I cannot imagine living with the constant dizziness that I have been experiencing. I would definitely call the clinic and set up an appointment. Just set it up on a Monday because the three day treatment is done Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. They do no surgery on...
We have seen people from all over the world at the clinic. Last Thursday I couldn't even crawl without tilting over on my left side. Somebody had jacked the house up and the floor seemed to be at a 45 degree angle.
I felt better as soon as I walked out of the clinic.
RSKY
I told of my initial problems on my thread about "What kind of tree is this?"
We are back home.
For the fourth time in two years I had to go to the Shea Clinic in Memphis for a treatment on my right ear. I have a condition called Ménière's disease which causes problems with balance and...
Caffeine or salt can trigger an attack.
Had another event this morning. Had to crawl out of bed to the bathroom to puke. Fell on my side a couple times. You haven't experienced vertigo until you have the Meniere's kind. Wife sleeping in another room because I've started snoring so loud. So I...
The guy who I'm seeing is a fourth generation ear surgeon. His great grandfather started the clinic. He was in the operating room watching his dad perform surgeries at age 14.
I've had the 3-day treatment at least four times now. Put you to sleep, stick a needle thru your eardrum and inject...
I have Ménière's disease of the inner ear. Had a shunt put in my right ear back in 1992-3 at the Shea Clinic in Memphis. I've been seeing that surgeon's son now for hearing loss. After getting home and thinking about what I've heard from other patients about at the clinic I think it may be...
OKAY, wellness check, no problems Saturday cutting on the devil's spawn tree. Problems started Sunday. Had to be packed out of church in the middle of the service. The nurse practitioner and hospital head nurse who were there both thought I was having a heart attack. I have never had any heart...
Not really above my skill level. Definitely above the son in laws which is why I was there. I wasn't really going to cut as much down as I ended up doing BUT it happened. We ended up cutting and dragging about a dozen large limbs/trunks. Much more to do to clear that one spot.
I had washed my shoes after the Sunday afternoon cutting up that tree. Spent an hour yesterday morning pulling thorns out of the soles. My favorite pair of Sketcher Slip Ins are no longer waterproof thru the sole. I knew I felt something in my shoes and thought it was sawdust. Was the thorns...
Finally got the second and third pictures to post. The entire tree with its offshoots covers an area about 30x30 yards. Everything in the first picture here is connected to the main trunk. Even the cut off log is still connected by a root running on top of the ground. In the second picture you...
Still couldn't get the second and third pictures to post. Oh well.
Yeah, it could be a chainsaw killer. I got the bar pinched more times in four hours cutting that thing than I have since the saw was bought ten+ years ago. Still nursing the cut on top of my head from a limb/thorn. But we cut...
I am helping my son in law clear out a thicket around a pond. This tree has given us a lot of trouble. There are many trunks growing out of the 6 to 10 foot diameter base. First picture. Limbs grow out and send other limbs straight up or down to the ground where they root. And another tree...
There is a difference between spoiling grandkids and ruining them. We spoil ours I know BUT they actually ask for very little. There are no fits in stores wanting a toy. They do ask to come and stay with us for a night or so. And they ask to go to a particular place to eat. That is all they ask...
Not so! We made time for our kids whenever we could. Took at least a week's vacation every year if possible. We still try to take vacations with each of the two daughters families every year. My parents and my in-laws both helped us financially when we were starting out and left us resources...
I got my daughters certified to SCUBA when they were 17 and 13. We dove in the Keys, up and down the east coast, in Mexico, and the Caymans. When the oldest was a senior in high school a friend invited her to go out on Kentucky Lake in their family's boat and I realized neither child had been on...
Actually that should have been a one day drive. I went and changed it on the original post. The problem with flying that many down there is it would take three rental cars to satisfy everyone.
RSKY
Twice this week and once last week I've driven 40 minutes to pick up my 16-year old granddaughter and then driven 30 minutes to take her to golf lessons. (Local celebrity golfer holding classes). Then I wait around for a couple hours to take her home. Lunch included wherever she wants to eat...
Well, after my gripe about everybody mowing low and having dead grass on their yard I mowed mine yesterday afternoon. It's been six days since it was mowed and with the deck set as high as possible I was still cutting over half off in some places. Dead brown grass all over yard in those spots...
My peeve is the people in our neighborhood who mow their yards on the lowest setting on the mower. Then they leave the ugly brown grass laying there until the next week. You cut the grass to even it out, not to lower the height. People stop and tell me that my yard looks better than any in the...
This is the fund I am most invested in. I got in it about 2018 and in it very heavy after we sold three farms and two houses in 2022. No skill involved in picking that one fund, just very good luck. On the one year return it made a major correction first of the year and is back to gaining big...
I recently read that the most popular brand of vehicle among billionaires is Toyota. The most popular single vehicle for billionaires is Ford F150. Relatively inexpensive, reliable vehicles with a high resale value. What does that tell you.
