Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

Top pop, we share an anniversary, except mine is when I got GBS a year ago today. At least that’s the day I noticed it in my legs.
Drove camper home the 7th, could barely walk into ER the morning of the 9th. By 10th I couldn’t walk at all.
Been noticing more tingling in my feet lately.

Working at office this week.

No AC at the farm, but was manageable with fans running. Outside in the shade during the day.

My sister had told me of a brick oven pizza place near Cumberland Md. we stopped on the way to Ohio, and got about the best pizzas I ever had. So on way back to MD we picked up 2 more.

Uneasy rider is my favorite Charlie Daniels song, RIP.

3 more months of pictures dated and labeled tonight, probably did about 600 or so. 2 more months to get caught up, then start scanning more photos from my parents. Too hot to work outside.
Stormed all around us, but none here. Grass is drying up.
I hear RVs are selling well. Hope you get a good price Drew.
I still need to install new awning on mine. I bought it, never opened the box yet.
Wife made blackberry jam today. Tomorrow she’s making sour cherry jam.
Got some sour cherry juice, but haven’t tried it yet.

Neighbor did this.
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Good neighbor, Dennis

 

[daugen]

good morning all. 75 degrees out, 90% humidity, showers this afternoon, normal summer stuff
up very early, slept too much yesterday, plus got to thinking about crazy high bill I got from pharmacy supplying the
assisted living place I'm at. My normal drugstore copays are 70 dollars a month, Medicare part D. Got a bill for almost 400 dollars,
researched pharmacy, a specialty chain dealing only with nursing homes and assisted living. Hmmmm.

Time to discontinue "prescription management" which already costs me 600 dollars a month, and go back to local drugstore.
I expect to get driving privileges back next week and will sign up at local Walgreens which is in same shopping center as Food Lion, 1/2 miles from here.
I think current setup is big convenience to assisted living and very poor value to patients, many of whom can't understand the billing. I can...
Need to confront local "health and wellness coordinator" who is simply not doing her job. I'm supposed to be on baby aspirin to prevent blood clots, have mentioned it to her in writing twice, including last Thursday morning, and Friday she takes off for long weekend and hadn't done anything. Thankfully I have my own supply...which they don't like at all. As of end of day monday, still no aspirin on med list. Might be an unhappy meeting this morning but I have to manage my own health and not rely on others.

hoping my call to rv dealer today goes well. Yes Kyle, thank you, already have the "you already made one good profit off me" approach prepared. Plus I know you have no inventory and one of my rvtrader calls came from a guy in dealer's home town, so I know folks are looking. Unfortunately that guy had two kids and needed a second berth, not my dual recliners.

Haven't heard back from buyer of my farm after inspection yesterday, honestly waiting for some ridiculous demand for something based on their track record. House was left spotless by cleaning service, barns and sheds swept/blown out by conscientious neighbor. I will be very happy to get this behind me, dealing with unreliable poorly intentioned folks makes me very uneasy. Buyer asks his realtor to find out what internet provider I used, I told them and then (jokingly) said anything more would cost them... They are missing out on a lot of helpful maintenance info on the tractor, mower, orchard spraying, etc etc.

time for a shower and a second cup of coffee. Chemo must be giving me dry skin as I'm peeling/flaking all over, time for some skin lotion.

 

[sodamo]

Mostly, ours is a contract PO, so only part time. 8-11am normal hours weekdays.
Population here only about 200.

 

[Buppies]

Happy belated Anniversary BEF

66 high of 89 more humidity trimming shrubs I pick up wife trims

Prayers for Drew Kyles daughter our country and all others

Kyle ok I guess

 

[Buppies]

Drew you have the patience of Jobe

 

[sodamo]

I associate nooks and crannies with English muffins.

 

[daugen]

Drew you have the patience of Jobe

that's a nice way of putting it, thank you. Sometimes I think I'm overly demanding but one thing I learned being caregiver to my wife for 7 years, is that medical
profession makes a lot mistakes, some minor, some not so minor. Hospital was concerned enough about the aspirin to leave four messages for me...worried about blood clots.
Clearly that worry did not transfer to the folks who were supposed to be handling it...
Plus I have a finance background, do numbers well, and can tell if things are "off". At the same time, always try to use honey instead of a stick, always try to de-escalate,
talk in terms of solutions, and avoid making things personal. This is what I learned managing my own businesses and then someone else's as GM with 186 employees reporting to me. Always look for solutions, and always give compliments for job well done. But when things aren't working, need to stand up for myself.
Trust but verify...
Or as I learned in the 60's, question authority. Authority doesn't always mean right...but questioning authority doesn't have to be obnoxious or impolite either.

I think the tractor hanging the flag was just marvelous. Perfect use for a FEL!

 

[RoyJackson]

2020-07-07, 0620

59 right now...high in the low 80's.
Last day of vacation...Can't say I want to go back to work...getting old...getting tired of it.
Main thing for today is do a dump run...after that, we'll see...

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning all.

Ron, thanks for the Chemistry lesson, this day just wouldn't have been complete without learning about an "oligomer derived from three identical precursors often in competition with polymerization." :confused2:

LS, are you sure that pic was a sunset and not a bomb exploding at the timber yard ?

a suppressor is going to cost $800-$1200, plus the tax stamp ($200)
Wow Roy, they sure know how to charge for a short tube with holes. I would be worried all that gold would make your barrel too heavy. :laughing: . https://wildcatmoderators.co.uk/complete-moderators.html

 

[Eric Salop]

Looks like we are in for quite a bit of rain today.

Not sure what effect that will have on the level of the water in the pond that has been draining down for the last week or so. Yesterday it had gone down about as far as gravity will take it. I would like to get on with putting in a concrete sluice this summer, but was unsure about the time it would take to go through whatever approval process was needed. There are several different public organisations potentially involved, the water people at the environment agency have been ok to deal with in the past, but it was looking like they only take the lead on rivers, this was more likely to need local authority consent, which can be .... interesting.

I spent a few hours on the internet to try and discover what was likely to be involved and then came up with this little gem (attached), which appears to be an amazing piece of common sense legislation that will make the sluice bureaucracy exempt. :cool2: