Nope. My life hasn't changed much. I value my personal space anyway so I try to keep my distance from people naturally. And we dont go many places in normal life. We like being home with each other. I do need my roots done and my ends cut, but I keep my hair long anyway so having it longer than normal isnt an annoyance to me. I am looking forward to people being less on edge and less rude in general when the restrictions are lifted. And I am looking forward to being able to buy stuff I need when I need it,not when the hoarders run out of money.

Wow, I love all the crafts you all made! Right before Thanksgiving I started working on Christmas decorations for our home. I crafted a table centerpiece, 3 swags and 2 potted 3' Christmas trees, using Dollar Tree mini Christmas trees. They were fairly cheap to make and I think they turned out great.

LOL! PM, the closest I have to the grange is the black family reunion cookbook, as in not at all like the grange. But there could be a recipe in there. i didn't think to look. Recently, I got a compilation reprint the suffragist's cookbook, maybe a bit like the grange but urban, which might also have one. I think all my community cookbooks are Jewish, which would have plenty of eggs, but no béchamel with turkey because the great rabbis had a vote a couple thousand years ago (I forget the year) and by one vote decided that milk and birds had to be at separate meals even though birds don't have mother's milk, and the whole reasoning for separating them at all is that it would be cruel to kill mama cow's calf and then cook it in her milk. (The original prohibition was actually referring to a pagan thing where they did just that, and was really about not doing pagan things, but continued on the kindness to cows (goats, sheep, etc.) policy.)

I'm working on veggies now, but I remembered I have a large clay loaf pan that's probably the right size. The recipe only uses the lid for rising (hello tea towel). I want to try it, though I know it won't be as pretty. I make good tasting baked good, but rarely pretty... I had to look up little red hen. How a propos! I was thinking Henny Penny, but hopefully neither the dough nor the sky will fall. Then I thought Probable Possible, bur she's a black hen who's unable to postulate how. Good story! But what kind of friends are those who won't help? You'd be welcome to nosh even if you were just kibbitzing, That helos too. ;)