Worked with a guy who was going to retire in 2010...
I only invest in mutual funds, no single issue stocks. And I am in the riskier types. One fund Select Semiconductor has averaged a 25% yearly gain over the past ten years. But when the market drops, that fund DROPS. Then it comes back strong. Not the first time I have watched this happen.
When they announced the plant closure at the last place I worked (Goodyear Tire and Rubber) a guy come in and showed our department manager his 401K papers. He had built it up to $1.6 million with a simple plan. When Goodyear stock reached a certain point, I believe it was $30, he swapped it for...
We lost 22% of our investments in February, March and April. Three months later we are back in the black and making money again.
Basically my wife and I lost, on paper, two years salary each in about 45 days. This was from her 401K, my IRA, and our investments. The only thing that didn't lose...
The nurse practitioner that helped my son-in-law so much said that he needed X-rays of his lungs but that if he went to the local hospital they would keep him and he wouldn't get out alive.
The ER nurse told her to give him Tylenol and Motrin at three hour intervals alternating the drugs. And...
My youngest daughter's husband was one of the first in our area to get COVID. He ran a temp over 100F for 21 straight days. The only thing that would stay on his stomach was Coke from the local McDonalds. Water or Gatorade would go straight thru him. Drink it in the kitchen and have to run to...
As a side remark on chiropractors, my daughter tripped over the baby a few months ago. Took a hard fall trying to keep from landing on the little toot. This was on a Sunday. Went in to the chiropractor the next day and he ran his hand down her spine and asked her if she had a hard fall recently...
I've always had problems with sinus/ear infections especially the past few years. Had a series of them in 2023 and lost much of my hearing in my right ear. Had several more in 2024. Took all kinds of antibiotics and steroids both of which caused other problems. And I've had several procedures on...
I picture the Slate as being positioned in the market as a 'buy it and keep it and run it until it dies' type vehicle. IF they can sell it for $20k then they will sell and I will probably buy one. I am seventy-one years old and 75% of my driving is one or two people on a round trip of 80 miles...
I see this as being a street legal, freeway capable golf cart with required safety equipment. Not a vehicle to be used as your primary go on vacation or go to visit relatives 100-miles away. More as a hop in and run to Walmart or Home Depot or the grocery store type. That is the type of driving...
The more I consider it the more I like it. Today I'm driving a 35-mile round trip to a Chiropractor's office. The Slate truck would be perfect for that. Then I have to make a round trip to a Clinic in Memphis Tennessee that is 350-miles, the Honda Pilot is perfect for that trip. All the...
This is what I have been looking for in an EV. Kind of like a glorified, street-legal golf cart. I've got to have the 6-7 seat SUV for hauling all the grands. Got to have the pickup to tow a trailer with tractor and haul other stuff. But hate the gas bills because most of my driving is actually...
I don't know where you live but about 10-15 years ago the state made Farm Bureau update all their homeowners policies due to complaints about them underinsuring homes. My youngest had just started working at a large independent agency and was very concerned about this before the state regulators...
I posted elsewhere about a nurse I talked to who got out of a burning house with the clothes she had on. Her smoke detectors never went off and a neighbor saw the fire and got them out. Fire started at one end of the house and she and her son were at the other end.
Our house is a one story with...
I talked to a lady Tuesday who had lost everything in a house fire. She was a nurse practitioner at a clinic I had to go to (routine checkup). She said her and her nineteen year old son were at one end of the house watching TV when they heard a noise and somebody started beating on the front...
Channel 6 really exited. Tornado went right over their radar station. Holy smokes picture on TV wild. Nearly hitting downtown but may not be on ground. Moving very fast.
Youngest daughter and her family were sitting eating supper a couple nights ago. The eight year old grandson calmly said, "Guess what".
My daughter answered, "What".
"I think I'm growing hair on my balls".
Took her a few minutes to unchoke herself while my son in law just sat there with...
Seeing as how our small town was pretty well damaged in 2021 people here are very sensitive to weather alerts. They have upped it to a level 5 for tonight. There WILL be tornados in our area. Girl next door has two young kids and her deputy sheriff husband will probably get called in to work...
I have had excellent service from Fidelity. Only sales pitch I ever got was for an annuity when I was first rolling my 4001K into an IRA. The lady made her sales pitch and I told her to give me a week while I thought about it. When I talked to her a week later and told her I did not want the...
No knowledge of the industry other than what I have read online. Investing strictly on the history of the funds. Look at the chart I posted on post #224 and slide it over to the past 10 years. Semiconductor fund has made 25.99%, S&P 500 fund has paid 13.09%. Close enough to double for me.
RSKY
I have a S&P 500 Index Fund. Over the years It has done half as well as my Select Semiconductor Fund. FSELX was about +8% for the year until this week. It drops like this but always comes back up in a month or two. Over the years it has been my biggest earner and I have most of my investment...
