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[perchie.girl]

first cup not alive

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[chickadoodles]

Scg glad to hear your burns are not that bad. But honestly try tea just once and you will never use anything else.

 

[perchie.girl]

Congrats on the RAIN deb!!!

Thanks it lasted about four hours.... then Gone poof no real evidence....

except the cars arent so dusty and the trees look grateful....

deb

 

[Bunnylady]

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It's funny how foliage can just look fresher when it rains after it's been dry, isn't it?

 

[perchie.girl]

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It's funny how foliage can just look fresher when it rains after it's been dry, isn't it?

Yep.... we have a Eucalyptus grove that lines one of the roads I travel every day. Very Very drought tolerant disease tolerant trees. they shed their bark in strips. Most are at least forty feet tall... All having grown on what rain that falls here. Which normally was around twelve to fifteen inches per year.

they are dying.... Some just shed off whole branches in sacrifice. Others are growing new branches low to the ground.... Trees like this dont do this unless they are in stress. Trying to survive.

deb

 

[Peep_Show]

@Peep_Show such a talent though takes a long time to learn please post
some of work please

Agree on this stuff. Works great.
Please do post some pics. I've always been fascinated by the whole process and envious of the talented folks that do it.

@Peep_Show - glass blowing has always fascinated me, but being a natural-born klutz, I know I need to surround myself with things I can (fairly safely) bounce off of. I, too, am curious to see your work . . . .

Took only one glass blowing class and realized that to do most projects I'd be interested in would take two people and an industrial workspace. Ergo, I do lampwork, which is basically me hunched over a dual-fuel torch with mandrels, rods of glass and a kiln and convincing them to all work together nicely to make pretty beads. If the glass rods are too cold, have air bubbles in them or if they had rough handling, they can be *shocky* which means when heat is applied to them they burst apart and go flying in red-hot chips and molten blobs. LOVE that Silverdene! (And long-sleeved t-shirts) Worst mishap I saw was at a class where such a rod popped a piece INSIDE a gal's nostril.


This is a necklace I made for a friend's birthday. The blue-colored glass (called "copper green" because of the metal component in it which gives it a lustrous sheen) had a nice reaction with the ivory frit and created pencil-like outlines on the beads.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Peep that is a gorgeous necklace. Nice work!

 

[Bunnylady]

Lovely stuff, Peep!

Years ago, I watched a PBS series about stained glass hosted by a woman named Vicki Payne (seriously!) A few years later, she did at least one more series on making jewelry with art glass. Amazing stuff!

 

[bruceha2000]

Have to add my kudos to your beautiful work SCG. Where do you find the time?

I had a rough day today but not as rough as our oldest cat. We noticed 2 weeks ago that he is loosing weight. He is a lively 16 and just a sweet solid black, half Siamese half mischief maker miniature panther. We took him to the vet who weighed him and had us come back today. After two weeks of throwing food at him constantly we found out he had lost another half pound. They did blood work and the verdict was diabetes. His blood sugar is almost 500. OUCH! So now I am doing something I didn't think I'd be doing again. Giving insulin shots to a patient twice a day. Being retired means I'm taking care of patients again only these have four legs or 2 legs with feathers.

The pay sucks but the rewards are immeasurable.

I've been doing that with our older cat for 2 years. Never have been able to do it while she eats like the lucky people show on YouTube. We came to an agreement. I sit on the couch and she comes when she is ready. Good thing she LOVES to be brushed. I think the other 2 cats would just be suffering from high blood sugar and nearly living in the litter box to pee. Assuming your cat does not have a pancreatic tumor, I have 2 suggestions to keep the costs down:

1) My cat gets 3 units twice a day. At the specialty pharmacy they get nearly $50 for a 1 ml vial of glargine. But I found a YouTube video where a lady was using a Lantus SoloStar - 3 ml in each. They sell for < $80 AND my local Hannaford grocery store pharmacy will break a 5 pen box open since I agreed to keep coming back. That means I don't have to pay $425 all at once, I buy 2. $150+ for 6 ml vs nearly $150 for 3 ml. What's not to like?

2) The first time I went they also had an RX for the needles that go on the pen but I'm not doing that. First, I'm not sure how easy it would be to hold the cat's skin tented up, get the needle in and push the injector button. Second, they cost almost twice as much as buying
http://www.adwdiabetes.com//product...-insulin-syringes-31g-310cc-516-60bx_5739.htm for < $14 including shipping. Yes you do have the extra step of filling the syringe as I did for the first year with the 1 ml vials.

With these, you use the rubber end of the pen as you would a vial. Make sure you expel the air that is in the new syringe before sticking the needle in the pen, then draw out the number of units you need. On only ONE pen have I had to turn the injector dosage ring and press the button to fill the syringe as I pull the plunger back. Usually the black rubber thing just pulls into the pen window without the white "stick" that pushes it.

I can see doing it the 1 ml vial way only if a person's pet had a very small dose and the glargine MIGHT go bad before you use up a pen. But I think the "discard after initial use" time is based not on actual efficacy but "tested to" efficacy. I found something (don't recall where on the web) where a vet found the efficacy time exceeded the "tested by the company" time by at least 100%.

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Boxes... oy. Move them someplace and forget until later, but realize you'll probably have the following reactions: (1) It's like Christmas! (2) Wow. It's a time capsule! Remember when... (3) I'm going senile. Is this my stuff?

The advantage to storing stuff neatly in boxes is you have one more defense against being called a hoarder.

We are STILL moving out of the prior house. So much cr@ "clutter". The kids will be finding boxes upon boxes of cr@ "clutter" when their mother and I kick the bucket.

Thanks it lasted about four hours.... then Gone poof no real evidence....

except the cars arent so dusty and the trees look grateful....

deb

But maybe some of it found its way down to the well!

 

[pennyJo1960]

@Peep_Show What beautiful work on that necklace
I am officially jealous of your talent there