CHIT CHAT in VOLTVILLE

[Lauralie]

Wuss - I hear you, I think I prefer going to work than staying home all the time, only wish I could make my own hours cause my ... wouldn't be up this early

Seems like lots are

so I will finish getting ready for work!

 

[rave]

Hmmm - some asylum! I skip out for one day to try to figure out how to use this new tablet, and y'all fly the coop.

 

[trichman]

Hi Rave! The inmates must be leaving for the weekend. It is very quiet today. I don't use a tablet but do use my iphone when I'm not at the computer. I'd use an ipad if I had one though. It's on my wish list.

 

[rave]

Hi Rave! The inmates must be leaving for the weekend. It is very quiet today. I don't use a tablet but do use my iphone when I'm not at the computer. I'd use an ipad if I had one though. It's on my wish list.

I just got a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 that I'm struggling to figure out. The instruction manual is a sixteenth of an inch thick -but- the health and safety precautions book is a quarter of an inch thick! Anyhow - this thing will do just about anything but wash my dishes. I just have to figure out how to make it do all of that nifty stuff.

 

[Lauralie]

I just got a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 that I'm struggling to figure out. The instruction manual is a sixteenth of an inch thick -but- the health and safety precautions book is a quarter of an inch thick! Anyhow - this thing will do just about anything but wash my dishes. I just have to figure out how to make it do all of that nifty stuff.

I find it easier to find things out online then the darn user manual. I have an Ipad and I just Google the question I have and usually find the answer very easily.

Well leaving one mad zone to go to another. Getting ready to go camping and boating for the weekend and my hubby drives me absolutely nutty all the up to the camper being set up and in place - then he chills so until about 6 tomorrow evening.......pray for me

 

[rave]

I find it easier to find things out online then the darn user manual. I have an Ipad and I just Google the question I have and usually find the answer very easily.

Well leaving one mad zone to go to another. Getting ready to go camping and boating for the weekend and my hubby drives me absolutely nutty all the up to the camper being set up and in place - then he chills so until about 6 tomorrow evening.......pray for me

Sounds like a nice weekend though. Have a good time!

 

[Wuzznt Me]

Hmmm - some asylum! I skip out for one day to try to figure out how to use this new tablet, and y'all fly the coop.

We know if we fly or walk on all fours you'll feed us well.

I find it easier to find things out online then the darn user manual. I have an Ipad and I just Google the question I have and usually find the answer very easily.

Well leaving one mad zone to go to another. Getting ready to go camping and boating for the weekend and my hubby drives me absolutely nutty all the up to the camper being set up and in place - then he chills so until about 6 tomorrow evening.......pray for me

Sounds like a fun weekend once you get there lol. Have fun and stay safe.

 

[rave]

We know if we fly or walk on all fours you'll feed us well.

My requirements aren't quite that stringent. I have a tendency to feed the two legged animals well too.

 

[SandySu]

Hey, Sandy! Do you vaccinate your horses for rabies, in NY?

Yes, once a year. Rabies is a problem here. Penny also gets a vaccination for West Nile, as well as the usual combo of tetanus, WEE/EEE, and ?? I forget now what the 3rd is. It's not flu, since the vaccination for that is pretty ineffective, and the herd she's with never leaves the property to go to shows, etc. The intranasal vaccine for flu/rhino is the only one that really works. Also, every 2 years, according to NY law, she gets a Coggins test. I also don't vaccinate for strangles, usually, though one year I did when I was moving Penny to a barn that had a strangles outbreak about 6 months before. At this same barn, which I left last fall, they had a strangles outbreak again, some years later, while Penny was there. Before we knew about it, I handled one of the horses that got it and Penny in the same visits. I was riding that other horse, too. I was worried that Penny would get it, but I took her temperature every day and watched her closely, and she never got it! I can't believe the vaccine was effective so many years later. I guess Penny just has a really good immune system. Also, we deworm after fecal exams, not every 2 months, as was previously recommended. Penny has never showed a significant amount of worms, and the vet this recent visit said that meant a good immune system. She was dewormed in fall, just because, with a dewormer that gets tapeworms as well as the other kinds (her test then showed a small amount of strongyles and one tapeworm). We'll test their manure again soon to see what we should do in spring. This new deworming protocol, to only deworm the horses that need it, is to prevent drug resistance in the parasites that affect horses. it's getting to be a problem, a lot like the resistance of bacteria to antibiotics became from too free a use of antibiotics.

 

[SandySu]

Oh boy! The inmates are runnin the asylum again.



