortable with. So far that seems to be about half and half.

Last week I was still getting things put away after vacation. It was easier to skip the commute time and fire up the computer a couple of minutes before the meeting started. This week I decided to show up at the physical location. After 18 months it was strange to allow for the commute time, and I almost didn't make it in time. 

Driving through residential streets, I noticed another sign that things are getting back to normal. Remember last spring when toilet paper was impossible to find? Somebody obviously found enough to decorate this tree and yard.

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  1. I just saw on TV that TP is becoming scarce again. Where is this house? Some of that TP may be salvageable.

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  2. Costco is back to limiting purchases. Better get your soon.

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  3. You know things are getting back to normal when the kids start toilet papering each others' yards again. Now that you mention it, I haven't seen any toilet papered yards in quite some time.

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    1. I haven't seen any TPd yards either. That's why this one stuck out so much.

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  4. Encouraging signs of things getting back to normal!

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  5. Its nice there is a bit of normal somewhere.

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  6. We saw on the news that there would be another TP shortage.

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    1. We're pretty stocked up, but maybe I should get more and add to the problem :-)

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  7. Waste not, want not. I'm surprised there weren't folks salvaging. LOL

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    1. I think it was the property owner cleaning up. He didn't look too happy about it.

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  8. I don't know about toilet paper, but in my neck of the woods there's talk of upcoming shortage in various products. The rise in prices is also quite worrying.

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    1. I agree with you about the rise in prices. I have a price point that I don't like to go over for produce. Today just about everything was higher than that.

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  9. Hopefully things will get back to normal soon.

    God bless.

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  10. That's funny about the toilet paper. A year ago people would have been picking it off the tree!

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    1. I suspect that last year the man would have had all kinds of help cleaning up.

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  11. OK, I snickered!
    Zoom sure has changed the way we do things. Thankfully, in many cases. I just hope we don't have to go back into lockdown. The school numbers are creeping.

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  12. I'm ready for the new norm, the old norm, any norm Kathy!
    It is Spring down under in Australia and we should be out of lockdown by mid October.
    Toilet supplies still a bit low, but manageable.
    Take care
    Peggyxxx

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    1. I will cross my fingers that your lockdown will end as scheduled.

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  13. Lucky you! Just heard in the news a couple night ago that Costco was running out of toilet paper. Arrghh...

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    1. I usually buy my TP at Aldi, and last time I was there they had a good supply.

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