Nevadans?

[americanvalkyrie]

I do too - it was excellent! I contacted the company and apparently the problems I mentioned were due to people not following the directions. The directions would tell you not to sniff it into the back of your nose. The new lozenges do work (better than nothing anyway), but not nearly as well as the nasal gel did!

Oh boy, I can't take the lozenges. You know all those dramatic stories you hear of pregnant women eating something in their first trimester and never being able to hold it down ever again? Well, those aren't exaggerated. For me it was my first pregnancy, a cold/flu that knocked me on my butt, and zinc lozenges. Now if I try to use one, it's all over. That was 14 years ago, too.

My best cold cure: telling everyone to take care of themselves so I can go to bed! Right when I feel it coming on, I tell my husband, and he fully supports me as I'm lazy for a couple of days. I just plain can't work if I'm sick. In my opinion, it's completely unethical to give a massage to someone while I know I'm contagious, especially since a few of my clients are dealing with cancers or help out disabled people. So I do lose a lot of money from calling people and telling them I'm sick, but I feel better about it.

Hey Sunny, this made me think of you! It would need to be fenced, of course, but you could still have your garden next year if you don't get a chance to dig and even out the soil. You have plenty of manure over there to use.

 

[RulerOfTheSkies]

This is my first show as well. I am so scared I might say the wrong thing, and even more afraid of forgetting something!

Wish me luck!

P.S I`ll be at the show from 7:00 till it ends,can any of you give me some tips?
P.S.S Don`t be surprised at my young age!

 

[americanvalkyrie]

This is my first show as well. I am so scared I might say the wrong thing, and even more afraid of forgetting something!

Wish me luck!

P.S I`ll be at the show from 7:00 till it ends,can any of you give me some tips?
P.S.S Don`t be surprised at my young age!

I figured you were younger than me, but not as young as Seth. We have ages on here from 13 to.... I'm sooo not going there. Lol. Older than me. Haha.

How will we know which one is you? By the frizzled polish? Or are you ok with posting a picture of yourself on here?

 

[sherylreno]

Missy, sorry hear about the ducks your find bought from me. I'm guessing you have 2 ducks from Sierra since her ducks don't fully color out. Harmony did have a dark bill though. I'm not sure if it's the food. The food you feed determines the coloring of the ducks.

Aubrey, how's Mama doing?

FlamingChicken: We won't be surprised when we meet you unless you look like a chicken flaming or something like that.

I didn't know about the Zinc.

Welcome back Ron. It's good to see you on here again.

 

[NevadaRon]

Thanks Sheryl!

 

[SunnyDawn]

Wow I'd like to see pictures of this aviary! Hey how about the retaining wall you were going to build using that sandbag method? I've been intrigued about that ever since you posted it. I would like to make myself a root cellar using that construction technique - dig it into the ground and build the structure out of the removed earth. What do you think of that?

ETA: Hey everybody - been really busy the last few weeks but there's no way I'm going to read through 30 pages

of posts so if I missed anything important... repost!

I held off on the retaining walls cause we thought we might move again due to a really good offer on a RTO. Turned out to not be a great buy after all. Need to revisit the idea now that we are staying here. Seems like a root cellar would be perfect for this type of construction!!!

How soon do you need the help? We don't have church on Sunday the 11th, so I could bring the whole Fam up to work, if that isn't too late.

Sunday would be great! I better nail down the design before then. I'm still brainstorming.

this sounds like a barn raising!

LOL I always wanted to take part in one of those.

that's going to be a cool show with all those pretty birds. Nice job!

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(TMI time... don't read if squeamish)
I am out of my benadryl haze....truly a "wasted" weekend in every sense of the word.

Had the CT scan on Thursday and they said the side effects might be a slight headache, metal taste and a rash. Very slight headache on Thursday night and a metallic taste in my mouth.
Well, on Friday morning when I woke up I was so puffed up that my eyelashes were coming out from under my so-puffy-they-were-slanted lids. Now I have an idea what Dee-with-Downs-Syndrome would look like. (Sorry. Not very PC, but it was kind of amusing) And my upper lip was really puffed up, kind of like the Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz. My color and tone was definitely off. Luckily I just had an in-and-out Certificate of Nonappearance to do, so I could go home, medicate and hide. Then during Friday day the rash developed. First a few spots and then flatout fleabit-horsecoat coverage melding into just me being a lovely shade of bright pink.
Saturday morning I woke up to tiny 100 pimples/pustules on my face. (The insidious stuff was trying to work itself out however it could). Ugh!
By Sunday it was subsiding and today I just have a patch of rash at an armpit. Did copious bactine-as-astringent swabbing on my face and today did a sugar scrub to get rid of all the dry skin before spackling my face and heading off to work.

So I guess I'm allergic to the iodine, which I think is interesting considering I could eat oysters and shellfish all day long. I need to let the docs know this the next time I go get one of these (hopefully NEVER) so they can dose me with steroids and benadryl beforehand OR use some other medium.

