First. Thank you for B'day greetings, on the 11th. Been having computer problems. Getting the "Blue screen of death" ....more than once. It says something about safe mode etc, blah, blah,blah..... Tring to find free computer help. time will tell.

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Trying to get in to post this.
I heard on news today about NEW TOXIC SOMETHING IN PET JERKY from China. Could someone go find out and post . TIA

Can't take the chance of stressing my system much more than this post attempt .
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I've been remiss in posting. Super hot and humid (for us), in August, which makes me practically brain dead. Wedding of good friend, a past student, which was probably the nicest most relaxed, fun wedding I have ever been to. Took a fall ('cause feet legs don't work right since accident 5 1/2+ yeas ago) and broke two adhesions loose, which was a good thing.
Just got back from Illinois orthopedist and chiropractor, plus took Mom back at same time. Ortho gave me something to try something for the neuropathy from accident. Have gotten some feeling back with time, from healing/regeneration/or whatever, so we'll see what this new stuff does.
There was a pet show at Mom's retirement home just after we got down so entered Teddy. It was hot. It got hotter as week went on. Car’s rear view mirror thermometer showed 99 on Tuesday and heat index was over 100. Close to that high most of week. Of course the cool down came the day I left. lol Last night is was 42 here at home.

More later, or as I like to say News at 11!

Find yourself a dark area and "LOOK UP" Peak actually Monday AM a bit before dawn (forgot exactly how much before dawn would be peak) but should be pretty good for a few more days. I never make the "before dawn" watch.

I went out last night,with a friend, just after dark... 9 ish ..... and saw 2 small ones right away. Overall I saw at least 10-12 (stopped counting) in about 20-30 minutes. Friend saw some that I missed. There were three, count'm THREE , awesome ones with long, fat tails. Hope I am more awake tonight.

My lessons are almost done. Been crazy every day for weeks. Not any real trail rides but still hanging on. Back /legs have been spasing a lot but I am managing...just not typing. Teddy was lost for 1 1/2 hours last week and I was freaked out. More later if fingers oblige.
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DIANE – So sorry to have read Von is taking a turn for the worse. You;re in my thoughts. Hugs.
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I am spending more time outside no and not so much on computer. Much outdoor work needs doing, which is still taking much more time than pre-accident, and I can only do in little increments, if at all. Still trying to find some strong help but every one is busy this time of year so no luck yet. Really need someone to weed whip.

Have found plenty of hay (he has 2000 bales and I have 33 in barn now) and need to decide how much of it I should get. I need about 2000 for winter. It is first crop, pretty well cured, nice grass hay but not as high protein as I like. I really like to feed second crop but do not know if we will get second crop or how good it might be.

Lessons have started, have had no trail rides yet and just a couple of pony rides.

Have read and tried to keep up. Hugs and good thoughts for those with issues. Congrats and "Happy's" for those with B-days and milestones. Commiserating with those who have had setbacks.

Off Sun or Mon to Illinois for Doctors and then Mom will come back with me to Island till after Labor day. Her eyes are much worse than in the winter plus next year, at this time, she will be 98 1/2. This may be her last summer here. Her house is only 600 feet down the road from me.

DIANE - Hugs to you.

DIANE - Plain old yarn might be easier to learn with. Thread would be for more lace type work wouldn't it? I tried, eons ago, with yarn but no patience to keep up. I would be too tense or loose.
That's OK, though, as I have lots of other things I like better and was better at pre accident. Hammered a tiny bit yesterday did not fling hammer out of hand, for a change.

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!, to all the Mom’s out there.

I got back late Friday night from Illinois doctor trip. It has been down to 32 and have seen snow flakes since getting home. Friends 40 miles to north across the water had quarter size flakes yesterday. The mid-lake bouy is back in the water for the season. It is showing 35+ mph wind gusts and steady of about 30 mph. I like the readings off of that weather station the best ( for wind) as there is no blocking air flow from land or trees. I get temps locally.
It was a bit hectic before I left, with Teddy to vet, packing and computer issues. I have a very reasonable vet. Bill was $30 total of which $22 was his bordetella vaccine, and he also scaled his teeth, clipped nails and looked at a bump on his chest. Bump should just be a fatty thing, but I will keep watch.

KATHLEEN - Have not seen news of you tanker crash and may google it. Sounds like it will be a mess for quite a while. Can imagine the mess with vacationers this summer too. ugh.

DIANE - Continued best thoughts for you and Von.

Talked to BOOKLEAVES Friday. Have not talked to TEDFRED in a while. Thinking of CASINOKAT, today especially.

Happy May Day
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Wow JIM, four thumbs how cool.
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DIANE - Can't you put a leash on him?? and bring him in. Hope he is OK.

