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Post by flyboyut on Apr 19, 2024 15:00:45 GMT -5
Gman I was born and raised in MinneCOLDa.... Nope I don't miss winter at all.
But we do have four seasons here
-spring -summer -hot summer -fall.
I only have to mow the lawn no more than 11 1/2 months per year or so. Life is great here I tell ya - fantastic weather, really great scenery and NO SKEETERS....
Check out some of the scenery I'm talking about. Especially look at the clip for Cedar Breaks. That was part of the National Forest I worked on. I have stood where he shot that film clip from and its loads better in person. ---- Here tis - great scenery. Oh yeah my home is about a mile from where he shot the clip on Snow Canyon.
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Post by timothyu on Apr 19, 2024 17:34:12 GMT -5
Coming from the flat chested prairies to the northwest of MN, it is still on the photo bucket list to do Utah
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Apr 19, 2024 17:53:57 GMT -5
I went in the hospital Wed. to have a graft put in.
Everything is so painful and there's huge thick purple patches from under my arm all the way down to my elbow. First every thing went numb under my arm from my elbow down to my wrist. Now my hand has been going numb on and off. Horrible pain and lots of concerns for the moment. I've been taking pain pills, but I have to watch out for constipation unless I wish to end up in the hospital once again for months on end like before.
I had a skin graft done Wednesday afternoon at my podiatrist's office. It was on the left big toe that has been trouble for months now. Everything that could look abnormal is covered in a baby blue bandage.
I have a mild burning sensation where the graft is, but it is not severe enough to me to take pain pills. I have had nurses observe that most people that have what I have need pain pills but I don't. Not even Tylenol. But I am a wuss when it comes to drawing blood. Vision usually goes blurry when they poke me.
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Post by guitarman on Apr 19, 2024 19:41:15 GMT -5
Praying hard for you, Sissurf and for everyone here. Thanks for remembering to pray for Ron...he's been so sick from chemo as they are trying to slow his leukemia progression but he was so bad last night he ended up going to the ER and has been admitted. (I forgot the type he has but when I researched it life expectancy was 0.8 years :-( But this old earth in NOT the end, we are just in a rehearsal for the REAL life-to-come when we finally graduated and pass over....oh HAPPY DAY!!
I love this WHOLE Chapter.... 1 Corinthians 2 (NKJV)
Christ Crucified
And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God.
For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
Spiritual Wisdom
However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
But as it is written:
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.
For “who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
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Post by reb on Apr 19, 2024 20:42:53 GMT -5
Evening from Chicago burbs.
lots going on here sorry have not posted much.
sissurf, praying for your recovery from grafting. My wife had issues with pain medication as well and avoided it when possible.
Fly, underneath one of your posts was ad add for Illinois… so funny. Today would have loved playing golf but too cold. Temp was actually in 50’s but wind was so strong was cold and just bitter. Did get walking in though.
Gman, good news for daughter. Public schools in Illinois in Chicago an suburbs would likely make a lot more. Read that Chicago school teachers are asking for 9 % pay raise… yikes!
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Post by flyboyut on Apr 20, 2024 9:26:13 GMT -5
Reb its fun to talk about where we now live and tease each other a bit. I have lived in more than a few places and I have found that if one looks for the good things about where you now live and concentrate on the good things life is lots more fun.
Remember look for the good in people or in places and you will enjoy life more.
And not to forget ----- Good morning Tacobelle!!!
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Apr 20, 2024 9:31:48 GMT -5
Watched "Good Morning America" this morning. Saw some sad news. The Gospel singer Mandisa (best known for the song "Overcomer" back in 2014) has passed away at the age of 47. They didn't say what she died of, but they did say she has fought the black dog of depression in the past. Something that I know well, because I also have the same fight.
They also said that the man who set himself on fire outside the Trump trial courtroom has also passed away. But that was not as much of a surprise, usually people that set themselves on fire end out dying.
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Post by reb on Apr 20, 2024 18:33:41 GMT -5
Fly I have lived in three different places, my current home the longest, I’ve lived in any location is 13 miles. From where I last lived. My place I lived from birth to when I got married is about halfway between the two locations. Live in very small town, previous homes were in Chicago, one home my parents lived in (was previously owned by fathers grand father) and shortly lived in apartment for two years when 1st married.
so very sheltered life… Sneakers, wow had not heard about Mandisa. Something popped up on tablet about 47 yr. Singer died but didn’t read it. Here is interesting take:
www.klove.com/music/blog/music-news/k-love-honors-the-life-and-musical-legacy-of-mandisa-7925
Klove is doing kind of quiet day, cold day.. 40’s but again very windy and very cloudy.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Apr 20, 2024 20:49:46 GMT -5
By my count, I have lived in nine places and four states (Missouri, Kansas, Alabama, and Texas). The 32.468 years (yes, my employer calculated it to thousandths of a year), I lived in six places and three states. I was a high tech migrant worker, going wherever the computer they wanted me to program was located.
