Month: April 2020

A Way to Help …

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Are you looking for a way to help out during the Coronavirus criss. If you have a sewing machine your can pitch in and make desperately needed facemasks for healthcare workers.

Northport High School teacher Robin O’Neill-Gonzales’ and her Fashion Club, Girl Scouts and friends in the community are coming together to make 1,000 beautifully crafted handmade masks by 4/20 to be donated to Huntington & VA Hospitals. Want to help? Text (631) 398-0061.

Example of Facemask.

Any style of Facemask is welcome, but if you are not an experienced sewer Robin recommends the Hobby Lobby pattern as the easiest to follow. This Hobby Lobby link will take you to a Youtube video with easy to follow instructions.

Sad News

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Carol McManus, a long time aid in the Northport HS time-out room, passed over the weekend.  Carol also worked as a one to one aid Special Education aid at the high school. She was much loved and the students she worked with called her “Grandma.” 

Carol is survived by her daughter, Trish Hawkins, who works at Northport Middle School. Due to the Coronavirus funeral home viewing is limited to immediate family only.   

We Need to Laugh

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Laughing is sometimes the best medicine. These one-liners add a little levity for all of us in isolation.

•Half of us are going to come out of this quarantine as amazing cooks. The other half will come out with a drinking problem. 

•I used to spin that toilet paper like I was on Wheel of Fortune. Now I turn it like I’m cracking a safe. 

•I need to practice social-distancing from the refrigerator. 

•Still haven’t decided where to go for Easter —– The Living Room or The Bedroom 

•PSA: every few days try your jeans on just to make sure they fit. Pajamas will have you believe all is well in the kingdom. 

•Homeschooling is going well. 2 students suspended for fighting and 1 teacher fired for drinking on the job. 

•I don’t think anyone expected that when we changed the clocks we’d go from Standard Time to the Twilight Zone 

•This morning I saw a neighbor talking to her cat. It was obvious she thought her cat understood her. I came into my house, told my dog….. we laughed a lot.  

•So, after this quarantine…..will the producers of My 600 Pound Life just find me or do I find them? 

•Quarantine Day 5: Went to this restaurant called THE KITCHEN. You have to gather all the ingredients and make your own meal. I have no clue how this place is still in business. 

•My body has absorbed so much soap and disinfectant lately that when I pee it cleans the toilet. 

•Day 5 of Homeschooling: One of these little monsters called in a bomb threat. 

•I’m so excited — it’s time to take out the garbage. What should I wear? 

•I hope the weather is good tomorrow for my trip to Puerto Backyarda. I’m getting tired of Los Livingroom. 

•Classified Ad: Single man with toilet paper seeks woman with hand sanitizer for good clean fun.  

•Day 6 of Homeschooling: My child just said “I hope I don’t have the same teacher next year”…. I’m offended. 

•Better 6 🦶 apart than 6 feet under