Good morning!!!!

[mostly_gas]

Good morning all. 76F this morning, sunny and near calm winds. Forecast for 101F, and chance for rain tomorrow disappearing like my soil moisture. Trip into town on agenda but not sure why we haven't left yet.:confused3: More power washing, back porch and driveway still need it. Need to finish painting garage so I can organize it.

 

[mostly_gas]

Dave (moss) good to hear from you sounds like progress on most fronts. :thumbsup:

Dave(1949) You my be too late to get that finger to heal nicely. I can relate to the injury, lot of smash/rip finger injuries in tool making/repair.

Drew glad your date went well. :drink:

 

[sodamo]

71°F and .03 inches rain since midnight.

Got some more mowing in yesterday.

Glad to hear your good news David, MFW.

Be safe
Have a great day

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[sodamo]

Drew, glad to hear you made a new friend.

Dave, ouch! Careful of infection. I just learned that Hydrogen Peroxide is a good initial cleanser, but should be avoided during the healing process as it can wash away the new cells, but a dilute iodine wash is good.

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[dave1949]

Drew, glad to hear you made a new friend.

Dave, ouch! Careful of infection. I just learned that Hydrogen Peroxide is a good initial cleanser, but should be avoided during the healing process as it can wash away the new cells, but a dilute iodine wash is good.

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Thanks, I just learned that too, about 2 hours ago. :laughing: That's what the doc said, good initial cleaner but can be detrimental to healing later. The doc thinks it will heal okay. Soak in Epsom Salts water morning & evening, try to shift the skin into a more normal position when soft from soaking, keep using the antibiotic salve, plus she prescribed an oral antibiotic for one week.

Larro, worms under the skin is a lot freakier than an injury; I don't blame you for hitting the ER. So many parasites if left untreated can do serious liver or intestinal damage.

 

[txdon]

My Acurite weather station has just recorded a new high for the year at 112˚ - heat index 120˚, but my old mercury thermometer says 98˚. All I know it is very hot and our Subaru needs me to put on it's fixed flat tire (averaging 1 flat a month). . . .maybe a little later . . . .

Good news - we have Fermentation bubbles! The strained wild mustang grapes, sugar and flour smell like grandma's kitchen when she was baking bread. This might actually work - time to make the bread.

More good news - The Dr. says my wife's stainless steal "slapper" is healed, she can hold up to 2 pounds, and she can begin physical therapy. (The foreign Dr. on the ship called her wrist a slapper and we continue to joke about it. I never did get to ask him from which county he got his medical degree.)

 

[daugen]

Don, are you making beer or bread?

Man Dave, I'd get that stitched but it's on your hand. They have some neat super glue that works also. Hope you don't have neuropathy issues down the road there. you sure get the big ouch award
and I got my medical degree in the cheese biscuit bag...:dance1:
Glad you are doing better Larro. And Don, best wishes for a quick recovery on your wife's implement of your control...whap!

disappointing day. First my trailer tire is flat as can be, bad valve stem. Luckily my "big" helper came today and took the tire off for me, we went downtown to a friend, guy fixed it while I waited, would not take twenty bucks, groused at taking ten bucks. He stops what he's doing, working in this ancient old time garage, with tires and parts and crud piled everywhere, looking like it hadn't changed in 100 years. No tire changing equipment, yet he clearly did lots of truck tire work. Man must know his tire irons. So that part was very nice and we also dropped off the orchard sprayer to the authorized Honda dealer and left him equally puzzled why the motor ran so poorly.

When I got home my local realtor called and we had a long talk about return on investment for the new garage I was considering. In a nutshell, there is no ROI. He said local property values would not support my spending that kind of money on a workshop/garage and expect to get anything out of it. The only thing that makes/made sense financially was to pour a level pad down by the barn, put a roofed carport over it, and spend as little as possible, but still give me the ability to roll certain heavy implements on concrete. That was my number one priority anyway. Worse, he said I likely would not get the six figure cost of renovations I put into the place so far out of it. You never get everything out, usually, but this was all a very negative outlook. Lot of net worth burned up. Only so much any of us can take doing that so I decided to just say no. Folded my cards and going to just do something simple. Will take the money saved and put a new roof on the house in the next two years.

Well, that does free up more money for a boat!

farmer, I bet right now you have your hands full with a gazillion little cheepers.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

Dave, I am a medical professional. Go to the ER today, as in now. You'll likely need part of your finger amputated but if you wait it could be the entire finger. Please go.

 

[txdon]

Don, are you making beer or bread?

It's in the bread machine - it's jut too hot to turn on the oven. I'll let you know if I get a buzz after two slices!:thumbsup:




Edit: Just went for the evening walk at sunset - 99˚ Whipper made it eventful. First she chased a spike deer into the cow pen and the deer's spikes got stuck in the cattle panel. I was heading back to the barn to grab my bolt cutters when Whipper ran around to the outside of the pen and chased the deer backwards and it freed itself.

Next a copperhead was crossing the road in front of us and right as Whipper got within a foot of it it struck at her, she grabbed it and gave it a shake. She then went for a second shake and did so so violently that she fell down hard on her side. I thought she had the snake under her but when she got up there was no snake under her - apparently the second shake was an air shake. The first shake was sufficient as we walk by the copperhead as not moving.

 

[dave1949]

Dave, I am a medical professional. Go to the ER today, as in now. You'll likely need part of your finger amputated but if you wait it could be the entire finger. Please go.

I did go to the doc this afternoon. I think it's under control but thanks for the concern. The doc said let it heal under the flap of skin if it will and she seemed to be confident that it would. She agrees with me that the skin is going to slough off eventually, there's just not enough left attached to keep it alive. Said to not pick at it when it gets to be a scab and come back anytime I think I need to. I'm taking a week's course of 14 cephalexin 500 mg twice a day and applying triple antibiotic ointment.

If I see red streaks going up my arm instead of blue veins, I'll worry. Been there and done that. But as of now it's not infected, throbbing, warm, etc. I think this is the best way to have a chance of a normal pad again on that finger eventually.