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[tjo804]

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That ground looks so dark and rich in a black and white photo

 

[Alaskan]

Thanks

 

[getaclue]

deb, stick with your weight watchers. You've done well on it. It's withstood the test of time as one of the best weight loss programs out there. Yes, human contact is important too. You go girl!

 

[WVduckchick]

My sister lost 100 pounds on Weight Watchers many, many years ago and has kept it off!

You can do it too deb!

 

[perchie.girl]

Thanks everyone. I became a lifetime member back when I was twenty five. Lost fifty six pounds in 26 weeks. I was young and active already It only took the re balancing of what I ate along with adding in walking at lunch time.

Now at 60 the program has changed .... for the better. Keeping track of food is easier and more forgiving. I especially like the fact that because I started very high in weight the program adjusts to have you only in deficit eating. Balancing that keeps your body out of starvation mode hence conservation mode.

The holidays have been difficult I have to admitt but the support of the group is essential because we all struggled some more than others.

At this point I am working with Fitbit for keeping track of my exercise. Weight Watchers links their software with Fitbit so I earn points for my peasly little steps per day. Every point earned can be used as extra points for food if necessary. There is already a buffer just incase you go over. Fitbit points count toward that buffer.

I tried walking I love walking I am not ready yet. Even with my Rolling walker I paid for it with pain for the next three days. So I go by my little short bursts...

I cant even stand on an elliptical just getting on one is scary for me. I dont have enough range of motion for a recumbant bike. Or core strength even to stand on one foot. So I walk with my walker....

deb

 

[dsqard]

Slow and steady wins the race Deb! I think your approach is awesome. You know what your body can and cannot do yet and you are pacing yourself the right way. I think part of some people's problem is that they want to lose all the weight and run that marathon in a month so they set themselves up for failure. It is not a diet or an exercise program, it is a lifestyle change that has to happen. Keep going girl! We are all cheering for you

(BTW I completely understand the holidays "excess", I put a few pounds on myself and now I am working on getting back on track)

 

[bruceha2000]

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One of the clauses I see written into ordinances is that the coop needs to be a specific distance from the owner's residence. I tell them that if you want to control any possible nuisance, you want it right up against their house, that way it will be quiet with no smell.
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You would think so! People are a lot more likely to notice odors and noise if they are at their back door. Not that the neighbor 300+ feet from us with the barking dog seems to care.

The city where I last lived enacted an ordinance 5 years ago after petitions were circulated and made chicken keeping legal. The law allows 6 hens per parcel no matter how many residences are on it (condo dwellers get 6 per building), no roosters. Can't sell eggs or chicks or manure. Must register - $20 first year $10 renewal. Can't be anything but a money raiser since people having chickens doesn't cost the city anything.

They are specific that the chickens' housing must protect them from predators and the hens must be in a henhouse at night. This isn't all bad in a city with small lots but they go a bit far saying you can't use "scrap, waste board, sheet metal, or similar materials". I understand they don't want eyesores but there are no laws forbidding sheet metal on houses and backyard sheds can be made of anything you like.

Then they screw a lot of people:
"Henhouses, enclosures, chicken tractors, and fenced areas shall be kept no less than twenty (20) feet from all property lines." If the neighbors agree in writing that can be 5'. Our lot was 44' x 100', the back yard (where the chickens must be kept) was ~44x20. Given the most PC thing I heard regarding the neighbor on one side finishing the phrase "xxxxxx is ..." ended "a jerk" I am sure there would have been no chickens in my backyard.

Then they got REALLY stupid:
"Henhouses shall not exceed thirty (30) square feet in size". Really? Setting NO minimum but a MAX size? What about the people who live on a half acre? Their chickens can't have more space? Can't make an easy 4x8 since it can be made with no cutting of sheet goods?? I do not see the logic in that.

Rabies is a big problem in the US.

My wife had to get shots when she was bitten by a dog while visiting Mexico.

