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[ByN8ureHomstead]

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All I have is the ringing and I hate it, sometime when it is really quite at night it is hard for me to fall asleep.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

I am steadfastly refusing to look out the window, because I have Things To Do and if it's raining I will do them, get wet, and put a half-sole on this cold, which I in no way need or desire. Also if it's raining the large young man who insists he is my nephew (which is silly: my nephew is a little boy!) will go home after school and end up playing with his dog and doing his chores early and practicing his trombone and not in any way annoying his mother or making a mess of Lego on the living room floor. If it's clear he will come here and get to build things with no plan and use power tools, which is, of course, much more fun and less damaging to ones hearing than the trombone.

Ian has mastered the proper "cockadoodledoo" crow after a few weeks of experimentation with other forms. The only other rooster on the farm, at the moment, is the gorgeous blue duckwing OEGB up the hill, who is busy with his broody wife and not likely to come down and teach Ian a lesson in humility the way he did the RSL (whose death by coyote was almost a relief after being knocked over and rolled down the hill keister over coffeepot by an opponent the size of a gnat). Sylvia, on the other hand, has taken a couple of days off the egg-laying thing to get a better understanding of the mechanics of it. Or something.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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one thing you can try -- warning, this tastes unpleasant ...

Neo Synephrin nose drops, but the way you apply this is a bit weird

lie on your side, with your nose pointed towards the ceiling, and the top of your head lower than the rest

instill the nose drops into the "upper' nostril, the one most nearly vertical

try not to swallow

the object here, is to get those nose drops at the lower end of the Eustachian tube, where it enters the pharynx

also helps to yawn as widely as possible, as you feel the cool drops running in

yes, the Valsalva technique (hold nose and blow hard) is not always all that effective

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but you may need to have a procedure done on the eardrum itself ...

oh --

one other thing you might try

first of all, sit down or lie down, with a towel to catch the drips

turn your head sideway so your ear canal points at the ceiling

drop or pour hydrogen peroxide into your ear ---

it will probably make you dizzy ! perhaps slightly nauseated

it will usually warm up, even get slightly hot


*** learned about this when a bug flew in my ear and stayed in there, biting

it will also usually dissolve any impacted ear wax ...

I use peroxide and sometime rubbing alcohol. Rubbing alcohol will attract water. Just use it on a q-tip.

 

[Imp]

I hear scubba divers know tricks to unpop their ears..

Chickielady,

Back here a million years ago, I used to scuba dive. The only trick for keeping ears unplugged was using Afrin nasal spray. Not misting your sinuses, but tipping your head back and putting a couple drops in each nostril, till you could taste it in your throat. Tastes awful, but works. Was told that Afrin was the only OTC item that would not have side effects while under pressure. (The under water kind of pressure-

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Hope it helps

Russ​

 

[broodytood]

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Gotta love those muffs!!! Soooo cute!
So correct me if I'm wrong, but with the color blue, you can have lighter and darker shades, right? So how do you distinguish between the different shades of blues and lavs?

Yep you can have many different shades of blue...and that's exactly why I advertised those eggs the way I did...it's gonna be hard to tell the very light blues from the lavs, except that the lavs are much more "silvery" downed as chicks. Both of the chicks in my pics are blue, the one on the left is not black, though it even looks like it in person...

You should get darker blues from the blue/black eggs, though both of the chicks pictured are blue/lav splits...

I know...I'm no help at all!

Hey, any amount of info is helpful! I'll just have to wait and see. I had 3 hatch that were light that I thought might be lavs but at least 2 of them are blue. The other is still hard to tell.

 

[herbandteas]

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I have tinnitis off and on. Some times it is roaring some times sounds like it is a train coming thru there!

 

[hallerlake]

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Please, tell me you're not serious. It's toxic, and carcinogenic, not to mention flammable.

I was thinking the same thing. I can see how it would kill the mites and the oil from the diesel fuel may keep them from coming back and might keep termites away and keep the wood from roting. I did not question him on this.

Of course, it kills mites and bacteria, etc. It's TOXIC, but talk about overkill. It's also probably illegal to use this way. It's a pollutant.

 

[hallerlake]

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Chickielady,

Back here a million years ago, I used to scuba dive. The only trick for keeping ears unplugged was using Afrin nasal spray. Not misting your sinuses, but tipping your head back and putting a couple drops in each nostril, till you could taste it in your throat. Tastes awful, but works. Was told that Afrin was the only OTC item that would not have side effects while under pressure. (The under water kind of pressure-

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Hope it helps

Russ

But don't use it for more than three days or you get a rebound effect. When I was having problems last month, the generic form of Afrin is one of the things they gave me.

 

[hallerlake]

I am annoyed. According to Petsafe, who made the kennels I bought, they're not supposed to come with a pre-assembled gate as described on the Petco site. The model described on the Petco site is not the model that is actually being sold. I don't think I'll be buying online from Petco again.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I'd be annoyed too: making gates (and doors) of all sorts is a picky, annoying, easy to mess up hard to correct job, or there wouldn't be a thriving business in premade farm gates (and door factories everywhere). Is there a Del's anywhere closer to you than Snohomish? Because they have kennels with premade gates, and also fence panels with gates.

Which reminds me, I've got to make dutch doors for the east end of the hoop house, oh joy.

Oh, joy