Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

Phil, those trac vacs work wonderfully, but if you fill them up, so hard to get the leaves out.
I had a DR model, and always got filthy trying to unload it, wound up wearing half of it.
suck 'em up

 

[scootr]

a very interesting morning, starting with endocrinologist.
I asked him about Ozempic. He smiled and said I didn't qualify, AIC has to hit 6.5 and I'm still at 6.0
So not type 2 diabetes so my prescription coverage isn't going to cover it.
But he did say the results from using Mounjaro was remarkable.

It seems to work remarkably well in reducing food consumption in addition to lowering AIC.
Remarkably well....which is why the worldwide market is simply going off the charts.
And wow what a moneymaker.
No insurance? 1200 bucks a month. 40 dollars a day...for four injections you do yourself.
Best price I could find was thankfully at my own supermarket:

Mounjaro​

1 carton 4 pens of 5mg/0.5ml

$990.32

Lilly hit a serious home run with this drug.
Overweight folks seem to have a magic pill.
of course, then one has to read the warning page of nasty side effects
possibly for ten percent of the folks taking it.

so is the gain of being skinny worth the risk of pancreatitis or kidney failure?

since I am technically....morbidly obese (240) , basically doc told me this morning to go spend the money.
his patients seem thrilled with it. They are clearly wealthy folks who spend this much a month on their lattes....

I'm going to wait until I see my primary doc in two weeks, get his opinion.

with my head spinning from that conversation, I headed to the Volvo dealer to get help with replacing the battery in the key fob.
One day notice and it died. Thankfully the spare worked fine. Ordered a pack of four new 2032s online. But I had one left and the guy
there helped me replace. Or tried to. He couldn't either. There is a tiny little indent you push and one side of the case comes off.
we both found that one. Then there is another totally hidden
indent to get the other side off, under which the battery hides. Finally he had to ask for help too, that was embarrassing and mechanic came out and showed us both how to do it. Reminds me of Audi, unnecessarily complicated. Makes cost of key fob nuts.

I left with fresh battery installed, and came home to a nice blue sky day

RNG, glad the inspection went well. Preplanning is always good.
Drop some donuts off to the fire house once in a while.
No one knows better than you the importance of firemen...

At 6.0 A1c you are entering type 2 territory unless you change your eating and living habits. You don't need medication. You need to educate yourself on proper diet and exercise to avoid a higher reading later. Good Luck and good health.

 

[daugen]

At 6.0 A1c you are entering type 2 territory unless you change your eating and living habits. You don't need medication. You need to educate yourself on proper diet and exercise to avoid a higher reading later. Good Luck and good health.

thanks, I'm not uneducated here, but clearly my love of bread and carbs is stronger than my will power.
I avoid sugar almost entirely. Also, taking hydrocortisone daily doesn't help the sugar situation so I've got some complications.
including a bad back that reduces my ability to walk any distance.
I brought my cholesterol totally in line by working on my diet. But overall weight, just hasn't worked.

my yellow warning light came on. Fully intend to stay out of the red...

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I hate Monday, it's always a difficult day because it was the weekend before

Welcome to TBN.

 

[NHBX]

I hate Monday, it's always a difficult day because it was the weekend before

I love Monday, let’s me know I survived another weekend!
Welcome

 

[sodamo]

69°F and no rain. Had to transfer water into the pool

Off to Pahoa town later this morning. Meet Sophie’s brother and GF for a late lunch. First time down that way in quite a spell.

Gonna try to get walk in vaccinations at Safeway enroute.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[fiddlearound]

Hey Don, I was guessing that you were using Tanya's auction company.
I've bought a lot of stuff from her through the years.

 

[Buppies]

Tell your daughter to be safe m7040

Chilly outside 50 breezy

BEF your son and I share a common b day Im just way older

 

[kenmbz]

Happy Birthday Buppies, hope you are feeling better.

 

[sodamo]

Interesting watching you guys transition into fall, great pics.
Never liked raking leaves. OK, maybe as a kid when we’d jump and play in the pile, but never as a clean up thing. Didn’t make me real popular with some of my southern neighbors. My reply was, “God put them there, he’ll remove them when he wants”

 

[sodamo]

Happy Birthday, boys

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Tell your daughter to be safe m7040

Chilly outside 50 breezy

BEF your son and I share a common b day Im just way older

Happy Birthday Buppies!!!!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

57 out.
Mowed all the grass. At times the sun almost came out, other times a light sprinkle of rain, not enough to register.
A crew is reroofing the neighbors rental house on the other side of them, the original farm house for our land.
Forgot to get a pic of the trees in front starting to turn. Will get them later.

 

[NHBX]

Happy birthday Buppies

 

[daugen]

Interesting watching you guys transition into fall, great pics.
Never liked raking leaves. OK, maybe as a kid when we’d jump and play in the pile, but never as a clean up thing. Didn’t make me real popular with some of my southern neighbors. My reply was, “God put them there, he’ll remove them when he wants”

nothing beats living next to woods
just blow them back in...with a little help from whatever divine source put them there.
one of those big three point pto blowers would be the cat's meow, in a cabbed tractor.

very pleased with my Makita cordless blower. Have both sizes,both are excellent and the large one is relatively quiet.
The smaller one is marvelous for cleaning out radiator screens and engine compartment junk, but it makes quite an unpleasant whine.

now living up on top of the hill/mountain as you do David, seems
gravity is your friend.

which begs the question
if your tree leaves all blow over into your neighbor's yard or property, and
someone is going to have to deal with it, what is the right approach?
Now if it's a tree limb, sure, your tree, your problem.
but what about the leaves?

I'm visioning a line of gingko trees like we had on our farm, dropping their awful smelly rotting
fruit on a neighbor's property. Gingkos are very pretty trees.
but their fruit was like rotting flesh.
always a challenge not stepping on it and tracking it into house.
like dog poop.

thank goodness for cordless blowers.
I actually used a corded one for many years on a small property
and it was surprisingly powerful. And it never broke, always worked

 

[Thomas]

Wishing you many many more trips around the sun Buppies.

 

[Thomas]

50F cloudy.
Been long day doing leave control dealing with quick heavy passing showers and swirling winds,did finish must be little stubbornness with in me.

Plans for evening dinner feet up might little football if I can keep the lids open.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[Thomas]

Later this morning I have a doctors appointment with primary care physician, have to see this guy at least twice a year to keep getting my blood pressure medication ! Fortunately I only take one prescribed med, but seems crazy to go to see this guy all the time if Im not really sick !

My cardiologist somewhat the same,every 4 month he schedules meet and greet and chat mostly about everything but what appointment for.
Doctor has very little sense of humor,I ask him question and confuse him.

 

[scootr]

I had a buddy who would only rake leaves on the windiest of days, and then rake vigorously with big sweeping motions with the wind.

Basically a be free, be free effort.

 

[txdon]

At Costco today.
Pick up my temporary handicap placard today and used it at Costco and immediately regretted it after a car with a worse off passenger than me, I had just a cane, She had to be helped into the store. She must have been 100 years old.