Posted on 09/16/2023 3:07:53 PM PDT by CottonBall
This is an ongoing thread – meaning come back to chat, post information, or ask questions any time. Hopefully the thread won’t stagnate and I’ll do better at posting weekly (or bi-weekly) topics than I have in the past. (anyone willing to post a topic now and then we'll be highly praised and appreciated).
We are in for some bumpy rides, and prepping can only help. If for peace of mind, if nothing else. We have a wonderful gardening thread and a current-events survival/prepping thread, and hopefully this one can piggyback off of those, maybe having a longer discussion about certain topics or … whatever. It's your thread, do what you like with it! (civilly, of course)
Here are granny’s threads, if anyone wants to peruse them:
nw_arizona_granny’s Thread #1
nw_arizona_granny’s Thread #2
nw_arizona_granny’s Thread #3
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When there was a cat food shortage during covid, I started researching cat food ingredients. It turns out that dark-meat turkey is the easiest non-seafood source of taurine.
Taurine is destroyed by high temperatures, so it’s best to cook the meat low and slow, and try to avoid canning it if possible. If you have to preserve it, freezing is best, with dehydrating the second-best option.
I’m using this as an excuse to add more turkeys to my livestock wishlist.
Hello all, I skimmed through this thread, can’t read all of it. Happy belated birthday Judy!
I have to share my son’s dog rescue story. A guy posted on a local pets forum that he found a puppy hiding at his scrap metal yard. The puppy was emaciated and her face was covered with porcupine quills. He got the dog but posted that he can’t keep her. My son came to the rescue! She stayed in the crate and was scared to go outside to go business, she would shake with fear. But he put pads in a bathroom and she’d use them. He gave her food and water every few hours which she gulped down. Veterinarian says she just needs food and love, she’s 5 months old and will be a tall dog.
Today she is playing with his other dogs and cats and going out when they do, and she gave my son a big kiss.
I can’t wait to meet her!
Oh Rusty!
That’s a feel good all over story of the day! I’ve been watching a few clips lately of dogs after they get rescued. I’m not the dog fan that many are, but I do like them and I do feel so sad when they suffer. Tell your son he has a fan in Canada who thinks he’s wonderful for saving that poor, suffering little pup. So happy for that little doggo.
And you’re not belated. It’s on ‘til midnight. Going to Natalie’s for a pot of chili, homemade Italian bread, and she made my favorite dessert - creme brule. Yum.
Dan Bogino says it’s possible the Chinese have hacked our plane system.
He also showed a clip of an article about the PPC interfered in the 2020 election AGAINST TRUMP. And it’s just now being reported.
I watch his show everyday on rumble.
I’ll tell him!
What a great birthday feast! Enjoy!
What a wonderful story! And a wonderful son you have, he’s obviously a chip off the old block. I’m so happy for the puppy
you’re on!
Good to know! And the bit about fluffier bread as well.
Would you consider coming up with a few topics for the thread?
Rusty what a wonderful thing your son has done. How did they get the porcupine quills out of the puppy? Any idea yet when surgery on your neck will be scheduled?
I had my Medicare yearly physical today. I had told Cotton I HATE doing blood work. She wondered if fasting was the worse thing. The WORST thing for me is they can’t get blood out of me and they poke & poke. Even though I drank lots of water last night and had two 8 oz cups this morning. She had NO luck. I think I peed all the fluid out before hand. :-( She couldn’t get ANY out of my right arm and only about 3/4 of a vial out of the other arm that is now bruised. They needed 5 vials to do all the tests. I said I would come back another time because I was NOT going to have her poke some more. I take an 81mg asperin every night so you would think it would be thin enough. About three weeks ago I scraped my arm up against a hinge on a metal post and it bled like a stuck pig.
I got to thinking. When you get Medicare at 65-67 now they make you take what they call a MEMORY test. This is the second year I have had to do this. Today she gave me 3 words to remember and a blank circle and told me to draw a clock and have it read 10min past 11:00 I drew a “PERFECT” clock” (not phone call but clock lol!!!) When she later asked what the 3 names were that she had told me I was able to tell her ALL 3 back. “sunset” “clock” but NOW for the life of me I can’t remember the 3rd one.
Ok now. Back to what I was thinking. If Biden takes Medicare (and I am sure he does since they ALL do) because there is NO income limit to getting it. He would have to take one of these memory tests also. But because of HIPA they won’t tell us how he did on it.
I took the house pictures and some more paint swabs over to my daughters afterwards and she will go over them with her daughter who lives with her (and rules the roost) to decide what they want. They will never come to an agreement. So I wonder who will win out. I bet it is my grand-daughter because my daughter always gives in.
This makes 4 dogs and 4 cats they have, lol. Two of the cats he rescued when a friend found stray kittens under her porch and no mom.
Hi Spunky! My surgery is November 8, earliest date the surgeon had available. Long wait!
I only have one good vein so tell the lab person to make it good. I’m sorry you had so much trouble i know it’s painful.
I never had a memory test, or maybe I did and forgot about it! 😉
“I never had a memory test, or maybe I did and forgot about it!”
I just did a google and this is what it says: “The Medicare annual wellness visit and required cognitive screening are part of efforts to promote early detection of dementia and have been available since 2011.” It does say “required”
I would have been 65 in 2004 so that was before the testing started. My doctor never gave me the test though until last year 2022 when I was 82. So maybe it is up to the doctor at what age she wants to first give it. Anyway she said the only time to be concerned is when you don’t know what keys are for, or if you end up at a Walmart and don’t know how you got there etc;
Christmas is less than 100 days away.
Here is an idea for a Christmas gift for a loved one.
A Get-Home-Bag or a Bail-Out-Bag
The Get-Home-Bag can be a smaller EDC every-day carry bag, a 24 hour bag or a larger 72 hour bag.
Make the size and style appropriate for the person and their personal situation.
When I worked in a business environment I used a black laptop bag as my EDC bag.
Now I use one that is more tactical in style.
My wife’s EDC was a bag that looked like a fairly large ladies purse or catch-all.
Start with basic gear and leave room for them to fill it out with their own personal items.
Same thing with a Bail-Out-Bag.
It doesn’t have to be complete.
And you can add other item as gifts on birthdays and other occasions.
The memory test my Dr. starts with is basic.
Typical items:
Name, birth date, today’s date, your home address,etc.
Listen to a phrase then recite it back after doing other exercises.
Count backwards
Recite part of the alphabet backwards.
I don’t know what comes next if you fail but I will probably find out someday!
Ha! Was i dreaming or did I see a catfood recipe on this thread? Proby loves frisky lil’soups, they are so expensive. I tried making soup like it, and he wouldn’t touch it.
Did they come to your house?
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