Teddy wants to stay out more and just 'sniff'. Many scents floating around in the spring air. His allergies are kicking up. Friday night had to give him a Benedryl.

Well, we hit 60 on Sat and 70 on Sun. Still have much ice on north side of barn. Snow piles almost gone. Grass just tinged with green. No real growth yet.
Entrance Daffys (driveway/road lots of sun) just popped green shoots on Thursday through snow piles. I noticed buds yesterday. The ones around the new septic area are starting to break through.

FYI from Morse talk yesterday

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/mystery/essays/farewell.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/mystery/essays/exit.html

Links to others at bottom. They load fast ( dial-up) and are interesting. I have seen a few Morse episodes. Did not know they were that old nor that he (both actor and the character)had died.

LLUDWIG - Cool on Swifty's start up. Is he selling shares?

BILL – Think you might have been watching an old Pawn like 2010, 2009 or older. Do not think he uses “my man” anymore. That bugged me to. He is only in his early 20’s right? So he is still maturing. However his father in 40s has not finished maturing either so…..
Also do not like the mean name calling and do wish they had better grammar.

Pawn Stars had one “expert” on 4 year old show or so that was wrong on an item so I also now wonder on validity of experts on other items.
The item was a McClellan cavalry saddle and ‘expert’ said since the seat was only 12 inches it had to be a child’s saddle (or some such). Twelve inch was the bigger size of McClellan’s. One rode very upright, almost standing, not on their butt. Think the guy also said something about lack of padding. Well saddle was for comfort of the horse NOT the rider. I still have about 10-12 of my McClellans. Used to have over 20.

Be sure to check out Google's Doodle today. Multifaceted layers. Goes through seasons, moon phase, sunrises sunsets, rain etc. Only flaw I saw was they had the snow appear in the spring rather than winter. Plus, things happen when you click the hand in certain areas.

AEG - Got it. Thanks.

PATSY - Your FOL sale, as always, does amazing business. Thanks for sharing.

went back online to look something up... played solitaire while loading then forgot what I needed to look up. LOL Guess I will either remember .... or I won't.

24 degrees here

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AEG- When in MAY?

MYSTERYHORSE - We had that heavy wet snow last week along with several power outages in a 2-3 day period. Would just get everything reset ( after allowing time for it to stabilize) and it would go out again.

Something fell in the woods. Couldn't get a direction on the sound. Teddy was busy telling me that 'something made noise' out there. bark, bark bark. It messed up my echo location. LOL

not spring yet

snowing off and on and blowing continuously, here. we are at exactly 32 degrees

Where does the time go??? It was eight years today that I lost my sweet Penny. Still call Teddy, Peddy or Tenny on occasion.

Teddy has a bump on his chest. Think / hope it is just a fatty cyst. Mobile vet may becoming soon. If he doesn't, will see Illinois vet next time I am down there.

My radio link is not loading correctly. Looks like I set the alarm for 6 AM on Saturday.

BETH - The link you gave me has two click places. One goes right back to the bad WGN page but the "play" button pops up a Quick tunes / iTunes (?) bar that looks just like what I used to get from the WGN site.

I think I can also just change the date in the url to get the show I missed. Will test now.

Hi CLEM - We usually keep missing each other.

MIM - hope you are settling in well.

SAM - Ditto on the congrats for your DD

Wondering if someone could go here
Mr. Fix It full show: March 16 hour 1
and tell me how this podcast works.
For years I got this show on my dial-up connection. It took about 40 minutes to load but then I had it I could even be off line ( as long as I had not shut down) and listen as I chose.

THEN... they totally changed the website and did not have my show. They must have gotten a lot of complaints because they have brought it back. HOWEVER I can not get it to load past the first minute or so. Actually I don't know if it is even "loading " in the way I know loading.

Thanks for any input.

BTW... This is the FIX-IT guy I listen to Saturday mornings ( unless I over sleep) He is awesome. It is call in show. I put my own wood floor down with his advice. He was a full time contractor builder and then an occasional guest on WGN's mid morning radio show in the early 90's (approx). That led to this Fix-it show and a regular feature now on NBC Today show and another TV show on Sunday.
For you fix it people you might like it too. I glean lots of info from him. It can go from wood to water to roofs to cement and varmit removal and all in between.

Mother nature gave me a few April Fool's day snow squalls

Love the sales reports and will read tomorrow. A friend helped in my house last week. Yesterday I took all silverware out of drawer and tried to match sets. Short work sessions, many many breaks, but it is out and drawer cleaned.

We wear below freezing all night and today. May warm up during days next 5 or 6, but drop below freezing for next week. Had to turn the stock tank heaters back on. We are back to skating ring driveway.