Good morning Lauralie. Hope you enjoy your long weekend. I remember those. Now everyday is a weekend lol. I think I liked it better the other way though. I enjoyed both my work and my breaks. Doing nothing is hard. Can't stop and take a break.

Do what I did and get a part-time job. Though lately, it's turning into an almost full-time job. I'm really having fun doing catering. Totally different than what I did before.

 

[Uncle]

Hi Everyone . . .

How YA' Doin' (said in a thick NYC accent you know Joey in Friends ) . . .

I see so many peopla have been poping in and out like "Me" for the past few days too . . .

ALL Good, I Hope - and Ready for the BIG NATIONAL HOLIDAY WEEKEND . . .

AND - On That Note . . . Since it is "Memorial Day" too . . .

Just Remember to take a Moment to Remember . . .

AND - To ALL OUR SERVICE MEN & WOMEN THEN and TODAY . . .
I Salute YOU For a JOB WELL DONE . . .

THANK YOU ! ! !

 

[Wuzznt Me]

Yes, once a year. Rabies is a problem here. Penny also gets a vaccination for West Nile, as well as the usual combo of tetanus, WEE/EEE, and ?? I forget now what the 3rd is. It's not flu, since the vaccination for that is pretty ineffective, and the herd she's with never leaves the property to go to shows, etc. The intranasal vaccine for flu/rhino is the only one that really works. Also, every 2 years, according to NY law, she gets a Coggins test. I also don't vaccinate for strangles, usually, though one year I did when I was moving Penny to a barn that had a strangles outbreak about 6 months before. At this same barn, which I left last fall, they had a strangles outbreak again, some years later, while Penny was there. Before we knew about it, I handled one of the horses that got it and Penny in the same visits. I was riding that other horse, too. I was worried that Penny would get it, but I took her temperature every day and watched her closely, and she never got it! I can't believe the vaccine was effective so many years later. I guess Penny just has a really good immune system. Also, we deworm after fecal exams, not every 2 months, as was previously recommended. Penny has never showed a significant amount of worms, and the vet this recent visit said that meant a good immune system. She was dewormed in fall, just because, with a dewormer that gets tapeworms as well as the other kinds (her test then showed a small amount of strongyles and one tapeworm). We'll test their manure again soon to see what we should do in spring. This new deworming protocol, to only deworm the horses that need it, is to prevent drug resistance in the parasites that affect horses. it's getting to be a problem, a lot like the resistance of bacteria to antibiotics became from too free a use of antibiotics.

Wee = Western Equine Encephalitis. EEE = Eastern Equine Encephalitis aka Blind Staggers. EPM = Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis I believe. But then I could be wrong.

 

[SandySu]

Here's something totally off topic. I really like this guitar player, Vincente Gomez. See Flamenco Guitar Master Vicente Gomez - YouTube for a performance. My parents had a record, Guitar Extraordinary, that I fell in love with as a kid. I have a cassette tape of it, but I fear it's going to degrade to the point that I won't enjoy it any longer. I wanted to get a CD of his record, but I can't find one available, though I could still buy the vinyl. But I no longer have a record player, and I was thinking of hiring someone to make a CD for me, if it's not too expensive. Either they or I could buy the record and transfer it somehow to CD. Anyone know someone who could do this at not too much cost (like about $20 total)?

 

[SandySu]

Wee = Western Equine Encephalitis. EEE = Eastern Equine Encephalitis aka Blind Staggers. EPM = Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis I believe. But then I could be wrong.

You're right.

They no longer have a vaccination for EPM, though. They did a few years ago, and because so many horses in this area get it, I got the shot for Penny. But they took it off the market since they found it wasn't effective. It's a shame they don't have one. It would save many horses' lives. I know several people who had to put their horses down because of it.

Now the latest threat in this area is Lyme disease. They have a shot for dogs, and someone at Cornell Univ. tried it on a small group of horses and it seemed to be effective, but I hear that some dogs get arthritis symptoms about 6 weeks after the shot. The testing was for 2 weeks, and everything seemed OK, but I think they should follow up for a longer time to be sure. Also, I was hesitant to get a shot for Penny that was so experimental and might give her more problems than not. So my tactic is to spray her with a repellent that works on ticks and cross my fingers. Just recently, several people I know have had to deal with Lyme as well as EPM. It's scary!

I've seen deer ticks on my cat, but my small animal vet said cats don't get Lyme. Then I heard it's rare in cats. Which is right? I remove the ticks as soon as I see them, but deer ticks are so small they are engorged before I notice them. I hear if you remove a tick right away, you are safe. It's only if the tick stays on, sucking blood, that you can get Lyme from it.

