CHIT CHAT in VOLTVILLE

[awsum140]

Do me a favor and be careful on that Harley. Once was more than enough from the sound of that!

 

[1st Officer]

Nope I don't remember anything but waking up in ICU after 33 days and to be honest the next 6 months are a blur now.

Rave, Don't know if it's being brave or just hardheaded either way it's what I do because I can't afford a good Shrink. I was designing a Trike with hand controls when they finally got me fixed. If you don't mind X-Rays here's my Titanium Spine after 8 surgeries. My neurosurgeon also rides and he has never said a word, last week I went in for a nerve test where they hook you up to a power source and stick needles into your spine to send electrical charges to see if things are working properly and I rode my Harley to the appointment.

 

[SandySu]

Nope I don't remember anything but waking up in ICU after 33 days and to be honest the next 6 months are a blur now.

Rave, Don't know if it's being brave or just hardheaded either way it's what I do because I can't afford a good Shrink. I was designing a Trike with hand controls when they finally got me fixed. If you don't mind X-Rays here's my Titanium Spine after 8 surgeries. My neurosurgeon also rides and he has never said a word, last week I went in for a nerve test where they hook you up to a power source and stick needles into your spine to send electrical charges to see if things are working properly and I rode my Harley to the appointment.View attachment 129599

I think sometimes that kind of determination not to be put down makes you stronger and recover faster. You have to be careful, of course, but that fighting spirit will heal you when science says you shouldn't be able to heal.

 

[1st Officer]

That and a gallon jug of morphine, I had to go to drug rehab after 2 years of living on morphine and oxycontin but that's all history. Now I am working on loosing the 55 lbs I gained while laying in the bed for almost two years, I think that will take a while!

 

[Enzusa]

Whooooaaaaa popped in to hide from the kids ( their in that "have to go back to school" mooooood lol) and I thought I was in the wrong room! Am I in the Chit Chat Hosvoltal Room?

Hi to 1st Officer & Scott , nice of you to join us here in the funny farm

 

[Enzusa]

Holy S*#@ 1st Officer, wow talk about putting your body thru the wringer, what an extensive amount of trauma you've been thru.
I'm finding it bad enough recuperating from hip displacement & cracked/broken ribs from a year ago. I'm not one to complain about my pain to family or friends but I do make excuses not to join them in certain activities, I'm the "suffer in silence type".
I truelly admire your stamina, determination & willpower to get back on that bike!

 

[1st Officer]

Holy S*#@ 1st Officer, wow talk about putting your body thru the wringer, what an extensive amount of trauma you've been thru.
I'm finding it bad enough recuperating from hip displacement & cracked/broken ribs from a year ago. I'm not one to complain about my pain to family or friends but I do make excuses not to join them in certain activities, I'm the "suffer in silence type".
I truelly admire your stamina, determination & willpower to get back on that bike!

I obey the speed limit for the first time in my life and I got the Grimm Reaper Tattooed on my left arm to remind me how close we came to meeting. I'm a real hoot at airports though, the last time I flew up to New York I had 4 Homeland Security Officers take me into a room and make me take off my shirt because their hand scanners were going crazy. I tried to tell them but oh no, when they saw the scar that goes from my neck to the crack of ... never mind, they let me get on the plane which I almost missed. When I was leaving NY out of JFK coming home once again the scanner went crazy and I told them about all the metal in my body and they just sent me through. WTF?

 

[Enzusa]

Went to the markets early this-morning & got loads of goodies!!! I just LOVE the markets here, so much "stuff" to rummage thru & chat with people. I could stay there all day. Wooo hooo scored another labeller, I already have one but it was cheaper buying the whole thing than buying tape plus this one came with a charger, tape and spare batteries all for $3 Oh how I love a good bargain. Oooooo I also got my volts a nice new wooden box to take a snooze in... 50c cant beat that LOL I'm sooo frugal

 

[Enzusa]

Your spine resembles my large garden rake...... did I just say that out loud...my mind does wander off to weird places.

 

[cindycated]

That and a gallon jug of morphine, I had to go to drug rehab after 2 years of living on morphine and oxycontin but that's all history. Now I am working on loosing the 55 lbs I gained while laying in the bed for almost two years, I think that will take a while!

It'll happen. Vaping had a lot to do with my weight loss. I think when I finally gave up smoking, it got me to give up a bunch of other bad habits. I'm not just dieting (I never was) - my whole lifestyle just changed for the better. I'm eating better now, working out every day for the full 30-60 minutes, take the stairs whenever I can, and, because I can vape dessert now, have had hardly any sugar in over a year to satisfy my crazy sweet tooth. I've lost about 40 pounds since I started vaping, and it's stayed off.

 

[cindycated]

OK, you guys, you knew about Octagon soap, so figured you'd know this too...

How do you cook dry beans without a slow cooker, and without having to stand in front of the stove for 6 hours? I don't eat meat and don't really like soup, so don't wanna have to buy one just to cook beans. But canned beans, even after all that rinsing, is way too salty for me, so I wanna start making my own and freeze them.

 

[cindycated]

oops, double post.

...hehe, I think I need a keyboard shortcut to type this now!

 

[1st Officer]

Your spine resembles my large garden rake...... did I just say that out loud...my mind does wander off to weird places.

Some days it feels like a garden rake when I lay down...

 

[rave]

Your spine resembles my large garden rake...... did I just say that out loud...my mind does wander off to weird places.

Enzusa - You crack me up! Love that about you!

