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[Mike M]

Our Governor here in Michigan gave the shutdown order as well, my wife
and I both had Dr's appointments (allowed), and it appears that nothing
is shut down, everyone thinks they are essential employees, it was
business as usual :) Daughter works in the ICU as an RN at the
University of Michigan, and talked to some of her friends at Beaumont
Hospital in Royal Oak,MI. She said things were getting very bad, and
that they were near capacity for the 8 hospitals that Beaumont owns, and
nearly out of ventilators, and negative pressure rooms. Stay safe folks.
I'll be catching up on some wood cutting today, before the mud season
hits on Friday.

Mike M

On 3/25/2020 8:22 AM, Jim Thomson wrote:
> Our governor gave the 2 week shut down order yesterday at 12. My industry is considered essential but the orders came down from HQ Montreal to stay at home. I have been working from home on and off for the past year. I have a nice desk, comfy chair and 34" monitor. No problems at all. My supplier is working full steam ahead so no real shut downs in my world. My wife also has a coffee roasting business that has been impacted as the restaurants have been closed. On the plus side, retail sales have been going through the roof. We are not very far from both Providence and Boston so access to good hospitals is not a worry. Our town is quiet on a busy day so not much has changed. Tractor news, my son and I got a clutch into the Cub Cadet 122. I changed to oil in the Unimog yesterday and started into my Ford 351 project.  I plan to get the yard re seeded with rye grass this week if the weather holds. Other project on the horizon included leveling a section of the yard that was recently clea
>   red. I am thinking I have to rent a skid steer and excavator to pull some stumps and level the ground. All we be well in a month or so, we just have to hang on.
>
> Jim Thomson
> Rehoboth, MA
>
>> On March 24, 2020 at 8:24 PM John Hall <jtchall at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Reading some of the replies, I forgot how rural some of you guys really
>> are. I live smack in the middle of Tobacco Road (referencing the
>> basketball tourney season we had to give up this year). The area is
>> formally know as the "Triangle". We have over 1.5 million people. As of
>> this evening, we are up to 150 cases of the virus. We are blessed with
>> some of the best hospitals in the nation (I'm about 15 miles from Duke).
>> Folks come here all the time for treatment of various "odd" health
>> issues. That said, we, like everyone else, are projected to run short on
>> supplies and medical care.
>>
>> So, other than moving my son home from college 7 weeks early, the only
>> thing different is practicing "social distancing" and keeping the
>> cupboard stocked up more than usual. The last one is kind of
>> complicated. Yeah some foods are hard to get, but suddenly adding a
>> teenage boy back at home has dang near doubled the amount of food
>> consumed here. We got takeout twice last week since all restaurants are
>> closed for dine-in---felt a little obligation to give folks some
>> business cause they are really hurting and folks are losing jobs. My dad
>> is in a re-hab center with a broken hip, I haven't been able to see him
>> for over a week, other than standing outside his window and talking on
>> the phone--I REALLY wish he was able to be at home right now.
>>
>> So far, only one county in NC has issued stay at home orders. Mine is
>> about 3rd on the number of virus cases and I think a higher percentage
>> of the population--so I'll be surprised if it doesn't happen this week.
>> Don't know if my work (machine shop) would be considered essential, we
>> don't do very much pharmaceutical work these days. Just have to take it
>> as it comes.
>>
>> Should I get stuck at home, hopefully I'll will be healthy enough to go
>> to the farm shop. I always have a backlog of stuff I can do there on
>> tractors and farm equipment. If nothing else there is plenty of
>> springtime work to get done, even some yard projects.
>>
>> John Hall
>>
>> On 3/23/2020 11:25 PM, Spencer Yost wrote:
>>> The trains reminded me to ask.  What other non-tractor activities are you folks involving yourselves with?   I mentioned my motorcycle.  Figured I should have it ready if I decided I need to self isolate on the Blue Ridge Parkway because I am stir crazy.
>>>
>>> Spencer
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>
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