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Well I don’t know at what point the haunting from my grandmother begins but we have finalized the paperwork work to sell our piece of the cotton farm that’s been in the family since either 1896 or 1907. Now my cousin and his son own all of it.
Not that anything will ever come of it, we did find out we do have and have retained the mineral rights. If some new technology comes along in a hunnerd years, our great grandkids maybe will make some money. And wonder, what the hell is this?
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Fifty two degrees and 100% humidity, a bit chilly but nice. Warming up to 77 today.
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Second? Well I’ve been busy. It’s Monday again time to kick off another week. We finally got a decent rain late yesterday and last night, .91″ and we really needed it.
Mornin’ Gang
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Morning gang. Pleasant 48 degrees out here this morning. Still a little wet from our rain a couple of days ago. Days are very nice in the mid 70’s for now, but the winds seem to always blow.
I got curious about the amazon Alexa (the device is actually called Echo), so I caught one on sale a couple of weeks ago and got one. It came with a couple of “smart” light bulbs. Now who the heck ever heard of a smart light bulb, but anyway they arrived late, but they did arrive. I plugged the Echo Dot device in, and I don’t remember if there was any more to set it up or not, so now I’m under constant surveillance by Amazon. Apparently there are all kinds of tricks it can do and information it can provide, so that may be nice when I’m trying to figure out some mathematical equation or something. The more interesting thing is the smart light bulb. I put it in the lamp that stands beside my TV watching lounge chair, turned it on, and it lit up just like any other bulb. I had to download an app from the manufacturer on my phone, and the app walked me through the set up of the bulb. Then it connected the app to the Echo device, so I can tell the echo to turn it off and on with voice commands. But, I can also cause it to be brighter or dimmer, and it will change colors from blue to green to red or white, and numerous variations there of, with a voice command. Well I’ll be damned. So now, when I shut everything down for the evening and head for the bedroom, I don’t have to do it in the dark and hope I don’t fall down stepping on something. I just call for the light to turn off after I’ve reached the bedroom, and out it goes.
Well, that sort of stuff arouses my curiosity even more, so I got a second Echo device for the bedroom, which came with 2 more smart bulbs, so I put one in the bedroom lamp. Works the same, and everything talks to each other with no set up from me other than adding the new devices on my phone. So now I can see at night all the way from the kitchen to my bedroom without leaving the lights on all night. But why stop now. I really dug into the research on this smart stuff, and of course you can do all kinds of stuff, but the basics are smart wall plugs, smart light switches, smart bulbs. Of course my sous vide heater is a smart device managed from my phone, but I don’t know if it will do voice commands from the Echo device or not. Naturally, all the new AC units are coming with smart thermostats, or they can be acquired separately, and I guess all your kitchen appliances will be smart before long. I went ahead and put a smart bulb in my front porch light outside, so I can control it from inside. In the back, I have two banks of led floods, so I put in a couple of smart switched to control them by voice command. For the back yard, the outdoor flood switches are in the utility room at the front of the house and in the den near the sliding patio doors. Now I can turn the lights on from the bedroom and look out back there if I hear a noise or something.
Anyway, that’s what I’ve been fooling with the past few days, and it’s surprisingly simple to install and interesting to see how it works. BTW, there are several smart device manufacturers, and each of their apps to make their device work in proprietary, so once you decide on a brand, you might want to stick with it so as to not have a bunch of apps sitting there on your phone. I’ve got 2 brands with separate apps, and they all work seamlessly with the Alexa app, but if I do any more, I’ll use the same brands even if they cost a little more just to be able to use the same apps.
Have a nice day.
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When I installed our Ring Doorbells, it automatically synced to wife’s Echo in her office. Finally got around to subscribing to the record service yesterday, had to remove them from the wall again to access the scan code on the back. Now we both can monitor them and see recorded video.
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More discoveries. I don’t have access to over the air TV, and I don’t get satellite or cable TV, so everything I watch comes over the internet via an Amazon Fire Stick. Well, the Fire Stick controller has voice activated features, so I can just ask it to go find a movie and it will report back where to find it, or it will just take me tto the proper site or channel. Well guess what else it does – it controls all my smart devices just like the Echo does. I’ve got some older Roku devices, but I’m phasing them out. I could add them to the network of smart stuff also, but since they are on the way out, I see no reason to. What will they come up with next – and keep in mind I’m using about 2015 technology, so the brand new expensive stuff is probably more amazing.
