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Nov 27, 2013 07:22PM
That's pretty serious. Don't let her climb back on her horse, literally, too soon.
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Nina wrote: "That's pretty serious. Don't let her climb back on her horse, literally, too soon."Hah! We'll see. Horse therapy has been the best thing for her at times. I think you're right, but we'll see what she has to say about it.
Our traditional Thanksgiving Day song is Arlo Guthrie Jr. singing "Alice's Restaurant". The kids & I even called the radio station some years & got our voices on requesting it once (in four part harmony). Here's the original version which has always been my favorite.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57gzA...
Jim wrote: "Our traditional Thanksgiving Day song is Arlo Guthrie Jr. singing "Alice's Restaurant". ..."That's the first time I've ever heard that. ("Alice's Restaurant - Original 1967 Recording")
Glad to turn you on to something new, Joy. It's a fun song, but I only listen to it once a year & that might be too often after so many. I first heard it with my father shortly before he died.We had a nice quiet Thanksgiving. Heard from all the kids & Marg talked to her aunt. I got a short ride in on Chip & took the dogs for a couple of quick walks. It barely got to freezing today, but Pip did well running around in his sweater.
I also got to watch a really wonderful Woodwright's Workshop where Roy Underhill did a comparison between the Stanley 45 & 55 combo planes to their dedicated wooden predecessors. Wow! That show is definitely a keeper. I love the way that man can hit just the important points & yet still give a great run down on how the tool works. I'd never considered how much difference a skewed cutter can make.
I have the Stanley 45, although I don't use it often. It's kind of the Shop Smith of planes - a PITA to setup & there are few jobs that it can do that a dedicated power tool can't do better. Occasionally, it's the only tool for the job though & it is a blast to play with. I LOVE fine tools. Some of those cutters are a drag to sharpen, though.
There's a picture of a 55 here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moulding...
The 45 only has 45 cutters & doesn't do the big moldings a 55 will, but otherwise is pretty much the same.
Jim, I'm always impressed by all the tools available for a workshop. When I gave our son and his wife a lovely figurine of a bride and groom for their engagement, my son didn't like it. He said: "Mom, I need tools!" LOLSpeaking of tools, I made use of a heavy wrench this week. I couldn't find my weighted bookmark which I use to hold my book open. So I found a heavy wrench. It did the trick. :) (The book wants to close all the time while I'm reading and eating at the same time.)
Here's a pick of a weighted bookmark:
http://www.starcrest.com/product/fami...
This is a good buy (from Starcrest) at 6 dollars each. "Free Shipping" but 3 dollar "Handling Fee", which isn't bad.
If you search for other leather book weights, you'll see that they are more expensive as follows:
Miles Kimball charges $9.99 plus shipping:
http://ge.tt/8HUxCCu/v/0f
Others:
http://www.maxiaids.com/products/1161... ($9.50 plus shipping)
http://www.amazon.com/Maxi-Aids-Weigh... ($9.50 plus shipping)
http://www.leatherology.com/bookweigh... ($19.00 plus shipping)
http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/st... ($12.99 plus shipping)
These rubber ones aren't as heavy and they're floppy:
http://www.amazon.com/BookBones-Weigh... ($8.95 + $3.00 shipping)
As you can see, I've made a study of this product... because I LOSE them all the time! :-(
Joy, your weighted book mark looks like a cosh (black jack)! LOL!I've been collecting tools my all life - for use, not looking at for the most part. I do have a few antiques just for show, but most are used frequently even though I have not just the shop stuffed, but sets of other common ones. For Xmas this year, I gave Marg a catalog with pages dog eared & a few items marked. No gadgets, I avoid them, just a few special items that I would like such as a large drive spur for my lathe.
Jim wrote: "Joy, your weighted book mark looks like a cosh (black jack)! LOL! ..."Jim, I've thought the same thing myself. :)
Hope Santa will be good to you and you get your drive spur (whatever that is!).
A drive spur is the pointy thing that sticks in the headstock of a lathe to turn pieces of wood. All mine are small, about an inch in diameter. For my big lathe, I'd like a big drive spur, over twice that size. It would cut down on some of the vibration with big pieces.I've been stuck on Xmas gifts. I finally went to Shutterfly & made up a calendar of Mom's fawns for everyone. They're $18 each, but I managed to get 4 pictures on most months & it allowed me to put in all our birthdays & anniversaries, so should be a really fun present.
