I’ve been traveling the past few days on a Presidents’ Day holiday trip. No, I didn’t know there was such a thing, either! I will be home in the morning, and I will try to post something a bit more ambitious then.
‘Now that I have your attention’
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97 responses to “‘Now that I have your attention’”
Sometimes Janice is REALLY sneaky!
🙂
Posted this on wrong thread:
Jackie-sending you good wishes for your taxol treatments. My mother was the first person in Oklahoma to get Taxol for her ovarian cancer way back in the early 1990?s. Her treatment was also not without problems. At first an arithmetic error resulted in her doses being smaller than recommended, and when that was corrected she also had some reactions to the drug. Nevertheless, when the treatment was complete, her CA125 readings were back to normal and her cancer did not recur in the almost 20 remaining years of her life. That drug is hard on your body but harder on the cancer. You may never be able to tolerate the full dose, but what you have, may be enough to do the job. Keep hanging in there – we are all pulling for you.
Thank you for good wishes. My blood pressure went back to normal this morning and my blood sugars got out of the high 300s and down to 172. That is huge improvement.
They loaded me up with tons of steroids and I have been trying to flush out with gallons of water. Good hydration has been one of my best characteristics my doctor says.
My hair is returning but perhaps white?
Most of you know that this pair of peregrines live on this approx. 30 story ledge year round. Baltimore doesn’t get too cold in winter, and there’s a year-round food supply of starlings and rock pigeons [unwanted introduced pests]. Both adults are around but no eggs yet. Nice [for us] that peregrines don’t build nests, just lay eggs on a ledge. If both the hawk [female] and tercel [male, not Toyota] are there at the same time and equidistant from the wide-angle webcam, you can tell them apart. He’s smaller, which is true of most spp. of hawks. Eagles are hawks.
https://chesapeakeconservancy.org/explore/wildlife-webcams/peregrine-falcon/
If you copy and store that website, you won’t have to depend on me to keep you up to date.
Peace,
Jackie, It may also come back curlier than it used to be. Several women I know have experienced that. Good luck, and thank God for Ghost. Peace,
“Rotate the tires”…is that what the kids are calling it now?
It looks suspicious like it is coming back curly. It had some curl but I wore smooth and flatironed or permed until had to stop perming and dying due to lupus.
Ah! Moods! Such an evanescent thing.
https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/28167911_1795477807186560_4244050649046164095_n.jpg?oh=98cb9894a821591119017008149002f9&oe=5B10CA89
Mark:
Guilt trip City: Most male villagers may not be as bad as that couch potato in “Herman” but how many of us can say we actually do [or did] our share? Some rise to the occasion, as Ghost is doing now.
Peace,
If I’m to believe my wife’s handwritten V-day card, I’m doing pretty good. I’ve never wanted to frame one before!
Boy -Janis comment sure got him to check his phone fast.
Re today’s real time strip. George has good points there. And 3 slices of cherry cheesecake? Bad boy, Arlo
Mother and young. Another good webcam site to copy.
https://explore.org/livecams/african-wildlife/african-animal-lookout-camera
Peace,
Happy GW and Arthur Schopenhauer Day. [Just learned the latter.]
Schopenhauer, Arthur, phil. (22 Feb 1788-1860). Men are the devils of the earth and the animals are its tormented souls. AWAD180222
Peace,
Impala, I think.
https://explore.org/livecams/african-wildlife/african-watering-hole-animal-camera
Peace,
This is something most of us amateurs can only dream about:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/02/21/a-self-taught-astronomer-spotted-something-no-scientist-had-ever-seen/?utm_term=.a3314b21274a
Good morning Villagers……a a damp and cold one at that…
Had a good supper last night….teriyaki pork loin. spinach, an Asian salad (pre -made of course). Husband came for supper; Ian’s friend who is asst mgr at Subway brought a container each of broccoli and cheddar soup and a container of ‘tater soup’.
in the meantime, I’ll leave you with this 🙂
https://i.chzbgr.com/full/9128998912/hBBF2315B/
Today is Miss Charlottes happy 85th birthday!
Ghost and I send love and hugs and 85 birthday kisses from Dickens who specializes in kissing and licking!
emb and c ex-p, I think you’ll be interested in this: http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/02/one_in_a_million_yellow_cardinal.html
Happy Day, Charlotte!
Thanks, Mark. I have saved the address and will send it to a birder in SC.
Have a good one, Charlotte!
Sounds like testosterone is flowing in the Steller sea lions north of Vancouver I. Other webcams at the same lab are good for whale [& some bird] watching.
https://explore.org/livecams/orcas/orcalab-steller-sea-lion-haulout
Peace,
I saw the yellow cardinal on your Facebook post, Mark, and shared it there. It’s great!