Good morning!!!!

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Low went to 26°, up to 47 for the day. No precipitation is expected until Thursday evening into Friday. No other predictions given except "good chance of snow". Maybe a better forecast as we get closer.

Drew, good luck at the dealer. Christmas coming early?. Sounds like it's a beautiful machine.

RNG, maybe today would be the day for you to return home...I hope so. When you wrote that the Sherriff officer told you the road was open, do you think he was giving you a hint that you could make it there without any confrontation?

Thanks for the well wishes for tomorrow.

Hope everyone can stay warm and dry in the snow and weather in the east.

Have a great day, prayers sent out

 

[daugen]

Drew, good luck at the dealer. Christmas coming early?
yes, actually.
appt for tomorrow cancelled, Bush Hog reverse rotation 7 foot tiller not in.

on and off rain, not very motivated to go outside.
went to Ram dealer, expressed my concern I got three recalls in the same day's mail last week...two reflashes of the computer and one
new tailgate latch. Pretty sure this will be the seventh time they have reflashed/updated the internal computers; tech said there were two main ones.

 

[LouNY]

Drew, good luck at the dealer. Christmas coming early?
yes, actually.
appt for tomorrow cancelled, Bush Hog reverse rotation 7 foot tiller not in.

on and off rain, not very motivated to go outside.
went to Ram dealer, expressed my concern I got three recalls in the same day's mail last week...two reflashes of the computer and one
new tailgate latch. Pretty sure this will be the seventh time they have reflashed/updated the internal computers; tech said there were two main ones.

To bad on the tractor front.

On the RAM, I got the tailgate one done.
As far as the air bag flash not sure if I am going to bother with that one.
Reading on it, it just activates the side airbags in an easy tip.

 

[Jim Nelson]

Don yes the plant based diet worked well on getting rid of gout, however you said one time about it being very hard if your wife does not support you in your diet. Mine does not, and hates the diet. She does not feel well eating starch, and we are already making a special diet for the boy so my diet was a constant source of little stresses between us. Because of this I was never able to do the diet as well as I should and am now off of the diet for some time.
The study was done by a major medical school and said that gout was more likely in people of higher IQ. Don't remember much more as it has been over 20 years. My Dr told me about it an I think looked it up. O and fasting is not a good thing for people with gout, it often brings on an attack. Ed

I have had gout for years and learned quite a bit about it after finding an exceptional rheumatologist. One thing most don't know is that there are 2 kinds of gout, traditional uric acid caused gout that can be helped with diet, and pseudo gout that is caused by calcium crystals an only helped with drugs.
I have both types,starting about 25 years ago with pseudo gout, which none of the docs I went to knew anything about and treated me for uric acid gout.The only thing that helped was prednisone, allopurinol was a waste of time as was diet. I later developed uric acid gout and found that the latest favored drug for it is Colcicine,which is a great laxative but did nothing for the gout.
Then I was sent to different rheumatologist who finally did the necessary testing and figured out what is going on. He put me on a new treatment of Krystexxa infusions and my uric acid is now <.02% and in the 6 months I've been getting it I've only had one flare which was pseudo gout in a finger.These infusion are every 2 weeks and very expensive if your insurance doesn't cover them.
The biggest problem I have found with being a gout patient is that most medical people take it very lightly and know very little about it and really don't care.I was very lucky in being sent to the guy I'm seeing, problem is he is getting ready to retire and selling his practice to a lady Dr. from Canada. I just hope he can get her up to speed in the 6 month transition period.

 

[sodamo]

68°F and .07 inches rain.

Going to town later, need Propane for Cottage, HD, talk to Whitecap about concrete stain and sealer, meet gang for Happy Hour.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 50F here in Chico, CA. Mainly cloudy. High near 60F. Winds light and variable.

Still no word from the sheriff's office on lifting the evac orders, other than they're trying to give 24 hours notice, and that only seems to push out the return date by another day. I suspect that the Disaster Area declaration has put too many cooks in the kitchen, and now the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. As far as jumping road blocks, they've already killed one guy for doing it, and much as I want to go home, I don't want to that bad.

Hope things go smoothly for you tomorrow, Ted, and you get the fix you deserve. Enjoy that floaty pain free few minutes when you first awake from the anesthetic; it won't last long enough!:laughing: If you have a tendency toward nausea on awakening, tell the anesthesiologist and they'll give you something to prevent it.

Check out Tractor Supply's Cyber Monday sale; lots of discounts, lots of free shipping. I was hoping to find a 3-point disc, but none of their offerings got good reviews. Anyone have a recommendation?

Hope the week gets off to a great start for everyone!

 

[PJSprog]

30°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 33° today.

We got a whole lot of nothing from that storm last night, save for the incredibly loud howling wind that kept us both awake most of the night.

Had another fantastic Thanksgiving this year. More food than humans will ever need, and it was all delicious.

We spent most of Friday sitting around watching movies. Haven't done that in a long time.

The Wife's brother came over, and spent a couple of days with us. When she was taking him home Saturday afternoon, she called me and said the front end on her Sorento started wiggling. Checked it out when she got back home, and nothing seemed immediately amiss. Possibly a broken belt in one of the tires. Going to have a local shop check it out.

Happy (belated) Anniversaries to all those celebrating.

Happy (belated) Birthday, David.

Best wished on your return home, RNG.

 

[ronjhall]

30°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 33° today.

We got a whole lot of nothing from that storm last night, save for the incredibly loud howling wind that kept us both awake most of the night.

Had another fantastic Thanksgiving this year. More food than humans will ever need, and it was all delicious.