So far, no ticks I've noticed on Penny. I hope the pastures she's in just don't have them, but where there are deer, there are probably deer ticks, and it seems they are infected with Lyme this year.

I thought some of the advantages to this area were that we had relatively no ticks and no poison ivy, but now the ticks are out from the warmer weather, I guess, and probably poison ivy is next.

Maybe this summer we'll also get more lightning bugs? I hope so. I remember childhood summers enjoying them. We rarely see them here except a few on a really hot summer night.

 

[SandySu]

Here's an interesting aside on EPM. Most horse owners know that opossums will give your horses EPM. It comes from the opossums defecating in the food the horse eats. This is usually hay in the loft. But Rita Mae Brown, who writes a bunch of mystery novels with her cat, Sneaky Pie Brown, has the heroine, whose husband is a horse vet (and should know) keeping and feeding an opossum in the hayloft of her barn where she keeps her horses. I proofread some of these books, and every time, I queried why the wife of a horse vet wouldn't know how dangerous opossums are. I never heard back about whether this opossum's presence was written out of her existing books, but I think they wouldn't make such a big change in a book that was going from hardcover to paperback, but I wonder if Rita Mae Brown ever heard that this was a problem and decided to eliminate the opossum in future series. Or does anyone really care? I mean, if you have pets that can understand your speech, does an opossum in the hayloft seem such a big rift with reality? What do you think, folks? I think you can have a book with some basic thing not like reality, like animals who perfectly understand human speech, but you still shouldn't have opossums in your horse stable's hayloft.

 

[cindycated]

Here's something totally off topic. I really like this guitar player, Vincente Gomez. See Flamenco Guitar Master Vicente Gomez - YouTube for a performance. My parents had a record, Guitar Extraordinary, that I fell in love with as a kid. I have a cassette tape of it, but I fear it's going to degrade to the point that I won't enjoy it any longer. I wanted to get a CD of his record, but I can't find one available, though I could still buy the vinyl. But I no longer have a record player, and I was thinking of hiring someone to make a CD for me, if it's not too expensive. Either they or I could buy the record and transfer it somehow to CD. Anyone know someone who could do this at not too much cost (like about $20 total)?

How about contacting this place? Crystal Record Transfers
...or you could buy one of those USB record players from a place with a 30-day return policy, digitize your LP, then return it. The other way might be a little higher quality and more trouble-free though, huh?

 

[CatLady007]

Hey, cindy; what are you doing up so late? I thought you had joined the ranks of the working stiffs?

 

[lilac7779]

Good morning, Volties. Hope everyone has a wonderful Memorial Day. My Dad served in WWII. I love our Military, past, present and future. God bless them all.

 

[SandySu]

How about contacting this place? Crystal Record Transfers
...or you could buy one of those USB record players from a place with a 30-day return policy, digitize your LP, then return it. The other way might be a little higher quality and more trouble-free though, huh?

Thanks. I'll look into it. Why did you choose this particular company? Do you have experience with them?

 

[Semiretired]

OK Volties - you get a couple of days behind in reading posts or you skim over them to fast and you miss important notices.

Imagine is going off into the real world out there - did ya'll forget already what happens when someone leaves the safety of Voltville?

Did anyone read Imagine

the Travel and Water Safety Guides?

I did not see any - can she go without them?

No driving over 55MPH. No parking on down hill slopes. No picking up hitch hikers. Fuel up before your fuel gauge reaches 1/4. Stop for Yellow Lights - do not wait for Red Lights. Do drinking - except water... No swimming in water of 18" deep. Use sunscreen. Look out for sea creatures. No drinking. All flotation devices need to be certified. No bikinis...

There are all kinds of scary things out there in the real world...

and we would not want Imagine to get caught up in them...

Remember the

people - let's get it together...


Okay TK - get your

- you are on guard duty...

Uncle - you are in charge if we need to get a rally together...

Rave, Sandy, Mary - you are in charge of critters...

Anything we can put a saddle on...

Laura and Cindy - you are in charge of PR

and if Uncle needs backup give him a hand...

Lilac - you are in charge of -

and make sure there is plenty - it could be a long night...

Reptilr - sorry to do this, but you are in charge of the entire southern region -

so keep your eyes peeled and your bike fueled...


Every one else

- stay alert - we have no idea of what will happen over the next few days...

I cannot believe we are being left alone...

And to top it all off - we were not invited... I know we could of fit in Imagines car -