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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 26, 2024 21:41:20 GMT -5
87 F¿<¶g degrees today. Summer is breathing down my neck. But the wildflowers are busting out and all the fruit trees are blooming, so its not all bad. I put a seat cover on the drivers side today. After I recover, I'll attempt the passenger side. I've got daffodils in full bloom.  You can see some daffodils around the tree to the left, but we have a lot more around the yard. |
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Post by urbino on Feb 26, 2024 21:50:46 GMT -5
I've got daffodils in full bloom. You can see some daffodils around the tree to the left, but we have a lot more around the yard. Trees and grass here definitely don't look like that, yet. |
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Post by taiguy66 on Feb 27, 2024 7:11:07 GMT -5
![]() Can’t believe I only have five weeks remaining before returning home. Wow… six months sure went by fast 🤷♂️ ![]() Have a safe trip home! Cheers 🤗👍 |
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Post by lizardonarock on Feb 27, 2024 7:24:25 GMT -5
Playing count the snakes in Rons front yard. This morning is lets roll off the bed and play wake-up the harder way out of a sound sleep. Nothing hurt but my pride y'all have a blessed day.
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Post by Plainsman on Feb 27, 2024 11:49:46 GMT -5
It was 71° and sunny y’day. This morning it is 17° and snowing. Variety may be the spice of life but this is ridiculous.
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 27, 2024 13:13:54 GMT -5
You can see some daffodils around the tree to the left, but we have a lot more around the yard. Trees and grass here definitely don't look like that, yet. I put out winter rye It looks fake green all winter. I'm trying to improve the "topsoil" I had brought in. In Houston we would call it sand with rocks. The rye has deep roots and pulls a lot of nutrients to the surface. Trees are mostly still bare. Yesterday afternoon the redbud trees started to bud and the forsythias went from nothing yesterday morning to flowers in the afternoon. |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Feb 27, 2024 13:39:20 GMT -5
 Beautiful yard I Garronte!
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 27, 2024 14:19:20 GMT -5
An assortment of today's flowers.  |
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 27, 2024 14:25:25 GMT -5
The camelia is one I've been calling the Curse of Oak Island camelia. We planted it over a year ago and it was covered in buds. It has remained exactly the same all this time and finally bloomed, probably yesterday.
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 27, 2024 14:36:18 GMT -5
Playing count the snakes in Rons front yard. This morning is lets roll off the bed and play wake-up the harder way out of a sound sleep. Nothing hurt but my pride y'all have a blessed day. I'm having side effects from the Dupixent. I have been so sore all over I can barely get out of bed in the mornings. What I go through to get out of bed is a lot like falling out, except that considerably more energy is expended. Also my eyes are so  I can barely see. I've had my last shot I believe. We have a few snakes. Mostly black water snakes, b Rat snakes and black racers. I know the county has a few poison snakes, but I haven't seen any. Your area has the most types of rattlesnakes in Texas, plus the usual moccasins, coral snakes, copperheads, etc. 😉 If I was you, I would be afraid to step off my porch. But, in reality, growing up it was said that Harris County had the most different rattlesnakes in the country, but I never saw one. Coral snakes, copperheads and copperheads, I saw plenty. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 27, 2024 14:38:47 GMT -5
Beautiful yard I Garronte! Thanks! We work on it. It's more of a park than a lawn. |
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Post by lizardonarock on Feb 27, 2024 15:30:17 GMT -5
Playing count the snakes in Rons front yard. This morning is lets roll off the bed and play wake-up the harder way out of a sound sleep. Nothing hurt but my pride y'all have a blessed day. I'm having side effects from the Dupixent. I have been so sore all over I can barely get out of bed in the mornings. What I go through to get out of bed is a lot like falling out, except that considerably more energy is expended. Also my eyes are so I can barely see. I've had my last shot I believe. We have a few snakes. Mostly black water snakes, b Rat snakes and black racers. I know the county has a few poison snakes, but I haven't seen any. Your area has the most types of rattlesnakes in Texas, plus the usual moccasins, coral snakes, copperheads, etc. 😉 If I was you, 3 I would be afraid to step off my porch. But, in reality, growing up it was said that Harris County had the most different rattlesnakes in the country, but I never saw one. Coral snakes, copperheads and copperheads, I saw plenty. The falling down could be from pregabalin. The whole state of Texas is a giant snake pit I have killed every flavor of poisons snake known in North America and all of them were in Texas. Shoot first then find out what kind of snake it is. I did get a timber rattler in the Woodlands. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 27, 2024 15:47:32 GMT -5
I'm having side effects from the Dupixent. I have been so sore all over I can barely get out of bed in the mornings. What I go through to get out of bed is a lot like falling out, except that considerably more energy is expended. Also my eyes are so I can barely see. I've had my last shot I believe. We have a few snakes. Mostly black water snakes, b Rat snakes and black racers. I know the county has a few poison snakes, but I haven't seen any. Your area has the most types of rattlesnakes in Texas, plus the usual moccasins, coral snakes, copperheads, etc. 😉 If I was you, 3 I would be afraid to step off my porch. But, in reality, growing up it was said that Harris County had the most different rattlesnakes in the country, but I never saw one. Coral snakes, copperheads and copperheads, I saw plenty. The falling down could be from pregabalin. The whole state of Texas is a giant snake pit I have killed every flavor of poisons snake known in North America and all of them were in Texas. Shoot first then find out what kind of snake it is. I did get a timber rattler in the Woodlands. My friends who live in the Woodlands tell me that they have all seen rattlers around their homes. I don't take pregabalin, but I don't actually have diabetes. My neuropathy is from collapsed disks. I have gotten a lot of benefit from taking alpha lipoic acid, but I don't know if it would be of any help to you. They are making new discoveries for treating diabetes all the time. |
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Post by urbino on Feb 27, 2024 16:54:24 GMT -5
It's friggin' 77 degrees here. This can't be good.
