Good morning!!!!

[Bird]

That's interesting, Ron. I've never seen that model walker before. It certainly looks impressive.

 

[sodamo]

65°F and 3.06 inches rain last 24 hours. A wet one. Still raining this morning.

Annual neighborhood Christmas party this afternoon at neighbor’s house.

Watch some football, didn’t realize there were some games yesterday.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[check]

The early plasma "flat screens" were heavy too Drew. Our first was a 51" and it had to be 55-60 lb.

We still have one of those. Yrs, very heavy, and consumes a lot of electricity.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

BEF, it must be feeling strange for your dad without any cattle to watch over. Will he be renting the ground out to a neighbour ?
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No demand for farmland there.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Sorry your dad's farm has gone vegan.

Still has lots of deer, coyotes, turkeys, etc.

I know he will miss cows , but he realizes he can’t do it anymore.

 

[sodamo]

Good morning all, not a bad day at all here, no rain and very little wind, just enough to allow the sound of the church bells in town to drift over the fields to me while I was filling the hay racks.

BEF, it must be feeling strange for your dad without any cattle to watch over. Will he be renting the ground out to a neighbour ?

Some specific hearing aid info
For Don and anyone else curious about hearing aids. The model I have is a Starkey Livio i1600. I have 60 days to decide if I want to keep it or try something else. It cost me ｣2,300 and has a 4 year warranty. I was guided entirely by my audiologist on which make and model. I think this lady really knows her stuff, she used to train other audiologists before recently working for herself. She is not tied to a single manufacturer and her prices are not much different to online sellers, so I don't mind placing my trust in her instead of going on the ratings in consumer magazines. As well as the quality of the sound and how it fits in/around the ear, there is a lot going on in "digital" hearing aids and how well each model performs can't be determined by reading a data sheet. Information is constantly being transmitted by wireless between each earpiece and clever algorithms use it to process sounds from different directions to try and eliminate unwanted sound and give good spatial awareness to what is heard. I got a confidence boost the first day I came home with the hearing aids on and even with the wind gusting around the buildings above 30 mph, there were no feedback squeals or whistles.

When not in use they stick magnetically into a small docking pod to recharge. They say up to 30 hours of use from each 3.5 hour charge. The charger also has an inbuilt lithium battery which is able to charge them 3 times without needing an ac supply.
Spec wise this model has 16 channels and a frequency response up to 10 kHz. Regarding memories, I don't know the limit Don. The audiologist has set me up with basic ones to get me going of "normal", "music" and "crowd" and said these can be changed and added to after I get more practice. I can cycle between these by pressing a small button from either hearing aid.

The phone app adjusts volume and allows memories to be selected. Multiple custom memories can also be created. I think this uses the "normal" information as a template and then allows it to be modified in lots of different ways. Out of curiosity I had a quick play to prove it it does change the response, however for the next month or so I intend to leave well alone until I am more used to the basics.

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For gadget fans, there are other phone options, such as to geotag memories. As your phone GPS identifies your have arrived at, say, home or church, it automatically change the memory accordingly. Haven't tried it and doubt I ever will.

What I did try yesterday was listening to music. Wow...

Eric, amazing stuff

 

[buckeyefarmer]

BEF ... that TV is huge. I saw an 85" at Sam's Club two weeks ago. Our biggest is a 65". Have you considered a wall mount? When we built our homes at the ranch and in Richmond, we had power outlets and satellite TV connection jacks put into the wall up high then installed tilting wall mounts. If you have an AC power outlet, low on the wall, it's not a difficult task to add an outlet directly above it.

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I’ve installed wall mounts at our church building but not at home. It’s my sons tv, he plans to get his own apartment within a year and he will take it. Will be hard to put my 55” back in it’s place. Maybe I’ll upgrade to a 65” then. I really need to remove my old oak entertainment system that sits beside the tv. It still has my turntable and CD player, records, and a drawer with vhs tapes. I keep my security camera dvrs and a monitor where the old tube tv used to reside.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Heading home from worship and eating out with the Sunday gang. Wife got groceries, stopped at orchard for apples and cider.

Nfl football yesterday only on NFL Channel which I don’t get. Did watch some college.

Watched my Buckeyes beat KY in basketball.

Ron, big price on that walker.

LS, I’ve been meaning to trench from my house to barn for years now and haven’t gotten to it.

I have some small cedars I need to pull along my treeline. One big one I should cut. It’s why I don’t have good apples.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! Yikes, afternoon. It was 36˚F during Whipper's walk in the fog this morning, now it sunny and 52˚F.

Eric it is very important to get a good person to evaluate your hearing and program your hearing aid and it sounds like you found a good one. During your 60 day trial don't be afraid to go back regularly for tweaks. It has to make a big difference in your hearing or they will not be used. Can your wife tell tell the difference? Do you feel like it is less of a chore to understand words? Do they have the ability to connect to t-coil? That is the public places in the US like movie, theaters , conference halls and churches that have the t-coil so you can connect to right to their sound system. Our church has it but I find I do not use it there because the mic there picks up too many sounds and I like my sounds filtered wen using the hearing aid. Just the speech sounds are needed the rest just mumbles the words. I have not tried the t-coil at the movies yet.

 

[toppop52]

The early plasma "flat screens" were heavy too Drew. Our first was a 51" and it had to be 55-60 lb.

My first plasma was a Phillips Ambilight was a 42 “ and weighed 115 lbs.