Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

In the Don't Try This At Home Department::shocked:

Great video, RNG, and never knew such things could be done. But never saw the equipment shown on the "cover" photo.

Now, Buppies, you know you want to start loading your mini-ex like that.

Apple trees and dogwood starting to bloom...warm rain is causing lots of fog.

 

[txdon]

If your carrier allows WIFI CALLING. Try that before spending money on a amplifier.

It's a pretty wood toy that is actually useful. It increases the sound by design instead of electronics. You custom make them so your phone sets on top with the phone speakers pointing into the cone. It increases the volume a little but this is going back to antique amplification. They have a whole cabinet of interesting wooden objects that they make for fun to sell for the wood shop club to keep us all supplied with materials. Think before plastics and electronics.
I'll get some pics later.

Good morning! 65˚F foggy, cloudy good chance of rain. Torn between looking for project instructions in the Wordsmith library and reading the new car manual and learning about the media system.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good evening all. 45F this morning, mostly clear, calm wind. Sky began clouding up this afternoon, moderate wind day, and high temp of 66F. Tomorrow high of 55F and 1.5 in rain forecast. Waited till temps got over 50F to go riding, nap and finished removing landscape timbers for Spring cleanup.
Rick you realize that the original vette was once an artist concept
PJ will be interesting to hear how well the upgrades work for you.
Jay good to hear a positive report on your knee.
Kyle hope your surgery goes well.
I also take a CoQue-10 supplement.
prayers for all.

"Rick you realize that the original vette was once an artist concept"

That's true. Harley Earl made the early Corvettes beautiful and Zora Arkus-Duntov made them fast. Without Duntov, the Corvette would have gone the way of the Corvair, just earlier. In fact, "Corvair" was the name of a mid 1950's concept version of the Corvette.





The first Nomad



The "fastback" concept finally came to production in the 1963 Corvette.



The picture I posted, was part of a spoof / hoax that "GM was considering building a 4-door Stingray for family use". It made a few heads explode in the "Corvette Purist" Community.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Need to pour first cup of coffee. 36° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 55° with mostly sunny skies. Only got 1/4" of rain yesterday. Few tree down along our road. Someone already cleared them. Got to make a Sams Club run this morning. Then do that final cleaning of garden pond. Computer showed up yesterday. It is up and running. But needs a lot of software/files installed and updated. Much faster that my 10 year old Windows 7 computer.

Jay, remember you are on GM TBN. Accidents happen. But Stupid, not. Please be careful.

Rick, I like your statement about CoQ10 lowering blood pressure. Although my blood pressure in in the 140/85 and may not be enough to get down in the 120/70 range. Jay was right about Lisinopril causing a dry cough with some people. I am back to Cardiologist Monday for a different med.

RNG, be careful lifting those bags of cement.

Good Morning All.

"Rick, I like your statement about CoQ10 lowering blood pressure. Although my blood pressure in in the 140/85 and may not be enough to get down in the 120/70 range. "

When I had my annual physical, in April 2017, I arrived, at Dr. Office, exactly at my appointment time, due to a wreck on I-10, instead of 15 minutes early as is my practice. I walked in the door as the nurse was calling my name and first thing she did was get a set of BP, temp., weight, etc. My BP was high 140's / high 80's. When I sat down with my Doc, he was concerned about my BP. I told him about my trip to town and asked if that could have caused a raised BP. He agreed but said "we need to monitor that". I was curious so, did some investigation and bought my own BP Monitor to see what was going on.

I bought the Omron 10, on Amazon for $60.



I started taking my BP every morning and since it connects, via Bluetooth to my iPad, I've got almost two years of readings. I noticed a distinct down trend of my BP a couple of months after starting the CoQ10.

I guess I could just stop taking it and see what happens to my BP to verify my assumption but ...... that seems dumb.

Your mileage may very.

 

[ronjhall]

"Rick, I like your statement about CoQ10 lowering blood pressure. Although my blood pressure in in the 140/85 and may not be enough to get down in the 120/70 range. "

When I had my annual physical, in April 2017, I arrived, at Dr. Office, exactly at my appointment time, due to a wreck on I-10, instead of 15 minutes early as is my practice. I walked in the door as the nurse was calling my name and first thing she did was get a set of BP, temp., weight, etc. My BP was high 140's / high 80's. When I sat down with my Doc, he was concerned about my BP. I told him about my trip to town and asked if that could have caused a raised BP. He agreed but said "we need to monitor that". I was curious so, did some investigation and bought my own BP Monitor to see what was going on.

