Good morning!!!!

[hawkeye08]

I am laughing this morning... plenty of work, waking at 5am to get started on trying to get some things done before it gets crazy. First conference call at 6am with new challenges that need to be solved, normally easy, but the folks that have that knowledge were laid off. We will need to spend crazy amount of time figuring out things that would take a few hours by someone experienced.

Never too old to learn things, this is so true as I am learning crazy amount of things daily. I could ask my former team member that was terminated, but that is not right.

 

[farmer2009]

17 this morning and headed to 44 today.

Wife is doing better today. She’s hurting still. If she’d quit trying to avoid the pain medicine and use it correctly then she wouldn’t be in as bad of shape. But she was also down several days when she had her wisdom teeth cut out in ‘05.

Take care of chickens and cows today. Then not sure what I’ll do till time to go get the boys from school and daycare.


This is the spout I’ve switched all my cans over too. Looked really hard at the no spill cans yesterday but just couldn’t figure out how to make them reach the fuel cap on the ranger. It’s kind of recessed. New 5 gal. can with spout $13 yesterday at TSC. No spill was $35.

Edit. They flow a whole lot faster than most carb spouts and almost as fast as the old vented versions. Plus they are auto shutoff.

 

[Bird]

Doctor recommended Gaviscon last visit, Buppies. He said the liquid form would work a lot faster than any pill, and he's been right. I was on Prilosec for years and that caused other issues. Now the Gaviscon is good for when I get a flair up. Hope you find your own cure; acid in your mouth is no fun!

I took a Gaviscon tablet every night before I went to bed for years. That started when I learned that I had a hiatal hernia about 1974. But after 10 or 12 years, a doctor recommended that I stop that. And I've learned that the terrific chest pains I get can be relieved very promptly with just a couple of swallows of any carbonated beverage; preferably 7-Up.

 

[daugen]

Am really sympathizing with Buppies this morning.
I have Tums sitting at my desk and in the kitchen, take a double dose of Prevacid every day due to Gerd, acid reflux, you name it.
Scarred the bottom of my vocal cords at one point, which lowered and roughened my voice permanently. That was not a fun hospital visit, very
worrisome, thinking I had cancer of the neck.

Worse is my Father died of esophageal cancer (cigars) and acid reflux is a known cause of that cancer. In addition to smoking and booze.
No hot sauce, no breath mints (mints of all things are a problem), no stuffing meals, no eating hours before bed, etc etc.
Bad feeling, like you have a pool of burning acid down there. And milk while easy was never long lasting for me.
Thankfully OTC antacids seem to help a little.
Buppies, don't leave home without them...or whatever you need.
Sorry you are going through this. Hopefully you can get fast relief with new meds. Ultimately I guess we have to eat our way out of these
problems, like gout right? And Diabetes. Heart disease.
Easier said than done, though Don is a walking testimony to the power of changing one's diet.


been a little heavy most of my life. I need to take off one more 20 pound bag of birdseed I'm carrying around my middle.
Plus I'm a pear shape. Kind of like having an X on your back...when 100 percent of prior gens have died of cancer of some sort.

All this and the future of man I intend to ponder while taking the Super A out this afternoon in the sunshine. There are some things I can control, like the straightness
of this row, and many things I can't control. Seems like more of the latter as I get older. So you have to be flexible, go with it, and keep your sense of humor.
Which I will surely lose if that old tractor starts smoking on me. How could I have burned up this nicely redone engine in two hours?
It never ever smoked before. Of course, it never got hot....the evidence mounts. Thankfully it runs just fine.

Now if you believe those magic engine elixers, I could just pour some in and it would all clear up.
Of course if it was a sticking ring and something unfroze it, maybe it could.

I'm more worried about running premium unleaded through it, and I'm just not going to breath that exhaust if I put lead additive in it.
I'd have to wear a chemical mask...talk about a known carcinogen.

Can't stay inside while the sun is shining.
Going to plant some new raspberry bushes down near the edge of the woods.

 

[lostcreekranch]

My bride suffered from “reflux” issues for last 4-5 years. It resulted from a hiatal hernia. She had hiatal hernia repair surgery done last summer and got immediate and complete relief from reflux after the surgery.

