school closing order, fence repairs
Pandemic news
Today Governor Jay Inslee ordered all schools closed to slow the spread of COVID-19. Inslee is a science nerd, and he's listening to public health scientists, rather than economists who think the disruption to business from a quarantine would be too great.
So, today was the last school day for "T" for several weeks. I hope he doesn't miss his friends too much.
Fence
I worked on the fence repairs again. The ends of most of the fence rails are rotten to various degrees, so I cut off the top ends.
I also joined a piece of fence post to the top of a post that I had cut too short. It wasn't a measurement mistake; I had planned to mount the fence post with a concrete block with a metal fork. But the I couldn't get the concrete block down deep enough because I discovered another concrete block buried there. I switched to a mounting spike, which needs more post.
Pre-quarantine report: seven outside stops: T to school, post office, Safeway (good social distancing practices there), T from school, Fred Meyer (fair social distancing practices), Safeway (again), pharmacy (drive-through).
Announcement from the governor
Inslee expanded his order to close all K-12 public and private schools. Every district throughout the state of Washington will close for the next six weeks. He also announced activity restrictions for all statewide public and private universities, colleges, community colleges and technical schools, private career schools and apprenticeship training programs.
Inslee also announced two further executive orders expanding on orders from earlier this week. The first extends the ban on events of 250 or larger beyond the Puget Sound region to the entire state. The second expanded Tuesday's restrictions on visitors and protocols to nursing homes and assisted living facilities to include adult family homes and waived certain statutory requirements for long-term care workers.
"Inslee announces statewide school closures, expansion of limits on large gatherings" - Office of the Governor.