Good morning!!!!

[rswyan]

36F and cloudy @ 10:45, headed up to a high of 38F for the day. Had a short period of intense rain late last night after I went to bed, very wet out there right now.

All the snow cover is melted at this point except for the places where I piled it up while clearing the driveway.

Heard voices outside yesterday around noon, a pair of the Junior Woodchucks had apparently stopped over and were amusing themselves by driving their radio-controlled car through one of the plastic culverts for creek crossing that I haven't gotten installed yet.

Did not get feeders filled up yesterday, might do that today.

I think I did get all the algae cleaned off of the 55G tank that has the S. fryeri in it yesterday. We get quite a variety of "algae" growth here - brown diatoms, colonial blue-green "algae" (neither of which are actually algae) some orange stuff (which I assume is algae) and a lighter green algae which is very tough to remove - requires lots of pressure and repeated passes, scraping it with a stainless blade. Very tenacious stuff.

Got the 20G Long cleaned out, substrate for it cleaned and put in, filter installed and running, mostly filled with water, and water treated. Need to match water temp to the tank the multis are in and then can move them over from the 10G tank they are currently in.

Will install the egg tumbler in the empty 10G tank in preparation for stripping the eggs from the S. fryeri. Looks like there might be some spawning activity there soon ...

Based on my check yesterday, at least some of the white worm containers will need food added.

Have some tanks whose backs need painted and fish room carpet needs vacuumed so might do that today as well.

Menards 11% back on.

Hope everyone has an enjoyable, productive, and safe day ...

 

[rswyan]

Gas prices started going up before TSHTF in TX.

Yes, they did:

National Historical Average Trends - GasBuddy.com

I used to track gas price in quicken, but stopped. I keep all the charge slips, so can go back and look. $2.51 at Costco today, $2.70 most other places.

Similar to what I've seen here.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

My worst weather related landing in 30 some years of flying was in Maui, and where else you goin? I didn't know palm trees could bend 89 degrees and not break! A few days later some jerk drove his SUV into the airport lobby , set the car on fire and jumped back In!

One lady said, if your gonna commit suicide why not just drive over a cliff!

Closed everything for 3-4 days, what a hoot!

My worse landing was Gatwick fighting high crosswinds. Thought the left wing would hit the ground first, but at last second they dropped the other side down and wheels touched first.

Landing at BWI once, they braked real hard as soon as we touched down. Looked out window saw plane take off in front of us on the crossing runway. Nothing was said by pilot.

 

[rswyan]

top,

Local TSC has that UTV available here ... but at the $6999 price.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

34F misting in the air 40F for high occasional snow showers late afternoon gusty winds increasing early evening.

Good by February hellooooo March,hope March doesn't come in like lion and leaves like a lamb.
Outside chores done E muffin time...extra peanut butter on muffin because it's National Peanut Butter Lover’s Day.

Plans for today... not sure yet.

Enjoy the day all.

We set yearly high and low temps last week. 1.3” rain since yesterday.

 

[rswyan]

Happy Birthday to Ms. Sassy !

 

[sodamo]

65°F and 2.64 inches rain. Moist

Be happy to see it dry out as the grass is growing. Getting behind on mowing.

Have to go to Wallyworld, pick up my new glasses.

Zoom Happy Hour this afternoon.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[Gale Hawkins]

New information FEB 23th 2021 on Vitamin D and covid19. Study flawed.

Scientists Say 'Health Warning' Needed on Vit D/COVID-19 Preprint

A controversial preprint that found vitamin D reduced death by 60% in patients with COVID-19 has unleashed a frenzy of criticism from experts, who say it adds nothing of value to the already controversial debate.

www.medscape.com

"The study "falls well short of a well-conducted randomized trial. Whilst many wish to believe vitamin D is the cure to COVID-19 or an exciting treatment, this 'trial' cannot allow any such inference," he told the UK Science Media Center".

txdon most all medical studies are flawed at some point and D3 is no exception. Fed Up with Vit D3 "research" I started my own n=1 study over 5 years ago to force myself to read more Vit D3 to try an make sure I was not killing myself taking 50,000 units of D3 daily. I did learn about Vit K2 and Magnesium needs when taking Vit D3. I have been doing this daily for over 5 years without any known issue. I was going to drop back 20,000 units daily when Covid-19 hit the news cycle.

There was some research out of the UK a few years ago showing taking Vit D3 to be more effective than the annual flu vaccine.

I did read the other day where 87% of people in one group who died with Covid-19 after being put on a ventilator were very low Vit D wise. Here is a link about the research in question. Google Image Result for https://fullfact.org/media/uploads/Vit_D_study_chart_1.PNG

For the past 5 years my annual physical reports Vit D level >155.9 ng/ml due lab range being exceeded. For me personally in these time I would be uncomfortable with levels less than 75 ng/ml. If you live in a country that uses nmol/L standard multiple the ng/ml value by 2.5 to convert to nmol/L standard or do the inverse to convert in the other direction. The toxic levels reported by Vit D researchers were in the 500-600 ng/ml and due to mislabeled Vit D3 sources. One town dairy processor was the overdosing source but all cases recovered.

I do not give medical advice.

 

[toppop52]

top,

Local TSC has that UTV available here ... but at the $6999 price.

That’s the list price with steel wheels.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I think I heard about the D3 story on the MedCram YouTube channel a while back. My primary physician already had me on 3,000 IUs for osteoporosis, and the doctor on the video was taking 5,000. Last time I reordered, I went to 5,000, too, and so far, so good.

I find it hard to believe much of what I read these days about CoVid-19, but since I was taking D3 anyway, upping the dose was a no brainer if there was even the slightest chance of increasing my chances if infected. Especially since it would appear that my chances of getting the vaccine are much lower than getting infected, at least until I turn 65. Maybe the J&J version of the vaccine can help with that?