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[pennyJo1960]

Seems maybe we are getting a reprieve maybe like 2 days no rain they said that yesterday
have to wait and see ground is saturated here slick as get out

 

[ronott1]

Seems maybe we are getting a reprieve maybe like 2 days no rain they said that yesterday
have to wait and see ground is saturated here slick as get out

We have high winds for Sunday. No rain though

 

[CapricornFarm]

Good evening everyone. I got the fabric for the next quilt cut!

 

[pennyJo1960]

I intend to use the group of old ladies hankies make them the center of the quilt or towards the 4 corners have not layed it out yet have like 6 hankies

 

[bruceha2000]

While you may have gotten Rubella, and chicken pox as a child, and had no complications, some did. However, getting around a pregnant woman, before realizing you had either, and exposing them to it, could do a lot of damage, and even kill the unborn child.

I hope I didn't suggest I don't think vaccines are a good thing. Yep, one of the good reasons for kids to get vaccinated even if the disease may not do them major harm is that they could pass it on to someone who can not get the vaccine and kill them.

The 4wd that our mail carrier drives had chains on the right side of the car but not the left.....hmmmmm.....

I'll give you a reason - the snow piles left by the plow are on the right side ... so are the mailboxes the carriers have to get close enough to so they can open the door and retrieve/deposit mail.

The big question I have is, does their lack of reliance on modern medicine make them more resistant to the common everyday ailments the rest of civilization gets, or does it make them a breeding ground for something really bad to get into and decimate their communities?

The Native Americans lived that way; smallpox, measles and influenza killed 90% of them.

We had serious flooding by the river, never seen it that bad. The fence down there that hubby finished recently is all messed up.

Wow and I thought you had bad rains 2 summers ago!

I dont get new vaccines.... those worry me.

If you've had the chicken pox and haven't had the shingles vaccine (especially the new one which is supposed to be substantially more effect than the old one) you are going to wish you had a time machine if you get shingles.

 

[Alaskan]

If you've had the chicken pox and haven't had the shingles vaccine (especially the new one which is supposed to be substantially more effect than the old one) you are going to wish you had a time machine if you get shingles.

I have actually had... uh.. . Pseudo shingles???

Looked like shingles, felt like shingles, but they did a scraping of my skin and it wasn't shingles. I was lucky though in that it was on my torso, so no face, eyes, ears, or other important things got hurt.

I dunno.. I am not too worried....I will wait another 5 years, then probably get it.

 

[bruceha2000]

I got shingles before I was old enough for the previous shingles vaccine. Don't know why they had a minimum age, I think it was 55. I believe it is a lot lower for the new one. I can't speak for anyone but myself but that Happy face (1) to crying face (10) pain scale at the doctors doesn't come close to having a value for the pain I felt. I needed the one holding a gun to its head ... only they don't have that one.

 

[microchick]

Having been there and done that, I agree with you @bruceha2000. But then I think they should employ the smiley face with the gun to the head for really really bad pain anyway. Like I told the pain specialist once. What I call 3 could be a 9 to you or what I call a 9 could be a 3 to you. When I have enough pain that it interferes with my quality of life, it's bad. Because normally I'm the energizer bunny. I keep going and going and going and.....

Makes sense about the tire chains, also, Bruce. Hadn't considered that.

@CapricornFarm, the Beauty and the Beast quilt will be gorgeous. I loved that tv series. Not the new one but the old one with Ron Pearlman and Linda Hamilton.

We see the occasional Amish person with birth defects around the community we live in. Lots of Scoliosis, spinal deformities, etc. One lady told me that she and her husband were second or third cousins and that it wasn't uncommon for cousins to marry as the communities are so 'closed'. Even if not from the same community, there is a strong likelihood of a genetic connection between the families.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We have added heckish winds here now to pouring rain

 

[drumstick diva]

I get whatever shot is out there. I'm not sure if I trust them all or I just don't care at my age.

Probably some of both.