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Good morning ladies!

Good luck on all your tests today, Soos! Why not go ahead and schedule an appt. for your colonoscopy while you're there? Just do it...

Your truck sounds like it's loaded with all the latest bells and whistles. I think you are smart to keep the TT you have...it's a nice one, and why add all that more debt?

It's before the crack of dawn here in Galveston, but I'm up and ready to get on the road as soon as dawn peeks. Plan to stop and visit Martha (Acadiamom) tonight, and Tomasina tells me that's a 7 hour drive, which probably means a little more for me. The wind has been whipping and rocking my mh all night. Could make for difficult driving if it keeps up all day. I'll call Martha about lunch time to give her a progress report.

If/when I come back to this area, I hope to have an inflatable kayak with me....great calm water kayaking trails in this state park. I'm so excited ...Birdie has gifted me with my very first bird identification book (Other than the old Golden book, my grandmother used ). Now I can mess up my bird ids with some pretty fancy names. She will be so impressed with all the knowledge I've gained when she sees me again.

Ok, dawn's peeking....time to button up.

Soos, I'll bet that cup of coffee will taste mighty awesome when you're done with your tests.

Liz, I'll do my best at inhaling to keep the winds to a minimum.

Typical Colorado weather. Major snowstorm yesterday. Today it should be in the 60s. I'd love to be planning a trip for this weekend, but considering how far behind I am in schoolwork, housework, and taxes, I'll be hunkering down to get it all done.

Happy Thursday (and wishing it were Friday)!

Morning!

Soos, I feel for ya, hon. That first cup of coffee really does the trick, BUT those test are more important. Sure wish you'd schedule that colonoscopy, too. I haven't gotten the results of the polyp they removed from my colonoscopy last week yet, but I'm awfully glad I caught it early enough so if it is something serious I stand a good chance of beating it. Ok, off my soapbox. Oh a happier note, congrats on the new truck. Wow, you went for it all, huh?? Hope you enjoy many, many happy safe miles in it.

We've had extraordinary windy days here this past winter/spring. Very unusual for us to have so many days in a row like that. My yard has been a mess with branches and pinecones, not to mention all the bizillion pine needles that collect in my gutters, sidewalk and driveway. It's pouring rain as I type, started around 1 this morrning. I'm so ready for some sun and warmer temps!

Barbie, so glad that your furbaby's leg seems to be a non issue. Hope that heals up quickly and hope you get to feeling better soon. I have had a sinus thing going on for almost 2 months now. Just can't seem to shake it. It bothers my ears allot. I still blame using the Netti Pot for that.

I have a meeting with my finance guy this morning. Just the regular monthly coffee club group. Later I have to collect up garbage as tomorrow is collection day. Yard debris is picked up, too, and I do have some grass clippings in the can as I mowed the front yesterday between showers. The back yard is getting to look like a jungle but the ground is like walking on a wet sponge.

Have a great day. Remember: if you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours!

Good morning from sunny Texas, no wind here, so glad to see the sun, it's been overcast for the whole week since I arrived. And no humidity! My friend from CA got delayed in Dallas for several hours by thunder storms last night. Almost every flight out of the area was on the delayed list, must have been a zoo there. But on to bigger and better things, we are going downtown this morning to see Ladybird Lake, Congress Ave, the State Capital, and maybe the Bob Bullock Texas History Museum today.

'waving good-by' from Texas Liz! save trip home!

Hope y'all have a fun day too!

Well it's time I got on my soapbox! Neti Pots - why on earth would anybody want to do that to themselves. We have "stuff" in our noses for a reason. Wax in ears. The first thing Americans do when they have a baby is start rummaging in its ears. There are more chronic ear infections in America than anywhere else in the world. High Colonics - do they still do them? We are meant to have bacteria in our lower tracts for a reason. Now this is the one I fight over with Beth. When my temp is 103 I figure my body is making an enviroment unsuitable for infection. Americans want to reduce the temperature immediately. Okay how many people have I pissed off?

Sparkle wrote:Well it's time I got on my soapbox! Neti Pots - why on earth would anybody want to do that to themselves.

