Sweet dreams all.
It's snooze time~
It's snooze time~
What's everybody doing today?
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Cable modem just bit the mango. I’ll be rare till it’s fixed. Doing this on the phone bites thee pineapple.
Hope you have a great day Spike!!
Mother Nature is having a fit this morning. There's a lot of thunder to the West and North. What was supposed to be a hot, dry week isn't starting out that way. It's still going to be hot - local Temps are predicted to be 90+ on Tuesday - but now there's rain forecasted for today and 2 other days this week. Great...
Happy Mother's Day to all the moms 
Going to church with some friends in a bit. It's a Baptist church which I've never attended - will see. Otherwise, playing in the gardens.
Going to church with some friends in a bit. It's a Baptist church which I've never attended - will see. Otherwise, playing in the gardens.
Your break is over, it wasn't my modem. Something in the main distribuition loop went melons up and took out the neighborhood, so they sent the bucket truck guys.
Worked a bit in the shop. Blew it out again with the leaf blower. The big improvement is the floor. I can walk now, before I couldn't walk down the back wall. My poor saddle has dirt dauber nests on it. It needs a coat of foot oil, got a gallon somewhere in the shop. Also cleaned more space on the work bench, the key. Now I can repair everything then store it properly.
Through the two windows on the end is a small tractor shed with a dirt floor. I'd like to knock that wall out and pour a slab, increase the length by 20ft or so.
Technically the shop has 3 bays with garage doors for each. Plenty of room if your working on MG Midgets. Bad tight if replacing a farm truck engine. I've done major repairs to tractors, balers and other large equipment as well as rebuilding a few engines. It's cramped but can be done.
Currently I have all the hives, supers and frames(in boxes) to put 6 complete bee hives together. I have to get them out of the shop. It'd free up a lot of space.
But I can now see the floor and walk.
Through the two windows on the end is a small tractor shed with a dirt floor. I'd like to knock that wall out and pour a slab, increase the length by 20ft or so.
Technically the shop has 3 bays with garage doors for each. Plenty of room if your working on MG Midgets. Bad tight if replacing a farm truck engine. I've done major repairs to tractors, balers and other large equipment as well as rebuilding a few engines. It's cramped but can be done.
Currently I have all the hives, supers and frames(in boxes) to put 6 complete bee hives together. I have to get them out of the shop. It'd free up a lot of space.
But I can now see the floor and walk.
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Better pics of the yard this morning, first time this spring it's all been cut at the same time. @Haertig my dog is a ham, shows up in every pic I take. He's registered, working dog blood lines. He also has a floppy right ear. It doesn't stand up unless on alert or being aggressive.
Beside the driveway is canna and black walnut trees. Canna root is food, a starchy root veggie like a potato that was used by natives all over the Caribbean islands. Black walnuts can be tapped for syrup, not to mention its a source for iodine. Farther down is spiderwort, also edible and medicinal. Crepe Myrtle is beside the drive, another medicine. Many diabetics in SE asia don't use insulin. They drink crepe myrtle tea before meals. It has a chemical that controls the rate our bodies absorb carbohydrates, they don't get sugar spikes... no insulin needed.
Beside the driveway is canna and black walnut trees. Canna root is food, a starchy root veggie like a potato that was used by natives all over the Caribbean islands. Black walnuts can be tapped for syrup, not to mention its a source for iodine. Farther down is spiderwort, also edible and medicinal. Crepe Myrtle is beside the drive, another medicine. Many diabetics in SE asia don't use insulin. They drink crepe myrtle tea before meals. It has a chemical that controls the rate our bodies absorb carbohydrates, they don't get sugar spikes... no insulin needed.
@Peanut You've accidentally touched on something that has become a bit of a sore spot with Type 1 diabetics. Natural remedies do not and can not work for us, unless there's some kind of herb out there that can shut off the specific part of our immune systems that attacked our own pancreas, and then cause our damaged pancreas to somehow restart making insulin from its lifeless cells.