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I guess El Gordo and GJT has moved into the twenty first century, ole Dave not so much. 😀
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ElGordo can turn his lightbulbs red and reminisce about his halcyon days on South Main.
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I watched one of my favorite Canadian homestead channels last night, “Our Half Acre Homestead”. I was quite surprised to see her smoking in the opening scene. She was moving her fingers off screen as the recording began, so I wasn’t completely sure I was seeing what I was seeing, but when she blew a little smoke out of my mouth it was confirmed.
Turns out she uses marijuana to manage her fibromyalgia pain. She’d never discussed it before, but it’s obviously a problem. On a recent video, her chair broke and she really hurt her knee and ankle since her foot was caught underneath the table where she was working on prepping some meat for storage. You could hear her pain as her husband came running to help her up.
Needless to say, it bumped her pain level up and she’s had to up her intake of cannabis. I guess in Canada it’s much more accepted, at least wherever it is that she lives.
BTW – she’s refusing to go to a store that’s forcing everyone to self checkout. She laments the loss of those cashier jobs and despises the self checkout lanes. The store had a big monitor above her checkout, to let her know she was being watched. She gave them the double single digit salute and told them she’d never shop there again.
She’s feisty.
PS: Super Dave’s #9 post reminded me of last night’s video.
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Micheal Berry would say they have some real topography around here.
Some of these streets are reminiscent of San Francisco.
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Today is Eldest Sis’s birthday. She is out of town, welcoming her newest great-grandchild. Emily Jane is beautiful, though she did struggle with breathing at first and had to be rushed to another hospital for special care. It looks like she’s adjusted to her new world now.
What a great birthday gift!
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It’s hard to think of my niece as a GRANDMOTHER.
It’s like thinking “thirty years ago” was the seventies.
Time is like toilet paper. The further you get, the faster it goes.
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#11 Tedtam – thanx for the reminder of her channel…. That pumpkin snack cake looks easy AND tasty!!!
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#11 – My Bama Belle Barb still battling w Fibro every day.
Here’s Christine Miserandino’s very well written take on Fibro:
https://butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/
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A 55 year old Democrat politician from Colorado has died “suddenly and unexpectedly”. And I just watched a video as someone – possibly a child – just keeled over during a press conference. Ironically, the video feed was cut off as everyone helplessly gathered around the body with the phrase “Live Stream Will Be Back Shortly”.
Ummmmm, I don’t think so.
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BTW; GJT, I gambled and bought those Wash Your Face thingy’s my wife. She likes them very much, especially the fact that she doesn’t soil her nice washcloth’s.They were 4 for $20 Bucks but since they’re washable these should last a while. 😉
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Yes, the Inkbird Sous Vide heater will connect to Alexa. I’ll probably wait until I have it all set up and operating before I go through the process of connecting. Since I live alone, I’m wondering how in the world someone coming in here now would be able to figure out how to turn the lights on or off, what controls what, etc. I’m already having trouble remembering all the names myself. Should I go through and put stickers on everything, or just make a list and stick it up on the refrigerator door right next to my DNR instructions?
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BTW; Buying wimmin’s things, make-up and such is NOT an exact science. Certain things can be bought cheaply but other things have to be real expensive to be worth using. And I guess I can relate to that since I still use the $00.99 cent Suave Shampoo. 😀
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After mass yesterday I actually took a 3 hour nap. Considering I got close to zero hours of sleep the night before, I wasn’t surprised that I was able to nap. Got up, did some things, fixed dinner, tried not to hurt my arm again, and took melatonin last night to be sure I had some extra help falling asleep.
Allowed myself to sleep in a bit, let myself wake up as needed. After I review the C&C today, I need to get back on my dehydrating. I have some bell peppers, tomatoes, and eggs to do. I think I’m doing the veggies first, after I unload Fred’s eggs. The veggies will go bad first.
