Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

43 and we need rain, too. Windy and 68 today.

Thomas, you feeling better? I've got it in my foot, so kept me from the mountains yesterday.

Toppop, need to hear from you.

Roasted coffee, then changed the oil in my Tundra. Taking the skid plate off is always easy...getting it back on is sometimes a real battle. My oil stash is now down to one box...need another sale so I can stock up, since I need to use those 6 quarts on my wife's suv.

My wife started pulling out the CHRISTmas decorations so I guess I'll be a helper today.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
warmer weather came in with showers last night, should hit 58 here today which will sure feel nice.

off to supermarket and then back to have coffee with landlady here. Then off to Home Depot with paperwork and a smile.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, presently 35 and going to a high of 39°F. Wind S 13 gusting to 22 mph. Rain.

A town run is in the cards for today. Then veg out.

Nice looking flock of Blue jays.


Have a safe day all

 

[pennwalk]

It is supposed to get up to the fifties today. I'm feeling a little hot and achey but not bad.I should go get up leaves at the farm but maybe I'll take a day off.

Dr Seheult who does the Medcram videos just put out 2 videos on the O variant.

Take care

Chris

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 56F @ 4:30AM. Sunny. High 67F. Winds light and variable.
Hard to believe it's the second day of winter. Rain showers are still showing up in the 10-day for a week from today. Fingers crossed it stays that way.

Great jay shot, Ron. I miss their colors out here, but not their temperament.

Sprayed two tanks of RM43 yesterday morning, and had enough left over to try it on some new spots farther away from the house. Spent the rest of the day installing the clutch and transmission on the white bike. Still more to do before it's a roller again.

Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'!

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 43 with a forecast high of 55 with a mix of sun and clouds, slight chance of rain, got .14 overnight according to the Davis.

Yesterday started with my FAA physical. Must be something wrong with their scale though. Seems to read about a pound a month high.
When I got home, first chore was to put the little wonder leaf blower away in the storage shed along with the new Eley hose reel.

Next up was to take the grapple off the tractor and but a bucket on it, so I could remove the loader. Getting ready to change the oil. One of the few design flaws that I have found with this tractor (Kubota L6060) is that the engine oil fill is not very accessible. Even with the loader off of it, you still have to remove a panel held on with two bolts and then you can get at the cap, which is still buried and not easy. I ended up making a custom funnel to make it easy to pour the oil into it. The saving grace is that it has a 400 hour interval, and doesn’t use any oil between changes. I change it yearly, typically at 150 hours, and it’s still right at the full mark on the (easily accessible) dipstick.
When I was done, I cleaned up more than the mess I made, which wasn’t much.
The rest of the day was spent making a sign for my Wife’s display at a new craft show nearby and FAA paperwork.

Today, I’ll help her load up and setup for that show. Not sure what else I’ll get into, but before I know it, it will be time for bed.

 

[Bird]

38 degrees this morning, going for a high of a sunny 78. Wife's doctor checkup visit, X-rays, blood test, Prolia injection, etc. went well in slightly less than two and a half hours yesterday. And now this morning I turned on the lights in the kitchen, and in less than one minute, the 3 tube florescent ceiling light went off.

It may, or may not, be something very simple that I would have fixed myself in years past, but I reckon this time I'll just be calling an electrician later this morning.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, little rain last night but a warm 45 for the dog walk this morning.
Son had his friend over for a jam session, boy is that loud. Did I say I bought him drums.....

Got welding table and cart and assembled.

Most of the outside lights are up, last big job is getting the ladder out for the front of the house light strings.

Drew- Good luck at HD.

RNG - how is the water tank and fire engine - all good to go ?

LED lights in my house are starting to burn out, 4 years in, supposed to last 10. Will need to buy more

Soon it will be weld up time for the light sphere. Just need time!

Stay safe and be well,

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 47˚F, heading to the upper 70s, mostly clear skies.

CHRISTmas lights are up. I only needed the ladder to put up the star on the garage peak. On the oak tree all the multi color LED lights are reach-up high. (4-7 ft.). I'm only waiting for an Amazon delivery of a solar spotlight for the nativity scene.

