The Old Folks Home

[Alaskan]

Perhaps that's how it is in the city? I'm not sure. The hospital I took him to is in a town with approximately 3200 people. It sounds like they have 4 doctors; all of them will be general practitioners that take turns covering emergency hours. There's no surgery/birthing etc. as there won't be a surgical nurse/anesthetist on staff. Basically, the doc is there to stabilize in case of severe emergency and you'd be sent on to the closest city hospital which is another hour away.

same here... the doctors in the local clinic rotate through the hospital. But we do have babies here.... the doctors rotate through there too.

I did hear though that last year we finally got an actual OB doctor!

Since lots of villages come to our town for medical stuff, we do get fancy specialist doctors that come down for 1 or 2 days every month or 6 weeks...whatever. Like an orthopedic surgeon.

Al, I get the same thing on my phone on occasion and just do the panic restart, too.

As far as the two story pooper, it's a real outhouse, the one Dsqard and I used camping on the John Muir Trail in Yosemite. It's a composting toilet and I believe is only 2 storys because the bottom is poo... either that or the top poops behind the front. No one really checked the front out.

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thanks for the photo! Looking at it, I think the entire bottom is probably compost... poop holes only on top.

Thanks!

If they wait long enough, it'll melt.

Spent 90 minutes shoveling this morning, here. Because it isn't going to melt. Until June.

my place right now... rain, rain, rain.

crazy slick.

So slick that the car didn't even know that we were swirling about every which way on the road. Its stupid computer didn't beep at us (which it does whenever we skid), and the anti-lock breaks never did their lock up-stutter thing.

For all you who are south of me (which is everyone I guess...lol) and who are cold/receiving snow...this is what we've got right now. Below is a pic from my yard this morning facing east.

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Below is a pic from here at the farm facing north. The most snow we see is in this pic in the yard. All of our snow has melted away, there's just a bit in the ditches and our lanes are icy. It's above 0 again today. Our week is supposed to hover between 28-36 this week. We'll take it! It's a bit strange, but if this lasted until spring, there'd be no complaints here. The chickens are loving it.

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I am hoping this rain results in what you have. .... verses the solid ice sheet we have now.

It is dark, rainy, stormy and nasty... EVERYONE SHOULD GO TO BED!!! Wait... only 6pm. nevermind.

 

[ronott1]

I was major dog person all my life grew up cats belong in the barn... have always had one cat to socialize my dogs to them when i lost my Boy Gunner I had booty the bagel I rescued if it wasn't for the way she bonded to me and was always happy would allow kitties all over her not snarl or a nip.. I still say that darn little bagel rescued me

Cats are great house pets! We had them as inside and outside pets growing up

 

[CapricornFarm]

I had a cat when i was little but she was kind of wild. Had kittens and took them up in the attic so i could not pet them. They all ended up getting run over which made me sad. The next time i got kittens was from the pound, 2 babies that i named Sandy and Dusty. I was in Canada by then. So in college. They were supposed to be vet checked and vaccinated but Dusty got distemper and died. I ended up giving Sandy to relatives of my husband when their very similar cat died.
My next kitten was a longhaired tuxedo that was in our pet store. We had a sick kitten come in and since she was exposed to it i took her home. Never took her back. That was Sophie. Hubby accidentally ran her over with the car. She was such a sweet cat. I took her to the vet and her hip was crushed. She actually purred while the vet felt over her injuries. He fixed her by putting a pin in. I gave her to a friend when we moved out of the country.

 

[pennyJo1960]

My cat life started after my last Belgian Gun passed had the mommasan brought to me to birth the litter Boo was so good she would walk to them very slowly nosing them mommasan never seemed to mind.. Rocky my monster cat was born of that litter I said the night he was born I was keeping that one so it started

 

[Beer can]

Makes sense SCG. That is why some in a breakup use a burn barrel. It seems quite cathartic

Skipping through behind almost 900 posts lol. This caught my eye, reminded me of yrs ago when my mom's side grandfather left my grandmother for another woman. Growing up no one ever ever even went near his recliner chair, his only. Even little bitty kids knew to stay clear. First thing gram did when he left was drag that chair outside and burn it lol

 

[pennyJo1960]

Skipping through behind almost 900 posts lol. This caught my eye, reminded me of yrs ago when my mom's side grandfather left my grandmother for another woman. Growing up no one ever ever even went near his recliner chair, his only. Even little bitty kids knew to stay clear. First thing gram did when he left was drag that chair outside and burn it lol

Was more unusual back then to split for any reason my Ma was born in 39 she was the first in the family to get get a divorce at like 32 most thought it awful sinfull

 

[Beer can]

Wow. So that is what you pay for an entire year. Any of our newer vehicles, say 2010 up cost about $1200/year and up. I think our '02 Grand prix still costs $800/year.

I have refused to licence my bike these last few years. It costs more than our vehicles to licence, it's around $1400/year. I've been tossing around the idea of selling it.

, is that for everything including insurance? Costs less than a couple hundred bucks for the whole everything to ride a motorcycle here a yr, with full coverage.

In IL we had to get new stickers every year, I think 99$ and unless you went to DMV you waited forever to get your sticker....here in MO we pay 27 per year and you get the sticker in less than a week. A big change.

Pay, get, here, instantly. Wow, every states different.

I like that every passenger vehicle (not semi trucks, buses, etc) pays the same rate. Each one uses the road the same. Age of the car, mileage on the car, purchase price of the car, none of these things matter to the road and the wear and tear on it.
I moved to Illinois in '77 after being a military kid that lived quite a few different places. I have learned to tolerate the long winters and Illinois is home to me. Can't imagine living elsewhere...although we have checked out places farther south in Illinois!

$25 for plates here paid once and transferable to next vehicle no charge unless you want new plates, (I have some that are at least 15yrs old) $50 first time for title certificate fee, registration based on weight of vehicle, 3,000lbs $50, 5,000lbs $90, good for two yrs.

I was going to quote Ron also on the electric vehicles, I didn't know but they are extra $32.50 extra, for them and any vehicle that has 6 or more cylinders. Huh???

 

[Beer can]

Was more unusual back then to split for any reason my Ma was born in 39 she was the first in the family to get get a divorce at like 32 most thought it awful sinfull

They ended up getting back together a couple yrs latter, had another few happy decades together screaming at each other. Funny thing is even though they were not my favorite people to be around, I miss them.

 

[pennyJo1960]

My sperm bank of parent I met once never heard from him either i know he died alone but he was a piece of crud fathering some 14 kids never supporting one just moving to next

 

[drumstick diva]

sorry Penny,about your male parent - how sad for you and his 13 others. What a character - if the mods wouldn't notice I would say what I really feel about him.

Sounds like you turned out to be a very nice person despite that.