A very close friend, who suffered from reflux but, didn’t do anything about it but *****, died from esophageal cancer less than 3 month after diagnosis.

 

[toppop52]

17 this morning and headed to 44 today.

Wife is doing better today. She’s hurting still. If she’d quit trying to avoid the pain medicine and use it correctly then she wouldn’t be in as bad of shape. But she was also down several days when she had her wisdom teeth cut out in ‘05.

Take care of chickens and cows today. Then not sure what I’ll do till time to go get the boys from school and daycare.

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This is the spout I’ve switched all my cans over too. Looked really hard at the no spill cans yesterday but just couldn’t figure out how to make them reach the fuel cap on the ranger. It’s kind of recessed. New 5 gal. can with spout $13 yesterday at TSC. No spill was $35.

Edit. They flow a whole lot faster than most carb spouts and almost as fast as the old vented versions. Plus they are auto shutoff.

That’s why I like my new one, very fast and auto shut off. The short spout is a benefit to me, but if you have a reach situation I understand how that one works better. Everything I have has surface mounted lids, so long spouts cause problems.

 

[toppop52]

I lived on Tums for years, stopped all alcohol and cleared up the reflux completely. I wasn’t a heavy drinker or daily drinker but it did a number on my digestive tract. Caffeine can cause minor problems for me if I get too much, same with dairy.

 

[daugen]

I lhttp://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/rural-living/223701-good-morning-new-post.htmlived on Tums for years, stopped all alcohol and cleared up the reflux completely. I wasn’t a heavy drinker or daily drinker but it did a number on my digestive tract. Caffeine can cause minor problems for me if I get too much, same with dairy.

that's good to know, I love cheese and I drink too much coffee, to offset falling asleep from arthritis meds.
I kind of wonder if I should stop them all and try a homeopathic approach. Bit of a chicken to try since Celebrex works
so well for me, let's me keep doing all the things I do. Which is also part of my problem, throttling back.

But I spent so many years taking car of my wife, doing nothing but that mostly, that when I finally started a new chapter in my life
by moving here and buying this little farm, my foot has been down hard on the pedal trying to make up for lost time.
All those things I dreamed of while sitting in those hospital chairs year after year. So it's hard to slow down.
I thought of that last night, as I finished my tenth tray of seedlings. Here I am with a small nursery operation.
And those docs told me twenty years ago I'd likely be in a wheel chair in ten years.
So modern medicine has been very good to me. Most of the time.

And I try to be smart, and wear my soft collar as much as I can, particularly driving.
I think the locals think I'm a retired priest....

It's the eating part I fail at. Have made some changes, just not enough. Sound familiar?
I need to go to third gear from a current first...

Have always felt lucky because I don't get sick very much. Mostly because I don't have kids.
But my karma was the aches and pains dept. Seems the more you used your body over sixty or seventy years, the more it comes
back to remind you of your relatively high mileage. And of all the maintenance required and parts needed to keep this creaking
machine running.

I said years ago I should have been born with greasable zerks. Since my sealed for life components clearly weren't.

 

[Bird]

My bride suffered from “reflux” issues for last 4-5 years. It resulted from a hiatal hernia. She had hiatal hernia repair surgery done last summer and got immediate and complete relief from reflux after the surgery.

A very close friend, who suffered from reflux but, didn’t do anything about it but *****, died from esophageal cancer less than 3 month after diagnosis.

My mother had that hiatal hernia repair surgery done many, many years ago and it was great for her. One of my own doctors, some years later, was watching mine on a scope and told me, "Years ago we'd have done surgery to fix that, but not anymore." He said the problem was not as bad as heart trouble, but the surgery was worse than open heart surgery. So I've not had that surgery.

 

[PJSprog]

18°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 44° today.

Tummy has been "disagreeable" for the last couple of days. Spent much of yesterday either in bed or in the bathroom. Got little sleep again last night. No fever or any other flu-like stuff, just flushing everything I put in me. So it goes.

Looks like you've been enjoying that Super A, Drew ... muddy or not.