Getting back to the original topic, not that I haven't enjoyed reading about the fires and prevention, I had the biggest losses on the stock market I have ever had Monday. I am invested mainly in tech mutual funds and I lost back all the way to where I was in September of last year. Last time...
The Dow is supposed to be dropping and tech stocks taking the biggest hit. According to my first IRA advisor at Fidelity that means mutual funds are going on SALE !! Good time to buy in. Of course all of us who are heavily invested in tech funds are getting hit but they will come back in a few...
I made this mistake last year. Bought a new vehicle in April 2024. Paid cash, took $50,000 out of investments for the vehicle and a few other things. Mutual fund at $28. Within two months it was up to $36. Stupid, stupid, stupid!!
I knew better but did it anyway.
Bought oldest daughter same...
When the second factory I worked at closed all the supervisors from two shifts were talking and I was surprised that I was the only one that didn't owe on my house. I was 56 and some of them were in their mid 60's. They all seemed shocked that my house had been paid off for ten years. And yes...
My wife and I have talked about this. Of the hundred or so kids we have seen grow up in our church there are very few that are not successful. They may not be rich but they have jobs, or a trade, or a farm, or a business. Most of them have their own family now. Most, including the girls, grew up...
One thing I have learned is to look at the top ten holdings of a fund before getting in it. Too many funds have the same stocks, just in differing quantities. The fund that I have the most invested in varies between 22-28% of one stock which concerns me.
RSKY
Once again. Log on to Fidelity.com and look at their yields over the past ten years. Lifetime yield on the Select Semiconductor Fund is nearly 15% going back to July 1985. There is risk BUT it is short term risk. When the fund drops in value it does come back. You only lose when it drops and you...
Some of the best advice I have been given on the market is that you don't loose until you take it out. I have lost big, bought at $60/share, last sold at $6/share, but I left the money in the market invested in something else. And as soon as it started dropping I started getting out of that...
Log on to fidelity.com and put the pointer on news and research. Go down to mutual funds and click on that. Select Fidelity only funds. When the screen comes up with the list of Fidelity's funds it will show YTD, 1yr, 3yr, etc.. Click on the 10 Yr column and you will see that the FSELX fund has...
I went back and looked at mine and was wrong. About 1/3 Fidelity manages for me, mostly bonds and very low risk funds. Another 1/3 was in laddered CDs but they all got called. That money is now in mutual funds. On the mutuals enough are in what I consider low risk to bring that total low risk...
I deal only with Fidelity, just makes life simpler. And I am heavily into FSELX. It has been my main investment over the past few years. As of this morning it was their 10th best earning fund for the year at just under 7%. It tends to stay higher earning while others rise and fall. Fidelity's...
Is anyone thinking of changing their investments with the new administration? I started changing mine after the election and, except for a couple weeks when the market dropped, so far it has paid off. Haven't gone full aggressive but far more so than a year ago. I only invest in mutual funds and...
I will have nightmares imagining how you apply that stuff!! Do you use a finger or just stick the entire bottle......
I just gonna go somewhere and sit.... and not think about it.
RSKY.....shaking his head and trying not to think.
Fifteen years ago a massive ice storm hit Western Kentucky. Some were without power for a month. I had two gas generators going. A 2kw running two freezers and the utility room fridge with us switching what was plugged in every few hours. It also ran the washer a couple times. Then a 4kw running...
I have got much much more cautious as I have got older. At a 4-way stop I hesitate for a second or so to make sure I don't have a collision. And when I have a grand in the car I am super cautious. I tell everybody that I'm the old man in the right lane doing 5-mph slower than the limit but...
That was NOT the most embarrassing thing I've ever had. About fifteen years ago I had an epidimiases or inflamed cyst on one of my testicles. Everybody I dealt with was a female. I had ultrasounds every two weeks, always by a female. Not once did I embarrass myself. I was too scared and sore...
Men CAN get something similar to a yeast infection.
I have had a series of ear and sinus infections for the past two years. The "cure" for this seems to be a steroid shot and some strong antibiotics.
There are side effects!! And it is painful!!! The worst this year was six long sores looking...
People think that if the inflation rate goes down prices will go down. I even heard President Biden say this one time. That is not what will happen. If the inflation rate drops to one percent then prices will only go up one percent. If the inflation rate drops to zero prices will stay the same...
Had to pick up a package at a Lowes store in a neighboring town. I was sent to the "Pro Desk" at the other end of the store. The lady who waited on me and I started talking and she volunteered that before the election they hardly had any business. One or two of the four assigned to that job were...
They will give you meds for pain, TAKE THEM!!
After being home a week or so I decided I could sleep thru the night without any pain meds and I woke my wife up screaming about 3AM. I've never felt such pain. Once the meds completely wear off it takes an hour or so after taking them to stop the...
