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I'll change the subject slightly at this point because I need to moan and gripe to somebody and you are my captive audience. :lol: First problem is my Saturn. The AC/heating in the car was defective from the day I bought it. I didn't realize it was defective until a few months ago when I had the Mis...

I've not investigated Linux for this purpose, but I do know Windows can be paired to any smartphone I might have. Doing that gives me access to the built in messaging of the phone. Thus I can message anybody by using my computer. I'm not sure why people would do that because there is a lot of Instan...

I must have misread your previous message. I got the distinct impression that you were writing your message while sitting in the waiting room of the doctor's office. Not that it matters, I was just curious how you did it. Before I got the clever phone I used to do what you do, which is take crosswor...

I thought I was all done with life changing events after I was terminated by Motorola. Thirty-six years, many under high pressure, of what often was crisis management built some character in me. LOL You know what they say, if it doesn't kill you it makes you stronger. I had some pretty bad days at w...

I don't what to sound like I'm giving a premature eulogy here, but sometimes things that should have been said while they still made sense never are articulated. The gods only know how much empathy I have for you in your situation. It's got to be difficult to an extreme. While I'm not what you would...

I have witnessed the evolution of seniors' communications first hand. In fact I am part of it. The past 25 years or so demanded me to sit in hospital and doctor's waiting rooms for various reasons associated with various people. Way back about the turn of the century the older folks, older than me a...

It's interesting that you say Birch is one of the woods used in butcher blocks. I had a couple birch trees in my former homes and their wood is very easy to cut and soft. I can't see how that would hold up to butchering. I suppose that like maple, birch also comes in various degrees of harness. Be t...

One of the interesting observations in those comments about the weakened immune system we are seeing has to do with cleanliness. They claim that since we are more than ever into hygiene, there are fewer things growing on our skin. We wash all those bad bugs away and the immune system has nothing to ...

How do you explain the massive increase in allergies affecting nearly all the younger folks and kids? The increase in allergies affecting younger people and kids could be attributed to a number of factors. Some studies have suggested that exposure to environmental pollutants, changes in diet, and d...

I understand rock maple is sugar maple, the tree from which syrup is gathered. Little did I realize how hard the wood is, but I've not heard of nor seen cutting boards made of the stuff. I have seen cypress and bamboo which are supposed to be excellent, and of course the cherry wood. The oil is supp...

Much of my tree cutting experience is with elm trees. I think they are doomed to extinction. When I first started to clear the forest there were maybe ten full grown elm trees. My neighbors had a few on their lots as well. One by one all the elms in my back forest died from some kind of common bligh...

There is some truth to the fact that the immune system builds up tolerance while you are exposed to contaminants. Playing outside as a kid certainly would be part of the resistance building process, but I would guess it's only a small part. Many childhood diseases are transmitted by touching somebod...

There are stories of people being allergic to peanuts. Some products go to the trouble of stating on the label that it was made with equipment that also handled peanuts, or they may say they did not do it that way. The point being that even the slightest residual of some allergens could bring on the...

I recall only one time finding a nail in a tree trunk I was cutting with a chain saw. The sparks flew and that was the end of that chain. How that nail got put into the tree was a mystery to me, but I do know my little forest was part of a nursery many years before I got there. I must have cut a few...

I had three hammer-in wedges and a maul, none of which I found very useful to fall a tree. The trick is to cut out a wedge low in the trunk trunk and facing the direction you want the tree to go. The problem, as you point out, is winds and changing centers of gravity. They can make a tree go in the ...

Drugs here in America are well tested before they are released for public consumption. Basically they gather data about the effects of a drug and analyze the data. Much of it has to do with probability and statistics which are averaged. If the average reaction includes a majority of the population, ...

Glad you did not lose that post to a timeout error. The fact that it was saved is due to your browser. The server apparently had no contact with you so that even if it could rescue your post, it was not able. Blood clots, thrombosis, is a hidden killer. There are no obvious symptoms ahead of time. A...

Back in Illinois I became a fairly good woodsman. I had all sorts of tools to be used in that forest in back of my house. It was wild and overgrown when we first got there and I had intentions of clearing some spots and pruning back some of the wildness. After nearly 25 years the project was not com...

From what I can tell the lack of water is lethal for pine trees. Drought is a killer. We have not had it as bad as the folks farther west, but the summers have been pretty dry and hot recently. Even the sod suffered from it. We planted a Colorado Blue Spruce up north shortly after we moved in. That ...

First and foremost I am very glad to see you posting today. I had my doubts about it, but as I said earlier I understand fully what you must be going through. It's interesting to me that you were prescribed a blood thinner to counteract the Prednisone. All I know is Prednisone is kind of a general c...