We spent most of Friday sitting around watching movies. Haven't done that in a long time.

The Wife's brother came over, and spent a couple of days with us. When she was taking him home Saturday afternoon, she called me and said the front end on her Sorento started wiggling. Checked it out when she got back home, and nothing seemed immediately amiss. Possibly a broken belt in one of the tires. Going to have a local shop check it out.

Happy (belated) Anniversaries to all those celebrating.

Happy (belated) Birthday, David.

Best wished on your return home, RNG.

Back from Dentist. Relaxing and waiting for the numbness to go away.

 

[txdon]

As far as jumping road blocks, they've already killed one guy for doing it, and much as I want to go home, I don't want to that bad.
!

Do you have a link, haven't heard about this.

For those with EGO chainsaws do you have the 14" or 16" and which one would you recommend?

 

[Thomas]

daugen
Thomas drive carefully in the snow and good luck with plow.
…………………………
Mrs. can hook up Fisher Minute Man plow quicker than I can :confused3: when it comes to nasty weather driving slow and steady as they say.
Sure would be nice if you were to send some of that 50 degrees dats our way.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

LS, pray your surgery goes well.

I had my surgery a yr ago the 28th, only it was on tuesday after thanksgiving last yr. Tomorrow will be a mini celebration, with a trip to see the dr. Lol

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Do you have a link, haven't heard about this.

Here's a link and video:
VIDEO: Fatal police shooting in Camp Fire evacuation zone; man suspect in homicide case

 

[toppop52]

.51” of rain since 11, 58° though. Started putting up Christmas decorations on the weekend, but we haven’t had a lot of time on them, did get the lights on the front eve yesterday, we’ll Elken did, I held the ladder.
I have gout but if I stay hydrated and watch certain food and drink, I can control it pretty well. My Uric acid is higher than it should be and I need to work on that. My diabetes stays in a pretty narrow range unless I’m sick or on certain medications. Normal fasting glucose is 95-125 with no medication. Steroids will send it through the roof though, as do some antibiotics.
Have a good one guys, God bless.

 

[toppop52]

45 and maybe showers going to 59.

Thanks for all the anniversary wishes.

Randy, I think it is admirable the way you have been able to find a buyer for your T-Bird overseas, negotiate a payment, and arrange to get it shipped.

Working on selling this one now, 1982 Gazelle kit car on an 80 Pinto undercarriage, extremely well built but strange, no allowance for any heat, but cold air conditioning. I guess they figured to be summer only rides. This one hopefully is headed to York, PA.

 

[daugen]

50 percent off at Lands End today. Ordered a pair of shoes, half off doesn't happen often with shoes.

made a double batch of brownies with an extra bar of chocolate added; going to food pantry volunteers tomorrow morning, boy
did it make the house smell nice.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Got started Christmas shopping today while wife put up the tree and candles in the windows, ect. Still need to decorate the tree and a few other things.

Ron, Google gout IQ and you will get a few hits.

Prayers sent have a great night. Ed

 

[RoyJackson]

Do you have a link, haven't heard about this.

For those with EGO chainsaws do you have the 14" or 16" and which one would you recommend?

I have the 16" unit and it does very well for typical pre-mowing season trimming and moderately light work around the estate...storm clean up, branching a downed tree.
I've dropped many a sapling (2"-4" trunks) and a couple trees (6" or so).
So, I'd go with the 16" saw and have a couple charged batteries when you go to work

 

[300UGUY]

Here's a link and video:
VIDEO: Fatal police shooting in Camp Fire evacuation zone; man suspect in homicide case

Not a looter, but a suicide by cop. Sad day for everybody.

 

[mpham]

Didn’t go to the doc, started pushing the cherry juice and water and the pain is already going down. Will see what the next couple days brings. Pouring rain here with temps at 37. Might change to snow overnight if the temps drop. Weather guessers aren’t sure. Thanks for all the prayers/good wishes.

 

[wngsprd]

Don, I did a DuckDuckGo search (thanks Ron) and found this at the Oxford Academic website (long comprehensive article on gout, so only pasted this part on intelligence). Of course, trust the internet at your pleasure.

UA and intelligence

The oldest hypothesis was expressed by Orowan [43], due to the similarity of the structure of UA and some brain stimulants, such as caffeine and theobromine. According to this idea, the loss of uricase activity and the subsequent increase in UA levels could have given rise to a quantitative and qualitative leap in the intellectual capacity of hominids in the evolutionary process. It has been suggested that UA, like other purines, is able to stimulate the cerebral cortex and that the superior intellectual power of higher primates may partly be due to these higher levels of UA [44]. Consistent with this idea is the finding that glutamic acid, which is involved in the endogenous production of UA, seemed to improve cognitive functions when given therapeutically in cases of mental retardation [45].

Several authors have found a significant correlation between UA levels and higher intelligence in children and young adults [46–48] and an association of gout with higher intelligence. Sofaer and Emery [44] studied the presence of gout in highly gifted people, with an intelligence quotient >148, and their families, observing that the prevalence of gout in males with an average age of 36 years was 1.8%, higher than that in the general population aged 58 years (1.5%), and that the prevalence of gout among families of both sexes at a mean age of 34 years was double (0.6%) that of the general population aged 44 years (0.3%). That is to say, the highly gifted people and their families have a higher prevalence of gout at earlier ages than the general population. However, other authors have not seen this association between UA and higher intelligence [49], and the findings observed are difficult to separate from the eating and social habits associated with economic, cultural and intellectual situations.