I know the overall birthrate is down but Holy Smokes, at church yesterday there were more than twenty below three year old kids in a congregation of less than 120 people. Ours has always been a church of older people but the average age has dropped a lot the past two years. There is now one...
I use Ammoseek.com too but when you're looking for several different items in small quantities the shipping adds a significant cost. So having nothing much else to do at night I ended up making a spreadsheet and charting different companies with the added shipping costs. Sometimes the cheapest...
I have some 16 gauge that is at least fifty years old.
And some of what I ordered was CCI 22LR Quiet, 12 gauge low recoil, low sound, and 410 Decibel. As you can tell from the names all are low powered, low velocity ammo that is much quieter than normal. Not that anybody in the neighborhood...
A couple months ago I had a small war with skunks. During that small event I expended several rounds of #4 Buckshot. Having a blind spot in the center of vision in my aiming eye makes a first shot hit difficult. Always get them on the second. Shook the box and there were only four rounds left in...
Moved my son in law's old 401K to an IRA a month or two ago. He bought in below $30. It topped $36 this week. He thinks I'm a genius because he made more in two months than it had made in ten years.
Told him that 'even a blind hog finds an acorn every now and then'.
Also told him that it...
I am safe and secure in my retirement. My wife has a great state pension. I have a smaller pension and Social Security. We also have a substantial amount that we had invested and that we inherited.
For the reasons many of you have mentioned I have set up small accounts for the retirement of...
If only four hours a day and not every day I would go with a couple of the oil filled electric radiator heaters. Cheap to buy and run. Leave one on low all the time to keep the room from freezing then turn both on high when you are gonna be there for a few hours.
RSKY
I had the same thing happen twenty years ago. I had cleaned the leaves off the front of the mower once already when one of the kids came out and said that Mom was sick and in the house. I finished a round, put the mower in its building, and went inside to check on my wife. A few minutes late I...
Sometimes it's 'Every Opportunity is a problem (waiting to happen)'!
After waking up yesterday with water all over the kitchen counter and an earache today's opportunity will be replacing the kitchen sink faucet. And doing this while every single movement causes ear pain.
RSKY
Last parents passed away in 2021. My mother and my wife's father. We sold FIL's 29 acre place early in 2022. Sold my mother's house and 69 acres mid year 2022. Sold her other 80 acre farm later in 2022. I thought I would have nothing to do.
Wrong!
Youngest daughter had a surprise child. Well...
Nope, just hissing, spitting, and slobbering. Opened trap and thought the thing was never going to get out of it. They deserve their reputation of being dumber than a rock.
Got a possum this morning. I don't shoot them. Except for a little digging they do no harm. So I will let it go in the back yard. Maybe keep it until this afternoon and let the neighborhood kids see it.
RSKY
According to the Deputy Sheriff it is a pretty stiff fine if you are caught relocating a pest animal in Kentucky. I have never heard of anybody getting caught and he didn't know of any either but he's only been on the job a couple months. Well, on this job, been a LEO for a while. He didn't know...
I had five babies in a trap one time. They were so cute..... Anyway I pulled out my trusty 380 Ruger and fired at them. Had four little buttholes looking at me as I backed away. Got the Maverick 88 and some 3" #4 Buckshot, 41 pellets in that one, and got all five with one shot. Shredded the...
Ten years ago we were out of our house and in an apartment for nearly two weeks due to a skunk spraying under our house. According to the county 'skunk catcher' there was probably more than one that sprayed because the stench was so intense. They were getting under the house by going under the...
I've told this story several times on TBN but I will again. After having damage to his vehicles several times one summer my neighbor to the south killed 153 squirrels off his one acre lot in about three months. The more he shot, the more showed up. And nobody was feeding them.
RSKY
We flew to out of Louisville to Orlando last Saturday the 5th with one daughter and two grands. Supposed to spend a week at SeaWorld and Discovery Cove. Due to Hurricane Milton we had to leave after three nights at the resort. Couldn't get a flight change to get out so we changed the location of...
Elon Musk reports from his SpaceX employee on the ground in Asheville, North Carolina that shipments of good to help the victims of Helene are being seized by FEMA so they can distribute them as their own.
Here’s the post from Elon:
Musk then updated with this text he’s received since he...
No, I have very little faith in FEMA or other Federal Agencies. They did little when our town was hit by a tornado. The Amish/Mennonites who built many of the houses would spit on the ground when FEMA was mentioned. The leader of one group we visited with said that the 'government people' just...
The same Walmart manager told me the first trucks were always filled with Bud Light Beer and Strawberry Pop Tarts. Those were the two things most in demand after a disaster.
My cousin who is a retired WalMart store manager posted this. And I agree with her feelings. When the tornado destroyed most of our little town WalMart was one of the first to respond. You couldn't drive thru their parking lot without somebody trying to give you something to eat. We could tell...
