Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Mother of Chaos]

There is a birthday party for approximately 1.7 quintillion pre-schoolers over my back fence, and after an unusually loud eruption of screaming:

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Gotten. It’s the more accepted past participal version in American English. Incidentally, Shakespeare used it as well.

I’ve gotten many chickening ideas from this thread!

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Sheesh how do you edit? It was supposed to be "which" has ..

Haha, below your post, you’ll see the Report button, and to the right, 3 dots. Click the dots, and there will be a dropdown menu, including “Edit”. Click that, and there you go. (Very new members may not have this yet? Can’t remember.)

Why Xenforo (the vendor that supplies this particular forum to many social media sites) hides the edit function like this is a continuing mystery to me.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Did she get run over a lot when you did it on the highway?

Haha, no, the patio was not portable. It remained affixed to the back of the house.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

I have an appointment for an assessment for cataract correction later this month.
I'm quite nervous at the prospect of having the operation. The only other operation I've walked in for willingly, I've been out cold before I got there for a couple, was to have my wrists slashed for carpal tunnel syndrome. I watched the whole thing.
I must point out that I didn't go and do as the eldest has said "went and got his wits slashed."

It’s pretty amazing. My mother always had 20/20 vision, until she started needing reading glasses in her mid 60’s or so. When she got cataract surgery (she lied to the nurses and DROVE HERSELF HOME AFTERWARD), she no longer needed reading glasses and completely denied that she’d ever worn them, despite the evidence of the 8 pairs of drugstore readers that I’d collected throughout her house.

 

[MrsNorthie]

Do you need eyedrops all the time?

I don't need/use eye drops, my vision is just getting worse. I spend 10+/- hours a day on a computer, with 3 screens for work, for the last 20 years. :-(

 

[Sally PB]

I spend 10+/- hours a day on a computer,

I used to do that. I was getting my regular prescription updated and the optometrist asked if I wanted to see what a "computer prescription" would do for me. My monitor was a roughly fingertip length away.

He had me look through the (whatever that thing is called that you look through and they ask, Is this clearer? Or this?) with my brand new prescription. Ok... Then he said, "This would be your computer glasses prescription."

Night and day!!! difference! All the muscles around my eyes relaxed, and the letters were sharp and crisp. Sold! I bought a pair of computer glasses on the spot.

 

[MrsNorthie]

h, this group includes Yankees who moved South and of course, can drive in snow. Haha.

I am from Vermont, now transplanted in South Carolina, I never had snow tires and most of my life had rear-wheel drive vehicles and *touchwood, never wrecked. The first year we were down here, we had a snow, in the morning before I left for work, it was just a light slushy snow, on my way in, there was a State Trooper that had spun out and was backed into the wire barrier between the N.bound and S.bound lanes of the freeway, I laughed, (Southerners..).

It was a busy day, I didn't take a break until 3 PM, I noticed the office around me had emptied out, I didn't work with that team, just had a desk in their office space,(my team was still in VT and Canada) so I didn't think much about it. I got outside, there was about 2" so nothing like the Nor'Easter I had driven through, but I noticed that I could not hear traffic on the interstate like I normally could, parking lot was all but empty.

I ended up leaving early, mostly because I wasn't sure what to expect here. I drove home from Greenville back to Spartanburg on the I-85, at some point during the day they had salted the roads, then the 1 truck that is probably shared with GA and NC, obviously hadn't been through there in hours, the slush froze solid and was now getting covered with heavy wet snow. LOL I didn't have any problems at all, but apparently lot's of other people did, and everything had closed down about 1 PM. It was actually the nicest commute on the I-85 I ever had, and the giant potholes were temporarily filled in so it was a smooth ride. LOL

 

[MrsNorthie]

It’s pretty amazing. My mother always had 20/20 vision, until she started needing reading glasses in her mid 60’s or so. When she got cataract surgery (she lied to the nurses and DROVE HERSELF HOME AFTERWARD), she no longer needed reading glasses and completely denied that she’d ever worn them, despite the evidence of the 8 pairs of drugstore readers that I’d collected throughout her house.

My mom drove herself to the doctor after her stroke a few months ago, instead of calling me to say she was having problems. I took the car away from her.

 

[MrsNorthie]

I used to do that. I was getting my regular prescription updated and the optometrist asked if I wanted to see what a "computer prescription" would do for me. My monitor was a roughly fingertip length away.

He had me look through the (whatever that thing is called that you look through and they ask, Is this clearer? Or this?) with my brand new prescription. Ok... Then he said, "This would be your computer glasses prescription."

Night and day!!! difference! All the muscles around my eyes relaxed, and the letters were sharp and crisp. Sold! I bought a pair of computer glasses on the spot.

I have never had a pair of glasses that made much of difference.