Mom had a fall about a week ago & said she thought she pulled something in her chest. After being head bumped by a couple of horses & ignoring it for a week, she got Xrays done yesterday (She said no waiting at all.) & found out she 'broke some ribs & sternum'. I couldn't get any more details than that. She's going to take it easy for a couple more weeks (She swears she has a week in already.) & ignore the 4-6 weeks the doctor told her to take off. Typical Mom.
Jim, thanks for explaining the drive spur.What are "fawns" as in "Mom's fawns"? That calendar sounds very useful. A nice gift for everyone.
Hope your mom will be OK. She sounds like one tough lady! Broken ribs can be very painful. I bruised one of mine in a fall a couple of months or so ago. It was very painful for almost 2 weeks. (They didn't X-ray it to see if it was broken because the treatment would be the same: no treatment except painkillers.) Did your mom take painkillers?
PS-We have 12 overnight guests here right now! It's our immediate family plus a friend of our grandson. A couple of air mattresses are in use. Also my grandson is sleeping on foam pads on the floor in the porch. We had pizza last night. Today we will have our Thanksgiving Dinner. We're celebrating off-peak.Oh, I forgot to mention that we also have 3 overnight dogs here: Old Alice, lively Mocha, and new puppy Baxter. Our Romeo is having trouble accepting Baxter. Baxter loves all of Romeo's rawhide-bones. Romeo loves Baxter's nylon bone with a chicken scent. Mocha (a female dachshund/JR mix) likes to hump Romeo. Poor Romeo!
Well, it's time for my coffee... on my new Keurig coffee brewer. I like it!
That's a houseful! Enjoy!!!Mom raised half a dozen fawns decades ago. Their mothers would get killed on the road & people would bring them to her to raise. Her dogs mothered them, especially Fern, one of her German Shepard bitches. She has a photo album of them which I scanned this summer. Lots of great shots of them running around loose on the farm, swimming with the kids, & generally acting like dogs.
She was telling me how the doctor said she could take 2 different kinds of pain killer (Ibuprofen & Aleve) at the same time & I told her not to, the pain is good for her. It keeps her from doing too much & reminded her of how ticked she was at me for rebreaking my leg or tearing out stitches. (Or James rebreaking his toe or... well, you get the idea.) I told her I come by it honestly & she reluctantly agreed.
Sounds like my household years ago when my sister in ln law with her eight kids and one husbnd would come. That made 14 kids and four adults for a week of fun and hard work. Good luck.
Jim, now I remember about the fawns.I was prescribed Motrin for my pain. I think it's stronger than Ibuprofen.
Nina, yes it's a lot of hard work. More and more I'm letting the company do a lot of the work. I can't do it all anymore. It's also nice to see my teenage granddaughters starting to help as well.
I'm home at a time when, on a Sunday morning, I normally wouldn't be. Just after the opening prayer in Sunday school class, the church Barb and I attend was evacuated because of a malfunction in the heat pump, which set off a carbon monoxide alarm. If it hadn't been for the alarm, the entire congregation could have been killed by the gas, or the building could have blown up.
See miracles do happen. You were all saved. Thanks you are all OK..Scarey to comtemplate the alternative.
Yes, Nina, we're very thankful, too (though I'd see this as an instance of God's general providence rather than a supernatural miracle as such)!
I'd say it's a good reason to keep carbon monoxide detectors up to date along with the smoke alarms. Glad you all had one. I got one when I decided to buy a gas heater for emergency heat. It's rated for indoor use & cost me $200, but I don't trust it fully. It's worth it to keep the generator idling all night to run it when the power goes out. Thankfully, that hasn't happened in some time. They put in a new electric line across our north field & apparently hooked us up to it. My neighbors to the south still lose electric a couple of times a year while we haven't.
Werner, thank goodness for the alarm. Glad everyone is OK.
Jim wrote [in Message #4160]: "I should lend Eddie my copy of Cruises with Kathleen by Donald Hamilton. The Kathleen is his sailboat that he lived on for years. ..."Jim, as you know, after I read your post above, I ordered Cruises with Kathleen online in October and received it soon after. Eddie LOVED the book and raved about it to our sailor son, Bobby. So we will pass it on to Bob. Bob's nautical wife will enjoy it too, I'm sure. It was the subject of quite a few conversations which Ed had with Bob this Thanksgiving weekend. Ed was telling Bob some of what he read in the book. So thank you for telling us about it!
