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[lovesfarms]

I hate when I research insurance companies online and then my phone starts ringing off the hook before I made up my mind who I want to talk with first. There's such a bunch of questions to go through before you get your quote. The home insurance is being paid with the mortgage and I have to figure out how to do that without any screw ups from state farm. He Accidentally charged me last evening for the vehicle I just traded in so want to make sure I get that refund before I change companies

 

[silverhair67]

Like a possum on the half shell in a stew pot?

never had possum or raccoon don't think I really want to try it

 

[microchick]

@microchick -what a frustrating disappointment for you!

Yeah sure was. We don't carry our cell phone when we were outside. Our service is so deplorable here that wen we were getting calls from Columbia about Sidney, I was having to sprint out to the middle of the pasture in order to get a signal. The service is the main reason we decided to get our HAM license and start an antenna farm.

@Sally PB thanks for that tip. I'll have to look up the ratios on line and make some of those. I have a big box and a little box. Good thing I like Jello.

I survived the doctor today. Got my flu vac and my arm is screaming at me right now but it can scream all it wants. He didn't do much other than adjust my back. he was leary yet about dealing with my gastric problems until we know more about what was going on. I don't think he's too happy with me at the moment as I told him I was putting Prolia on hold. I'm not 100% sure it hasn't been a factor in what has happened to me. How big of a factor I don't know but I have read where it can cause severe stomach and bowel pain. He thought for a minute and told me I was right, it can. I told my husband that after dealing with me for 6 years he's probably just had the realization that I have a brain between my two ears and can actually read. He'll adjust.

So we talked for awhile and I came home. Husband said 'waste of time?' Basically except I did get the flu shot.

 

[Sally PB]

The recipe for Knox Blocks is probably on the Knox Box.

Do not channel Dr. Seuss, Sally... do not do not do not

 

[CSolis]

never had possum or raccoon don't think I really want to try it

There's a restaurant down in Elberta, AL called the Roadkill cafe. Maybe you should stop in some time?

 

[lovesfarms]

Yeah sure was. We don't carry our cell phone when we were outside. Our service is so deplorable here that wen we were getting calls from Columbia about Sidney, I was having to sprint out to the middle of the pasture in order to get a signal. The service is the main reason we decided to get our HAM license and start an antenna farm.

@Sally PB thanks for that tip. I'll have to look up the ratios on line and make some of those. I have a big box and a little box. Good thing I like Jello.

I survived the doctor today. Got my flu vac and my arm is screaming at me right now but it can scream all it wants. He didn't do much other than adjust my back. he was leary yet about dealing with my gastric problems until we know more about what was going on. I don't think he's too happy with me at the moment as I told him I was putting Prolia on hold. I'm not 100% sure it hasn't been a factor in what has happened to me. How big of a factor I don't know but I have read where it can cause severe stomach and bowel pain. He thought for a minute and told me I was right, it can. I told my husband that after dealing with me for 6 years he's probably just had the realization that I have a brain between my two ears and can actually read. He'll adjust.

So we talked for awhile and I came home. Husband said 'waste of time?' Basically except I did get the flu shot.

You know your own body better then anyone else. And any permanent damage that is done... Only you will have to live with that!

 

[bruceha2000]

and start an antenna farm.

I don't know why but a day or two back I had a weird thought regarding ham radios and towers. It makes no sense since I have never done anything with a ham radio but:

Do your radios have to be directly wired to the antennas or has technology come up with some way to have a "controller" of some sort at the base of the tower and your radios in the house can connect to it wirelessly?

 

[microchick]

There's a restaurant down in Elberta, AL called the Roadkill cafe. Maybe you should stop in some time?

We once followed a Harley rider who stopped next to some road kill, reached down, picked it up and put it in his saddle bag. I looked at my husband and said, guess what he's having for dinner tonight?

