Roll Call~Thursday 2/13/20
manladdvm
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Mornin' gents.
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Morning~
Freezing my baguettes off here in VT.
Snowing - 6-8" predicted. Ugh!
Long day ahead.
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Light wet snow this morning. Cat is not amused.
Am of the same mind as Sam on universal health care. Very similar experiences with friends and family living in UK.
Calling Rheum Dr this morning. Symptoms are returning on lower dose of pred.
Loved the photos of you and Rita out hiking, Dave. You do have a great lady.
Field trialing friend passed yesterday from pancreatic cancer. He handled the diagnosis and treatment with real dignity. Sadly he didn't have much time. A reminder to me how to live your life and to be grateful.
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Good Morning!
Skip, VT is maybe colder than KS. We have 2.5 inches of new snow, and the temp is 4. I'm worried because it was a flash freeze. I don't know if I can get out of my driveway this morning on the ice. It will be interesting getting to work.
The dentist says I need another crown. My old metal fillings from the 1960s are mashing down, pushing out my teeth from the filling, and cracking/breaking them slowly over time.
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Good morning gentlemen.
Rita took me on another local hike, yesterday. The trailhead was 14 miles from our front door. We hiked up to a pretty little waterfall. Fun hike, covering 5.3 miles. No. 63.
While the calendar says it is mid-winter, and we have above average snowpack in our mountains, there are early signs of spring everywhere, out here. We have seen skunk cabbage blossoms in wetlands on our recent hikes; trees are budding everywhere; our neighbor has a few crocuses blooming; and our lawn really needs another mowing. I have no idea what happened with the groundhog back East, but out here, it looks like a mild and short winter.
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Don't know what skunk cabbage is but here we are seeing and smelling plenty of skunk road kill, most trees and shrubs are blossoming for cold to get tonight.
72 this morning, rain came through and temps in low 60's dropping to freezing by tomorrow morning.
Having a good bit of pain on left side, DW wants me to go to urgent care; yesterday folks were even standing outside waiting to get in, way too many folks running around with flu, think I'm safer staying away.
Prayers continue for Rita, Lee, Bob and Bill0 -
Good Morning
Dave, your Rita is determined you will make your 70 hikes, whether you want to or not.
Its baking day here, a cake for the Montessori School's party tomorrow. I have to call the Doctors office again and cajole them to send the promised procedure info, like the address. My wife's home sick as well so I may be running some errands.0 -
Sam, skunk cabbage is a plant that grows in wet places all over the Northwest. The leaves look like banana leaves - up to three feet long - and it grows very large, yellow blossoms in the spring. While beautiful, the blossoms smell rather skunk-like, hence the name.0
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Good afternoon.
I’m a skeptic about government-controlled healthcare, having worked 39 years in federal and state health / human service programs. Always awash in bureaucracy, bungling and incompetence. And inefficiency. And rules keep changing so incessantly no one knows what they’re supposed to be doing. Result has been fewer and fewer small local hospitals — who can’t handle the paperwork and legal requirements— and bigger corporate healthcare chains, which foster anonymity and lack of personal accountability for good care. I know some folks need help with cost and getting good care, and maybe the only way is government help, but doesn’t mean everyone has to be in the same boat. Private plans and lots of independent local providers will allow competition and consumer choice, which fosters good medical care.
Enough—my rant for the year.
Hiked with youngest DS yesterday. Used crampons while he borrowed my microspikes. Trail was complete ice all the way up and there was snow. His first winter hike. A great workout.
Lee, sorry about your friend.0 -
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530 steps built by volunteers from rocks in the forest over the last 10 years, to deal with trail erosion.0
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