Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

Got my electric bill via email this morning...

beats getting it served with a warrant...

good luck with the tractor. Full inch of snow here, schools called off again. Even the courthouse won't open until noon.
Can you folks up North just imagine closing the county courthouse due to one inch of snow?

 

[toppop52]

I've doing the cat box all wrong!
Compost Cat - Litter Turner - farm & garden - by owner - sale

 

[jbrumberg]

"..... and acting as a patient advocate."- Daugen- Awesome post and thank you for the clarifications and perceptions. As an "honest broker" you were one of the best advocates possible. The whole process especially the redundant paperwork, is overwhelming for most people. Patient advocacy is a necessity. One can not do it alone in most cases. I have been on both sides of the disability "equation." I saw/see disability abuses by both the "disabled" and the treating "professionals" abusing the system for financial gain. I did what I could to make things "right." Those "humanoid processors" in some cubicle/closet w/o real training making what could be life/death decisions have been my biggest challenges. Either side is a " learning experience." In hindsight I was very lucky as provider and consumer. There are advocacy programs, but they are means tested and or essentially Medicare/Medicaid funded programs.

"..... Can you folks up North just imagine closing the county courthouse due to one inch of snow?"

If snow is such a rare event any amount will screw up mass transportation, etc. I am amazed at what has been going on with "Inga" and the the SW/SE/MA CONUS. 4WD/AWD really is not a perfect solution for ice and snow. One can get moving.... stopping and turning may be another "challenge"

 

[Thomas]

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Last several years seems they close many public places even if they think storm might brush by.

 

[jbrumberg]

I agree. Most of us older public schoolers walked miles to schools in the sub zero freezing cold, ice and snow, going uphill both ways We live in litigious times. School administrators/Boards are probably afraid of potential "frivolous" lawsuits from students' parents alleging this or that trauma caused by keeping a school open. Honestly I would not want to be in the position if I needed to make that call It's a "no winner." Extreme cold makes sense; it seems that many students around here nowadays have no clue about cold weather clothing or awareness nor even how to zip up their jacket zippers.

They did close the schools around here for "Inga." Most of the school closing around here are usually caused by broken watermains/pipes causing extensive damages by the resultant flooding.

 

[toppop52]

We didn't get any real snow, it fell lightly a good part of the day, and about 3 pm it looked like someone had sprinkled baby poweder on the bare spots and wooden ramps. I'm glad we didn't.

 

[Looking4new]

One thing I like about scorpions, Rock You Like A Hurricane, oh wait, wrong Scorpions...nah, there's nothing I like about scorpions!

When my Grandmother found a scorpion in the living room in Miami one Sunday she took the Miami Herald and put that on top of the scorpion before she stepped on it.

 

[sodamo]

64°F and .14 inches rain. Raining this morning.

Not much planned for today

Be safe
Have a great day

 

[DABSGT]

30 and sunny today, lots of interesting reading after missing a day

I do oil changes every 3 K on my Avalanche has over 100,000 and I like fresh oil it's recommend ever 5K, RNG like you when purchasing my wife's BMW 535 when walking out of the door they said see you at 15,000 or next year having grown up old school and changing every 3,000 I was shocked and returned long before the 15,000 even though I needed to pay. Well the car is now almost 7 years old and still 4500 miles shy of that first BMW oil change. Yep just over 10,000 I personally don't like driving it.

RIP hate hearing about your insurance problems, some of the problems started when the medical industry was tipped upside down in governments attempt to socialize medicine I personally know Doctors who retired early because as they put it dealing with and payments from insurance just didn't make scents for a private medical practice.

Toppop looking forward to photos of the new tractor

Drew great pictures of the farmall looking forward to finished product photo. Farmall is a great tractor have enjoyed Cubs, A, super C, H and Ms growing up, just finished helping my cousin sell her dads collection which also included an F12, F14 and F20. I was tempted to keep one of the Cubs but had nowhere to store it.

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[Bird]

I agree. Most of us older public schoolers walked miles to schools in the sub zero freezing cold, ice and snow, going uphill both ways We live in litigious times. School administrators/Boards are probably afraid of potential "frivolous" lawsuits from students' parents alleging this or that trauma caused by keeping a school open. Honestly I would not want to be in the position if I needed to make that call It's a "no winner." Extreme cold makes sense; it seems that many students around here nowadays have no clue about cold weather clothing or awareness nor even how to zip up their jacket zippers.

