Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[ShrekDawg]

Just crack one open and see if it's fertile

She’s had other roosters in with her hens for a while so all the eggs should already be fertile so this won’t do much to tell which bird is fertilizing them.

I think eggs can stay fertile for two weeks so it will probably be at least that long before Squatch is not the father

 

[ShrekDawg]

To little blood to test?
Turn your finger poker up one notch. That should fix that....oh and work your hand first to increase circulation.

Yeah!! And I’ve tried it on a bunch of the different settings as well as multiple different places on the fingers and usually squeeze it to make drops come out and all that but it keeps being annoying!

Even if it looks like enough to me. I even usually dip it in it again when it says it needs more but I think maybe I’m just really bad at it.

I have the finger thingy on the highest setting and even figured out which location gives the most blood but still.

Maybe I need to try massaging my hands before I poke them or wiggling them around or something first haha maybe warm water?

 

[21hens-incharge]

Yeah!! And I’ve tried it on a bunch of the different settings as well as multiple different places on the fingers and usually squeeze it to make drops come out and all that but it keeps being annoying!

Even if it looks like enough to me. I even usually dip it in it again when it says it needs more but I think maybe I’m just really bad at it.

I have the finger thingy on the highest setting and even figured out which location gives the most blood but still.

Maybe I need to try massaging my hands before I poke them or wiggling them around or something first haha maybe warm water?

All good ways to increase circulation. If you warm your hand with water be sure to dry it well before testing. Water will dilute the sample and give an error message.

If your readings are 180 or below 2 hours after eating I think you are ok.

 

[ShrekDawg]

All good ways to increase circulation. If you warm your hand with water be sure to dry it well before testing. Water will dilute the sample and give an error message.

If your readings are 180 or below 2 hours after eating I think you are ok.

Thanks!! Wonder if that’s part of the problem. I wash my hands before I do it. I be sure to dry them well with a paper towel first but still. Sometimes in some spots it seems really runny.

I think I just suck at it LOL

Also idk how you do this so many times a day!!! My fingers kind of hurt already from just a few times

And it was 99 this most recent time at 9:30 (well, 9:45 actually by the time I got the dang thing to work ). I ate at 7:30 and made sure to not eat anything else until then.

So I think that’s good?

But then at 2pm it was 112 before I even ate anything, like the fasting one, so that worried me but maybe it is still a little high from yesterday? I hope so anyway.

 

[ShrekDawg]

@21hens-incharge it’s weird though because it does seem to be pretty low after I eat or go down fast or whatever but yet on the fasting ones it’s pretty high. I know I’ve only done one fasting one so far but even on the real blood tests from the Dr. which is why he was worried I think. So

 

[DogAndCat36]

Often cucumbers just slice some up discs, little soak in white vinegar and water salt, side dish for any meal in the summer, kids love it. I'll have to try radishes fresh in vinegar. Thanks for the idea, always looking for another way to try anything.
Pretty hard to grow good radishes IMHO.
When you get them good so awesome!!!
Fail is hot woody ones, success is nice crispy ones. If you have some hot good one's that really peel your tongue off, pickling eliminates the heat.

I agree it can be tricky at first, especially when you forget to pluck them when they are full grown and then they crack.
Also, no problem, my cousin told me to add white vinegar and it was tasty.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Thanks!! Wonder if that’s part of the problem. I wash my hands before I do it. I be sure to dry them well with a paper towel first but still. Sometimes in some spots it seems really runny.

I think I just suck at it LOL

Also idk how you do this so many times a day!!! My fingers kind of hurt already from just a few times

And it was 99 this most recent time at 9:30 (well, 9:45 actually by the time I got the dang thing to work ). I ate at 7:30 and made sure to not eat anything else until then.

So I think that’s good?

But then at 2pm it was 112 before I even ate anything, like the fasting one, so that worried me but maybe it is still a little high from yesterday? I hope so anyway.

Not high enough to panic over at all.
My unmedicated fasting readings were above 350. That was before finding a doctor and getting treatment.

Your 112 reading could have still been from what you had earlier in the day.......
By the way...112 is totally fine.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Not high enough to panic over at all.
My unmedicated fasting readings were above 350. That was before finding a doctor and getting treatment.

Your 112 reading could have still been from what you had earlier in the day.......
By the way...112 is totally fine.

Okay thank you!!! This is a relief!! I was freaking out a bit thinking it was prediabetic or close cause I thought I read something aha

But oh wow that’s crazy high!

My little tiny numbers and worrying probably seems ridiculous then.

I had not eaten yet when I took it, had last eaten at around 3 or 4 am, so it was basically fasting but maybe the sugar or whatever from the day before was still in there.

I would like to at least call the doctor though and find out what my numbers were just to know for sure but seems like it’s not a big deal or anything to really worry over?

Which is weird because they seem to think so

 

[Beer can]

I can’t wait to make pickles this year

I wanted to last year especially since we had sooooo many cucumbers but then I never did.

Definitely going to this time though. I have a special pickling kind.

I really wanna make bread & butter ones..... my favorites.

I don't like them, but...bread & butter sweet pickle mix thin slice green tomatoes pickled, on a ham and cheese sandwich;

 

[ShrekDawg]

I don't like them, but...bread & butter sweet pickle mix thin slice green tomatoes pickled, on a ham and cheese sandwich;

That sounds delicious!!! OMG!!