The Old Folks Home

[Beer can]

I *really* like the print of this border material... dill heads, right?

Speaking of neat fabrics: DH and I just finished watching "Trumbo" and whereas the story was interesting [about the Hollywood Communist persecutions in the 1950's] the fabrics on the clothing were out of this world fabulous. Also the props were fun, funny and nostalgic.

I was going to ask, thought it was Queen Anne's Lace, aka wild carrots, grows all over here. It's why I don't save my open pollinated carrot seeds, they cross pollinate.....

Yes, this is one of my favorite prints (made better by the fact that it's BLUE!), and the little dill heads are hearts, too. I still have to sew my label on the back of it, and then it will be gifted early next week.

Today I will be starting a quiet book out of felt for a friend for a Christmas present. She has 2 young kids and I need a project that forces me to hand sew.

Dill!!....Yup, really nice, love it!

 

[Beer can]

@perchie.girl have you seen Jim Anderson's 'Calgary Stampede Cowboy Up Challenge' on YouTube? Just saw his 2016 win, not on YouTube yet.....they have some of his previous wins. OMG!!! horses are SUPER smart!!!!

 

[perchie.girl]

@perchie.girl have you seen Jim Anderson's 'Calgary Stampede Cowboy Up Challenge' on YouTube? Just saw his 2016 win, not on YouTube yet.....they have some of his previous wins. OMG!!! horses are SUPER smart!!!!

Seen em Horses are amazing and very good at remembering conditioning. Pretty good for an animal that has a brain the size of a walnut. No joking here.

The hemispheres are pretty much split too. so if you train for something on one side you have to repeat it for the other side...

their vision is setup as a prey animal they cannot see directly behind


they make up for this with having very mobile head. their vision is also not adjustable like ours we can sit still and focus on distant things then close up things.... Horses have to tilt their head to achieve the same.... Up and high is for distance down and low is for close up.

So to do the things in the videos they have to have incredible trust in their rider and have done all those things before many many times... and the trainer has to know the fight or flight instinct and how to work around it through conditioning.

Clinton Anderson may be related but hes the one that I know of... watched alot of his work on RFD-TV when I had dish network some years back. He started some of this stuff with the cracking of the whip and jumping up onto a trailer.

But as with all "Clinicians" he jumped into selling gadgets and CDs and training programs... The trainer is good but just because you buy his stuff and feel you have the nack doesnt mean you can do it.

I actually saw John Lyons in person at a boarding place. He came to do a clinic. Back then he was a horse trainer before he became The Horse Whisperer... Or he may have been famous and I just wasnt aware of him... that was around 1980.
Natural horsemanship is his mantra. And I agree with quite a few things he teaches.. but I have seen some dangerous stuff done by people who were thinking they were doing "Natural Horsemanship".... Seriously dangerous.

deb

 

[chickadoodles]

Somehow my credit card got skimmed a second time. The last was mid May, found out today it happened again. I have to wait for the charges to post and then report/challenge them & they will be removed. Went over my bill and can't find a unique place before both incidents... So I'm without a card again until the end of the week, and I need to buy chicken food. I basically put all cash toward the card each month and then charge everything... sucks being "broke"... Dang I hate thieves...

I am not sure if this is what happened to you. But I saw a video on youtube showing that there is a cover that goes on the new iphones that can read the heat off the keypad and scan your info out of the machine that you just swiped your card into. And thieves will hold their phone over the machine and the info is scanned and your fingers leave a heat on the keys so they can detect your pin number.

The guy that did this video said to just run your fingers across all the keys when you are done with your payment so that no one can get your pin.

I also saw a lady in one of our stores walking up behind people and scanning their cards in their wallets. She had her boyfriend behind her and she would just walk up behind folks and press a few buttons on her phone and then walk on to the next person and kept doing it.

I bought some sleeve protectors off of ebay to put our cards in so they cannot be scanned like that either. We have not had any of these problems.
I hope this might help you and some others.