Glad I turned you all on to something good. If Ed likes James Bond, tell him to check out Hamilton's Matt Helm series. He also wrote some excellent westerns, although they can be difficult to find now.
My granddaughter who teaches at University of New Haven was in a lockdown today because someone was in the building with a gun. She locked her students in a studio and no one was hurt.
Glad no one was hurt, Nina. I found a news report about it online at:http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/na...
Joyk did you ever read my goodreads post on my family miracle?
Yes I did, Nina. I replied in the section called: " Thoughts About Religion/Faith". Here's what I wrote in Message #46:====================================================
I just now found these recent posts in this thread. For some reason, I hadn't received notifications from Goodreads.
Nina, the story of the miracle was wonderful. I can just imagine the relief which everyone felt.
Our first-born son at 18 months of age had hot tea spilled on his face when he had reached up to the counter and tipped the cup. He screamed with pain. His face swelled up and it was red where the hot water had hit him. He was treated with a special spray which my father, a pharmacist, knew about. While the burns were healing, our son happened to see himself in a full-length mirror. He screamed with fright.
We had expected terrible scars to develop but luckily they didn't.
At the time, the paternal grandparents were vacationing in Florida. We shouldn't have told them about it but when we did, they flew right home.
I had forgotten about this terrible incident until I read Nina's post.
Another incident was when Eddie had terrible burns on his hands and arms when a camping lantern spilled fuel on him as he was lighting it at our island campsite. An emergency boat trip and car trip to the Glens Falls Hospital Emergency Room resulted in bandaged hands and arms. We stayed on the island for two more weeks while the burns healed. The skin never got infected. We attribute the good results to the initial dunking in cold Lake George water right after the burning took place. Eddie was treated at the hospital by men who had had experience treating burns in Vietnam.
You never know with burns. They are horrible things which cause terrible pain.
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Message #46
It was 70 when I parked at work this morning. It was 50 & falling at lunch. We had pouring rain all morning & now they're saying we'll have freezing rain starting tonight. Brrr!!!
It's 53°F here right now. Our weather report says there's chance of rain and snow. For Friday night it says: "Snow and sleet likely before 2am, then a chance of snow. Cloudy, with a low around 22."
Eight degrees here; wind chill below zero. And we are outside taking care of dogs. Wish us luck. Just letting them out and then in again twice but freezing while doing this.
Teresa (Nina), that's especially cold for Kansas! Please take care of yourself and keep warm!
The cold is working its way in here. I think a half day of work is in order. I had an ice covered car this morning as it was only 31 out. It's 34 here at work, but the temp is falling & the precipitation is continuing. I'd like to get home before it changes to snow here since it's a few degrees colder at home. We're 450' higher & well away from the rivers.
Jim, it's around 6 AM here. What time is it there?Boy, you must get up early to go to work.
Hope you will be OK in this rough weather.
I guess it was about 5:30 or 6 when I wrote that, Joy. I woke up a little early this morning & got in to work not long after 5, I guess. I'm usually in no later than 5:30am. Gives me quality time with my servers before the users come in.I left at 10:45am & my boss wasn't real happy, but Marg isn't doing well. No school today, but the blacksmith came & she did too much out in the cold & wet. Our porch was a sheet of ice when I got home. Marg doesn't want me to put the salt down because it's hard on the dogs' paws, so we just have some on the front porch.
I wish she'd told me so I could have picked up something else earlier this week, but we're not functioning all that well right now. 3 weeks of her being sick is tough. We're getting discombobulated as I do things slightly differently than she does & time goes on.
Marge will be in my "get well" prayers at Mass on Sunday. Hope it helps.
Thanks, Nina.I had the devil's own time trying to feed the goats tonight. The latch to their gate was iced up & their water bucket wouldn't budge until I melted the ice on it with my bare hand. Brrr!!! Lots of horse poop in the shed & most of the dogs deserted me for the warm house.
I have tired your suggestion, Werner and we'll see if it works. Wish me luck.
This time with my husband's work it came by as Nina. i had to edit the Teresa one and start anew with Nina. Life gets too complicated for me sometimes but I struggle through. Thanks, Werner.