 

[SandySu]

OK, you guys, you knew about Octagon soap, so figured you'd know this too...

How do you cook dry beans without a slow cooker, and without having to stand in front of the stove for 6 hours? I don't eat meat and don't really like soup, so don't wanna have to buy one just to cook beans. But canned beans, even after all that rinsing, is way too salty for me, so I wanna start making my own and freeze them.

I follow the instructions on the bag of beans. I think you soak them overnight, and then they don't take so long to cook.

 

[awsum140]

OK, you guys, you knew about Octagon soap, so figured you'd know this too...

How do you cook dry beans without a slow cooker, and without having to stand in front of the stove for 6 hours? I don't eat meat and don't really like soup, so don't wanna have to buy one just to cook beans. But canned beans, even after all that rinsing, is way too salty for me, so I wanna start making my own and freeze them.

I'm not a chef and I don't play one on TV, but how about in a cast iron pot in the oven? Sounds a little old fashioned, but I bet it works.

 

[Raynes]

Yes, I trained Penny. I was the first one to get on her back, and she's the first horse I ever got on that had never been ridden before. I had help along the way because I had never trained a horse from scratch before. I had a wonderful trainer for years who would go to the barn and give me weekly dressage/Centered Riding lessons and help me with Penny's training. This woman is still a friend, though about 10 years ago she decided to stop giving riding lessons and get a "real job" and raise her son. But for the first 6 months or so, when I first got Penny, I did it all myself, then found an instructor when I realized I'd need help to do more, go further. Since that instructor, i've taken lessons fairly regularly from others, always learning something new. But it's to Karen that I owe Penny's training. Besides dressage, I had a western trainer who worked mostly on using my seat and bridleless riding, then someone who taught me natural horsemanship ground work and gave me bareback longe lessons to improve my seat, and after some time away from lessons, I have an instructor who knows less about dressage than I do, but she can correct my position, which has slid downhill badly, and anyway, Penny can only walk except for short stints of trotting. I was teaching some of the barn owner's kids to ride, mainly Heather, but though Penny is an excellent schoolmaster, I think lessons are hard on her, so I'd like to put Heather and her brother on one of the barn owner's horses next lesson. Right now, Heather can't ride. She recently got an autoimmune disease, immune thrombocytopenia, which sounds pretty serious. I looked it up on the Internet to learn more about it, since I had
never heard of it before: What Is Immune Thrombocytopenia? - NHLBI, NIH Send get-well vibes to Heather, everyone.

Meanwhile, I trail ride and take walking lessons, where we work on my position and getting Penny more together -- she has become slack, too, with trail riding and teaching beginners -- and needs some brushing up, though I wonder if I should just let her be, since she isn't capable of much dressage these days. Still, we can do a lot at a walk, and getting her to shift more weight to the rear may help the front-end lameness. So I vacillate between the temptation to just slop along on the trails and wanting to work and improve, even though we can't do a lot and maybe asking Penny to do it at this point is unfair.

Penny sure wouldn't mind just being out at pasture, never being ridden, and brought in only for hand-grazing on the good grass of the lawn and grooming. I think she's a horse that would revel in retirement, though maybe the trail rides are good for her -- or maybe I'm selfishly pushing her, trying to get the last little bit out of her that I can. I've been thinking a lot about all that lately.

Sandy,I don't know anything about dressage.All i know is western riding. IMO for what its worth,I would think that the trail rides on even ground is good for her,and if there is a dressage move that shifts her weight to the rear at short distances couldn't hurt. If she limps or acts gimpy then a good hosing and leading. I wouldn't do any round pen or close circling with her at all. To be safe,I would ask my vet, farrier or your friend,someone that has experience with dressage horses.
I do understand your concerns though and wish that I could be of some help. You'll know what to do when its time Sandy b/c your already thinking about it.

 

[Raynes]

I keep that and many other pictures as a reminder of my once favorite activity, Road Racing . That picture was taken at ViR (Virginia International Raceway) the day my 30+ year Road Racing and working Career ended 6/8/2009. I had my first really bad crash that day at 160 mph and spent the rest of 2009 and part of 2010 in the hospital. Broke my spine in 3 places left leg in two places 5 ribs, broken left wrist punctured left lung, and a multitude of internal injuries, I didn't wake up for 33 days. I have had so much surgery and screws and metal implanted in my body I feel like Steve Austin. Spent almost 2 years paralyzed from the waist down but my 8th and last spine surgery last August they were able to repair the nerves in my lumbar spine and after 6 months of PT I am able to walk again albeit slow with a cane I thank God and my Surgeon I can feel my legs again. This spring was the first time since then I could hold up a bike to ride it and slowly I have been able to at least ride my Harley again but no more racing. Before you ask, yes I am crazy and yes I will continue to ride until I can't anymore. I started riding Motorcycles when I was 8 and have never been without one since. I started racing when I was 13 and have raced every track from Laguna Seca to Daytona over the years. When you love something as much as I do riding it's hard to not do it even if it is dangerous and almost killed me. So now you have my first life story...

So glad that you are up walking and able to ride again.

 

[Enzusa]

Some days it feels like a garden rake when I lay down...

Now I can imagine you laying in the yard doing "angels" with the leaves after autumn! LOL
Can I hire you!
hmmm doing angels, *cough* I should of reworded that

 

[Enzusa]

Enzusa - You crack me up! Love that about you!

Thanks Rave, I'm such a dork LOL....I missed my childhood years & grew up too fast & now my mind wants those years back hahahaaaaaaa