When my daughters were young I took their birthday and Christmas money and brought them individual mutual funds. The lady broker at the bank wouldn't cooperate unless I brought the girls in for a talk. So we made an appointment and I took them in. The lady pulled out a laptop computer and went...
The biggest differences as it was explained to me by my Fidelity advisor were two. The first being the range of investments available. In my Fidelity account I have over 9,000 mutual funds to choose from. Plus CDs, bonds, or to let it sit in a money market account. In the 401K I had, if I...
What part of KY. We got 1-3/4" in last two days. Haven't checked this morning but heavy rain woke me up last night. We are between Mayfield and Murray.
RSKY
We have had no measurable rain (in my plastic tube sitting in the yard) for the past 4-5 weeks. I have drug a soaker hose and 150' of very light duty hose around the yard side to side front to back for a month now. Got all this landscaping I'm afraid we are going to loose.
That is supposed to...
We had a similar problem except inside the house and only in the utility room where the washer is located. We had the washer put on a separate line to a gravel field when we had two teenaged daughters living at home. So I thought the smell was coming from one of the two drain pipes behind the...
When I had the choice I went with Generac due to the dealer. THAT made all the difference. I got the 22k unit. Before I did my disabled neighbor got the Kohler 14k and paid half again what I did. The dealer he bought from took advantage of him. That made my decision for me. Who you buy from is...
We got home from vacation and wife texted a girl at church to see how her cancer stricken sister-in-law was doing. When she texted back she also commented that her husband was not doing well. Found out that he had been shot while we were on vacation. First info was attempted suicide because he...
Wife also started going over all the mishaps neighbors and I have had in the last twenty years. I have to admit that there have been several although there have been no broken bones or more than a cup or two of blood lost. Oh yeah, and I did burn most of a shirt sleeve off and all the hair off...
I was getting all exited researching different brands/types of E-bikes and dreaming of all the places I could travel to on one. Then my wife uh,...pulled the plug on my dream. "You are seventy years old, have an artificial knee, inner ear and balance problems, and always try to do things like...
I had a professional crew come out and cut a dead gum tree that was less than ten feet from my shop. The tree was about 30" in diameter three feet off the ground. Eleven men showed up in two trucks and a van. Three Americans, one old guy driving the truck with a large trailer. One driving a...
Title says it all. I have spent all morning dragging soaker hoses around. Luckily Walmart had their heavy duty, thick, feels like a regular hose, soakers marked down on closeout. Got two of them for the garden and a cheaper $6.50 one for everything else. Also have six tall evergreens around the...
That was years ago and I think the story was that they were going to drop the dog off near someplace it would have been welcome but it bit one of the boys several times in the car. So out the window it went. I think that one had bit several people in the neighborhood and enough was enough.
RSKY
My hearing has changed a lot this year. My right ear has gone from nearly deaf to hearing fairly well at the present time. The expensive aids I bought earlier in the year are programable from my phone and I've had to change the settings monthly if not weekly. What was great two months ago Is...
If I remember correctly this is what caused a local official to get voted out of office. He was the one that let the animal go back to the owner. Been five years so my memories are a little fuzzy but I know there was a lot of talk about it.
There are lots of people walking down our country...
That was the second attack that year in our area. The other was a challenged man on a bicycle who was attacked and pretty well chewed up. After all was said and done the dog was given back to the owner. And this wasn't the first time that it had attacked somebody, just the first time the person...
Maybe some of you remember a story I posted five years ago about a young girl in our community being attacked by a stray dog in her house. She came within a millimeter or two of being killed by the dog's bite. Well five years later she is still having problems.
The following is from her...
During the 2009 ice storm here in Western Kentucky we relied on a 4K gas generator, then added a 2K gas unit from our daughter's when we could get there to pick it up. We used these for more than three weeks. Simply ran power cords under the garage door and all thru the house to whatever needed...
The beans are finally producing but only at the top. I think what happened was the blooms started appearing low on the plants the week before we left on vacation for eight days. During the middle of the week the Ring camera on the back door woke me at 3AM during a downpour. According to a...
I know this is not what you are asking about but our total utility bill dropped substantially when we changed from an electric water heater to a natural gas fueled one. Plus this gas one has lasted twice as long as any electric we ever had. And you can actually drop down a size and still never...
About a year before my mother passed a local hospital hosted an "Elder Law" program. There is ONE law office in the state of Kentucky that specializes in the laws and affairs concerning the elderly. A young lawyer from that office held the seminar. I cannot detail everything the young lady spoke...
The few times I've got a skunk out of a trap before shooting I've just left the carcass on the ground and it will be gone the next day. Apparently coyotes love dead skunk. I have never had a carcass last more than 48 hours. Drag them in the field behind the house and they disappear. Same thing...
