Good morning!!!!

[jbrumberg]

Checking In:

Another cool 56ºF start to the day with today’s high temperature reaching 84ºF. I am trying to start my days earlier to take advantage of the cooler temperatures. I spent the morning string trimming and the afternoon mowing the upper “lawn.” The JD D130 managed to cut the vegetation which was 4’ high in places. Tomorrow I plan to recut everything with the grass catcher attached, mulch the garden, and string trim down by the driveway/roadside area; finding the driveway upon approach is getting a little challenging.

Little bear decided to visit yesterday. Walked right up to the slider and woke up a sleeping Brogen on the other side. It was a rather rude awakening. That little bear can move out just as quickly as the bigger bear.

BEF- I hope that you get some relief from the back pain and continue to recover from the pneumonia. Good luck. Special + thoughts, wishes, and prayers.

David- Thanks for the Alaska pictures. Beautiful country. No flip flops?

Drew- Nice looking produce and a nicer looking pizza. Good luck with the laser treatments. I hope they work.

Lynn- Thanks for sharing your pictures.

Kyle- Those are nice looking peaches.

Bruce- Happy Birthday. It reads like you had a decent birthday. I wish you many more healthy and happy birthdays.

Farmer- I hope you and your family have a good sailing day and see some dolphins, etc. I agree about a sailboat using sails for touring not using some loud and smelly engine for propulsion. I agree with Kyle about the risk of Vibrio vulnificus wound infection in salt/brackish water.

Our backpacking/camping days are memories now.

My + thoughts, wishes, and prayers.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

They put pain patch on my back, and just gave me iv pain meds. Im feeling real good right now. Lil

 

[sodamo]

David- Thanks for the Alaska pictures. Beautiful country. No flip flops?

Just on the ship, Jay

 

[riptides]

Have to get mri on back. Getting admitted, still have some pneumonia. Will be offline a few days.

Oh my. I wish you a full and speedy recovery. Think positive.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

They put pain patch on my back, and just gave me iv pain meds. Im feeling real good right now. Lil

Hospital's have better margarita concoctions.

 

[daugen]

They put pain patch on my back, and just gave me iv pain meds. Im feeling real good right now. Lil

now that's better. About dinner time, hope you get something edible.

mowed for 5 hours today, showered and doing nothing but read my book and baking some chicken. Or was it read my chicken and bake the book?

Jay, good to hear from you, though this sounds like an oxymoron.
The JD D130 managed to cut the vegetation which was 4’ high in places.
You really need to get a bigger lawnmower...

 

[daugen]

ate a new vegetable tonight along with some baked chicken.
Cow peas, known locally as yard peas, very similar to Thai long beans, foot long, older neighbor grows them and cut them
up for me. Gosh they were good, tender, sweet and very rich flavor, cooked in low salt chicken broth and a little sausage sprinkles added.
Am trying to keep bacon out of the house, as that, of course, is what I was told to cook them in.

 

[txdon]

This is where my brothers Cardiologist steered him wrong and caused his death. He advised my brother to eat white meat (chicken or turkey) Instead of red meat.

But it is what he wanted to hear . . . . not the results of the study below. Just two months before his death he bragged he had not eaten any red meat for 3 months.

"When we planned this study, we expected red meat to have a more adverse effect on blood cholesterol levels than white meat, but we were surprised that this was not the case, their effects on cholesterol are identical when saturated fat levels are equivalent, writes the study's senior author Ronald Krauss, MD, senior scientist and director of Atherosclerosis Research at CHORI.

Not surprisingly, the plant-based diet was found to be healthiest for blood cholesterol. Researchers concluded that these finds support growing evidence of the health benefits of eating plant-based over diets heavy in meat."
New Study: White Meat as Bad for Cholesterol as Red | Forks Over Knives

 

[daugen]

that's a pretty aggressive title for a study involving 113 people, not 113,000 people.
While I don't dispute the findings, the statement "when saturated fat levels are equivalent"
makes me wonder, I mean who thinks a piece of white meat chicken has the same saturated fat as
a slice of marbled prime rib? Not me.

I've probably reduced the amount of meat I eat by 2/3. Trying to eat more fish, peanut butter, etc.
My cholesterol has never been high and all numbers are in range.
When it comes to heart disease, I think there are many risk factors. Weight of course is a big one there, and
I don't do so great there, BMI an unhappy number. But I do get lots of exercise, eat a lot of healthy food and clearly some unhealthy,
and am content with the future based on incrementally healthier eating. And since there is zero heart disease history in my family,
probably not what is going to have me visiting the daisies.

I do wonder what the impact of reducing meat intake has on cancer risk. Say a 50 percent reduction in the average American's meat intake.
What would that do to national health? Bring on the McVegan burgers...

 

[Steppenwolfe]

They put pain patch on my back, and just gave me iv pain meds. Im feeling real good right now. Lil

Hey...can I hold a dollar? :laughing: