The Old Folks Home

[Peep_Show]

Just an FYI....
When at a dinner the other night the person across from me (an engineer at Intel in the Laser development dept.) revealed he is a highly functioning autistic person and that some of his kids are also autistic, something he found out about his kids via one of those genetic testing kits. Skip ancestry.com because apparently 23andMe allows you to test for autism, Parkinsons, certain cancer genes, some sort of macular degeneration and early onset dementia via their health+ancestry kit. Who knew? (Price was about $135 w/tax.)
Anyway, with my mother having passed from Parkinsons I thought "Why not?" Kit is on my table and I eye it warily. Kind of a damned if you do and damned if you don't feeling about finding out.

 

[ronott1]

Just an FYI....
When at a dinner the other night the person across from me (an engineer at Intel in the Laser development dept.) revealed he is a highly functioning autistic person and that some of his kids are also autistic, something he found out about his kids via one of those genetic testing kits. Skip ancestry.com because apparently 23andMe allows you to test for autism, Parkinsons, certain cancer genes, some sort of macular degeneration and early onset dementia via their health+ancestry kit. Who knew? (Price was about $135 w/tax.)
Anyway, with my mother having passed from Parkinsons I thought "Why not?" Kit is on my table and I eye it warily. Kind of a damned if you do and damned if you don't feeling about finding out.

I sent in a sample to 23&me last year. It is very informative.

 

[chickadoodles]

Dh and I will be getting a chicken tractor and 3 to 4 hens. The price of eggs is higher than a package Of meat now! And I'm not paying it!

 

[room onthebroom]

Hey! I got a "Likes" trophy yesterday. Thanks, guys!

Also a notification that it has been 8 years that BYC has lit up my screen. Time flies when you're having fun!

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Ron -- A wondrous story. Seriously, though, very few remember their threshhold experiences and in such vivid detail. The old guys most likely sent you back because you were too innocent and naive. Most likely a different scenario now, eh? I wonder if they send old women to fetch we gals?

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Diva -- There's some mattress company that had a TV ad that stated that due to debris and mites and dander that the average mattress doubles in weight every 8 years. I had to laugh at that statistic because in that case we had about 3 tons of mattresses at Mom's house. My folks were both children of the Depression and never threw anything away if it had an nth of utility to it. I swear, those mattresses were just one decade above being stuffed with straw and moss.
(IMHO, get a new mattress. Let the remainder of your slumber years be blissful. If not feasible for a new mattress, you can get a pillow topper or gel topper. $.02)

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My garden doesn't know what it's doing. We're still having heckawinds (my term for a dessicating and relentless April weather bane of this state), so don't want to set out any transplants until sometime in May when they abate. The peas have come up, but they aren't growing for some reason. Normally they're climbing the trellises by now, but they've been small and shrubby. Cool weather crops just aren't thriving, except for the overwintered garlic which is now providing yummy scapes. My gro-light plantings -- alas -- have suffered due to inattention (so many other projects!) and so I may have to purchase peppers and eggplant seedlings this year. However, I have a nifty crop of unknown volunteer tomato plants coming up in the peas, so I'll probably transplant those over to the sauce bed. Canning surprise!
The orchard, though, is going bonkers as we had a lot of warmth early this year, so nearly every tree has oodles of fruit on it except for one very early-blooming apricot that found a frost shortly thereafter. Most of the fruit is sticking, so will have to thin it later.
So much to do... If I ever won the lottery my first indulgence would be to get garden minions!

This entire post made me laugh for some reason. Its possible I'm just going senile, but either way, thanks for sending a bit of humor into my world!

 

[pennyJo1960]

On my phone waiting for the other one from our state picking up Marans eggs and 7 cockerel they do not have active poulry auctions so told him I would be able to help that way

 

[Beer can]

Ron, I don't know. I know he wakes up achy after about 6 hours, no matter what mattress he uses.

I sleep on the couch for two reasons. One, always seems to be a kid (or two) in dw's bed. We have them from 19-5, so many yrs of 'I'm scared'.
Two, I don't usually sleep only 5-6hrs.
I have to flip over every so often, sleep on one side till I wake up achy then flip to the other, repeat. Nights of too many beers I suspect I don't wake up and toss and turn so sleep in one position for hrs and wake up stiff like the tin man in wizard of oz.
DW's thick memory foam mattress must be at least a foot thick or more, and a firm. It conforms to your body, and very difficult to toss and turn/flip over in a half asleep state and stay asleep, feel like I'm stuck. I hate it, she loves it. I'd rather sleep on the floor.

 

[ronott1]

Dh and I will be getting a chicken tractor and 3 to 4 hens. The price of eggs is higher than a package Of meat now! And I'm not paying it!

Back to having hens!

 

[Beer can]

Mattresses sure are hard to move, like deb said wet noodles, especially by yourself. I remember yrs ago mattresses had handles sewn into them much easier to drag around.

 

[bruceha2000]

We had a Queen size TempurPedic for many years. It was good for DW's RA but in the winter was hard as a rock until you had laid in it awhile and in the summer sank like mush and was really hot ... foam keeps the heat in. And as Beer said, hard to move around once you sink in. Decided on a Cal King for this house so DW would have more room to stick her arms out when she sleeps. Gives me a bit more than the prior 18" of bed edge . Went with a Sleep Number. Like it much better than the memory foam TempurPedic.

Kit is on my table and I eye it warily. Kind of a damned if you do and damned if you don't feeling about finding out.

I can see that. Sometimes you don't want to know about things that you can't control.

I sent in a sample to 23&me last year. It is very informative.

Yeah, like that you are a Neanderthal!!

Those tests sure have gotten a lot cheaper, $135?

 

[bruceha2000]

Mattresses sure are hard to move, like deb said wet noodles, especially by yourself. I remember yrs ago mattresses had handles sewn into them much easier to drag around.

Me too. Even a twin can be difficult if there are any tight corners, then you try a queen or king?