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Post by Silver on Feb 27, 2024 16:58:50 GMT -5
74 degrees and sunny here. Breezy all day.did a little clean up in the yard earlier. Storms expected by about 10 pm. Winter returns overnight.
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Post by urbino on Feb 27, 2024 17:29:19 GMT -5
74 degrees and sunny here. Breezy all day.did a little clean up in the yard earlier. Storms expected by about 10 pm. Winter returns overnight. 74 in Michigan in February. That can’t be very common. |
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Post by Silver on Feb 27, 2024 17:32:47 GMT -5
74 degrees and sunny here. Breezy all day.did a little clean up in the yard earlier. Storms expected by about 10 pm. Winter returns overnight. 74 in Michigan in February. That can’t be very common. It's not. 30 tomorrow with high winds. |
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Post by NJDan on Feb 27, 2024 17:52:33 GMT -5
74 in Michigan in February. That can’t be very common. It's not. 30 tomorrow with high winds. That front is supposed to push through here tomorrow afternoon; these last few days have lulled me into thinking spring has arrived. |
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Post by urbino on Feb 27, 2024 17:53:05 GMT -5
74 in Michigan in February. That can’t be very common. It's not. 30 tomorrow with high winds. I just looked. Our high tomorrow is 50. |
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Post by lizardonarock on Feb 27, 2024 18:10:12 GMT -5
86 in the swamp surfs up.
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Post by johnlawitzke on Feb 27, 2024 20:36:16 GMT -5
74 in Michigan in February. That can’t be very common. It's not. 30 tomorrow with high winds. It hit 73 in SW Michigan today. Currently sitting on the couch with the sliding glass door open. (Our doorwall as it is called in Detroit.) Currently 64. It is supposedly to drop to 25 by late afternoon tomorrow. Winds through the day tomorrow as winter returns for a couple days and then back into early spring weather. The golf course near me actually opened for the season this past weekend. That’s two months early for around here. |
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Post by Silver on Feb 27, 2024 21:18:43 GMT -5
It's not. 30 tomorrow with high winds. It hit 73 in SW Michigan today. Currently sitting on the couch with the sliding glass door open. (Our doorwall as it is called in Detroit.) Currently 64. It is supposedly to drop to 25 by late afternoon tomorrow. Winds through the day tomorrow as winter returns for a couple days and then back into early spring weather. The golf course near me actually opened for the season this past weekend. That’s two months early for around here. The city golf course in St. Clair Shores has been open off and on all winter. |
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Post by Plainsman on Feb 27, 2024 21:59:20 GMT -5
Prolly best to be a little more selective about the snakes you kill. Bull snakes, for example, are good ratters and dislike rattlers. They are off limits here.
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Post by toshtego on Feb 27, 2024 22:12:42 GMT -5
Met with an Oncologist today. Dr. Ali. A young MD who looks like he is right off the set of Lawrence of Arabia. He has that soft spoken conversational tone I have noted in folks from the Arabian peninsula over the years. A kind and thoughtful man with excellent credentials. I am glad to have an international team on my case.  The news was good and not so good. Good: I can have Chemo therapy at home with a pill version. That is if Medicare will approve it. The 275 mile round trip twice weekly visits to Santa Fe for drip and pump Chemo is difficult enough that I might skip the Chemo if medicare does not come through. Not So Good: Stage 3 Cancer. Prognosis post therapy, "Guarded". Meaning, no ebullient optimism. Eight cancerous lymph nodes ain't good. Could be worse. I am also in contact with a Naturopath also in Santa Fe of some repute and will being alternative therapy of nutrition supplements to boost immune system. Vitamin E, Vitamin C about 10 grams per day, Boron, Selenium, and Fenbendazole. All together with my various prescription meds and the supplements, about 28 pills per day. I may give up food since the pills will take up most of the space! The Cancer clinic is adjacent to an excellent Chinese restaurant and The Tibetan Kitchen. The latter was lunch today and it was worth the visit. Sadly, Yak is out of reach nowadays. So beef substitute. I had a dozen vegetable dumplings with a superb sauce and excellent lentil soup. They big on lentils in the Himalayas or so my old friends from Sikkim told me years ago. Going back monday for a Chemo Class and will visit them again. I need something to look forward to and since whores and Gin ain't likely, food will have to do. |
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Post by Plainsman on Feb 27, 2024 23:01:04 GMT -5
I guess 1 good and 1 bad is better than 2 bad. Slim comfort but we take what we can get and pretend to be grateful. It’s not the Daguelo.
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Post by urbino on Feb 27, 2024 23:31:45 GMT -5
Well, you said it, I guess: mixed news. I hope Medicare comes through on the pills. That much driving does not sound . . . therapeutic. I don't know anything about naturopathic medicine, but I'm for anything that helps. You know we're 100% in your corner, John. You got this.
Glad you've been really happy with your docs so far.
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Post by CrustyCat on Feb 28, 2024 5:27:44 GMT -5
Supposed to snow here again by Saturday. Sunday low of 15 and a high of 33 I think.
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Post by coalsmoke on Feb 28, 2024 5:39:33 GMT -5
toshtego John, I certainly hope the chemo does its job. Sounds like you have a good medical team on your side.
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Post by urbino on Feb 28, 2024 6:18:58 GMT -5
Supposed to snow here again by Saturday. Sunday low of 15 and a high of 33 I think. Crazypants. |
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Post by Plainsman on Feb 28, 2024 9:42:37 GMT -5
3 last night. 70 coming up again Friday.
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Beautiful yard I Garronte!