Wrap it in a heavy duty black trash bag and put it in trash can for pickup. Hate to admit it but I've also thrown them off a country bridge into a river. Then I go buy a new trap and consider it money well spent.
RSKY
I'm no expert by any measure. All I have to go on is what they told my son in law when he had Covid and what the nurses at our health department and local VA clinic said. The nurses said anybody living north of the Tennessee/Georgia line could not get enough sunlight for their body to make...
When we were having our skunk problem, well our major problem, have small problems with them about every year. Got distracted there, please forgive me. Anyway I was told to shoot them in the head and they wouldn't spray. Nope, didn't work, neighbors still haven't forgiven me for that cause it...
I tried this when we had the one spray under our house, see above post. I read that they could spray twenty feet so I tied a fifty foot rope on the trap. Plan was to drag it into the field behind the house and shoot it. The silly thing had chewed the rope apart where it was tied to the trap. Had...
Don't know about the pH level of the blood but when my son in law had Covid for 21 days, nearly died twice, the only doctor that would see him was a gynecologist nurse practitioner who "didn't ever get the flu". She told him that all they had tested at that clinic with the Covid virus were very...
Wife said to tell you she couldn't have won that even without Covid. Said she would've had to crawl across the finish line after running that far.
RSKY
Very simple. Once you see the skunk in the trap get a large sheet or tarp and walk toward the trap holding it up in front of you. I wrap in around my hands and walk on it kicking it forward. I don't let the skunk see a hand or foot. When you get to the trap drop the sheet over it and wrap it...
Got back from an eight day vacation on Sunday and my wife was complaining about a sore throat. She went to the doctor Monday and checked positive for Covid. And positive for Strep!
Doctor said I would probably come down with it in a week or so.
And our daughters had scheduled a 'Tea' to...
I looked up the Seychelles Beans on several seed catalogs and I may try them in 2026. (Dang, here I am thinking of quitting a garden and I'm planning for two years in the future.) I put too many rows, five that is, in my tiny garden and it's like a jungle getting thru to pick. And yes they are...
This is the first year I've grown bush type and it will be the last. The headache of setting up the fence panels for the pole beans to climb is not as bad as the backache bending to pick the bush type.
I keep saying this is the last year for a garden BUT my mother had a large garden until she...
Was gone for a week and a half and when we got back I picked about a gallon of beans. Plenty of blooms now but not many beans. Only saw three bumble bees going from bloom to bloom. Usually many more. One thing I did wrong was to put five rows of beans instead of four in this small space. Rows...
I went the cheaper route and got the Lowes Kobalt 40-volt chainsaw. I am totally pleased with it. I also have their 40-volt leaf blower, hedge trimmer, and line trimmer. So I now have four batteries and never run out of battery power. I run out of power before all the batteries do.
RSKY
In my little garden I planted Kentucky Wonder Poles Beans as I do every three years. We have great looking vines, but no blooms. Did not fertilize this year as the soil sample from last year was very good.
Any ideas.
RSKY
I worked with a guy who did backhoe and dozer work on the side. He told me this story about thirty years ago. He had just got home from work, we were working the midnight to 8 AM shift, when a neighbor on an adjoining farm called him in a panic. Told him, not asked, told him to get his backhoe...
I recently saw an article titled, "Grandparents who babysit grandchildren live longer". Well we are doing that two to five days a week. Usually just the one year old, but sometimes the eleven and seven year old siblings. About twice a month we also have the other bunch who are fifteen and eight...
We use TomCat brand blocks. When the mice eat that stuff they dry up and die. You will find the dehydrated body and there is no smell. Had a full grown raccoon get locked in my shop for a couple weeks and it apparently chewed into a bag of that stuff and ate several blocks. We never smelled it...
Good advice.
Now that half load of mulch remaining is on hold. We started painting the master bedroom last week when it was so hot and have run into problems. Gotta cut, paint, and install NEW baseboards. Old ones in terrible shape. One year old granddaughter sick and we're keeping her all...
I got my tractor as a retirement gift for myself in 2011. A bright shiny new Kioti CK20S hydro. The first two years I had it I did much landscaping in my front and back yards. Dirt dug out to put a trailer storage area in the back was moved a bucket at a time to become flower filled landscaping...
Several years ago I had a serious mole problem that I could not solve. They were everywhere. Front and back yard full of mole runs. I also had a problem with dandelions and lespedeza (farmers call it Jap) covering the front for nearly the entire spring and summer. I called a local lawn treatment...
My neighbor to the south had a similar problem several years ago. But it was squirrels instead of ground hogs. They ate the oxygen sensor wiring twice, some other wiring, and chewed a hole in the gas line on top of the gas tank! He bought an over under .410 and killed 153 off a one acre lot that...
It flat refused to run a couple weeks ago. I suspected water in the gas so I used starter spray in the carb to keep it running until I was sure all the water was sucked out and thru the engine. Filled it up with fresh and it worked for a few days. Then this started. Gonna drain the fuel tank...