I have to plan in order to avoid decomposition. I guess life is kinda like that, too.
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BTW; I used my newest high-tech cooking device yesterday; Lodge 2 Qt Dutch Oven. it worked like a champ, cleaned up easily but Alexia didn’t even know it was in the house. 😀
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Katfiish
We’ve passed closely by Port Elizabeth several times.
Bayport and Barbour’s Cut are vastly more impressive.
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And now, in time for Halloween:
C&C NEWS ☙ Monday, October 31, 2022 ☙ PIRATE SYNDROME
[The thumbnail for this column is Katy Perry trying to keep her flopping eyelid open, btw. One eyed pirate of the female version.]
Good morning and Happy Halloween, C&C! I’m pouring an extra cup this morning, since my late-night underwear hammer-wrestling session ran long. In today’s spooky roundup: the NIH starts testing Paxlovid for long covid; new Swedish study finds lots of subclinical cardiac damage after jabs; new study finds jab spike in shingles blisters; WEF says you should own no car and be happy; journal editor resigns after deaths threats from publishing study critical of jabs; and Joe Biden has a great suggestion for coping with inflation.
Aaaand the lawyer starts off with a request for help in designing their database to record Covid crimes and evidence, as per his “road to Nuremberg” instructions. I’m sure he’ll have no problem getting lots of qualified folks to help him out.
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From the C&C:
Reuters ran an eerie story Friday headlined, “U.S. Government To Test Pfizer’s Paxlovid for Long Covid.”
One of the most vexing things about “long covid” is how hard it is to even diagnose the darn thing. Reuters called long covid a “complex medical condition” involving “more than 200 symptoms ranging from exhaustion and cognitive impairment to pain, fever and heart palpitations that can last for months and even years following” covid infection.
Two hundred symptoms! That’s a lot. And some of them are pretty hair-raising. One alarming Daily Mail UK article that I covered a few months back reported long covid can shrink your cucumber. So. Long covid, short cucumber.
Even worse, they still don’t know exactly what causes long covid, or how to test for it. They’re baffled.
I’ve never understood this “long Covid” thing. I mean, the infection is gone, so it should be “damages from Covid” syndrome. “Long Covid” makes it sound like the virus is still active. Something still active would require more jabs or something similar, right? But if I’m dealing with, say, heart failure, calling it “virus induced heart failure” isn’t as politically useful, correct?
But then, I don’t work for the Democrats – I mean CDC. But then, I repeat myself.
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Ah, Childers continues along those lines.
Reuters says “a leading theory” is that “fragments of the virus persist in the tissues,” somehow.
‘Fragments’ could be any part of the virus, who knows. Like the spike protein…. Those fragments somehow ‘persist’, just like they were secured in lipid nanoparticles or something, or maybe they somehow got into the ‘tissues’ — like cells — are are manufacturing the ‘fragments’ — spike protein — using, oh, I don’t know, mRNA or something.
I’m just spitballing here. We simply don’t know.
Reuters says the NIH got ahold of a BILLION DOLLARS to study long covid, and so — OF COURSE — in a double-blinded, completely-unbiased selection process, they studiously and without ANY outside influence whatsoever picked PFIZER as the lucky winner! So they will study Pfizer’s unapproved Paxlovid drug, to see if that one might help with long covid.
At my last vaccine trial visit, I was asked if I’d be willing to participate in any more trials. I told him no.
I’ve learned not to trust the system.
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And now, SWEDEN!
A blockbuster Swedish study presented at a recent European medical conference was titled “Significant incidence of myocarditis after 3rd dose of anti-COVID 19 messenger RNA vaccine” (translated).
The study’s authors summarized its four main points: [insert list of scary statistics here]
Whereas ‘myocarditis’ merely refers generally to inflammation of the heart muscle, the Swedish researchers looked specifically for permanent cardiac damage in the form of scarring or ‘myocardial lesions’….
The results point to what has been long-suspected: that a lot of jab takers have ‘subclinical’ heart damage, which isn’t acute enough to prompt them into the hospital, or to go see their doctor, but nevertheless will lower their life expectancies, maybe dramatically.
