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I had it, was like a line of red bumps under my shoulder blades and felt a little like a sunburn, but mine wasn’t too bad. I started taking elderberry (antiviral) right away, and switched to the doctor rx antiviral a week later. I ended up going back to the elderberry because it seemed to be more effective for me. Lasted about 3 weeks.

Sorry! Maybe this link will work? https://vimeo.com/1099659010

Meant to ping you to this (post 1889)

Yes, still waiting (sigh)…

While we are waiting, a smile for you! This is what I am greeted with every morning these days…

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A friend of mine gets soil from a local lake when it’s low for his garden. I never did, but I put down kelp when I’m planting.

My backyard garden is a bigger than it would need to be, but only because I expect to lose a portion to pests and such. I’ve learned some natural solutions for pests over the years from locals (and online). But a lot of what I do is hands on, not feasible on these huge farms.

I wish more people would grow their own. I’m nearly 60 and I grow enough for hubby and myself and our 2 grown kids. The young couples (early 20s to mid 30s) in a Bible study hubby and I teach are all putting in gardens and raised beds and raising chickens now. I’m getting them started with heirlooms.

It’s almost a lost art. I didn’t even learn it from my mom, but my grandmother

I had 4 months of PT for my shoulders and hips last year, I went in twice a week and did 7 days of 1 hour at home. It was hard to keep it up, but it worked and kept me from having surgery!

I hope it works out for you 🙏

Thank you!

Thanks!

Thank you!

I’m so sorry about your loss 😞

We have a great older mobile vet but he’s pretty limited on what he can do. He will send us to a local vet (lots of younger vets) for X-rays or such and half the time they refuse to do them for whatever reason. Once when he was out of town, we took our great pyr for an ear infection. We knew what it was and what always worked for us. The did not listen and it took 5 visits, a culture and two different rounds of meds until they finally prescribed the med I told them about. Total cost: $1500. For an ear infection 😡

The hardest thing for us is trying to find a vet for my goats. I thought I’d finally found one, an hour away. We had him come out and established him with our herd for a fee, and he said he’d be available for emergency visits and med prescriptions. I told him my biggest fear was my goat who always had difficult births needing a c section. He said he’d be there. Well, the time came, and sure enough, she had quads, first lived, I had to pull the next two who were dead, and the last one, also dead, was stuck and I needed him but he didn’t even take my call.

Hubby had to shoot her because she was in so much pain, bleeding out and dying. It was horrific. Enough for me to decide I won’t be breeding my goats for a while and therefore won’t be milking. I love raising goats but dang, it’s just too hard without at least an emergency vet.

How sweet ❤️

They are eating solid food so none of them need to be nursing or bottle fed (they are almost four months, they can wean at 3 some people wean them at 2).

The mamas are as bad as I am, they still let the babies steal sips.

That’s us, was high 60s and 70s for a while.

Hey, it’s pretty warm here today, 87 I think is the high. Up until now it’s been really mild

Goat kids are doing well, working on weaning the bottle babies. They’re having none of it!

Here! I’ve been lurking around, following all the happenings 😊

I think body double too… there was footage of him walking and i thought no way it was Biden

Same with my husband except it was 6-7 years ago.

His doc tests his blood every 6 months and everything still looks great. Even his cholesterol came down, which before he hadn’t been able to do even with meds.

His doc was adamant against keto at the time. After about 2 years of checkups and bloodwork, now supports his choice. Except for the Covid vax which caused us to ultimately leave that GP. New doc is a proponent of keto

Yes, for sure lifestyle too.

Wow, that is some good genes you have!

I have no clue - my grandparents all lived to late 89s, but my dad died at 55, and my mom at 68

Same!