There are many home remedies for type 2 diabetes, which work with varying efficiency. Of course the best is to eat less and do more. But things like agave, cinnamon, turmeric, or crepe myrtle can help - but only if a person has type 2, or what we type 1s often call "lifestyle induced" or "self inflicted" diabetes, to differentiate it from the completely unrelated Type 1.
I'm not saying any of this to criticize you, Peanut. I'm trying to educate anyone who doesn't understand the differences between type 2 and Type 1. Type 1s hear, "Just eat keto" or "cinnamon will cure you" or "Well, if you didn't eat sugar you wouldn't have that disease" and it drives us nuts, because all of that pertains to type 2 not type 1. Crepe Myrtle is exactly the same, it has zero effect on type 1. When people say that in Asia diabetics can get away without using insulin because of crepe myrtle it does us type 1s a dis service because it's only true for type 2 and reinforces the confusion between the types.
OK, I'll get off my soapbox now.
Hopefully there is a person or two that can gain a little bit of knowledge from my rambling.
There are many home remedies for type 2 diabetes, which work with varying efficiency. Of course the best is to eat less and do more. But things like agave, cinnamon, turmeric, or crepe myrtle can help - but only if a person has type 2, or what we type 1s often call "lifestyle induced" or "self inflicted" diabetes, to differentiate it from the completely unrelated Type 1.
I'm not saying any of this to criticize you, Peanut. I'm trying to educate anyone who doesn't understand the differences between type 2 and Type 1. Type 1s hear, "Just eat keto" or "cinnamon will cure you" or "Well, if you didn't eat sugar you wouldn't have that disease" and it drives us nuts, because all of that pertains to type 2 not type 1. Crepe Myrtle is exactly the same, it has zero effect on type 1. When people say that in Asia diabetics can get away without using insulin because of crepe myrtle it does us type 1s a dis service because it's only true for type 2 and reinforces the confusion between the types.
OK, I'll get off my soapbox now.
Hopefully there is a person or two that can gain a little bit of knowledge from my rambling.
I need to save those pics for when I get accused by DW of cluttering things up when I put a jug of bleach down 4" away from it's "correct location".
...Yes, OCD is hereditary.
I have proof.
Not a prob @Spikedriver I was researching this about 15yrs ago. Most of crepe myrtle medicinal info was on websites in Tulag or Vietnamese. The translator program I used had issues that I was aware of. However one of the best descriptions I found was a blog in english. The day of the life of someone who claimed type 1 in the Phillippines. Did they? No idea but it matched other information I found so to me seemed credible.
At the end of the day for me... I'm not type 1 and as of last week not type 2 anymore. I can't say since I don't use it.
At the end of the day for me... I'm not type 1 and as of last week not type 2 anymore. I can't say since I don't use it.
The famous actress Halle Berry was diagnosed as a type 1 as a young woman in her early 20s. She claimed to have cured her type 1 and gone off her insulin. This caused a huge uproar with the type 1 community because her own doctor was so incompetent he couldn't tell the difference between type 1 and type 2. Halle Berry no longer states that she cured type 1, but that she was misdiagnosed and cured type 2. And this Filipino man you speak of cured type 2 as well. It isn't possible to cure type 1 with supplements, diets, exercise, herbs, or anything else. There is only one cure for type 1 at present and that is a pancreas transplant along with anti rejection drugs.
To be fair neither I or the info I read intimated that something “cured” diabetes. What I read was that the lives of a few million people are better with crepe myrtle than without. Have I found anyone there that claimed different? Nope.
Plants are relied on world wide, even some here in the states, if it helps you, why not? Big pharma never had anyone’s best interest at heart other than big pharma. I reject outright the claim only something they produce will help any medical issue. Do they make many things that help? Sure, a great many. But they aren’t the “be all end all of medicine”. They are just a small part of medicine worldwide and totally driven by $$, not results.
Plants are relied on world wide, even some here in the states, if it helps you, why not? Big pharma never had anyone’s best interest at heart other than big pharma. I reject outright the claim only something they produce will help any medical issue. Do they make many things that help? Sure, a great many. But they aren’t the “be all end all of medicine”. They are just a small part of medicine worldwide and totally driven by $$, not results.