And this is just ONE jab side effect out of a long-list of observed problems, like pirate syndrome (blinking one eye). Okay, I made that name up, but I think it’s pretty descriptive. [Insert Katy Perry one-eye closed image here]
So, how many sub-clinical patients are roaming around out there, not knowing their time on earth has been shortened? How many grandchildren won’t get to know grandpa or grandma? Or Daddy?
And Pfizer and all those doctors and “specialists” in the field will just go on their merry way, because it’s hard to tie a death ten years from now (when it could have been fifty) is hard to prosecute.
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SHINGLES. There are cases of persistent shingles now related to the jab. Childers describes one test where a man had a 3 month case of shingles, and when they tested the skin in the affected area, guess what they found?
SPIKE PROTEINS IN HIS SKIN.
But….but….but….the spike protein was supposed to stay at the injection site. It was never supposed to migrate to the liver, heart, blood vessels, reproductive organs….skin!
I never understood how anyone could predict – or believe – that something microscopic that was injected into the body would “stay in one place”. How the heck could that happen? I mean, body fluids are designed to move stuff around the body, like oxygen, immunity cells, toxins, nutrients, etc. That is their purpose! Why wouldn’t a “vaccine” get picked up and moved around?
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My #22 I forgot that I had a good picture of my Lodge Cast Iron “Loaded”.
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Next up: The WEF wants to eliminate gas vehicles, and so wants to mandate electric cars for everyone. To save the planet, natch.
Naw, it’s really just another power grab. But you didn’t hear it from me.
As Childers explains, there’s not enough lithium in the world for all those batteries [which will be charged by fossil fuels, probably – my note], so the solution is for everyone to SHARE those electric cars.
Anyway, while the elites will keep driving their fleets of bulletproof luxury humvees, you’ll have to share a bunch of crappy electric cars with random strangers who have no incentive to keep the vehicles clean or in good working order. These ‘shared cars’ are going to smell funkier than a heavily-used rental car, except probably worse.
And since they’ve abandoned all rational incentives in favor of full-on mandates, they’ll have to paste on law after law, to prop up their stupid car-sharing programs… until we get to the point that it’ll be the death penalty for losing a french fry down the crack between the seat and the center console.
And don’t even get me started on how they can cut off your shared electric car whenever they want. You won’t even know where it is, or who’s driving it, never mind what you might have said wrong on Facebook to make it refuse to come pick you up.
Yeah, folks won’t want to share a car with me. I keep all kinds of crap in my car on a daily basis. And it needs a bath, too.
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#18 SD
BTW; GJT, I gambled and bought those Wash Your Face thingy’s my wife.
Glad you did, my wife says they are Magic! She hasn’t been using them long enough to know but her sister says they eventually lose their effectiveness/or wear out.
Tell me about wimmins products, hair fixin’… Dang! I get a $17 haircut + $5 tip and good for three months, buy whatever cheapest shampoo, put my holy underwear and socks on (Christmas is coming they say) and go about my day.
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I’d love to have a cast iron Dutch oven but I just don’t have room for one. We do have a big, real heavy ceramic pot for stews and such. It works well.
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And now, death threats:
The editor of the scientific journal ‘Food and Chemical Toxicology’ has resigned, after receiving death threats for publishing an April 2022 study titled, “Innate immune suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccinations: The role of G-quadruplexes, exosomes, and MicroRNAs.”
The study included a handy chart showing how the wide array of side effects that we’re seeing can all come from the same mRNA injection: [image of chart can be found in this link]
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Who are these crazy people? Who is such a fan of mRNA medicines…that they figure out who the editor is, find his personal email address, and threaten his and his family’s lives?
Does that seem right to you? That people are SO emotionally invested in mRNA medicine that they can’t stand the thought that anyone, anywhere, disagrees with them? And feel so powerfully emotional about it that they send people death threats? About an iffy, hastily-made medicine for a cold-like virus?
Those are valid questions, until the realization that these are not sane people sinks in. These are highly invested folks. Either so codependent that they can’t unlink their behavior from the behavior of others; or have such a need to fit in that any attempt to invalidate their attempts to do so endangers their sense of self; or maybe they are afraid to admit that by following the crowd they’ve maybe killed family members is more than they can handle; or maybe they are just power hungry and like telling others what to do, and admitting the truth about the mRNA jab endangers that ability.