I don't recall Mexico being a part of the USA, Canada yes

, but Mexico? No. Which doesn't change the fact that there is a lot of rabies in wild animals in the USA. And yes, I do recognize that those 2 sentences were not intended to be linked, but they ran together in my weird brain as I was reading fast trying to catch up

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Besides being booked for grow and sales, felon in possession of a firearm, possession of stolen property and other items, he's being evicted!

I suspect he would have moved to new housing anyway, paid for by the public, for the firearm possession charge.

Well, now we've gone from warmest December ever to proper winter here. Still only 2 inches of snow, but it's pretty cold. The thermometer said -18C this morning (0F). And it should be getting colder still, with cold air coming in from Siberia. And then next week we should be back to +2C (35F). Weird weather.

Wouldn't really be all that bad if we got some longer cold spells, some invasive crop destroying insects have been migrating further north in the later years when the winters haven't been cold enough to kill them, it wouldn't hurt to get that problem taken care of.

Same here. Extremely unseasonable 67F the day before Christmas (warmer than my relatives near the beach in So. Cal had). -4F yesterday morning and the one before. Slowly rising to highs in the 30s then 43 by Sunday. Finally got some sunny days though! Made 31.5 kWhs yesterday, on track to do it again today. Way better than the 11 kWhs total from the 1st through the 4th.

Yep

were expecting 2.5 inches on the coast and a foot of snow in the mountains... Woo Hoo.

deb

My sources say CA will be getting 10-15" of rain in the next 2 weeks. Could be a lot of nasty flooding. Feast or Famine out there.

 

[vehve]

Well, the shower froze. Managed to thaw it with the help of our neighbor, an adjustable heat gun, and a vacuum cleaner. Then all hell broke loose when I had water going everywhere in the bathroom. We managed to locate the problem, there was a small hole in the insulation right above where the shower lines break off from the main line. We stuffed some insulation in there, and at least managed to get the airflow to die down quite a lot. Looks like when the plumber has put in the lines, he's just cut through the already done sealed insulation, and not been too careful about it. But I hope this won't happen again.

About -5 F out there right now, predicted to go to about -15 F tomorrow.

 

[perchie.girl]

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That would be more north of us... I listen to KNX and its scary out there. We are flooding with the two or three inches we had yesterday. North they are getting slammed Were talking LA all the way up to Ventura... @ronott1 is up there in Woodland hills.

The alerts on the news said something about thunderstorms and if you can hear thunder you are within range of a lightening strike... OMG I did not know this. They are calling for people to get out of flood areas but if they cant to shelter in place get to the second story if at all possilble

One fellow in the Burn areas said his neigbor had a boulder shoot right through his house... the boulder was the size of a car.... shudder.

They are telling people not to drive through water even if they know where the road is... I know for a fact that the water can under mine a road leave it intact yet when you drive the car across the road drops away from the car.

Here There are only a few that get dangerous. Out by the coast The curbs in OB (Ocean Beach) are eighteen inches deep ... for a reason. People are Sand bagging for the next storm. Over by Tijuana the boarder there is the Tijuana river. Dry for most of the year with occasional trickles. Their sewage plant is along that river. Yesterday it flash flooded a Boatload of Garbage floating on top from Mexico. The beaches from Mexico on up to La Jolla will be shut down due to Organic pollutants.

Not that anyone would go swimming now but Ikkk

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Slow and steady wins the race Deb! I think your approach is awesome. You know what your body can and cannot do yet and you are pacing yourself the right way. I think part of some people's problem is that they want to lose all the weight and run that marathon in a month so they set themselves up for failure. It is not a diet or an exercise program, it is a lifestyle change that has to happen. Keep going girl! We are all cheering for you

(BTW I completely understand the holidays "excess", I put a few pounds on myself and now I am working on getting back on track)

Thank you already dealt with it... LOL. nice part of WW is we all recognize that "Life Happens"

I actually only gained .8 lb over New years. Xmas not so good. But I knew it ws going to happen.

So now there is a clean slate every Monday. Nice part again with WW.

deb