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Social Distancing in the HFIM HOUSE.

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(Special Note: I am in no way making light of our current health situations. What is out there, is a matter of life and death. I try to portray my doll's lives as realistically as I can, and still be entertaining for adults and still suitable for younger viewers. I try to address problems with solutions. Not everyone is perfect, even in a doll world. I took all these photos, before masks were suggested, but they are inside!)


Normally there are people everywhere in the HFIM house...

Grumpy Cat...says that's fine with him. "Too many people, and my tail gets stepped on. Long as someone remembers to feed us."

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(Cat grumble...)

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Now, Kitty thinks humans, like Chelsea, small humans are great. Prrrrrrr!
Chelsea: I'm here!

Third floor-Upstairs: Nemo, Patrick and Jamie share the top floor. Two beds and a pull-out couch makes for still crowded conditions. 


Rory(recently Belle in "Beauty and the Beast", in a touring show) 

Rory:Hi, I'm back! My aunt sent me home with lots of home-canned vegetables, fresh veggies, fruit, and one of her prized apple pies. Hey, Nemo....I missed you!

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Nemo: Missed you more, Kiddo! 

Jamie: Sorry about the kitchen, Rory, I haven't had time to keep up. The bakery opened and we have been swamped. ANY food sure is welcome, it's lean pickings around here. We've had a lot of carry-out and delivery, but the budget was out of control.

 I gotta go to the bakery now, it's all yours.


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Midge: Hi, Rory. We sure missed you! I was going to tackle the sink next.


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Rory: Well, let me take my stuff upstairs and then we can figure out what's for supper. How many people do we have now?

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Richelle: Hi, Rory. Ryan and I are working from home and here all the time now.

Kevin: I'm here for meals, Ken is at the hospital and doesn't come here at all now. Danny's stuck in Vancouver while working on a show.

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Ryan: The printer isn't working downstairs, so I'm at this desk. The city never sleeps, pandemic or not.

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Kevin: Sure and you playing "Call to Duty," is part of your job?

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Ryan: Well, it's not like a gazillion permits are being submitted right now. I just have to be available for the job. You know it's amazing how much you can get done without the watercooler and people interrupting you at work.

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Stuart and Aidan watch TV in the living room. 
The HFIM Covid19 rules are: keep your distance, clean up after yourself, and WASH YOUR HANDS. They sleep downstairs, in their mini-apartment. 

Stuart: Aidan and I, we'll eat whatever anyone cooks!!! What time is dinner?

Midge: Belle is upstairs working and doing wash. Mulan's gone-house sitting for some friends, who are trapped in Hong Kong.  Sindy and Barbie are at the bakery. They will be home for dinner. I think that is all, unless I forgot someone. 



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It's Belles turn to do the wash, and while she's working with her young students online. It takes extra time to have lesson plans that are visual and clear, for all levels of her students and their parents.  Exasperating, at the least, for everyone.

The HFIM house has plenty of wipes to clean the bathroom, laundry room with, and lots of bleach and cleaning products.

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Keeping up with HFIM wash is always a lot of work.
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Midge (in the kitchen): Peder and Ian are working construction downstate, so, I think we are only fourteen and of course no guests. Can you work with that? But, there is only one serious problem in our HFIM house, of course, it's....


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Belle: We are getting low on toilet paper, AGAIN!

What is your doll family doing to conserve resources or keep sane while on lock-down?



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Townhouse Lockdown!











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(Special Note: I am in no way making light of our current health situations. What is out there, is a matter of life and death. I try to portray my doll's lives as realistically as I can, and still be entertaining for adults and still suitable for younger viewers. I try to address problems with solutions. Not everyone is perfect, even in a doll world. I took all these photos, before masks were suggested, but the characters are home and inside!)

THE Townhouse has been on Lockdown!

The gals (ages, all in their late 20's) are finishing their second week of lockdown in the townhouse in their Northside Chicago neighborhood.  


L to R: Gilly, Zoe, Teresa, Carly share Vickie's old townhouse. 

They have rearranged the bedroom,  put up a curtain, and one person has to sleep downstairs. 



But, keeping 6-feet apart isn't easy when you share living spaces. The only one working away from home now is Teresa, who fills in for a reporter on Channel 7 twice a week. 



Vickie's Vintage is closed like all unessential businesses in Illinois, though Zoe and Carly, each take a shift at home working with online orders. Even that has slowed down. 



Teresa: Only thing worse than working only 2 days a week, is eating soup, AGAIN? 


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Zoe: I can't face it either. I'm thawing a turkey out...maybe next week it will be ready to cook. Does anyone know how to cook a turkey?



Carly: Nope! Maybe we could baste it with that soup? Well, tonight we can have stale taco chips, or stale sandwiches with the soup?

            


Zoe: Thank goodness, rent isn't due. Vickie said BMR has 'postponed' her mortgage, so our rent and will be paused and  instituted into a payment plan after this is all over. Definitely a reason for celebrating. I'm going to mix up more Margaritas.


    

Teresa: Here's a pack of 2018 Goldfish crackers I found in a drawer upstairs. Could we use that for stuffing that turkey?

Zoe: Yech, that sounds terrible. Well, I made the Margaritas...so that's my share!


Carly: Well, we are getting Vitamin C anyway, giggle. Here's two 'dead' gingerbread cookies. Maybe we should order for delivery!



Teresa: Anything, but I hate Gringo Tacos...! Maybe the delivery guy will be cute??? 



Gilly: Oh, second that,---and these chips are disgusting. I vote for a veggie pizza!

Carly: I vote for more Margaritas, and let's put the soup away and order two pizzas and one with bacon and pineapple... maybe?

Teresa: With barbecue sauce and chicken? 

Gilly(vegan): That even sounds good to me....sigh! I'll pick around the chicken.

Zoe: More, Margaritas coming up! 

Carly: I'll place the order now, though. How about some salad, too?
We haven't had anything fresh for over a week.

Gilly: I'm definitely for that!


ARE YOUR DOLLS set with enough SUPPLIES and FOOD? 
Are you?

Diorama: Two Barbie Mattel Townhouses put together (6.99 at GoodWill). Lights are battery Christmas lights. Full-size Mattel refrigerator in one door frame, furnishings a mix of old and newer. (I think I have bought 6 sets of the table and chairs for all my dioramas from the last three years. Rug, discounted felt, also felt on the Mattel thrift store couch. Upstairs all odds and ends, purchased at thrift stores, linens are vintage odds and ends. No decorator in this house, LOL.


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