List Day: COVID-19 Cause and Effect
- We used to use paper towels for everything...
It became undesirable to shop at Costco for a couple months...
Our paper towel supply ran low...
We were forced to purchase name-brand paper towels in the grocery store whenever they weren't sold out...
We found that these paper towels don't have the option to tear at 1/2 size so they're overkill for double duty as napkins...
We bought napkins so we don't waste full-size paper towels...
We bought weighted napkin trays so they don't blow away on our screen porch...
We are now a napkin family.
- I used to get enormous, fresh-baked bagels for breakfast at Safeway twice a week...
During the early days of quarantine, Safeway was regularly out of stock on everything...
I started shopping at the slightly-further Giant...
Giant only sells tiny bagels in bags of 6 (2 of which will go moldy or get too hard to eat)...
I am now hungry for lunch at 10:45 AM rather than 12:00 PM and snack more frequently throughout the day.
- Our house used to be quiet in the mornings...
Rebecca installed a birdfeeder in the backyard as a new activity to spice up endless toddler mornings...
We now have all sorts of squirrels, grackles, catbirds, blue jays, cardinals, robins, and downy woodpeckers hanging out in our yard...
A downy woodpecker taps on our drainpipe right outside Maia's window in the morning between 6 and 7:30 AM...
I now stick my head out the window every morning between 6 and 7:30 AM like the caricature of an angry old man, waving the woodpecker away so Maia remains sleeping.
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