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[dsqard]

Arielle, have you considered going WiFi? Not sure if you are in a 4G area for any of the cell phone companies. Just got a hotspot for the house and it works great! (No cable or phone lines in our development, very rural)

 

[Arielle]

OH, din't think of THAT!! I will check into it!! I have trouble with the cell phone connection in the house and on the farm; this particular service apparently doesn't serve my zip code area very well.

THanks.

 

[dsqard]

Arielle, check the coverage maps for each carrier. For me, Verison had the best coverage but it might be different for you. I pay $80 for 10Gb of data a month. If you don't do a lot of streaming video, you can go for less data per month for less money.

 

[Arielle]

I have realized that as DH and I have added new levels of technology in our home that we just want MORE !! I have limited computer games for my kids: what ever is acceptable (to me) on line. OUr Kids are not allowed to play games on the cell phones. THey can talk to us, play with a friend, or read a book. We won't have DVD's except that it became impossible to buy players for the VHS. I had rabbit ears until the change ove( different channels upstairs vs downs stairs, now have small antennae and black box. With the random reception, which has become annoying, I"m considering other means of technology. Just hate the price of each THe use needs to justify the cost.

 

[ronott1]

I can get FIOS, but . . . . I don't trust the installation. Our utilites are underground and they tell me they dig a 6 inch deep trench to lay the cabling. THis is the sales person on the phone of course trying to convince me of their capability to provide access . . . .too easy to do a poor job IMO.

I have realized that as DH and I have added new levels of technology in our home that we just want MORE !! I have limited computer games for my kids: what ever is acceptable (to me) on line. OUr Kids are not allowed to play games on the cell phones. THey can talk to us, play with a friend, or read a book. We won't have DVD's except that it became impossible to buy players for the VHS. I had rabbit ears until the change ove( different channels upstairs vs downs stairs, now have small antennae and black box. With the random reception, which has become annoying, I"m considering other means of technology. Just hate the price of each THe use needs to justify the cost.

Is the FIOS for ATT Uverse? or another content provider? If you could get a high speed connection with someone that provides Data at a reasonable rate, you could use it for all of our entertainment needs!

A lot of people are ditching Cable and Sattelite to use Hulu Plus, Netflix and etc. to watch shows over the internet. My service is 10mb with 300gb data for $55.00 per month. I am thinking about getting rid of DirecTv since it is much more expensive.

 

[ronott1]

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Me too! last Friday. I should start seeing more this week. Problem is, we are having an Atmospheric River hitting us now...Water everywhere!

It is supposed to take two weeks for the Hens to increase laying with the light.

Ron, what do you use for lighting/ I"m not seeing much increase in production. I keep wondering if I am not using the right light bulb, with the correct wave lengths? Or it is just that the girls sleep with their heads away from the light when in comes on in the morning. 25 hens had better get laying!

Friday will be 2 weeks with the lights, and today I went from 2 eggs to 5! It is starting to work, so soon I will be able to bake an Angle food cake!

 

[Stumpy]

We ditched Dish Network because we got tired of paying so much for so little. If I had the option to choose a dozen or so channels we would actually like and nothing more, it would be different, but to get the channels we like, we'd have to get one of the huge packages. Plus it had just gotten so "rude and crude" -- even the commercials. We get Netflix disk only and Amazon Prime for streaming. DVD's had been available for years before we bought any and we still have quite a few VHS movies around the house

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[Countrypunk92]

