Uber Eats Delivery Driver

As I have mentioned before Rich delivers food for Uber Eats.


He started about a year ago as a way to supplement his social security. He could work when he wanted to and didn't really have to answer to anyone as long as he picks up the food and delivers promptly.


He's had weeks where he's been really busy,  getting food orders one after another, and weeks when he's been really slow and did a lot of sitting around waiting for orders to come in.

As you can imagine since the beginning of the pandemic and restaurants have been open for carry out only, he's been super busy. The orders come in two at a time and he's scrambling to keep up.

At the restaurants when he picks up the food  he has to wait outside in his car for them to bring the food out to him because they don't want people inside the restaurants and then when he delivers to the customer, he places the food on the porch and lets the customer know he has arrived.

He wears a mask and cleans his hands with hand sanitizer between every order and will wash his hands anytime he can get inside a restaurant to the bathroom, usually McDonalds.

People are extra grateful these days and have been leaving tips for him outside their doors along with tipping him on the Uber Eats App too.

This one is my favorite.

A hand cream and a $20 tip! The hand cream is really nice, too!

In other news, the school bus drivers have been leaving notes at the bus stops in our park. This one was at our corner.

We did a Zoom get together with my brothers and their wives. Nice but definitely not the same!

That's all for now. Hoping to have a back yard visit with Maxwell and Levi this weekend.

Until the next time stay safe and stay well.

Alternate Reality

Everything seems so surreal right now. I can't be the only one that feels that way, right?


My drive into work in the morning is literally all by myself for most of the way. I see maybe one or two cars going the other way but until I get into Ann Arbor city, there is no other traffic.


Yesterday I even stopped in the middle of the road to look at some beautiful deer that were grazing in a field not too far off of the road. I should have taken a picture! I had time to as there was no other cars on the road!

Work is so slow right now I go hours without anything to do!

I was supposed to be off next week but because I have a very unreliable, crappy  co-worker I am having to work after all! That's all I want to say about that!

We did manage to see Maxwell and Levi on Easter Sunday. They stayed in the backyard and we visited them from outside the fence at least 6 feet away!

That's Levi sitting in the corner!


The weather lately has been crazy! I drove to my brothers houses to deliver some traditional Italian Easter Bread that I make every year to them and it was hailing like crazy!

Yesterday I walked down to get our mail and got caught in another hail storm and tonight we are suppose to get 1-2 inches of snow! I hope they're wrong!


Our local Kroger store has one way aisles now. It's actually a great idea and if people actually followed the rules it's easy to keep your distance!

Speaking of following the rules. Yesterday about 1500+ cars drove to Lansing MI to protest the governors extreme stay at home order. The idea was to show up at the capitol building and just stay in your car. But people got out of their cars and walked around and mingled in groups and took group selfies and really just ended up looking like idiots!  Pretty ineffective because the governor got on TV later and pretty much said that people acting like that just risk having the stay at home order extended past the end of April! I hope not but it's not looking real good right now!


Finally, Maxwell and Levi got a new wagon from their other grandparents for Easter.

I cannot wait to hug and kiss them again!

That's all the excitement for now!

Until the next time stay safe and stay well!

Cleaning the China Cabinet

This China Cabinet was my grandmothers.

The other day I emptied out and cleaned everything, The middle shelf holds the tea set that I told you about in THIS post.

These are some other things I keep in there that have a special meaning to me;

These cow creamers belonged to my mom. I had one and found the other one underneath a bunch of magazines  in an end table when we cleaned out my dad's house.

These oil and vinegar carafes were my maternal grandmothers. I think they are depression glass.

This is the cake topper, champagne glasses and cake cutter from our wedding. The cake topper still has 43 year-old cake frosting on the bottom! Shauna and Brad used the champagne glasses at their wedding.

This is the souvenir we got for my parents from our honeymoon. It says Mom and Dad and the date 3/18/77 and on the back it says Thanks. We got one for Rich's parents also.

This is a small collection of miniature brass clocks that I collected many years ago. All except one are Bulova.

These are hand painted wine glasses I got for Christmas one year. I just love them.

 This is my mom and dads wedding picture. They were married on October 16, 1954. I have her dress and one day I'll do a post about it.

This beaded heart came from my now ex-daughter in law. I love it and miss her. 

This is a 5 minute hour glass that Shauna gave me for my birthday.

The bottom of the china cabinet just holds various souvenirs from places we've traveled or other things people have given us. The platter in the back is from a flea market. I just liked it and I'm pretty sure I only paid about $2 for it. I use it any time we have people over for a holiday.

A Little Break

I worked every day last week in pretty much a ghost town. Only one other person in the room with me and practically no one anywhere else.  Anyway, I'm off this week and I'm glad. I need a little break and down time!

Levi is better now and Maxwell was sick for a few days with a fever but he's better now too so hopefully they stay well!

I miss them!

This pair of geese were at the entrance to my work earlier this week.

As you can see, there is one egg in the nest. They were not happy to see me walking by either!

Later when I go t off both the geese and the nest were gone! I don't know if they abandoned it or if maintenance chased them away and covered the nest. Anyway, probably for the best.

Can't have them attacking everyone as they are trying to walk into work!

Rich and I took a walk on a trail yesterday and someone put a painted rock on this  plaque.

I thought about painting some rocks but I'm not very artistic!

