Lets follow the SCIENCE. The vaccine is here. Age is only one factor in receiving it--job factors heavily. Immunity from this vaccine and having recovered from COVID is unknown as this is all to soon. The other saving grace on the horizon is a treatment. The Washington crowd getting ill before the election all received the new treatment that is in clinical trials right now. It's out of the Lab my youngest works for. The problem is TIME. It is still in clinical trials--so far they are getting fabulous results but safety says finish the trials. Once the treatment is in place and the vaccine is like seasonal flu people will be treated...things will go back to full normal. WHEN will this all be firmly in place is anyone's guess. We are living in the middle of a time of learning about something NEW. I would not personally put huge amounts of money down on travel that cannot be recovered until the treatment is available and I have not heard the timeline on the trials. YOU may well be safe but that does not mean venues are open, travel is as it was. I would like to know who this 50% of "medical workers" are. People you cannot read a stat like that and not ask to see THE SPECIFICS of the survey! If they are polling uneducated, minimum wage earners who work as nursing assistants, personal care assistance, home health aids then yes I believe it. Many of them truly believe in the paranoia of chips being put in these vaccines. It is also true this is very fast for a vaccine to be developed. It can take DECADES for the medical ramifications of drugs on the human body to appear. It is for sure a gamble of a certain degree. How much of a gamble, well what options at this point do we have but to trust in 2021 vaccine development is to a point we are safe when they tell us we are.

trying to catch up. Amy, how do you fertilize your citrus? I have a citrus (can't remember if it's lime or lemon) that a sweet friend gave to me over a year ago. I repotted it and put it outside last spring and brought it indoors. It looks traumatized, but is still alive. I'm skipping through all the herb and tea information. I love tea. I love herbs, but I simply don't have time to think about it too much right now. I found a macrame owl in an antique shop about 4 years ago. It's hanging in my hall right now. I'll take a pic and come back and edit this post with it. Amy, I hope you and Ron are feeling better! Lynn, I use jiffy seed starter when I don't use the peat pellets. Danny, beautiful pics! Larry, I'm so sorry about your little baby. You must miss him so much. Hazelnuts....I like them too. I have to laugh when I hear them mentioned, though. In an episode of Portlandia, the chickens are fed a "diet of sheep's milk, soy, and hazelnuts". Local hazelnuts. It's funny that your hazelnuts are from Oregon, Danny. Portlandia...Oregon. It's my favorite right after the AC Repair Man and the No Grocery Bag ones. Makes me LOL. Rebecca, I saw that episode too! I would like to try to make those tomato cages as well! The broccoli I started a few days ago is popping up. I stared 36 pellets of cabbage tonight. Work has been nuts. Nothing like reinventing your job. I'm super tired. Thanks, Covid19. Oh, HU/Rick continues to make great progress on the greenhouse. I still want to catch up on the other new threads, but probably won't tonight.

For those who seem to be having difficulties accessing that link, I am also not a subscriber but the free "trial subscription" window that pops up on my screen is optional. There is a 'x' in the upper right hand corner that if you click on it, the trial subscription window goes away and the article is free to be read. btw, in the pre-Covid days, the Northwest Flower and Garden show in Seattle was the second largest garden show in the country. And was always held in February. And much like Chelsea, the focus was on display gardens created by local designers filled with flowering plants. And yes, using greenhouses to force the plants into early bloom is standard operating procedure. Garden shows would not function without them!! Because the NWF&G show is held indoors in our convention center and attracts thousands of visitors over its 5 days, it will not be held this year. Last year, the event was held just before the concerns about Covid became so widespread....it snuck in just under the wire :-)

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