Cynthia, my heart goes out to you. That is tragic. I had a German Shepard who got a rare agressive cancer. We got his tumor lazered off and gave him some meds. He was like a puppy again for a month ot two then got worse then before. He was near 11 but he was heslthy as a horse. Well before the cancer. Had to take him to be put down...seeing the life go out of him was horrible...but to not expect the death and witness it? That must be far worse... I have a Dachshund... best dog I have ever had.he is my bestt friend... I often find myself having conversations and dressing him up. We snuggle and do almost everything together. I can't imagine him gone....with Doxies their little backe are prone to have inverted discs.. He is a little over a year old. We know a main cause for doxxie back probs are over weight weinies. So he is kept at a good weight. Try to minimize the jumping off of stuff but it is hard tostop him. I am hoping he is like my fiends dachshund and live problem free. But I fear he might have problems in the future... I want to get him treated, but I juet thinkbof the pain he will have to suffer, when sugery, recovery, and the chance of it happening again. Also the funds to pay fo his surgery. As I know it is expensive. I would like to think If I put him down after his back goes out so he doesnt have to suffer that. But often think How that would be bad ownership. ...also loowing him ould devestate me.

 

[ronott1]

Cynthia, my heart goes out to you. That is tragic. I had a German Shepard who got a rare agressive cancer. We got his tumor lazered off and gave him some meds. He was like a puppy again for a month ot two then got worse then before. He was near 11 but he was heslthy as a horse. Well before the cancer. Had to take him to be put down...seeing the life go out of him was horrible...but to not expect the death and witness it? That must be far worse... I have a Dachshund... best dog I have ever had.he is my bestt friend... I often find myself having conversations and dressing him up. We snuggle and do almost everything together. I can't imagine him gone....with Doxies their little backe are prone to have inverted discs.. He is a little over a year old. We know a main cause for doxxie back probs are over weight weinies. So he is kept at a good weight. Try to minimize the jumping off of stuff but it is hard tostop him. I am hoping he is like my fiends dachshund and live problem free. But I fear he might have problems in the future... I want to get him treated, but I juet thinkbof the pain he will have to suffer, when sugery, recovery, and the chance of it happening again. Also the funds to pay fo his surgery. As I know it is expensive. I would like to think If I put him down after his back goes out so he doesnt have to suffer that. But often think How that would be bad ownership. ...also loowing him ould devestate me.

End of life issues are tough! I read an article that says people with bad cancer diagnoses are often delusional. Even when the doctor tells them they are terminal, they think they will be the one to beat it!

Doctors that mis lead them also get the highest satisfaction rating.

We experienced this with my FIL this year. Two doctors told him Surgery was pointless for lung cancer. A BIL went to Missouri and took him to a third doctor that agreed to operate to remove the tumor. It turned out that the cancer had spread to the aorta, so they closed him up to wait for the inevitable.

Both my FIL and my Step MIL thought right up to the end that he would recover. He actually went through more suffering because of the operation. He even went on to have radiation treatments to stop the bleeding, not to cure him.

 

[dsqard]

ronott, I so agree with this. My dad passed away from CLL which is a type of leukemia. There is no cure for this type of cancer, only trying to keep it under control for as long as possible. They monitored him for 10 years before he had to do his first chemo treatments. He went through them and they brought it back under control. It only took about a year for it to get out of control again. He started chemo again but unfortunately he went into a blastic phase. That is pretty much the end for this type of cancer. Once the runaway train is going, it can't be stopped. He was in the hospital and getting ready to go to die quietly at home and there would be hospice to help my mom who has MS. My dad was pretty weak by this time and there was no way my mom could physically help him with her disease. Around the time he was getting ready to leave, his oncologist came into his room and told him about a drug in the test phase and would he want to try it? I don't care who you are, if someone tells you smearing your body with elephant dung could save your life, you are going to try it, right? Well my dad jumped on the chance to try the drug. This meant that he was being "actively treated" again and now that meant no hospice care at the house. I think he lived one more week (never got the first treatment with the experimental drug) and for that entire week my mom had to help him out as much as she could. When I heard about what the oncologist had done, I was livid and she is lucky I lived so far away. The man was falling asleep with his eyes open for heaven's sake! He was very close to dying and there was no medicine in the world that was going to save him at that point. Why offer him something that has no chance of succeeding and take away the hospice care that my mom needed? UGH I don't like doctors. (Sorry to anyone who is a doctor, but I think they forget that their patients are customers instead of appointments)