No problem, Nina; glad I could help!
Jim, sorry to hear that you and Marg are having difficulties with health and with the weather. Let's hope it warms up soon for you. Hope Marg will be better soon. Has she seen a doctor?
Good to see "Nina" back. Nina, I know what you mean about life getting complicated. We just have to muddle through sometimes. Some days are better than others.
Marg has been to the doctor several times, Joy. She's on another course of antibiotics now. In some ways, getting socked in by the weather is a good thing. It gives her more time to recover, if she'll take it. There was no school yesterday & probably won't be any on Monday. They're calling for an even worse ice storm tomorrow (Sunday) evening. I'm not going to shovel off any of the snow & ice we have now since the layer of snow can be a real boon. The ice sits on top of it & comes off much easier than if it is directly on the lane & steps.
Whew, Jim. You are going through a rough patch right now. Good luck.We had a sprinkling of snow last night but it's almost gone now. Sun is out. Temp is 30°F.
We're up to a sunny 24, but that's enough to melt the snow off the front steps. Marg went grocery shopping. She just needs to be careful about being outside too much. The blacksmith's visit yesterday wore her out. She shouldn't have picked up the shed.
The 24' square run-in shed section of the barn. It's a mess on bad days because we put the hay in there instead of out in the field. Have to pick up all the poop. This morning I got an overloaded big wheelbarrow load out of it & then we take it about 50 yards from the barn to the dirt/manure pile & dump it.
Wow, Jim, you have a lot of work to do! More power to you!
Oh, it's not bad compared to if we kept the horses in a stall. Then you get at least a wheel barrow full per horse in the mornings & half that at night, depending on the bedding. When Marg & I met, we were both working at a racing stable. I had the babies' barn, a dozen yearlings that were kept in almost all day. I'd get over a wheel barrow load out of each of theirs. On the bad days when there was a heavy ice crust, I'd have to muck their stalls with them in it since I didn't have a spare stall. Since they were young, energetic Thoroughbred race horses that were cooped up, things got interesting at times.
Our guys are pretty mellow. I leave them in the stalls or tied up only when I'm feeding. Sometimes I'll clean up while they're tied, but usually I just chase them out the shed. Can't let them hang around or they'll knock over the wheelbarrow or beg me for treats until I'm ready to bust.
Marg watched the new, live, remake of "The Sound of Music". The guy that plays Bill Compton in "True Blood" was the Captain. He was pretty awful in the few bits I saw, very stiff. Marg said he was better when he was singing. I mostly heard it & the singing was very good. I wonder why they decided to do it live. It wasn't in front of an audience, apparently.
Jim wrote: "Oh, it's not bad compared to if we kept the horses in a stall. Then you get at least a wheel barrow full per horse in the mornings & half that at night, depending on the bedding. When Marg & I ..."Jim, after reading that, I won't complain when I have to clean up the occasional mess Romeo makes inside the house. :)
Jim wrote: "Marg watched the new, live, remake of "The Sound of Music". ..."I didn't even know there WAS a remake of "The Sound of Music"! I see that it can be viewed for free via Hulu*. Click on: "Watch now - Free in IMDb via Hulu" at the following IMDb link:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3141866/?...
(Perhaps you have to be an IMDb member to do this. Or a Hulu member. I dunno. I seem to be an IMDb member. Don't know how that happened. :) I am a Hulu member.
*Of course you have to put up with the intermittent Hulu ads, I suppose. Anyway, I'm going to try it.
I just finished watching the remake of "The Sound of Music". I enjoyed it very much. Carrie Underwood and Stephen Moyer made an excellent couple as Maria and Captain Von Trapp. She's very sweet and he is so manly and handsome! I hadn't expected to enjoy the remake but then I got swept up in the music, the story, and all the wonderful performers, as well as the beautiful sets and costumes in the movie. I also enjoyed Audra McDonald's singing as she played the part of the Mother Abbess.
Jim, thanks for mentioning this. Otherwise, I might have missed it. BTW, the Hulu ads were well-spaced. So they didn't take much away from the show.
CARRIE UNDERWOOD: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1863227/?r...
STEPHEN MOYER: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0610459/?r...
AUDRA MCDONALD: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0567653/?r...
CARRIE & STEPHEN IN THE PLAY: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm276482048...
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