Either way, folks who issue death threats over a medical article are not sanely thinking folks.
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Greetings again fellow Hamsters,
I posted late last night (11 pm) on my observations of what Wisconsin was like regarding the election as well as regarding Biden’s mismanagement of our economy. That mismanagement is most evident in Wisconsin, but what I saw was not as miserable as some other Democrat-run states are right now–Yet. Texas is still fortunate in having things not as dismal–Now. There is a huge lack of satisfaction with the Dems in Wisconsin now after several years of their messing up the place with socialist doctrine. It has a good chance of going red again this election.
And regrettably, the Packers seem to be in rebuilding mode. Very sad for the veterans who have done so well previously to watch this happen.
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A chilly Good Morning to all of Hamsterville. I made a list last night of chores & projects I need to work on this week. Not feeling very motivated, though. I was aware of eating my last banana with breakfast, and going to the store is not even on that list…
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Greetings from the Ellis Island National Museum Of Immigration.
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Greetings from the Ellis Island National Museum Of Immigration.
Shannon, get us some pictures, that’s one place I’d like to visit. 😉
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Since we’re making a Road Trip in the morning I washed up the old GMC and it is looking good. While I was working on it, it dawned on me that I’ve washed the Tahoe 3 times since I washed my truck. But it has been on several Road Trips, a couple with me in it and I can’t let Black Beauty out of the stable looking dingy. 😉
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Ellis Island (from the Ferry)
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#39 – Shannon… Niiiiiice – REAL NICE!!!!
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Main entrance to Ellis Island Museum
(Taken from the ferry)
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The building is about ten times as large as what you see in my 1:47 pm photo above.
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Went and got gas and stopped by the meat market. Those two stops alone quickly ate a hunnert dollar bill. Need to go to Tractor Supply and get some more cheap cat food for the ferals, the foxes, the possums, and whatever else comes along. I’ve got a .22 cal hollow point for any skunks that decide to visit. Still trying to put my BB gun back together again – I did it once before, so I know that it can be done. Vision is still a little blurry but getting better, so maybe I can figure out that YT video one of these days. The white wings are still tearing up the bird feeder, so I’m guessing that this batch are residents and are not planning on migrating. If I thought I could get by with it I think about 3 shots from the Remington 870 would feed the foxes for a few days and solve the bird problem at the same time. BTW, deer season opens soon.
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Yesterday we passed close by The Medowlands Stadium where the New York Giants pro football team plays their home games.
Geographically, the Meadowlands is a giant estuarial swamp which flows into the Hudson River.
The views of Manhattan from the Jersey side of the mile wide river are, of course, quite impressive.
The river itself is beautiful.
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Gordo if you want to go even further down the home automation rabbit hole, check out If This Then That. You mentioned that there are different manufacturers and they do not necessarily play nice with each other. IFTTT can bring all of that together seamlessly.
I once had a client that put smart switches and outlets throughout his entire house. If he worked in his garage and walked across the street to talk to a neighbor, his garage door would automatically close because his cell phone left a predetermined geo fence area. You could set it up to have certain lights come on when you pull into your driveway.
Like I said it’s a rabbit hole because the possibilities are endless.
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Princeton University recently held an event titled “Citizenship and Its Discontents in Our Evolving Democratic Republic.” Throughout the 90-minute panel, speakers took turns lambasting our Constitution as “a tool of geopolitical gaslighting” that “furthers a racial crisis and a democratic crisis.”
Given the revisionist historical narratives that have grown in popularity over the years, it is understandable why the speakers on this panel have come to believe and promote these views.
SNIP
To ensure that America’s youth learn the truth, the whole truth, about their nation and the principles that define who we are, many states across the country are now directing their schools to teach from primary-source documents such as the Declaration and Constitution, as well as the speeches and writings of great Americans like Douglass and Lincoln.
I couldn’t agree with this more. I actually had this required of me in some upper level history classes in college. When I was in the 5th grade, I had to memorize the preamble to the Constitution, the opening to the Declaration of Independence, and the Gettysburg Address.