That may be technically so. But Type 1 and type 2 still need to be differentiated when saying that anything can help diabetics go off insulin, including big pharm medicines. There are no medicines of any kind that can help a Type one go off insulin, because Type 1s are incapable of making insulin.
And once again, this isn't supposed to be directed personally at you, @Peanutand I apologize if I've made it seem so. It's just that the confusion between Type 1 and Type 2 becomes tiresome for us with type 1. I've gotten it from people on this forum before, telling me I can cure myself with the keto diet.
There is a growing idea among Type 1s that Type 2 should be renamed with the word "diabetes" omitted from the title. Something like "Lifestyle induced metabolic disorder" would be more appropriate and eliminate the confusion.
Vacuum sealed 3 3LB bags of ground beef each one is for 3LB meatloaf.also vacuum sealed 15 pork chops. Also making 5 trays of beef jerky. I'll also be vacum sealing 3 more bags of ground beef for meatloaf.and more jerky tomorrow.
Now that would just make too much sense. Most (maybe all???) the Type 1's I've know were diagnosed quite young - maybe early teens at latest and are otherwise healthy in all outwardly appearances.
Went to church - hadn't been to one in a while. This was a new church to me & was nice, only a couple dozen people and most "mature". I was actually surprised at how few young people were there. That made me a little sad since I don't think it's just that they aren't at church. I think that many are being raised to be moral-less.
Returned home and played out in the garden getting quite a few things planted. I keep scrubbing the dirt out from under my nails, and it keeps returning
Returned home and played out in the garden getting quite a few things planted. I keep scrubbing the dirt out from under my nails, and it keeps returning
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Spent the day at the little zoo with mom and little granddaughter's mom and the boyfriend as our guests. Packed a picnic and had lunch there. It's a small free zoo in the bigger town, never very crowded, with a great picnic area. Getting calls from our kids and catching up. Getting ready to enjoy barbeque that husband went into the bigger town and picked up.
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The church I joined a year ago is mostly mature people. There are two families with 4 children each. One guy told me that when they were doing a search for a new pastor a couple years ago, they realized that they had to have a pastor with a young children. With only mature people, it will only take a decade or two, and that will be it, no church. They hired a wonderful pastor, and he is dynamic in his skills, personality, sermons, bringing in new members.Went to church - hadn't been to one in a while. This was a new church to me & was nice, only a couple dozen people and most "mature". I was actually surprised at how few young people were there. That made me a little sad since I don't think it's just that they aren't at church. I think that many are being raised to be moral-less.
Returned home and played out in the garden getting quite a few things planted. I keep scrubbing the dirt out from under my nails, and it keeps returning
I purposely joined a church that is the opposite. The greater part of the congregation is of the age to have kids in school. It's a very dynamic place although it tends to be hectic as well, with all those kids and young adults running around...
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Today was a nice day, the wife had a nice visit with the kids and it was just a good day.
Spent the day at my sisters house with her family, mom, and dad.
New church just starting in the neighborhood. Interesting service, a lot more friendly than the MEGA church I used to attend. I wish I hadn't missed "Smores" night last evening. Asked the pastor about an email list instead of fakebook, saw the post after church.
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The church I used to go to wasn't exactly a Mega church, but in 10 years, the pastor was never available to even say hello to or to shake his hand. He never knew my name. I never had one conversation with him, because he had his own thing going on. No bible studies. No Sunday school.
I know the feeling, could probably be a whole new thread in the right forum.
to quote Jimmy Buffett. " oh the stories I could tell."
Those stories make me glad I go to a little church in a little town. Including all the kids, we get 120 to 150 people on Sundays. You can walk in wearing shorts, sandals, and a camo ball cap, and no one would bat an eye. You are encouraged to get a cup of coffee from the coffee shop out front and bring it into the sanctuary to sip on during the service. And somebody is going to greet you at some point...
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This reminds me of my uncles quonset hut that I cleaned many years ago, except the clay from tractor and other equipment was thick on the floor. When we couldn't work in the fields or make hay, because of rain, I worked in that hut/shop, cleaning and organizing. I should have taken photos when I was finished.
