Topic: I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Mar 31, 2012 11:35 PM Wabbit wrote:

Anybody else up and drinking coffee this fine Saturday morning? 

We had storms yesterday evening and the wind took down a big branch of our Bradford Pear tree in the back yard.  It doesn't look bad from the house but hubby says it looks worse from the other side ... will have to wander back there and check it out today.  Those trees are very pretty but they do don't do well with wind after they get a certain amount of big.  Darn.

Athena ... hope your cool down lasts for awhile.  I don't do well with hot, humid weather either so as much as I'm enjoying this early spring I'm just hoping the summer won't be a scorcher.  The Farmers Almanac says we are getting a mild and dry summer.  Hope they are right.

Apr 1, 2012 12:40 AM gracie1 wrote:

Congrats Bren. One year further away from hell. Yay!

Athena, it can never be hot enough for me. I normally have to survive -40 C winters. Not this year though...our winter was shockingly mild. Something weird going on.

Apr 1, 2012 02:12 AM YramAL wrote:

Still raining here. I've been dealing with a psycho robin at my house. He's being going round and round my house and banging at the windows. Today is the second day, and there are hundreds of little beak and claw marks on my windows. He seems to go away when I close the shades, but I peeked out and he was sitting on my car, just watching and waiting........I feel like a prisoner in my own house. LOL

For the first Saturday in a long time, I don't have anything planned. I'm going to read, and I might not even take a shower. Horrors!

Mary 

Apr 1, 2012 04:50 AM suzieq60 wrote:

I'm off to the markets today - can't wait. I hope my fish guy has more than last time. Also got to get bananas and avocados as the fruit shop didn't have any worth buying yesterday. I won't forget my fudge either. Steve's off to golf and I think I'll leave before him so I get there before all of the fish is gone.

Seeing it's cooler, the plan is to chop my hedge by about 2 feet in height - I've neglected it. Lucky it's not a big hedge just about 6 feet long. 

Apr 1, 2012 05:56 AM kira1234 wrote:

We had a pair of Cardinal's that thought our school was where they wanted to be. It was so funny they kept pecking at the window in the first grade pod for about a week. The kids really got a laugh out of them!  Can't understand what would be so appealing about a school filled with noisy kids!

Apr 1, 2012 07:48 AM rosemary-b wrote:

Congrats Bren.

I got the good letter about my mammogram yesterday. It was only two days after the annual smashing. I think they fast track those with a history of bc.

My son took us to some of his old haunts in Grand Rapids. After walking ten blocks we got to the pastry shop, which had closed an hour earlier. Then on the way back to the car he suggested we stop at two other cute little shops both of which were also closed for the day. DH was muttering dark things. I did get some artisanal pasta from a cute little shop. We will have parsley and sweet onion ones tonight and spinach and artichoke ones another night.

Daisy is adorable.

Apr 1, 2012 09:55 AM Wabbit wrote:

Happy dance for Rosemary's 'good' letter! 

Went and looked closer at our damaged tree and another big limb is split and will probably go down the next time we get a good wind storm.  It's going to have to be cut down.  Drat ... it is really a pretty tree.  

Apr 1, 2012 10:50 AM 1Athena1 wrote:

Spring in DC is truly beautiful, yucky as the summer is. I marvelled at the revolution of color in the gorgeous courtyard of my building today. Every day a different color will emerge, then disappear, only to be replaced by something even more stunning.

Filed taxes - yey! (In a manner of speaking) I bet the Wabbit and Barbara --early birds that you both are-- filed theirs ages ago! I'm happy to have done it before April.

Apr 1, 2012 11:52 PM kira1234 wrote:

susie158 is understand living in the sub tropics! It's not even 11 and already hot. DH is working in the yard again today getting some trees cut that were hurt in storms and have never really recovered. I guess fruit trees when hurt revert to their old trees before grafting. We haven't had any fruit from them in the last few years so down they go! Anyway he's cutting and I'm dragging to the wood pile!

Apr 3, 2012 02:46 AM, edited Apr 3, 2012 02:54 AM by 1Athena1

Dropping in for a nanosecond because I have been melting all day from looking at this adorability - by the way, the dye is non toxic and harmless to the chicks:

Drat - it won't print by itself. You'll havwe to read the article. I am very pro animal rights and chicks should not be purchased and discarded jusrt because they are sweet - but oh, how, how sweet they look here!

www.nytimes.com/2012/04/02/us/...

Apr 3, 2012 03:01 AM Enjoyful wrote:

Awwwww look at those tiny fluffy adorable balls of fluffy adorableness!  I kind of can't stand to see it though, because I wonder 1) how did they dye them and did it hurt them? 2) what happens to the peeps in a few weeks? and 3) how food people treat chickens.  

That's it.  I'm eating only peas from now on.

Apr 3, 2012 03:39 AM Enjoyful wrote:

Snakes don't bother me.  Stupid people do.

Scootaloo, Proudly Going Wisconsin on Everybody's Ass Since 2011 

Apr 3, 2012 03:47 AM Enjoyful wrote:

See above.

I'm getting that petition started.  Want to sign? 

Apr 3, 2012 04:00 AM RetiredLibby wrote:

I saw that, Ang and Scoot. I am constantly reminded of Ron White's saying when I go there. It also makes the case for Darwinism.

Here are some interesting facts from my own family. Not posting them anywhere else but here, but they are relevant elsewhere.

My sister, who died on Valentine's Day from metastatic breast cancer (ILC mets to the abdomen, to be specific), was dx in early 2009 with Stage IIIb breast cancer. The cancer contained IDC, ILC, DCIS and LCIS. 7 of 9 nodes were hot. She had an immediate mastectomy (emergency mx, as a matter of fact). She had 4 rounds of a/c and 4 rounds of taxol, and a course of radiation. Because of the chemo and rads, she attained NED. She immediately began taking arimidex and although it aggravated her pre-existing arthritis, she never considered stopping it.

She was closely monitored and remained NED until November 2011, when a supposed case of pneumonia (she was a smoker and found herself unable to quit) turned out to be pleural effusions -- and the discovered ILC mets to her abdominal wall, her omentum, and in sheets covering her intestines. She began Abraxane immediately the mets were confirmed, and they retreated a bit and became stable.

What ultimately killed here was a confluence of bad luck, poor health with pre-existing comorbidities, poor hygiene at the rehab facility (she contracted c-diff which led to the removal of her colon which led to kidney failure), and her tumor load. She would have done every dose of chemo again (she worked full-time throughout and she was not young -- she was 66 at Dx, 69 when she died) and more had it offered her more chances of survival. She was unimpressed with alt therapies and angry at snakeoil salespeople who peddled them to gravely ill people. Conventional medicine gave her 3 more years with her family, and had she not had such a bad confluence of events and conditions, she might have had more.

Those are the facts of my sister's dx, treatment and death with ILC mets.

L

Apr 3, 2012 04:55 AM Enjoyful wrote:

I guess "going Wisconsin" means really nasty things to some people. Like getting cheesed if you're lactose intolerant, or someone tipping a cow in your yard. What else could it mean? Any other creative ideas?