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#16 Katfish
Great piece on “Spoon Theory”. That can definitely apply to cancer, chronic illness, and those suffering from chronic pain.
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About 15 years ago, my Aunt that has had cancer twice was skiing at Taos. While not moving with her skis on, she slipped and landed on her bottom. She had had chronic pain in her right groin ever since and takes prescription opiates to manage. She has been super diligent to ensure she does not get addicted and suffers at times as a result.
She has been seeing an acupuncturist for a couple of years and that has helped. The acupuncturist retired so my aunt had to find a new one. The lady inserted a needle into her left shoulder and the pain in her right groin went way immediately. The previous acupuncturist had never inserted a needle into the left shoulder. My aunt was amazed at the relief. She prays that after several more sessions that this might indeed be a permanent solution to her long suffering.
Moral of the story: Do not discount alternative medicine.
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European Coal, Wood En Vogue This Winter
As much as 70 percent of European heating comes from natural gas and electricity, and with Russian deliveries drastically reduced, wood — already used by some 40 million people for heating — has become a sought-after commodity. Prices for wood pellets nearly doubled to 600 euros a ton in France, and there are signs of panic buying.
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Can Germany’s Black Forest survive the stupidity of the EU?
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Well, I struck gold at PetSmart, got 4 unopened cases of my cats’ favorite flavors of Friskie’s Shreds. There were 2 more unopened cases, but I was feeling magnanimous and left those for other desperate cat folks. I also found some of the little Swirled Pate cups that Millie likes, as long as I give her small amounts, mixed with water so she can just slurp it from the bowl.
This puts us in good shape into January.
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If you ever read the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I, titled All Quiet On The Western Front, there is a new movie adaptation made in Germany. I watched it on Netflix over the weekend.
The movie is just as depressing as the book. Of the 17 million deaths during WWI, 3 million occurred on Germany’s western front. Over 4 years of war, that front line never moved more than a few hundred meters in either direction. War is hell, but trench warfare has to be the absolute worst of the worst.
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I think we were able to explain the wood burning stove project to the city inspector this morning. He had mucho questions and concerns.
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CRAP – Game 3 may be delayed or postponed for RAIN DANGIT!
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A new piece in The Atlantic by Emily Oster is titled LET’S DECLARE A PANDEMIC AMNESTY: We need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID.
The audacity of the left never ceases to amaze me. Old people died, people lost jobs due to mandates, children’s learning suffered terribly, people dying due to side effects of the jab. The Atlantic just wants us to sweep all that and more under the rug and let bygones be bygones.
There is a certain phrase that begins with an explicit four letter word and ends with You.
Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember what the left did during Covid. You can forgive, but never forget.
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About 7.5 years ago, I started shaving my head. One day this young engineer only a few years out of school named Dimitri came up to my cubicle and said, “Hey Walt.” I responded with “Who is Walt?” I was then introduced to the amazing show Breaking Bad about Walter White. Walt is a high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with cancer. He puts his chemistry knowledge to work to start cooking crystal methamphetamine and goes on to build his own drug empire all in the name of leaving his family a monetary legacy that his salary can not provide.
I have toyed with the idea of dressing up as Walt on Halloween for many years, however, I never had a pork pie hat. Now that I have been battling my own cancer over the last 1.5 years I consider it apropo to dress up as Walt.
Now everyone Say My Name!!!
P.S. No, I’m not going to tell you where the bodies are buried or otherwise dissolved. No, I’m not going to tell you where I buried my 55 gallon drums of cold hard cash.
P.S.S. If I catch you snooping around my house looking for lotto tickets with coordinates, I’ll have to introduce you to my Hydrofluoric Acid bath treatment.
Happy Halloween and Stay Safe.
P.S.S.S. Don’t bother ringing my doorbell after the first pitch of Game 3 of the World Series. I might not answer. If you decide to trick me, see P.S.S. above.
