Things to do when you need to stay home (that’s just about everybody):
- Dig through closet for ‘old’ games and toys, play cards with real cards,
- get better at cooking,
- see if your Library (including schools, community college or university) has downloadable or streaming content (i e. e-books),
- on-line movies,
- YouTube songs and videos,
- talk with friends via phone or Internet,
- collect and write down family stories (e.g. “When I was a child”, or “Granma & Granpa told me …”),
- do and teach arts and crafts,
- creative writing,
- “camp out” in the living room telling ‘camp-fire’ stories sitting around a cozy flashlight,
- learn meditation,
- label, sort, scan-to-disk/CD if you have equipment, and tell about family photos,
- find and take free on-line courses
- (now that it is a bit late), www.Ready.gov for disaster preparedness
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Free books online
If you are looking for downloadable books, you can go to "project Gutenberg" site. It contains over 60,000 books (for which U.S. copyright has expired). You can find all the classics there. And it is free of ads.
The address is : http://www.gutenberg.org
Enjoy...but only after you have read everything from Big Closet.
Deen
And...
Spring cleaning - Those pesky cobwebs seem to get everywhere.
Work in the garden (weather permitting and if you have one...)
Samantha
I've plenty to stay busy around the house
Catching up on writing is a big one I plan on doing during this crazy time. Although a good long over due deep cleaning of the house is on my list too :)
As Barb jokes, I do hack out a tune once in a while on a small handful of stringed instruments. So I can work on knocking a bit of the rust off with those.
Bought a pair of lap harps from Goodwill's online auction that I tuned up and will be sending to the two granddaughters that were here over Christmas break. These are a really great first instrument for a young kid, if you are ever looking for something to give to a grandkid to play. They come with sheets that lay under the strings to guide the child through different songs.
If your interested here's a link to the company that makes them;
https://www.lap-harp.com/melodyharp.htm
My two granddaughters loved playing the one I had so much it was causing fights between them.
We the willing, led by the unsure. Have been doing so much with so little for so long,
We are now qualified to do anything with nothing.