I was born in Independence, Missouri in a religiously affiliated hospital. Independence is a hotbed of LDS activities, and the hospital was a ministry of an LDS splinter group. When I was in high school and early college, my ophthalmologist was named Smith. Turns out that he was a descendant of Joseph Smith. One time, I came home and my Mom commented that Dr. Smith had retired. I said “Isn’t he retiring awfully young?” And my Mom said that he retired to be Prophet of the LDS splinter group. Our family weren’t members, but we knew a lot of people that were. One of them was a girl in high school who turned out to be the athletic trainer at the local public high school. One of our mutual friends asked her if we had ever thought of dating and she said “It would be like dating my brother,” but her brother was six foot seven and played basketball, while I was five foot eleven and never hacked moving and dribbling the ball at the same time.
Went off to college at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri in four years plus two summer schools. Seems that between my freshman and sophomore summer, I was very restless at home and the next year my parents asked if I wanted to go to summer school and I did. Summer school was a blast. My classes were over by noon and I spent the afternoons studying in an air conditioned building. The dorms I was in then wasn’t air conditioned but I slept at night right next to the window. I didn’t particularly care about roommates so in my junior and senior years I was in a single room. Drank alcohol some in my freshman year but gave it up liking neither the taste nor the effects. Last semester I was in college I had one class to go to graduate but I took a full load of five. Three A’s, a B’, and a C.
Looked at the recruiting schedule my senior year and noticed Boeing on it. Thought I wanted to work there but didn’t want to go to Seattle. Discovered Boein then had a plant in Wichita (not any more, they sold it a number of years ago to Spirit AeroSystems). By the time I got done with having my recruiting intercrviews, I had rated my opinions of the companies. Boeing was #2. I had already gotten rejected by companies #1 and #3 through #15. All the rejection notices I got were thin mailings and I got a thick envelope from Boeing. I tore it open in the college mailroom. I started whooping and hollering and somebody who walked in said I must have gotten good news and I said “YES!” Went to my dorm room and covered my door with all my rejection letters.
it’s almost News time and it’s still 1977. Eleven years before I was saved! May continue this thread of thought later!
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Apr 21, 2024 1:29:56 GMT -5
Read the article about Mandisa. Noted the part about her battle with depression. May feel like writing about mine and how I have overcome it. Partly on medication (I have had depression enough that my psychiatrist will probably keep me on medication for the rest of my life and partly talk therapy, some from a Christian (Liberty University trained) therapist. Also insights from my Bible studies. Going to bed about midnight because the alarm is set for 9:30 AM tomorrow morning to get me up for Cousin Marty’s streaming church see rv
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Post by hypermiler30 on Apr 21, 2024 11:29:01 GMT -5
Remember look for the good in people or in places and you will enjoy life more.
I think some people forget this, from time to time. But it is exactly right.
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Post by sissurf on Apr 21, 2024 12:07:07 GMT -5
I went in the hospital Wed. to have a graft put in.
Everything is so painful and there's huge thick purple patches from under my arm all the way down to my elbow. First every thing went numb under my arm from my elbow down to my wrist. Now my hand has been going numb on and off. Horrible pain and lots of concerns for the moment. I've been taking pain pills, but I have to watch out for constipation unless I wish to end up in the hospital once again for months on end like before.
I had a skin graft done Wednesday afternoon at my podiatrist's office. It was on the left big toe that has been trouble for months now. Everything that could look abnormal is covered in a baby blue bandage.
I have a mild burning sensation where the graft is, but it is not severe enough to me to take pain pills. I have had nurses observe that most people that have what I have need pain pills but I don't. Not even Tylenol. But I am a wuss when it comes to drawing blood. Vision usually goes blurry when they poke me. Glad to hear that you didn't have to take pain pills, sneakers. That in itself is a blessing. So things seem to be looking up for you, thanks for caring people here and for their many prayers.
On the other hand your graft and my graft are two different animals. My graft had to do with two hours in surgery and had to do with veins in my left upper arm. That's were my graft took place. I can feel the artificial tubing the doctor put in. In fact you can see it bulging out from under my armpit down. It's not as easy as everyone said it would be. I'm still taking pain pills. I can't type because of the numbness and horrible pain. I'm taking it minute by minute by the Grace of God and thanks to people here that are keeping me in their prayers.
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Post by sissurf on Apr 21, 2024 12:16:12 GMT -5
Thanks Guitar_man for weighing in on my question. I so appreciate it.
Guitar_man, "Sissurf: It's a gimmick. Search for it on Amazon and try to find honest reviews...not many (any) because the Chinese pop in with "new" selling markets and dump a bunch of merch and, when poor reviews some coming in, delete them and start a new market....scammers! I'd pass. (It's like those devices you plug into your vehicles OBD2 port in the front and are supposed to increase mileage and HP and do miracles...total scam and dangerous for your cars' computers.) Or like those golf devices "guaranteed" to prevent a slice! Yeah, right."
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Post by timothyu on Apr 21, 2024 12:32:30 GMT -5
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Post by sissurf on Apr 21, 2024 12:40:49 GMT -5
Would you buy any of these lenses Tim?
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