My twenty year old Tray Bilt tiller will run for five minutes then it starts sounding as if it is under load, missing slightly, rpm starts varying, and it dies. It won't restart until it sits for ten minutes. Then the process starts again, run for ten minutes, then stall. Any ideas?
Using part of the money now for another neighbor.
Two years ago a lady who lives on the corner had a tornado shelter installed in her back yard. She is a widow, partially disabled, and struggling financially. The shelter is underground and the ground around it has settled quite a bit. The...
No, I'm a retired 70-year old who plays on his tractor for fun. I enjoy helping people. I have been helped enough in my lifetime. I guess I consider myself a neighborhood non-profit.
RSKY
Got a phone call from a lady I did not know. She was looking for somebody with a small tractor to till up a garden for her sister. Her sister, Sandra, lives in our neighborhood and is one of the group that looks after another neighbor who is a disabled friend of mine. The lady that called said...
All of my grands eat a variety of foods that I had never heard of until I was in my forties. They are all healthy and active. But the favorite seems to be chicken noodle soup with rice. Don't know if it's because granddaddy fixes it or what but they always pig out on it.
RSKY
Three months later and we've just returned from Dauphin Island Alabama. The little toot has a new favorite food, grouper! First taste was the first night there and she ate half of her mother's order. Couldn't stuff it in her mouth quick enough. Also developed a taste for mahi-mahi but grouper...
Got my Wydex Hearing Aids last night. I did exactly what I swore I would not do. Got them at the first place I went to.
Guy was an excellent salesman. He didn't go into a sales pitch, he simply showed me what the aids could do and set up a test set with his computer equipment. I started...
I've never had to crawl in the dark but I must hold on to a wall or something to position myself. There are now night lights everywhere in our house that I used one excuse or another to position not admitting to myself that I simple couldn't walk thru the house in the dark without falling. From...
My loss is different from right to left, vastly different. What even some audiologists seem to not understand is that the same tone sounds different from one side to the other. That is why I'm afraid I'm going to have to spend a s##t pot full of money on these things. The audiologist at Shea...
I have known for months that I was going to have to get hearing aids. I just finished a three day treatment for Meniers Disease of the inner ear and have lost 80-90% of my hearing in the right ear and maybe 20% in the left. Been sedated, taken into operating room, having steroids and drugs...
Only suggestion I can make on your Kawasaki was made to me by a commercial mower who uses only Kawasakis when possible. If you are mowing ten to twelve hours a day get the bigger oil filter. It is the same diameter but an inch or two longer. Said it holds a cup or two more oil and helps with...
At their pediatrician's advice they started her a few months ago with a tiny bit of peanut butter and have gradually increased the amount. Other things have been added in the same way. Doctor said this would build up a resistance and keep her from becoming allergic. So far she has ate everything...
Daughter and family love eating at a place in Paducah Kentucky called the Freight House. We have heard so much about it that my wife and I are going some time in the next couple weeks. The owner/chef was a contestant on the TV program 'Top Chef' and ofter brings plates out to customers.
Here...
When I was younger,.....much younger,......my dad left me in a field 5 or 6 miles from our home farm to mow. I had a gallon jug of water and a bologna sandwich in a paper bag. When he came back at lunch the tractor was, well not exactly stuck, but not movable. Front wheels on one side of a...
CK20s are the smallest compact made. Not a subcompact. Everything on it is cast iron and they are heavy for their size. BUT they are still a small tractor. The reason the manual trans model called for a 4' mower was due to available hp. The HST model has a few tenths less hp at the PTO but can...
The owners manual on my Kioti ck20S states that a 4' mower max with a manual and a 5' max on a hydro tractor. The dealer said that with a hydro if the tractor starts lugging you can just let up on the go pedal. I have ran a 5' for years with no problems. BUT, would make sure back tires loaded...
After Elliot Roosevelt’s death (1860-1894), his daughter Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) was raised by his brother Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (1858-1919). In 1905, while her uncle was in the White House, she wed her fifth cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945).
After Franklin was disabled by...
Sounds like you have a plan. Too many people, myself included, do not sit down and make long range plans before retiring. Even if you have to change your plan later you have something to guide you.
RSKY
I may be wrong, but I think the market usually makes a year end "correction" and this may be it. And yes the yearly trend has been up by quite a bit. My problem is that I stuck a lot of mine in one mutual fund. Actually five different accounts with my name and my wife's name on them but going to...
If your investments are what you live on then your attitude and strategy towards the market will be different than mine. I look upon mine as generational wealth to be passed on and as a source for big item purchases like autos. Other than that we keep enough in checking to handle day to day with...
She is eighty years old and even though they are fairly well off she is very tight with her money. Everything now is what they will leave their son and grandkids. Her husband is in very bad health and unable to help her. I was the one that suggested she get an advisor to handle her investments...