PAULA - Thought numbers were on the board.

Forgot what else I had typed....Oh well.

MYSTERYHORSE - that is my pot exactly!
Did you see the 2007 that was on HALLMARK channel today? I taped it. We will probably start having more horse movies on the dish. Happens every spring as the Derby gets closer.

LIZ - thanks for adding in more info. I have been in Zanesville and bought a little pitcher for my Mom, back in the 80's. .
Utilitarian is what I want so that is good.

For the first time since Mom moved in, 4+ years ago, I hit a half price sale in the home's thrift shop. I usually just miss the sales. Think they only do it two times a year.

Found a nice crock, good size, that looks like it will be perfect for utensils. I'm using a plastic cup now and it keeps falling over. It is oatmeal color with two ( I think) blue bands. Was surprised later when studying it that it is Roseville. It was only $2.

CLEM/PAULA I may need to ask you about it. Newer maybe? with incised stamped marks.

In the book area I got a nice older Courier and Ives book. It has some color plates and lots of b/w. It is just for me, as I found it interesting.

Saw much nice glass and wished I had more $$$ and time to research.
Saw a heavy glass vase that I liked, interesting shape, 18" or so high almost hour-glass shape but the top curved in and it had a scalloped edge. .Also had what I think is wheel cut pattern trying to learn) only $17,
A set of 8 stemmed sherbets? only about $17 also. About 4-5" across top with flat bottom, compote shape with cranberry down and inch or so from lip.Had pattern in glass to. Not sure what type the color process is called, but it looked to be fired or melted on. Not like a paint on top of the glass.
Many, many other nice pieces.
Almost bought a modern bud vase. Heavy crystal, like a block of glass with hole drilled down center and a simple cut pattern on one side that was like grass slightly blowing in a breeze. It had a small scratch and money was tight so I just said "no". It was only $4 at half price. Wish I had had more time to decide.

Hi to BRIGUY, too. Enjoying seeing your stories again.

Mystery - I knew you meant Snowman without even looking at your link. I have my original copy with DJ. If I find that I have a second copy we can talk.

Jim - Have a great trip!!

Happy B'days to those I missed. Clem, CAROL and DUPO I think.

BETH- Thought of you as I was ordering something. for my Mom. from Vermont Country Store yesterday.

DIANE - Speaking of fraud...... This morning on the CBS news show they had a piece on the Scooter Store and their methods of selling them to some who maybe did not really qualify for them. A humorous note is that a few minutes after that segment aired, they had an ad for ...yep..., the Scooter Store.
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we have been down on low digits and some minuses again. 20 ish right now. we seem to go from the lows to melting and warmer then right back to deep freeze leaving solid ice on roads under new snow.
Dealing with a fell blown muscle spasm right now that just won't quit.

I wonder how BSAPPY is? I think she may be right in the thick of the storm. Someone on the Glass board has four feet of snow up here dorrs and can not get them open. She is OK hunker down it seems but hope she has an escape plan incase of emergency.

I am surprised that so many here still have power. Thought more boarders might have gotten knocked out.

We were below zero again last night. Tomorrow it is supposed to rain. If it does it will be a mess what with the foot plus of snow we have on the ground now.

Off to feed, and try to top a water tank off, if the "frost free" hydrant isn't frozen.
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Gray breaks, behind big white flakes.

Minus 2 last night up to 12 already.

Last week at this time I had had a horse missing for over 24 hours. A bit stressful to say the least.

Wonder if Richard will be given a ticket for being expired in the parking lot?

DIANE - "More or less OK". Good way to put it. Thanks.

CLEM - Thanks for the push, I think.... maybe.... Has taken one hour to do just this.

All times when fingers were 'typing able' I was working on buttoning up farm for winter, off to chiro, no or bad internet connection and sometimes just in a general funk. Had a whopping 10Kbps for a while but was too hard to connect. that went on for a week or two. Had a few power failures also. I swear each time that I had time anf had good fingers the computer had issues. I KNOW! It's a conspiracy. LOL Had a really good adjustment in November but it is the nature of the injury for thigs to slip out again.

BOOK BOARD

DIANE/FURTIMA hope you heal fast.

MIM Hope DH improves quickly.

GLASS BOARD

See some have had issues here too. Hope all get through them.

I will try to not be a stranger in future. Have to finish packing I am heading to Illinois and chiro, again, in less then two hours. Good winter driving today, so '"they" say. New used suburan handles pretty well in the ice and snow that I have had here. We only got about 3 inches of snow because we were so warm it rained for much of the storm, Trade off is I now have skating rink under snow. We still had the 50 plus MPH winds and had no boats running on Friday.