That's pretty much it for now. I have a couple projects I plan on doing this week so I'm sure I will be telling you all about them soon!

Until then stay well and stay safe!

Moving Along

Well, things are moving along the best they can!  I think we will all come out of the other side of this a little more grateful for the freedoms we have and a little more conscious of germs!

My work is starting a rotating schedule of the administrative support employees. They have two teams, Maize and Blue (which just happens to be the school colors, go figure!)

These teams will alternate weeks working. I am on the Maize team so I'll be working next week and will be off the following week. We get paid for our weeks using a special Covid-19 fund for the first two weeks we are off and then we'll see what happens after that. Hopefully after 4 weeks things will be back to normal. Wishful thinking, maybe?

I went to the grocery store this morning. I know, but I had to.

I wore a mask. Only a handful of people in the store were wearing masks and a few people even gave me a funny look! Oh well, I'm not taking chances anymore. I washed down the handle of the cart really good, too. I didn't wear gloves though. I figured I can wash my hands but I can't wash my lungs, you know! Besides, I have diabetes so I have to be extra careful. Then when I got home I wiped everything I bought down with Clorox wipes.

This is the aisle that normally has toilet paper and paper towel.

Hey, they have to fill it with something, right? May as well be Easter baskets even if Easter is cancelled this year!

Shauna took Levi to the doctor this morning. He doesn't have strep or the flu or that dreaded virus so that's good. He's cutting two molars and has inflamed gums and a red throat. Poor baby. But I'm glad its nothing serious. My heart cannot take worrying about those grandbabies of mine!

We had to have our sweet Toby put to sleep yesterday. He had some kind of cancer in his stomach. We had been treating him with steroids and vitamin shots and anti nausea for a few months but last week he started going down hill very fast so we made the decision to not let him suffer anymore.

This was the anniversary gift I got Rich last week. Now every time I see it I have that song stuck in my head the rest of the day!

That's all the exciting news for now.

This weekend we are cleaning carpets! Fun!

Until the next time I hope you all stay well and safe!

More Random Stuff

I'm still working for however long that will last.  Driving into work these past few mornings has been pretty surreal. There's not a lot of  people on the road at 6:30 in the morning anyway but this week there is almost no one. Especially now that the governor has issued a stay at home order. It's a little freaky actually to be driving on a road all alone in the dark!




I miss my grandsons something fierce! We face-timed with them on Sunday and when I mentioned to Maxwell that I could see the smoke alarm on the ceiling above his head he wanted me to show him ours. So I had to turn the phone around and show him again and again and again... Three year olds have such a one track mind!


Rich went to Kr0ger this morning during their Senior hour, from 7-8 am. The point is supposedly to give seniors and people with compromised immune systems time to shop before the crowds come so they would have less exposure.


Ha! It was crazy crowded! More so than normal! So much for that idea! He did manage to get a 6 pack of paper towel though. No toilet paper though. We are going to be reduced to rags in a few weeks when our supply runs out!


Levi's been running a fever off and on the past few days. Shauna is going stir crazy being cooped in the house. Hopefully she can get out a little today! Brad is working from home so she should be able to.


I've got to get outside this weekend and take a hike in a state park or something. Rich told me that they closed the Sleeping Bear State Park in northern Michigan because all of the toilet paper and paper towel has been stolen! People are so ridiculous!


Hope you all are hanging in there ok. I am soooo looking forward to when this is all over. I have dreams of it being much better by Easter! Probably wishful thinking but that's where I'm at right now.


I'll let you know if anything exciting happens this weekend!


Until then..

Random Thoughts in my Head

Am I the only one who thinks the press sensationalizing  the COVD-1 virus has caused this  crazy closing down of everything-hoarding toilet paper- paper towel and boxed rice and canned soup- stay at least 6 feet away from me- wash your hands every 5 minutes- don't touch your eyes, nose, mouth or face thing that seems to be going on right now?

I mean, some of these precautions we should be doing all of time anyway!

Like,  don't you think that the media, when the reporting every half-hour of every day how many new COVD-19 cases have been diagnosed that they would also include flu, pneumonia and common cold cases, that were diagnosed,  too? Might put a little bit of perspective on things.

I'm still working every day. I work in healthcare and although my job isn't considered essential right now, I work in a place that doesn't have a lot of people. Especially the room I am in. Just me and two other people whose desks are about 15 feet apart!

I am loving the lack of traffic though!

One good thing about everybody staying home is my husband, who delivers for Uber Eats is really, really busy right now! Now HE needs to wash his hands all of the time because he's constantly opening restaurant doors!

I thought I would use this time stuck in the house to get some stuff organized but so far I only cleaned out my master closet and this shelf in our utility room that I keep rags and various stuff on.

That looks like this now.

Better anyway.

We are staying away from the grandkids right now. We usually visit on Sunday but are not going over there today! They have been isolating but Rich and I have been out and about. It's ok. We miss them but better to be safe than sorry later!

Our library is closed until at least April 5th.  I'm already 1/2 way through the last of the three books that I borrowed the last day they were open. I do have a couple books on my kindle so I'll have to read them. Maybe if I use the blue light setting it won't keep me from sleeping.

I can't wait for the weather to warm up!

That's all for this boring post! Stay safe and let's hope things all get back to normal soon!

Until the next time....