Good morning!!!!

[ronjhall]

Temperature dropped 24° in little over 1/2 hour. 1” of rain. Now 66°. Worst of the storm hit to west of me. Do not see any damage at my place. Power was out for a few minutes.

 

[daugen]

Are you going in for continued PT or as a resident?

No when I leave I leave. I will be religiously walking local sidewalks every morning for long time. Walked 40 minutes today with no cane, man am I tired though...
if raining, will walk inside hallways, but walk, walk walk. Medicare might offer some PT, shall see.

almost sounds like a party outside my room, really looking forward to quiet after move.

 

[toppop52]

Drew, glad to see you improving, body and mind.
It’s been in the 90’s for several days with no rain, walking on the grass makes crunching sounds, and it’s turning brown. Looks like some rain showers tomorrow.
Got some more adjustments to my meds today, haven’t gotten them right yet, no Afib for a couple of weeks, but feeling like crap, especially mornings.

I measured some window for some friends this morning, I had to guide him through what would and would not work.

Have a good night. God bless.

 

[Jim Nelson]

Drew, glad to see you improving, body and mind.
It’s been in the 90’s for several days with no rain, walking on the grass makes crunching sounds, and it’s turning brown. Looks like some rain showers tomorrow.
Got some more adjustments to my meds today, haven’t gotten them right yet, no Afib for a couple of weeks, but feeling like crap, especially mornings.

I measured some window for some friends this morning, I had to guide him through what would and would not work.

Have a good night. God bless.

Hey Randy,if I remember right you are on blood thinners after your valve job. When I had a botched stent procedure I was put on thinners and really went down hill almost daily. After about a month my primary doc looked over my latest blood work and said " You're anemic and need a transfusion A.S.A.P." I fought this for a little over 2 years getting 10 transfusions, probably 15 iron infusions and several other treatments until I finally saw a cardiologist who knew what he was doing and told me to stop the thinners immediately. I did and now my hemoglobin is normal again and I feel much better.
Just a thought that may have something to do with your feeling lousy.

I don't know how long you have to stay on the thinner after your procedure but with my stent it was only 1 year.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 60F for the start,mostly clear, light wind. Wind kicked back up today, did slow down this evening, sky stayed mostly clear, and high temp was 88F. Back in 90's for rest od 10 day no rain, humidity rebuilding. Cleaning lady prep this morning, followed by bike ride, and nap.
catching up from yesterday:
Ted, sorry about the wind yesterday, ours kicked up but not like your wind. Sounds like long morning at groomers.
Drew good to hear you have a date to get out, counting the days. Just don't let the fact you can't help get you down
RS that helmet does not look bad
Today's postings:
Billy poison ivy very invasive, and a challenge to control.
Don glad you have better weather for the cedarcide
Thomas wonder why peanut late?
Ron hope you were able to stay cool, very nice moon pic
RNG good luck finishing the tractor mods
Newbury, thanks for the story
Mike I can thing of worst things to do than clean thew pool
RS hope the weather did not break anything.
Rick nice work on the RFM
Ted good to hear your positive experience with Drew's potential care givers.
David good luck at Dr and shopping
Drew they are celebrating your pending release!!
Randy good to hear no afib, hope they get meds right soon
prayers for all especially Drew's pending release
stay safe and healthy

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Unfortunately correct. I went to renew a couple of plates about a month ago, and the lady told me I should wait on the trailer sticker, as there were rumors that would be going back down. It didn't happen, so I renewed it this past weekend. $118 for a one year renewal on our Rice utility trailer (3K lbs and under). Our gasoline tax was raised last July, which doubled from 19¢ to 38¢/gal.

It is often quite maddening to live in Illinois.

About $75 here. Title application is about $30ish. For Trailers.

Cannot disagree with a single word here, David.
That ... is a beautiful story.
My coworkers are surely wondering why I'm laughing out loud here in my office.

I've always found it entertaining that probably 90% of my long-haired musician friends are conservatives, completely opposite of what most people seem to expect from us.

Got a chuckle out of that.

