So what are you doing these days to pass the time while social distancing?

[FM123]

While eating every thing is sight is a lot of fun, I am thinking I should do more than that....

[MLAA]

1. Playing FreeCell and Wordzee! on iPad

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Netflix and Amazon Prime and Hulu and vacuuming.

[elleng]

3. Watching birds!

Thankfully, 'my' osprey have returned, so I get to watch and listen to the pair, at 'my' river.

[WhiteTara]

5. Do you live by the mouth of the Little River?

[elleng]

7. No, along the Patuxent.

Not 'my' pic.

[WhiteTara]

21. Those look like the osprey

that live at the mouth of the Little River in northern CA. We have lots of hawks and the balds come here to winter.

I should say that looks like the scenery, not the birds themselves.

[elleng]

23. May be! I'm in southern MD.

Hawks and balds here too.

[WhiteTara]

4. I had a baking spree.

I made yoghurt, banana bread, dinner bread and cinnamon bread. It was fun. I've got a few recipes stacked up so that I can make some things that I got ingredients for ever so long ago and never had time to do a single thing. But now, except for the sickness and death and probable abject poverty, I have a long time dream. I can't leave the house, I have no business or job and 24 hours a day to do.

Bliss.

[Phoenix61]

11. I'm making yogurt tomorrow.

It’s so much better than store bought. I’ve got strainers I’ve had for years that turn out a really thick Greek yogurt.

[WhiteTara]

22. what kind of strainers?

[Phoenix61]

24. It's a plastic cone shaped frame with

very, very fine fabric. One fits perfectly in a quart yogurt tub. I’m really careful with them because I can’t find them anywhere.

[LiberalLoner]

6. Stuff like this

https://pin.it/1Guog1m

[Maraya1969]

14. I saw that pin! And then traced it to here; which is something I want to try.

http://artipelagoteacher.blogspot.com/2013/04/beautiful-banyan-trees.html?m=1

[LiberalLoner]

16. Huh? My painting is completely different than that....?

[Maraya1969]

17. Oh I didn't know you painted that. It's lovely. I was just saying I saw it in my meanderings

through Pinterest and then I came upon a bunch of other ones that are easy but colorful. You just make the Banyan tree black and then use bright colors to fill in.

[LiberalLoner]

18. Oh, okay,cool, I understand! Art is a great way to pass time!

[VarryOn]

8. Fox's Legomasters have inspired my son and me...

We have been having our creative moments....He's 7 and seems to have an engineering bent. Makes a father proud!

And after his bed time, well, his mom and I havent been bored. I'll leave it at that! Lol

[jimfields33]

26. I love legomasters

It’s a fun show. So glad to see your son showing interest in engineering. Very important for society. So a new sibling perhaps? Lol.

[Harker]

9. Working in public.

Wishing that people who show up at the pharmacy where I work would not come in daily for junk food and for candy.

[customerserviceguy]

10. We checked out

five DVDs apiece of TV series that we haven't seen. We're in season three of House of Cards, and after we're through with the series, we have five seasons of Veep.

Not a bad way to pass the time. Also, we have a load of DVDs in the man cave, some of which we haven't seen in years. And we have some VHS tapes, I think I have an old machine we can hook up to the TV.

[jimfields33]

27. House of cards is awesome!

Last season was blah. But they didn’t have a choice.

[Midnight Writer]

12. YouTube is amazing. Watching concerts from decades ago, foreign bands, current music festivals.

I have watched parts of the New Orleans Jazz Festival (multiple years), the North Sea Jazz Festival, The Beale Street Music Festival, live shows from Eliza Carthy to vintage Cactus to Traffic to Be-Bop Deluxe. ( Did you know Bill Nelson has a hundred albums out? Neither did I, but you can listen to them free on YouTube)

All free and at the touch of my finger. Sound is usually good, too. I can play it through my stereo speakers and it sound great.

What an amazing service.

[Dem2theMax]

13. I'm waiting. Waiting to get some energy back

so I can spring clean one end of this house to the other.

Figures it would take a pandemic to get me to clean the house. I've run out of every other excuse now.

[NNadir]

15. Working, now from home. n/t.

[DFW]

19. Spending a lot of time on the phone.

They are pretty much as locked down as I am. Always good for keeping my language skills up anyway. I spoke on the phone with my two daughters in English yesterday, and I usually check in with the office in Dallas for a few minutes once a day. Other than that, I never use English during the day. Yesterday, I spoke on the phone in Dutch, German, French, Catalan, Spanish and Russian. No one from Sweden, Italy or Ticino called, but it's all good.

[FM123]

20. Wow you guys are amazing!

While I had good intentions - I found myself spending more and more time eating instead of reading etc. Today I will do great things! Okay maybe not great things but things that don't require chewing. Let's touch base again during the week and see what interesting things we are up to then, shall we?

[gratuitous]

25. Playing a computer game called Fate

It's from 2007, but I really enjoy its endless variety and I've set up little rules for myself to make it more challenging. I usually get killed when the game ambushes me with about a dozen monsters, and by my personal rules that means I have to start over.

I also have an extensive collection of DVDs and Blu Rays, and I like revisiting favorite movies. Sometimes it's like checking in with an old friend, especially when I remember where, when or with whom I first saw a movie.

Also reading. I just finished Christopher Plummer's memoir "In Spite of Myself." A lively read, sometimes gossipy, sometimes serious. There's a Walter Brueggeman book I need to finish (25 pages or thereabouts) so I can start reading it again.

[Doreen]

28. Watching all of the episodes of "My Cat From Hell.,"

[Brother Buzz]

29. I fired up my forge

Everyone avoids me when I burn that stinky coal, plus I hear it naturalizes that virus thingy.

[Lars39]

30. i'm organizing all my recipes.

Stuff I already had plus the damn pinterest recipes. Trying to weed out the ones with high calories (you hear that Pioneer Woman?!) and ones with umpteen hundred ingredients that I won't ever make.