Good morning!!!!

RedNeckGeek · Mar 14, 2017

Good Morning! 57F @ 6:30AM. Plenty of sunshine. High 72F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.

Stella looks like trouble for the northeast, good time to just hunker down.

Finished bush trimming yesterday, some weed spraying this morning will let me stay out of the yardwork business for another few weeks.

toppop52 · Mar 14, 2017

The storm stayed closer to the coast than predicted and kept us even warmer. Got to above 50° 40 miles south, wind switched, rain stopped, now its howling out of the NW. We got very little NE wind vs what was forecast. We got 2"+ of rain in about 4 hours, big puddles and street flooding. Turning colder as the day goes by.

My cholesterol has always been very good, well under 200, my LDL stays around 80. Never had high cholesterol even though I've been overweight and eaten less than perfectly at times.

PJSprog · Mar 14, 2017

28°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 34° today. Started snowing as I was crossing the river into St. Louis. Big flakes, but not too heavy. Looking for 50s and 60s towards the end of the week.

Wife made a drive to Perryville MO yesterday morning to meet with a potential adopter for our foster dog, an Australian Shepherd we've had since just before Xmas. Everyone got along great, and Piper has a new human to train and a cattle farm to work near Sikeston MO. :thumbsup:

PJSprog · Mar 14, 2017

RoyJackson said:
Very true...as if New York City didn't already have enough snowflakes...

Now THAT's funny. :laughing:

Thomas · Mar 14, 2017

Buppies said:
Thomas be safe heavy wet snow heart attack time

Yes Sir no need to take chance. :thumbsup:

If holds true snow should be all fluff,which means more drifting.

hawkeye08 · Mar 14, 2017

Oh Happy day! Yes, master toilet has been shutting off properly and when I booted up my work computer this morning, I was able to login and work. After some meetings, I will check to see if all issues are resolved or not, but looking good at this point.

Propane heating stove still won't come on (pilot is working fine), neither on thermostat or manual. First time ever it won't start on manual. I will try and have a look later today, might just be a bad switch.

42F this morning, coffee tastes very good.

txdon · Mar 14, 2017

Good morning! 38˚at sunrise and 55˚ now and very sunny.

Drew balance should be a mixture of good foods not a mixture of pie, which you said had lots of fat, and good no-fat salad. Balance would be foods consisting of Vegetables, Whole grains, Fruits, Legumes, and nuts/seeds. What you described as balance is just a mixture of healthy and unhealthy foods. When at the Doctor's, along with your other numbers find out your BMI to determine if you need to modify your diet. Modifying diet can also be used to decrease any medications you are on.

Listen, I do not care what you or anyone post on what you eat. Most people eat for pleasure, so enjoy, even if you are or are not on any medication, unhealthy or healthy, within your BMI or obese it's your choice and pleasure. But once you insinuate a certain food is healthy (or balanced) you might get challenged.
(Had a cousin that had a heart attack and she was over yesterday for information so I'm in a critical mode, her cardiologist told her nothing - off soapbox.)

Need to get my Dad's tractor out and lift up a cattle guard and clean out the sand. The cows are coming into his yard.
Have a safe snow/ice/blizzard day up North.

daugen · Mar 14, 2017

Don, the pie had very little fat in it, it was stuffed with sour cherries packed in water which I don't think have any fat in them at all.
The crust was fatty, they all are, but this was a very thin crust. It had 3/4 of a cup of sugar added (that's what I need a tasty alternative to) instead of the one
cup called for in the recipe, but other than spices, nothing else in the pie.

If I die with a piece of pie in my fork, I sure will die happy.
and the balance I talk about is avoiding all junk food, snacking on carrots, etc.
A healthier lifestyle, not the healthiest. My numbers have never been high, came off statins and stayed off them,
sugar is borderline but not over. And I understand that I have to work at it to keep them that way.
Maybe it's because I don't have kids that I take a bit more fatalistic, but hopefully not stupid, approach to this by
saying there are certain things I'm just not going to cut out entirely.
As long as other risk factors are in line, nonsmoker and minimal drinker, I'm going to try to not worry so much.
Worry can be unhealthy too. If that sounds like I'm sticking my head in the sand, sorry, it's just my sense of balance.
And if my BMI is a little high, well so be it. I have other worse physical challenges that have nothing to do with diet.

Don, your advice has been wonderful and I'm grateful for it. It really makes sense to me that a plant based diet is
healthier for us, to be herbivores. It's why I'm now barbecuing black bean veggie burgers. And I owe it to you for waking me
up to do this. I now eat more salmon and veggie burgers than beef, and eat them in a pita pocket size thing with minimal bread.