Here's the nest the Carolina wren built in my hat. I don't think they are going to use it...the male often builds multiple nests and let's the female pick the one she likes. We all did that for our wives, right?

another chuckle.

Crimson clover seeds in bucket after hogging. Sometimes I'll lower the bucket and collect some to save for spreading in fall.View attachment 659214

Nice. Tommy James and the Shondells.

Tommy James and the Shondells - Crimson & Clover - YouTube

Took the carb on the rider apart again. Actually looking at the needle valve in the scope. It does have a small concentric ring where it fits it's seat. Kawasaki does not sell a "Kit". You have to buy the parts individually...which is cost prohibitive if the ebay carbs are decent....OEM carb is about $200, Ebay about $70 I have yet to try out the mower to see if it helped. I keep getting air bubbles in my fuel filter. It has new fuel lines, and I checked with a vacuum pump and it seemed to hold vacuum....

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Ron, great pic of the moon.

"When the moon hits your eye, like a big pizza pie, that's amore"

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Drew, glad to see you improving, body and mind.
It痴 been in the 90痴 for several days with no rain, walking on the grass makes crunching sounds, and it痴 turning brown. Looks like some rain showers tomorrow.
Got some more adjustments to my meds today, haven稚 gotten them right yet, no Afib for a couple of weeks, but feeling like crap, especially mornings.

I measured some window for some friends this morning, I had to guide him through what would and would not work.

Have a good night. God bless.

Hey Randy,if I remember right you are on blood thinners after your valve job. When I had a botched stent procedure I was put on thinners and really went down hill almost daily. After about a month my primary doc looked over my latest blood work and said " You're anemic and need a transfusion A.S.A.P." I fought this for a little over 2 years getting 10 transfusions, probably 15 iron infusions and several other treatments until I finally saw a cardiologist who knew what he was doing and told me to stop the thinners immediately. I did and now my hemoglobin is normal again and I feel much better.
Just a thought that may have something to do with your feeling lousy.

I don't know how long you have to stay on the thinner after your procedure but with my stent it was only 1 year.

Randy, are you still needing to take extra sodium?

 

[sodamo]

Good day overall, just a bit long, especially at Dr office, but wife is ready for surgery 6/20.

Lunch was a very unexpected treat. By chance we decided to swing by one of our favorite Japanese restaurants and found out today was their 1st day back to dining in, we were 2nd table seated. Food excellent as always. They had taken the opportunity to make some physical improvements like refinishing tables, adding a nice outdoor area. They did take out previously but apparently thrived doing so during shutdown. This was the first restaurant we ate at in Hilo before moving, so seemed a bit special. Enjoyed the appetizer specials of tempura soft shell crab and a sizzling mushroom platter but fell back to my old standby of tempura and sashimi combo. First time eating out since March.

TSC was sold out of hydro fluid, must have been a good price, so I picked up 15 gal at regular supplier, but I don’t know the price, will get invoiced.

Walmart was a bit of a madhouse, but wife’s prescription refill was ready and able to get travel size sanitizer for trip.

 

[rswyan]

70F @ 00:00 ... high hit 88F today.

That line of strong storms came through earlier ... we were under a severe thunderstorm alert, 60+ mph winds, heavy rain ... looks like that storm spawned a tornado - warning was issued for Columbiana, OH due east of us. Wind blew a lot here ... but I didn't hear any branches breaking or trees falling.

Called and got a price of recharging and recertifying the three 10lb fire extinguishers, need to drop those off later today.

Started working on the doors for the last (bottom) row of shelving and I ran into a problem: There are three triangular shelving brackets I use to store steel mounted to the outside of the shelving uprights and the heads of the bolts would likely drag/interfere with the sliding doors. So I ran down to the hardware store and picked up 9 flathead Philips screws and counter-sunk the heads, replacing all the original bolts.

Amazon dropped off the Dr. Scholl's insoles earlier today ... I haven't opened the package yet, but I'm liking the look (and the thickness) of them ... :thumbsup:

Wearing the new boots, my feet did not hurt at all today.

Haven't had tempura in ages ... hopefully will dream about it some tonight ...