GLASSMANOAK'S Contest Thread #157 for WINNERS !!!!

[SLM]

8/30_#6

Kind of a quiet evening. I hope that's a good sign. Gonna relax a bit here, maybe tea.

And a vape.

Catch ya soon all.

 

[liblue1]

8/30 #6
Good night Treefam............

 

[SLM]

8/31_#1

Goodnight Treefam. Happy dreams of shiny things

 

[Mandikay]

NAE
Good morning everyone. Got a text right before bed last night that they needed me to come in 2 hours early :/ so I'm going to drink my coffee and get on the road. Have a great day everyone

 

[philbh]

8/31 #1
Woke up way too early today. Gonna be a long day...

 

[tiggerrts]

8/31 - 1: Good morning all, time to roll.
Have been up for three hours already, doing some research and things. Did something very rare, had an appetite and ate breakfast.
Wow Mandi, two hours earlier on your schedule? Hope they treat you with something.

 

[Mandikay]

NAE
@tiggerrts me too lol.

Been a pretty busy morning so far. Hopefully it stays that way so my time will pass faster
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[rangerrobin]

NAE

Good Mornin' / G'Night and Good Vibes Tree Fam!

Woke up way too early, but couldn't fall back to sleep.

Oh well, at least it's Hump Day for many!

Have a wonderful day, everyone!

 

[DaleH1985]

8/31 #1

Good morning treefam. Rough night last night. My oldest daughter had a bad night and was up until about 3 o'clock this morning. I am in full on zombie mode today. Think i might skip my coffee cup and just bring the pot to my desk today.

@tiggerrts I know what you mean about rare, i might have breakfast a couple of times a year if that. Usually, its up and dressed, then out the door. Coffee is the closest i get to breakfast.

Have a great day everyone.

 

[CountBoredom]

Good morning, everyone. It appears that a number of us are a little sleep-deprived today...

 

[westhc]

NAE

It appears that a number of us are a little sleep-deprived today...

Yup, me too.

such as

Hey - I'm still on my 1sdt cup.

 

[SLM]

8/31_#2

Good morning all. Hope it's a good for everyone. I'm in need of coffee myself. At least, or unfortunately depending on how you look at it, I have a bit before work today. Catch ya soon!

 

[jpf880]

Good Morningnite All!

Didn't have much time on my days to get on here, I was able to read everything. I was moving some stuff yesterday and tweaked my back, I can't move very good today and had to call off work.

Good Vibes and Prayers coming your way @DaleH1985 for both you and your wife.

@tiggerrts @glassmanoak and @Uncle your in my prayers everyday.


Came home from the Dr's office yesterday to find Molly in the window, how a 80lb dog does that I don't know!

 

[SLM]

8/31_#3

Quiet day here. Hope that's a good sign things are going well. Not much going on at W so that's a good thing. And I have coffee. So really good thing.

@jpf880 sorry to hear that. Back pain sucks! Hope it gets better soon!

Catch ya soon. Positive energy and thoughts to all.

 

[Fuzzy Thunderbear]

8/31 #1

I promised myself that I would not post here without having something positive to say, so I hope everyone sees this as a positive instead of saying "sorry to hear that." I am not looking for sympathy.

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Back pain sucks!

Yes, it does, and I have lived with it for about 50 years. I blew my first disc by trying to throw 70-poud bales of alfalfa up onto a truck whose bed was nearly four feet off the ground and we had to stack six high before going back to the barn. I was 17 and very poor (read as no insurance and at $1/hour farm pay, no cash to see a doctor). Somehow, I managed to pass the physical the next year and went in the air force after high school (the only way to get more education). I hurt my back even more while in the service. Then, 20 years ago, falling off a cliff while elk hunting in a snow storm didn't help either. I was 6'3" tall at 19 years old and now, at 67, I am only 5'10" tall if I stretch up as tall as I can -- that is five inches shorter and all of that comes from every disc in my spine being either slipped out of position or totally blown. Those of you who have back pain know this means the nerves from the spinal column out to various body parts are being pinched because of this, which then sends a signal to your brain that you are in pain. The MRI of my spine looks like an aerial photo of a train wreck and the V.A. says it would do no good to operate (only a 50/50 chance of even reducing my pain and until android bodies come out of being science fiction, no chance at all for repair). So how is it I do manual labor every single day with a back in such condition? Well, acetaminophen (Tylenol) dulls your nerve responses. It doesn't take it away totally, and you should never take more than 3g (3,000mg) daily or you risk ruining your liver. OK, so my nerves are dull, but not dead. Well, walk slow and carry a big attitude. Instead of lying around crying "woe is me," just get off yer buns and do something. Learn to ignore it as much as possible, or say "ouch" now and then, but still get on with life. What's the alternative? I don't choose to go there. If you put me in a home, you might as well put me in a casket. I have critters to take care of and fences to mend, and by Gawd, nobody is gonna tell me I can't get 'er done. Attitude can overcome pain. It works for me...