Irene Thanks for the B'day greetings. I should have been on the B-day lists. wonder where I went

MNEWVILLE - Take batteries out. Leave open to air dry for days, maybe. Twist and turn periodically to let water drain from areas. Do on paper towel works pretty good. Use air blowing from hair dryer after obvious water is dissipated. Give it extra drying time after looks good for hidden water to dry. People I know who have done this with phones and other remotes let them sit about a week.

RIP MAUREEN and MAINER111. I miss you.

SAM - Thank you, and all who were involved, for being there to help MAUREEN.

HAPPY 4th

Diane - I saw you asking about me the other day.Thanks for asking. I am OK just busy and therefore too tired to post. Sorry Rowdy does not like to noise. Penny hated it to but Teddy does not mind.
Played catch-up after I got back with the”new” 12 year old car in early June. Then, I started lessons plus hired muscle was here a few times to fix fence, etc. Then was off to Illinois again for Dr appoint and It was 95 to 100 plus the 5 days I was there. Yuck. But it was less humid than what awaited me at home.
Got very loose bridged 4 tooth crown re-cemented. Was worried it could not be done but it came totally out at dentist and is very solid now. Whew. He also touched up the one I cracked in half in March, when I fell, and that now is very solid (or as solid as it will every be). I like to say he did some tuck-pointing. LOL

Brought Mom back with me this trip. She is in her house down the road and will stay till just after Labor Day this year. She is managing to cook on the gas stove. She was afraid that she would not be able to see the flame. She cooks all the time at home ( in Illinois) but has electric in the retirement home.

The car did well on it’s first trip. A/C work very well. Still do not know how big the gas tank is. still testing how much MPH I am getting. Used cheap ethanol gas. Have not done a good test with ethanol free super, yet. Getting used to new nooks and crannies and where to put what but have misplaced my check book. It is an a box somewhere that I used when stuff I transferred from old car to new. Getting used to the icky leather seat and have on gotten stuck to then one time so far., Teddy slides on them, my sheep skin slides off them and everthing on the center console surfaces slide too. Will figure it out eventually.

We have had bad heat here but not as bad as some others. It was 98 heat index today Dew points close to 80, close to 90 actual temp. I did no trail rides today and tomorrow do think I will even be open. It is to be the hottest tomorrow and then cool into the low 80’s. Ha pretty funny for me to say ”cool into the low 80’s” . I don’t like it much over 65 or 70 and hate humidity.

The fire works will start soon and I will go to the top of hill to watch, when I hear the first one go bang.

Now waiting for Tramadol and Advil to kick in. I lifted a full bag of feed yesterday (I keep trying) and shouldn't have. Oh well.
Need to use the skidsteer, as we are nice and dry right now.

Any updates on CASINO, DADKAT AND MAUREEN?

DIANE set backs are a pain, Hope SIS can stay more upbeat but being depressed is part of it all too unfortunately.

BOB hope you find your book.

Interesting about the dreams. I, too, have been dreaming more lately about people from the old days who I have not seen in ages.

Was supposed to leave today to go get the new used suburban. I did not get the new title and plates till last week. Hope I do not forget to take them. It is the GMC version. rather than the Chevy, so is now called a Yukon XL. Will most likely contiune to call it a Suburban as I will probably never get used to saying Yukon XL. LOL

Planning on selling car by the pound so putting as much of my scrap iron and tin inside as I cann.
Will sell my #2 insulated wire separately. Have about 40-50 pounds of that and it is at about $2 a pound now.

If a miracle happens, and I sell the Burb to someone to drive, I could get about $950 to $1000. Will not have a lot of time for that kind of sale. Poundage is the easist.

A friends SIL had a return to hospital after his open heart surgery started to leak blood into the pericardium. That surgery was done at major heart hospital in Midwest.
Personally do not think his home hospital, 400 miles away, did a good job of monitoring his Cumidin levels post surgery. They have a history of checking but then not adjusting levels on other meds.
Repair surgery was NOT done at his home hospital. They went to a very good, about a hundred miles away, facility.

Teddy has continued to learn. He almost heels like a proper obedience dog often with an automatic sit and also will wait for direction before getting a thrown stick. I can alternate between 'play' fetch and obedience fetch based on which words I use. Stay and take it for obedience and just a 'go get it' (or some such) for play.

Finally got the resident raccoon out of the tack room and then left the door open all night and it was back inside today. Ugh.

TEDFRED and BOOKLEAVES are well into their long awaited trip to far flung reaches. Hope they are having a super time.

DIANE - Glad Sis is doing better now and coming home. Have followed her return to hospital, but just have had no umph to post.

CASINO - Best vibes for you and Pat

BOOKDELLE - Belated happy B'day. How nice about the Bose. I understand they are marvelous