I did get to see the CT scan.... I have a really cute skull! Couldn't see anything odd that screamed sinus tumor or bad patch, so I will anticipate the ENT knocking that off the list of why my smeller is wacky. (Thus far docs have ruled out renal failure and diabetes out of the eight reasons a la internet it could be...and a course of antibiotics helped a bit, but did not eliminate the problem if it's sinus infection related) It -- my sense of smell (and, ergo taste) -- is most bizarre. Intermittently either it is totally absent (great for dieting; horrific for a foodie and killed my hobby of restaurant critic and recipe recreator), or it is out of alignment (i.e. peanut butter tastes like ammonia, chocolate is vile and I haven't had a good cup of coffee in two months because it tastes like old cardboard) or it is hallucinatory, i.e., I smell something that nobody else does, which would be kinda fun if it were roses or baked cupcakes or something other than very burnt and rancid. However, on occasion I can enjoy NORMAL smell and taste, although my palate is kind of dulled compared to what it used to be.

So what's left? It could be hereditary (Mom lost her sense of smell at age 30 but claims it was due to a dental accident); it could be menopausal hormones; it could be too many vitamins; it could be bad dental work (although earlier this month the hygienist didn't comment on anything); it could be a brain tumor (I have no headaches, though) or -- I am hoping and praying it is not -- an early sign of Parkinsons, which would be cruelly ironic in its timing considering I'm dealing with Mom and her issues around end-stage Parkinsons right now. So we're (docs and I) knocking out all the possibilities one by one. And, then again, I could just be one of those weird people who have lost their sense of smell and taste, which if I were to have to cherry-pick one of my senses to lose would probably be the one I'd pick as I cannot see much of a future for a blind or deaf court reporter and to lose one's sense of touch could prove quite hazardous.

On the bright side: I can eat a habanero and not even flinch! And, think of it, cleaning a chicken coop wouldn't faze me!

Haha! That's a great way of looking at it. I would hate to lose my sense of smell! I love to bake and cook and I freely admit I am an unapologetic foody. Your allergic reaction sounds absolutely miserable!!!

Hmmmm.... Interesting....

I've never used Zicam, but I do take a zinc supplement. Perhaps I'll discontinue it and see if it helps.

For nipping colds in the bud and general overall wellness I use Wellness Formula by Source Naturals. I take a pill a day and lots more if illness is imminent. It really works when you feel a cold or something coming on and I like the fact that it's herbal. Several of my friends are now whole-hearted subscribers to it and, save and except for a nasty 3-week hack that neither my husband nor I could shake in July, it has been a godsend. (BTW, sense of smell gone before that lengthy cold, but I'm sure all that drippage didn't help)

At this present time it seems like the volatile oil smells are wonky... Had to throw out my favorite floral perfume because it was making me nauseous. Doping up coffee with flavored creamers seems to help (sweet definitely is still on the palate, but bitter is decidedly off-kilter), but I know it still isn't quite right flavor-wise. (But is that going to deter me from my morning java fix? Nooooooo)

It's an adventure, to be sure, as each day is different and it is sometimes comical what my olfactories are telling me vs. reality. I'm pretty sure that Costco isn't filled with poo, but I could not escape that smell!

Ewwwwww! Disgusting.

Oh boy, I can't take the lozenges. You know all those dramatic stories you hear of pregnant women eating something in their first trimester and never being able to hold it down ever again? Well, those aren't exaggerated. For me it was my first pregnancy, a cold/flu that knocked me on my butt, and zinc lozenges. Now if I try to use one, it's all over. That was 14 years ago, too.

My best cold cure: telling everyone to take care of themselves so I can go to bed! Right when I feel it coming on, I tell my husband, and he fully supports me as I'm lazy for a couple of days. I just plain can't work if I'm sick. In my opinion, it's completely unethical to give a massage to someone while I know I'm contagious, especially since a few of my clients are dealing with cancers or help out disabled people. So I do lose a lot of money from calling people and telling them I'm sick, but I feel better about it.

Hey Sunny, this made me think of you! It would need to be fenced, of course, but you could still have your garden next year if you don't get a chance to dig and even out the soil. You have plenty of manure over there to use.

Can't get it to load. My horrible reception at work again.

I figured you were younger than me, but not as young as Seth. We have ages on here from 13 to.... I'm sooo not going there. Lol. Older than me. Haha.

How will we know which one is you? By the frizzled polish? Or are you ok with posting a picture of yourself on here?

OK now I'm curious cause I guessed FCs age at about 13.

 

[americanvalkyrie]

Sunday would be great! I better nail down the design before then. I'm still brainstorming.

Can't get it to load. My horrible reception at work again.

OK now I'm curious cause I guessed FCs age at about 13.

Ok, it's on my calender. Now let's hope for great weather!

The link shows a man who did a no-dig garden by laying some manure straight onto his lawn, then several layers of newspaper... potatoes on top of that... about 2 feet of straw on top of that, with lots of manure sprinkled into it. He watered the straw then just let it grow. Hardly had to water at all (though he's probably in a wetter climate than us.) Just reached in and grabbed potatoes and got a HUGE crop.

I'm guessing 16.

 

[RulerOfTheSkies]

I`ll post a pic of what I`ll wear... ( I`m paranoid,a little at least

)

 

[americanvalkyrie]

I`ll post a pic of what I`ll wear... ( I`m paranoid,a little at least

)

Well, considering this is a public board on the internet... we don't blame you at all.

 

[aubreynoramarie]

you can just come find me at the show, i have blue/green hair and am hard to miss This way you dont have to post a pic or say your age online.