No. We have a will. Both girls names will be put on our checking accounts next year when my wife and I turn 70. We also have living wills and when my wife turns 70 we will have medical power of attorney papers drawn up naming our daughters.
We had a chance before our last parent passed to go...
I am retired. We live off pensions and my Social Security checks. And we do not lead an extravagant lifestyle. So the money I have invested is not what we live on. It is what we consider generational wealth to be passed on to our children and our grands. So I am looking at the long run. Both...
With the stock market going down the last few months I have a sister who was in a panic mode. They had received a statement for their account in the mail and had lost a little more than 10%. She was ready to fire her advisor and take all her money out. My other sister and I convinced her not to...
I stand corrected. I just checked and my Maverick is first loaded with a high velocity #2 lead shot then three rounds of low velocity #4-buck, then a low velocity 00-buck. The side saddle has 4-buck and a slug. Stock ammo holder has low noise #8 shot and more 4-buck. So the ammo I have on the...
A Warning !!
Back about six to eight years ago I had a very eye opening conversation with a young lady who had moved into our area and opened a gun shop with her husband. The couple had lived in another state near a large metropolitan area. They had been active in shooting competitions and knew...
Youngest daughter works for a large insurance company. We are well insured for about anything. I am really not afraid of being sued. I am scared that something will happen to one of my precious grands or one of my daughters.
Family and friends have a history of loosing family members when they...
Apparently you didn't read my post very closely. I will defend my family at all costs. I will stand between them and the danger until they are safe. I will do what I have to do to protect them from any threat. But I will not put them in danger to protect any property. My main priority, my only...
What attitude are you talking about? My attitude that my family's life is worth more than all the property that I own, or the attitude about being sued after the guy shot the home intruder.
RSKY
You say that someone entering your home will leave in a manner at "your discretion". But it may be you that leave your home on a stretcher covered in a sheet. Or if shots are fired it may be your wife or child struck by a stray bullet. To me it is not worth the risk. People over property
My...
This has come up for discussion here many times in the past. What would you do if home invaders broke into your house while you were there.
First, if I am here alone and they break in the front door I am running out the back as quickly as possible. Ain't nothing here worth dying for or killing...
One night several years ago three thugs shot and killed a man as he answered the door. Then they entered the house to loot it. The daughter retreated to a back room and hid with her baby and the wife fought back with several weapons the owner had stored in the main bedroom. As a deputy who...
This morning JPMorgan has a CD paying 5.5% available on the Fidelity website. Also money market mutual funds paying slightly less than 5% (SPAXX) with no minimum and about 5.2% (FZDXX) if depositing over $100.000. When you need cash it takes two days maximum to get it deposited in your bank. I...
How many at y'all's Thanksgiving?
We had 26 at my side's gathering last Sunday, ages from nearly six months to 82. And we had 41 at wife's side yesterday (Thanksgiving Day) with ages from nearly six months to 89.
Instead of trying to have everybody at our house as we did for twenty or more...
Thank you for your concern. She has rounded the corner so to speak. Much better, very little coughing, smiling all the time. Has started rolling over since we kept her three days ago. And I had her sitting up by herself for about a half minute Thursday.
She has been the easiest of our five...
Heybear isn't really a show. There is no dialog. All it has is brightly colored objects bouncing around on a black background. I suspect any child that can speak even a few words would be bored by it. But for this little miserable sick baby it was entertainment for a few minutes.
RSKY
We have been keeping our 5-1/2 month old granddaughter all week. She has a double ear infection AND developed RSV. This has been the happiest baby I have ever seen. Smiling, laughing, and cackling out loud when I would play with her. This week not so much until today. She has really felt bad and...
Neither set of logs were actually planned for emergency heat. Both were installed because SWMBO thought they would look good. Worked out for the best BUT my widower father-in-law had to be persuaded to go back home after the power came back on. Heck, he was getting his meals fixed, laundry done...
If y'all had taken my advice on Monday and bought that Fidelity mutual fund, would have taken a little investigation on your part, it went up about 5-6% today.
Of course it still likes quite a bit getting to where I bought it.
Anyway, I am up 40% of the loss that I've had since the start of...
I finally figured that out, LOL. Even with both on about the lowest setting the breaker would pop. Been years ago but I think we moved the 4k over there and used the 2k on our utility room freezer and fridge. At one time we had eight extra people staying with us and three generators going. None...
During the "Ice storm of 2009" here in Kentucky we took a spare 2kw generator to my father in laws house to run two of the oil filled heaters to keep pipes from freezing. The little generator would not power both of them at the same time unless they were both on the lowest setting possible. Then...
Okay, I'm gonna do something here that I have said I would not do. Gonna give advice that is probably good but........
The market is down, I have lost my A$$ the past couple months. I did something stupid knowing better all the time. I have about 25% of my savings in mutual funds. They rate...