Anybody remember the old Newhart show with Larry, Daryl and Daryl? They bought a restaurant and one day stopped by the inn. Bob asked one of the Daryl's what was in the paper bag he was holding. Daryl opened it and held it out. Newhart looked in and grimaced. He asked them if they had picked that dead racoon off the road? Daryl nodded and I think it was Larry who said it was a perfectly good racoon. He was thinking about making it into the critter dujour at the restaurant.

I got home today and DH handed me a package from Amazon. Merry Christmas! he said. I opened it. It was a big bottle of Miralax.....I was not amused.

I did get a copy of my hospital labs. I had labs done the month before at the office and they were pretty much normal. No big bells or alarms. I took one look at my labs from the hospital and said I had no idea why they didn't keep me at least over night and pump some antibiotics in me. Every abnormal reading was pointing to the fact that I had a bacterial infection and a pretty bad one at that. They didn't even give me any antibiotics for goodness sakes. 20 years ago people were admitted for less. Medicine is so geared now to keeping people OUT of hospitals that the ones who need it are sent home.

 

[microchick]

I don't know why but a day or two back I had a weird thought regarding ham radios and towers. It makes no sense since I have never done anything with a ham radio but:

Do your radios have to be directly wired to the antennas or has technology come up with some way to have a "controller" of some sort at the base of the tower and your radios in the house can connect to it wirelessly?

Unfortunately no. Legally we can transmit as much power as a small radio station but 99.9% have to be directly wired to the antenna. There is something called remote operation where the radio operator is at a separate location than the radio and tower but you gotta have more money than brains to do it. There is a station in Newfoundland that you can rent time using their tower and remote system and operate it using your cell phone but once again, more money than good sense.

Right now our 2 meter radio is being supported by a 51 foot Army surplus mast and our HF radio is running off a a Doublet Antenna which is just a 400ft piece of wire that we have strung through the trees behind our house, It used to be 1300 feet but mother nature decided she didn't like it and broke it this spring. The cost of a regular tower along with the coax cable that it takes to hook your antennas to your radio can be close to 20,000 dollars or more. That's why the majority of HAMs get creative, make their own antennas and rig up their own mast type towers.

Or like us, they get out the compound and cross bows and start shooting pull ropes across trees and hang wire to use as antennas. More than once I've gone into the MFA and asked for a quarter mile spool of wire that they sell for hot wire fencing. They used to ask me if we were putting up a fence for cattle. Now they say You guys putting up another antenna?

 

[lovesfarms]

We once followed a Harley rider who stopped next to some road kill, reached down, picked it up and put it in his saddle bag. I looked at my husband and said, guess what he's having for dinner tonight?

Anybody remember the old Newhart show with Larry, Daryl and Daryl? They bought a restaurant and one day stopped by the inn. Bob asked one of the Daryl's what was in the paper bag he was holding. Daryl opened it and held it out. Newhart looked in and grimaced. He asked them if they had picked that dead racoon off the road? Daryl nodded and I think it was Larry who said it was a perfectly good racoon. He was thinking about making it into the critter dujour at the restaurant.

I got home today and DH handed me a package from Amazon. Merry Christmas! he said. I opened it. It was a big bottle of Miralax.....I was not amused.

I did get a copy of my hospital labs. I had labs done the month before at the office and they were pretty much normal. No big bells or alarms. I took one look at my labs from the hospital and said I had no idea why they didn't keep me at least over night and pump some antibiotics in me. Every abnormal reading was pointing to the fact that I had a bacterial infection and a pretty bad one at that. They didn't even give me any antibiotics for goodness sakes. 20 years ago people were admitted for less. Medicine is so geared now to keeping people OUT of hospitals that the ones who need it are sent home.

Do you have a patient portal with the hospital? If you set it up, you can get your labs in your email on your phone at the hospital before the Dr speaks to you. I was doing that when Dh was in the hospital, it helped me prepare myself with questions. I got a text notification as soon as the email arrived.