They did close the schools around here for "Inga." Most of the school closing around here are usually caused by broken watermains/pipes causing extensive damages by the resultant flooding.

My parents moved to Anchorage, AK, in 1965 and they were raising one of my little nieces at the time, so that little girl started school in Anchorage. Mother always thought it was hilarious that they closed schools because of snow in the lower 48, but not up there.

 

[Bird]

When my Grandmother found a scorpion in the living room in Miami one Sunday she took the Miami Herald and put that on top of the scorpion before she stepped on it.

I'll confess to an almost phobia where scorpions are concerned. I think I was 5 or 6 years old when, something stung me one night in bed. I thought it must be a wasp in the house, so I pulled the covers up over my head, and then got stung on the one hand that wasn't completely covered, so I pulled that hand under the covers, too. And when I got stung the 3rd time and realized that something is under these covers with me, I got out of bed yelling. Mother & Dad came running in, turned on a light, and there was a scorpion on my pillow. I never forgot that. So when we moved into a new house in 1972 that had just been built in what had been a pasture, and the first or second night in that house, I killed one scorpion on a wall and one on the floor, and the next day I had professional exterminator out there and never saw another scorpion.

 

[ronjhall]

One thing I like about scorpions, Rock You Like A Hurricane, oh wait, wrong Scorpions...nah, there's nothing I like about scorpions!

We found out our dog (my avatar) is a Scorpion Hunter. 2 times while visiting jinman she tracked them down in his house. They must have a smell that she could track. Would raise a ruckus until someone came and disposed of it.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I refuse to participate in the weather channel's naming of every cloud.

 

[toppop52]

I refuse to participate in the weather channel's naming of every cloud.

I just saw Billy Jean float by!

 

[toppop52]

Toppop looking forward to photos of the new tractor

Me too! Some kind of issue with his chicken house waterers and he's apparently been at it all day. I told him to caqll me when he gets straight, it's 125 miles each way and I want his undivided attention.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Someone could make a living being a medical insurance concierge, handling all this paperwork and acting as a patient advocate.

At some point, I'm going to need such a person. No family to do it for me when I'm no longer to do it for myself. Tried to find a professional fiduciary a couple years back, but it turned out she was partnered with an unscrupulous attorney and I ended up not trusting either one. Haven't checked recently, but at that time, she was the only one in the county.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Most of us older public schoolers walked miles to schools in the sub zero freezing cold, ice and snow, going uphill both ways

Yeah, and you were lucky if you had shoes. We didn't.:laughing:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Well the car is now almost 7 years old and still 4500 miles shy of that first BMW oil change. Yep just over 10,000 I personally don't like driving it.

Oil should be changed yearly at a minimum, as acids form from the combustion products that are very hard on engine components. And if it's got an automatic transmission, the fluid and filter should be changed at least every three years, both changes regardless of mileage or what some idiot computer under the hood says.

BMW used to recommend much shorter fluid change intervals during the three year, 36,000 mile warranty. When they started including the fluid changes at no charge during the warranty, the intervals got much longer for some reason.:confused2: If all you want is to trade the car back in for a new one at the end of the warranty, BMW's strategy makes sense. But if you want to get 100,000 or 200,000 out of it, 5,000 mile oil changes and old school intervals for the rest of the fluids will get you there. The factory intervals will likely not.

 

[rswyan]

Closet door framed in and the casing is hung ... just trying to locate the half of the hinges that should have been on the casing.

Found one, only two more to go.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

when we moved into a new house in 1972 that had just been built in what had been a pasture, and the first or second night in that house, I killed one scorpion on a wall and one on the floor, and the next day I had professional exterminator out there and never saw another scorpion.

I don't think I'd last long in Texas, Bird. Never saw a scorpion of any kind until I moved into this house. The first winter I found one on the bedroom wall, and killed it with a slipper. It was almost transparent, and folks up here call them bark scorpions. Found another one in the master bath the next year, and that spring I went around the house using up about five tubes of caulk filling every crack I could find. Haven't seen one since, but do find an occasional millipede or Mormon cricket, and would sure like to know how they're getting in!