Oh, I am WITH you on this Sparkle,... totally. I cannot stand putting water up my nose. Yuk. I know there are those that swear by these little things, but not me. I always feel like I'm going to drown. Now don't go telling me I'm not doing it right,... I don't want to hear it.

Gloomy day here, going to rain,... so i'm right in the mood to grumble about neti pots.

Good morning all, it's been very windy here for several days but seems to be calm this morning and the sun is out. I personally prefer overcast but...it is at least more normal temps. I'm wasn't ready for the 80's yet.

Soos, I'd check with the nurse about what they mean by fasting, usually unless you are going to have surgery where they put you out you can have water and BLACK coffee. My DH has those tests for statins and he can have water and coffee just no food for 14 hours.

Sparkle, have to agree with all of what you said, but I like the Neti Pot and for me it really helps especially when I have a cold. Many of my friends with allergies seem to get a lot of relief and less sinus infections when they use them, but I realize many can't stand the feeling or the thought. I read a lot about what is in products and how they might cause health problems, and in several places I have read that one of the reason the kids have so many ear infections is because of air fresheners, dryer sheets and that liquid smelly stuff to soften clothes. Of course you can't convince most mothers of that! As for the colonics I think you would really have to trust the place as to their sanitation! I think many people are over medicated in this country mainly because it is easier and brings in more $$ to give pills than to tell patients to learn to eat well and exercise. I know that doesn't work for everyone I'm talking majority. I'd better stop or will get out my how bad our food is soap box!

Ha, and Sparkle was so sure she was causing trouble. I am all for lowering a fever, though.

But I'm all against the folks who feel their kids from baby forward need to be in a controlled environment. Do they realize those are the kids that will be most susceptible to asthma and allergies? We need to have all those germs, etc get into our bodies so we can counteract them. That's how most of our medicines and vaccines work, for goodness sake. By never being exposed, our bodies don't learn how to fight.

OK, making phone calls, etc this morning - got things to do - but trying to help Sparkle stir the pot. Oh, yeah, no neti pot for me either.

Morning everyone! Beautiful sunny day here in SoCal, supposed to be up around 80. It was almost 80 yesterday, but windy as all get out. I've been lazy this morning, Chewy hasn't even had her pack walk yet and it's almost 11. sigh. She has a class today, so I really need to get her out and walk and work on her commands so I don't embarrass the both of us. That's about all that's planned for today other than folding some clothes and giving myself a long overdue pedicure.

Soos, what kind of truck did you get? It sounds fabulous! Mine has that back-up warning, most of the time it's ok, but a pain in the keister when you're backing up a trailer. You can turn it off, but when you go forward to straighten out and then back into reverse it comes on again. Love the push button 4X4, it comes in handy at times.

Yeah, I have to agree with Beth about getting out and letting the body get used to all different kinds of germs out there. I remember when I first started my job with the state hospital for developmentally disabled. Those kids were so germy I spent the first year with a viscous sinus infection, after that I never got sick no matter what was going around. Now that I'm retired for 5 years, I seem to get more and more colds. Guess that means I need to jump in Hope and get out there! Don't know about the fever thing, tho, Sparkle. Fever means your body is fighting an infection, but who am I to argue with a person older and wiser than me??

Hope everyone has a great day and for those traveling, travel safe.

Good afternoon ladies. YUK neti pots. Self induced waterboarding. I do agree with letting kids catch some germs. They do need to have their immune systems up and running before starting school. Those kids that don't miss a lot of school in the beginning of the year.

Soos, your new truck sounds great. It certainly has all the bells and whistles. I have controls on my steering wheel also and absolutely love it. No more leaning over to play with the radio or CD player. It also has buttons to tell me about how things are functioning, such as oil grade. (If it is 50% used, 60% and so on.) I think is wise at this point to wait on the new trailer. This one works for you, plus you have the new truck topper, so waiting is wise. There will always be used trailers out there.

Lenora, the only way to cure the blahs is to GET OUT THERE and have fun. (No charge for that medical advise )

Liz and everyone else traveling, safe travels. Linda