My cooling knee wrap that was missing from the ice chest/pump/knee wrap cold irrigation system arrived yesterday, less than 24 hours to replace the missing part. The test run found no flaws.

Meetting with DR. assistant yesterday - surgery is still a go but still no cancelations. After a few weeks of home rehab therapy I will have to go the the remote hospital rehab located in the middle of the neighborhood (about 3 miles away). Nice and convenient, if I had a golf cart I could drive it to rehab but January is sometimes too cold.

 

[Rich B1]

Good morning! 50 now and windy, maybe 60 later? We shall see.

Had to stop on the way to work this morning, the wind had blown a trash can out into the road. Vehicle ahead of me just went around it. Figured the right thing to do was to move it. Car came up behind me and started blowing the horn because I was blocking the road. Some days.....

To continue my story from last year, this one is long. Sorry if I am boring or offending anyone with this......But I am feeling a lot better relating it.

The first Thursday in the hospital was likely a turning point. As things flood back into my head, things happened on Thursday that likely changed the course of my treatment and possibly outcome.

Another mostly sleepless night, blood draw in the morning, and my first visit from the ****** Youth. This was the nickname I gave the X-Ray techs who would be a constant "friend" the next 15 days. They would show up early in the morning (5:30 AM or so), trash my bed & table to take X-rays of my chest & abdomen, then leave with everything in disarray. I can be a bit OCD about some things, and the trashing of the bed/table would be a constant irritant. I came to find out it irritated a couple of my nurses over the next 15 days, the nurses did find humor in my nickname for the X-Ray techs.

I got an early visit from Dr. S, he was flippant and snarky in the stuff he said. Told me he was having some specialists in to see me later. He was right, they showed up in force mid-morning. Pulmonary, internal medicine (multiple doctors), Dr. F (infectious disease), cardiac, urologist, and probably a few I forgot. There was a lot of doctors surrounding my bed.

My vitals were a mess. Barely 90% BOL, heart rate still 140-145 BPM, blood pressure was all over the place, temperature 101° or so, and I was barely urinating. And the NG tube was busy pumping sludge out of my stomach.

I got a lot of questions from the doctors, a lot of pushing on my stomach to see how much it hurt, a lot of quality time with stethoscopes. The verdict was....I had double Covid pneumonia along with Covid intestine. My liver, spleen, & kidneys had taken a hit from the infection as well. The Covid intestine had shut my entire GI tract down and a blockage had formed in my large intestine. The black sludge the NG tube was pumping out of me was a massive bile dump in response to the infection, along with the food/liquids I had tried to consume after my stomach had decided to sit this one out.

Dr. S, voiced his opinion I need a good enema, bowel movement, and I would be good to go home. Another said a suppository would do the job. Dr. F asked both of them what they intended to do about the 10L/min of oxygen that I required to barely maintain 90% BOL. Dr. S said it wasn't his problem, pulmonary could work that out. My irritation with Dr. S continued to grow.

There was one women in the bunch of doctors. Turned out to be Dr. Deb A (there will be a Dr. Deb B soon). She had made some negative comments about the suggestion of an enema & suppository. Another doctor suggested surgery which she immediately shot down due to my condition and as she described "the brittle condition of his intestines after a Covid infection". She finally stepped forward, told the other internal medicine doctors that they could leave as she was "accepting him (me) into her program". She then talked to me for a while, explained her program was different and I needed to be patient. She also promised me I would be home for Christmas. The odd thing is, I kept looking at her and had a hard time believing she was one of the top surgeons at the hospital (as Dr. F told me). She looked like she might have been a junior in college, not a seasoned surgeon. Looks can be deceiving.

I got a sonogram on my liver/kidneys that day as well to make sure there was no undiagnosed issue (like a tumor) with them. The sonogram indicated nothing physically wrong with either organ. Rest of the day is mostly a fog. I was miserable and not really focusing on anything. The NG tube was starting to irritate my throat, my mouth/lips were dry since I was not allowed to have ANY liquids at all.

Sorry it was long, but a lot happened. Tomorrow will be similar, things came to a head with Dr. S......

Everyone stay safe out there!