 

[KatzWh1skers]

Hope you feel better soon, @jpf880
... don't know how you keep doin it , Fuzzy but you do
I have done things when I was told not to... .... makes ya feel alive dudn't it ...

 

[jpf880]

8/31 #1

I promised myself that I would not post here without having something positive to say, so I hope everyone sees this as a positive instead of saying "sorry to hear that." I am not looking for sympathy.

Yes, it does, and I have lived with it for about 50 years. I blew my first disc by trying to throw 70-poud bales of alfalfa up onto a truck whose bed was nearly four feet off the ground and we had to stack six high before going back to the barn. I was 17 and very poor (read as no insurance and at $1/hour farm pay, no cash to see a doctor). Somehow, I managed to pass the physical the next year and went in the air force after high school (the only way to get more education). I hurt my back even more while in the service. Then, 20 years ago, falling off a cliff while elk hunting in a snow storm didn't help either. I was 6'3" tall at 19 years old and now, at 67, I am only 5'10" tall if I stretch up as tall as I can -- that is five inches shorter and all of that comes from every disc in my spine being either slipped out of position or totally blown. Those of you who have back pain know this means the nerves from the spinal column out to various body parts are being pinched because of this, which then sends a signal to your brain that you are in pain. The MRI of my spine looks like an aerial photo of a train wreck and the V.A. says it would do no good to operate (only a 50/50 chance of even reducing my pain and until android bodies come out of being science fiction, no chance at all for repair). So how is it I do manual labor every single day with a back in such condition? Well, acetaminophen (Tylenol) dulls your nerve responses. It doesn't take it away totally, and you should never take more than 3g (3,000mg) daily or you risk ruining your liver. OK, so my nerves are dull, but not dead. Well, walk slow and carry a big attitude. Instead of lying around crying "woe is me," just get off yer buns and do something. Learn to ignore it as much as possible, or say "ouch" now and then, but still get on with life. What's the alternative? I don't choose to go there. If you put me in a home, you might as well put me in a casket. I have critters to take care of and fences to mend, and by Gawd, nobody is gonna tell me I can't get 'er done. Attitude can overcome pain. It works for me...

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Not negative at all. I've lived with my back most my life also, multiple motorcycle and car accidents have messed mine up. Usually take meds and do a lot of ignoring also does it for me most of the time.

 

[Fuzzy Thunderbear]

8/31 #2

Now comes the humor part...

... don't know how you keep doin it , Fuzzy but you do

Tanx darlin' but I have a wild theory... maybe I am already dead and I just don't know it? Suppose I could be a solid enough ghost to make other people see me as still being in this plane of existence? But, if I was dead, wouldn't the pain be gone? Unless, of course, I am in Hell and just don't know that either... Hmmmmm... well, sometimes I think living with all these noisy Guineas is a form of Hell, and one of them just got off her nest this morning with 16 new keets. Sigh...

 

[Mandikay]

Good Morningnite All!

Didn't have much time on my days to get on here, I was able to read everything. I was moving some stuff yesterday and tweaked my back, I can't move very good today and had to call off work.

Good Vibes and Prayers coming your way @DaleH1985 for both you and your wife.

@tiggerrts @glassmanoak and @Uncle your in my prayers everyday.


Came home from the Dr's office yesterday to find Molly in the window, how a 80lb dog does that I don't know!


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NAE
I love it! That is too funny.

Only 10 more minutes and I can go home, Yay! I'm ready to go take a shower and eat
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[westhc]

NAE

living with all these noisy Guineas is a form of Hell

Soon after I moved to CA many many years ago I went to a very expensive restaurant. To my surprise there on the menu was guinea fowl. Where/when I grew up guinea was a "poor man's chicken". I did not order it. And they are quite noisy.