I bought the Omron 10, on Amazon for $60. It connect via

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I started taking my BP every morning and since it connects, via Bluetooth to my iPad, I've got almost two years of readings. I noticed a distinct down trend of my BP a couple of months after starting the CoQ10.

I guess I could just stop taking it and see what happens to my BP to verify my assumption but ...... that seems dumb.

Your mileage may very.

I have a similar BP machine that send info to my iPhone. Been very regular taking BP except while my right arm was tied in a sling.

 

[toppop52]

Magnesium is good for cramps of all type. I do not retain any magnesium. i take up to 4 400 mg tablet a day and it is not found in any blood tests. But I dont have leg cramps any more.

You are right, but for some the electrolyte that is low isn稚 magnesium, but sodium, as in my case, or potassium or calcium. It helps most to replace what you are missing. For me pickle juice works most often, you get vinegar and salt. Also orange juice works sometimes, often we are dehydrated and just forcing a liter of water will fix the problem by transporting electrolytes to the muscles. But if you are low on electrolytes, forcing extra fluid will dilute them even more. And remember that the main muscle is your heart. It痴 complicated.

 

[lostcreekranch]

71°F this morning and overcast. Forecast says 81°F this afternoon. Rain started about 11 p.m. last evening but, it didn't last long. Most of the bad weather and rain will be north of here today.

I got the new Gator blades installed on the Kubota ZT and about 4 hours seat time yesterday.



Still need to replace the blades on the 84" rear finish mower.

Plan for today is whatever the weather allows.

Great video RNG.

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Prayers to all.

 

[daugen]

raining lightly, chased me in and helper off, but not before I got a bunch of watermelons planted, red, yellow and orange flesh varieties, plus some Amish melons. Helper got some hay down in garden, progress. I had to go rescue him, he would have kept working in the rain. Which likely means the sun will now come out, this is a spotty system coming through.

Ron, hope the new computer runs well for you. My newer Acer laptop I'm on now runs faster and easier than my old actually more powerful pc, but the pc has too many programs running on it now. All I want is a good virus checker/web protector. It takes several minutes for the pc to finally settle down when started, too much stuff activating behind the screens. Your new one should hum along.
That was one thing I liked about my old Chromebook, boy it booted up fast and was online and functional in about ten seconds.

Have a tray of okra seeds to plant, the last one, and then I'm done with seeds. Then I may just enjoy a day off my feet.

RNG, all the credit for rows goes to the first pass guy, and that wasn't me. But I've managed to keep it lined up fairly well since then.
Nice to see both fields all tilled and tended to, plus I got the collards done without ripping any leaves off.

rain has stopped, in between been raining and going to rain. And yes the sun has come out.
Hope you all have a nice weekend.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I can't seam to find it now, but I was reading about a study where half the peeps were given a placebo of CoQ10. Results were the group taking it had their BP go down, then, without informing the peeps, they switched the placebo to the opposite group. BP went up, while the original placebo's group came down. They said that as we age, our body can't produce it naturally as well as when we are young. Don's diet may be a fountain of youth, but for the rest of us, it seems the stuff works. Here's one site that is a proponent.

The New Heart Benefits of Coenzyme Q1 - Cleveland HeartLab, Inc.

If your carrier allows WIFI CALLING. Try that before spending money on a amplifier.

Don already answered the question about the old school amplifier, which really just focuses the sound in a direction.

This is about the simplest form of such.

https://www.ebay.com/i/222722304745?chn=ps

Just went and planted some more bush green bean seeds in the garden. Found my first fuzzy caterpillar on a sweet pea plant. Argh.

Thanks for all the CoQ10 reports.

Topps, I'm glad that you got to meet Cole. It says he passed in San Antonio. That town has so much military history. Especially Air Force, but they almost "gutted" it back in the big hack years ago to cut spending. Prayers for your mom and your family.

We got a shower last night, but we are supposed to get more today. I hope so for my newly planted beans.

 

[toppop52]

So, should statin users take CoQ10 supplements? No, they should improve their diets sufficiently to stop taking drugs that muck with their biochemistry.

In that case you shouldn’t need statins either then.

71 after a low of 68, cloudy with showers, grandson’s baseball game was canceled.

Rick, I have mowed twice with my old blades to make sure the winter trash is gone, gonna install my new Gator blades now. Thanks for the link!