Here is the video on iphone ATM PIN code hackers

 

[bruceha2000]

Somehow my credit card got skimmed a second time. The last was mid May, found out today it happened again. I have to wait for the charges to post and then report/challenge them & they will be removed. Went over my bill and can't find a unique place before both incidents... So I'm without a card again until the end of the week, and I need to buy chicken food. I basically put all cash toward the card each month and then charge everything... sucks being "broke"... Dang I hate thieves...

Oh man that sucks!!!!!! Your CC company didn't change the card number and send you a new one the last time? If not, you should ask them to do so now. When I was 99.9% sure my wallet headed to the bottom of Lake Champlain last summer, they still changed the number and sent a new card, just in case.

Do you have online access to the account so you can see the charges almost instantly? My card is an LL Bean through Barclay. Anything not yet cleared is on the "Pending" tab, usually no more than a day, most things post right off if they were run through a machine connected to the banking system. You can check daily and see if there are any charges that shouldn't be there. They also have computerized security checking. Things bought outside the area will trigger it (so call and tell them when and where you will be travelling) and they will call and send an email. Recently bought an iMac for the spouse and got a call within 5 minutes. Apparently some companies do a "small check" to make sure the card it good and if that is OK, they do the big transaction. Thieves do the same, charge a stupid little thing, then something bigger. Big red flag. Transaction blocked until I told them it was legit.

What are the possible ways the card was skimmed? Hardware on a gas pump I gather is one way. Giving the card to someone to take in the back and run is another. I THINK they can only charge stuff online stuff once they have the info so the charges would be something you readily spot the fraudulent ones.

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they make up for this with having very mobile head. their vision is also not adjustable like ours we can sit still and focus on distant things then close up things.... Horses have to tilt their head to achieve the same.... Up and high is for distance down and low is for close up

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deb

So do we older folks with multifocal glasses

 

[bruceha2000]

That is a little scary Chicka.

Knowing the PIN isn't useful unless the thief also has the means to scan the chip on the card and make one with the same info. Good plan to have it in a safety sleeve. Guess I need to get one of those. The only place I use my debit card is at Costco since until recently the only CC you could use was their AE. But I noticed on the last sale flyer that they take all VISA cards now. Still have the "chip scanning" issue of course.

 

[perchie.girl]

card wallets with metallic liners they've been able to scan RFID chips for some time now from a casual distance....

Its that pin number they need.... every time I access the ATM at the bank I touch an extra couple of buttons just to similate a longer pin I figure if some one is recording then they will be paying attention to the key pad not the pressure and not the amount of stars coming up on the screen.

They are supposed to be coming out with a Biometric scanner for the proof of identity. ONly issue I can see with that is if you NEED to have someone else use your card for some reason.

I was working at Qualcomm when the RFID chips were first put into access cards.... Same cards used to gain security access for doors.... Hotel rooms. etc.

deb

 

[Beer can]

Card scanners have been installed on gas pumps. You swipe your credit card, they have it. Been reported around here recently. ..

 

[chickadoodles]

That is a little scary Chicka.

Knowing the PIN isn't useful unless the thief also has the means to scan the chip on the card and make one with the same info. Good plan to have it in a safety sleeve. Guess I need to get one of those. The only place I use my debit card is at Costco since until recently the only CC you could use was their AE. But I noticed on the last sale flyer that they take all VISA cards now. Still have the "chip scanning" issue of course.

These are the ones I got off ebay. The lady in the stre that day did not get our card numbers.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/10-PACK-HIG...3444e79216a85ee2b252d0&pid=100505&rk=1&rkt=1&

 

[Cynthia12]

Sharing this on the old folks home..and few different places. Hope someone brings in a chicken or two when I am in a home someday..well, hoping it won't come to that..maybe one of my kids will take me in.

Anyway, the world is becoming more aware that chickens are good for us, in more than one way.