The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: day 48

At 5 PM Saturday, March 21, Governor J.B. Pritzker’s COVID-19 Executive Order No. 8, aka the Stay at Home order, took effect. Here’s a daily-ish journal of how Reader staff, our friends, family—and our pets—are spending our time.

Day 48: May 7

What we’re watching:

• The Chicago Botanic Garden’s Circle Garden livestream
• Reader publisher Tracy Baim in the Netflix doc A Secret Love 

What we’re reading:

• “Investing in local news is more important than ever”

What we’re baking even after we run out of 50 percent of the ingredients:

• Almond flour cookies with cranberries

What we’re considering for virtual meeting number gazillion:

• A free virtual background from Getty Images

What’s giving us all of the schadenfreude:

• The toilet flush heard around the world

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