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Rainy weather in Philly might postpone the game tonight. I don’t think baseball can go on in squishy conditions despite having the field covered. The good citizens there are so good at being jerks, they ought to redirect some of that behavior and make the town build a covered stadium like we unspeakable foreigners have had for years. 🙂
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TexMo – I can readily see where the smart stuff could get out of hand in a hurry. I’ve taken the position that I’ll just deal with the oparts of the house that I use regularly, where the parts are relatively cheap, and where I can do it myself. If I were going to build new or even do a rehab, I’d load it up with everything smart I could come up with. For instance, I have a wired security video system with a hard drive DVR. I could connector it to my router and access it from anywhere, but today’s systems seem even simpler and can easily be incorporated into the whole house system – I would do that if I were starting over. Garage door openers, door locks, security cameras, automatic light switches, motion sensors and the like make for a reasonably good security system. Indoor AC voice activated control, draw me a bath, monitor hot water usage, electric usage, and so forth are available. Brothere Dave could control his other farm house and his barn from the comfort of his lounge chair and have his selected equipment checked, running, and warmed up before leaving the house. And much more. And it’s not that difficult.
At this time, I’ve got 2 manufacturers, one for light bulbs and one for light switches. Any further additions will come from one of those two companies regardless of cost since I’m not going in to all that appliance stuff. And overhead lighting and stuff is beyond me also since virtually everything has 3 way switches that I’d rather not mess with.
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It looks like I’ll be driving to the Heights tomorrow to sign a lien release for one investment and possibly sign others to get the new one funded. It’s actually a pleasurable diversion, as I absolutely love the people I work with there and any chance I have to visit with them is a gift.
Speaking of gifts, I got to visit with Lovely and her girls today. So much to catch up on – the new bunny, dancing, acting, school – I miss them so much!
It looks like we’re evicting some tenants in Bryan. So tired of the drama, and mom says her daughter needs to move out, the daughter says mom is already moving out – so all y’all can go. We need to raise the rent anyway and I don’t think any of them could afford the rent when it goes up. Vacancies are never a good thing, but we have our other units up and running now, so the hit in the income won’t be too bad.
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#56 TexMo
The Pandemic seems not to be fully over. I couldn’t get in to Mem-H for my Fall checkup without putting on the mask they gave me.
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Oh, my bank manager stopped to visit with me the other day. He was unaware that we’d shut down the plumbing company and we talked about the properties. He asked if we were interested in liquidating, and I mentioned that we’d already sold a few of them.
When MIL passed, we got a big chunk of insurance money, and he set us up with a super-duper platinum account for the chunk. If I kept the balance over $150K, we’d get a whole 1% interest. That account didn’t last long, and I tried not to laugh in his face. But until I got other things lined up, it was a place to park the cash.
Anyway, when I mentioned liquidating our properties, his eyes kinda lit up. Then I mentioned that I had an investor friend who could get me [insert larger interest rate here]. He just kinda shrugged and smiled like “I was gonna try, but…”
He’s a nice guy, but the bank isn’t my best friend. I really like my bank. They mean well, and the folks there are really nice, but my other guy is financially nicer to me.
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#61
My doctor’s office still makes me mask up, too.
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#47 TexMo,
Likewise we had to memorize those in grade school and had a very good presentation of them by our teacher. Along with reverence for them. This coming from Dominican nuns who taught in our grade school. Along with detailed info on US national government and state and local governments, their similarities and differences. It was surely much better than what is taught in public schools these days.
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#63 Tedtam,
Masks required likewise at Methodist Hospital Sugar Land and its doctors’ offices. Everybody knows it is a sham and was from the beginning when it was discovered those masks only stopped as small as 1o milligram particles, and the Covid particles were 4 milligram particles. A humongus fraud. But it led to control of the populace as a first try by the Socialist Democrats to see if they could get away with it. They did for a while and still try to enforce it in places they think it is possible to still get away with it. A pox on their houses.
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The thing that made my eyes pop was when one of my former medical directors posted something Over There to the effect that “you wear the mask not to protect you from the person in the other end of the room, but from the particles still in the air from the one who was there 6 hours before you…”
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I think masks will be required in medical settings indefinitely. They will never go away. However, the Methodist system requires patients to wear masks, but a large percentage do not wear them. They have seen the light.
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Bedtime a little early out here this evening. You all have a good night now.
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