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

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited July 2013

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited July 2013

    We are so frackled!

    http://www.upworthy.com/he-may-not-tell-the-best-celebrity-jokes-but-this-comedians-spot-on-with-his-seriously-scary-rant-3?c=ufb1

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  • bluedahlia
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  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 6,241
    edited July 2013

    Good Morning Everyone!

    Great news ... Tim is finally going to get home today.  He's only been home one day in the last month.  I need to go pick him up soon ... so have to get my makeup on and spruce up!

    Glenna ... Hoping for totally unremarkable scans today.  I hope you have a date with Reggie!

    Blue ... Love the pictures.  Especially the one of the sign at the Episcopal church ... that one is in honor of our chaplain!

    Hope everyone has a good day.

    hugs,

    Bren

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited July 2013

    C4C - THANK YOU!  Another great learning from the Spangled Scooter Gang.  Reminds me of when I "learned" just a few weeks ago, that robins are NOT listening for worms when they cock their heads and a second later pul up a worm from the ground - they are LOOKING for movement in the grass.  Always thought they "heard" the movements, or felt vibrations with their feet - nope, Ye Olde Google taought me they SEE the little movements in the grass, as the worms are so close to the surface, they "move" the roots of the grass...love this stuff, btw ;-)

    BLUE - that is the BEST BEST sign ever, EVAH!

    Glenna  - you're so boring you're putting me to happy sleep!  Good to see you -

    Sandy - try those shoes Kam posted - too many ways to hurt your feet on city ( even VT) streets.  Laughing cuz I have SUCH flat feet it hurts to go barefoot - but happy for you to have found Knee Healing.  I still swear by my acupuncturist turning my knees into porcupines every month.

    Yes, it's still raining.  Almost awesome how above the "average" for the month of June most of the east is...

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  • alexandria58
    alexandria58 Member Posts: 1,588
    edited July 2013

    Sun - I started this because my flat feet were so painful - I was wearing orthotics and hiking boots, and they just kept hurting.  I started slowly going barefoot, and to my surprise, my feet started to feel better - along with my knees.  A number of researchers think the problem with flat feet is shoes - that wearing shoes weakens ankle and foot muscles. It then becomes a vicious circle.  People start wearing more "supportive" shoes because the weak muscles make the feet hurt, but then the more supportive shoes further weaken the foot muscles.Think about it this way: you have more muscles in your feet than in your hands.  What would happen to your hands if you enclosed them in a cast that kept them immobilized most of the time in order to protect them from germs or the possibility of cuts or bruises and then removed the cast an hour or two a day to eat or write.  How flexible do you think your hands would be?  

    This is the website of a Canadian doctor who has done research into the question of injuries with athletic shoes AND injuries with "minimalist" shoes.  He also writes about how the dangers of going barefoot are greatly exaggerated. http://www.stevenrobbinsmd.com/

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  • gardengumby
    gardengumby Member Posts: 7,305
    edited July 2013

    Blue - LOVED the sign!!! 

    Weather is beautiful in Seattle today, and is supposed to continue to be so for the foreseeable future.  We're going to the horse track (Emerald Downs) tonight to 1st watch the horsies run, and then afterwards they have a really great fireworks show.  Tomorrow we're taking the boat trailer (yes, just the trailer Laughing) over to Hoods Canal to get it out of the storage facility.  I'll probably spend much of the day working on our PC as it seems to have been taken over by evil genies.

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  • crazy4carrots
    crazy4carrots Member Posts: 5,324
    edited July 2013

    Blame this one on Bayer Chemicals:

    http://myscienceacademy.org/2013/07/01/over-30-million-bees-found-dead-in-elmwood-canada/I 


    Shortly after 50,000 bees were found dead in an Oregon parking lot (read more here), a staggering 37 million bees have been found dead in Elmwood, Ontario, Canada.Dave Schuit, who runs a honey operation in Elmwood has lost 600 hives. He is pointing the finger at the insecticides known as neonicotinoids, which are manufactured by Bayer CropScience Inc. This also comes after a recent report released by the British Beekeepers Association (BBKA) that recorded its largest loss of honeybees ever. You can read more about that here. The European Union has stepped forward, having ban multiple pesticides that have been linked to killing millions of bees. You can view the studies and read more about that here. 
    The loss comes after the planting of corn. Neonicotinoid pesticides are used to coat corn seed with air seeders, which result in blowing the pesticide dust into the air when planted. The death of millions of pollinators was studied by Purdue University. They discovered that Bees exhibited neurotoxic symptoms. They analyzed dead bees and found that traces of thiamethoxam/clothiandin were present in each case. The only major source of these compounds are seed treatments of field crops.

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  • gardengumby
    gardengumby Member Posts: 7,305
    edited July 2013

    some scientists can get a little too big for their britches....  They seriously thought there would be no possible ramifications of coating seed with insecticides.  Mind-boggling.

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited July 2013

    Lindasa, that is heart-breaking.

    I took a pic of my lillies (Ray got them for me). Bee food?

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited July 2013

    Pics of my Library......yes it is a big house! 

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited July 2013

    Bad hair day????

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  • Alyson
    Alyson Member Posts: 4,308
    edited July 2013

    Good morning from this side of the world. DH has gone off to work early and i intend to have an easy morning as the joints are being troublesome. Actually RA flare I think but I don't want to take the steroids.

    Hope your day is going well.

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited July 2013

    Alexandria - I have flat feet and find that shoes with supportive inserts make my feet hurt too. I've always thought that wearing arch supports was bad for flat feet.

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  • QuinnCat
    QuinnCat Member Posts: 3,456
    edited July 2013

    C4C - I would like to read that bee article, but the link takes me to images only.

    One of my cats does this very odd thing (less so these days, boo hoo).  She jumps like a bunny rabbit across the lawn - all 4's at same time.  She is actually just pouncing, pouncing, pouncing at something she sees on the ground.  I guess it must be earthworms moving?!!  My neighbor wants me to video for "Funniest something Videos"...it is rather weird to see a cat move like a rabbit.

    Speaking of pesticides, people need to worry too!  I use EWG's Dirty Dozen list to determine what absolutely needs to be purchased organic.  Now there is the Dirty Dozen Plus - as more and more of our food is pesticide loaded.

    http://www.thekitchn.com/decide-when-to-buy-organic-with-the-ewgs-2013-dirty-dozen-list-188691

    The Dirty Dozen (Always Buy Organic)

    1. Apples
    2. Celery
    3. Cherry tomatoes
    4. Cucumbers
    5. Grapes
    6. Hot peppers
    7. Nectarines (imported)
    8. Peaches
    9. Potatoes
    10. Spinach
    11. Strawberries
    12. Sweet bell peppers

    +PLUS

    • Collards and kale
    • Summer squash and zucchini

    The Clean Fifteen (OK to Buy Conventional)

    1. Asparagus
    2. Avocado
    3. Cabbage
    4. Cantaloupe
    5. Corn
    6. Eggplant
    7. Grapefruit
    8. Kiwi
    9. Mangos
    10. Mushrooms
    11. Onions
    12. Papayas
    13. Pineapples
    14. Sweet peas (frozen)
    15. Sweet potatoes
     


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  • pupmom
    pupmom Member Posts: 5,068
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  • QuinnCat
    QuinnCat Member Posts: 3,456
    edited July 2013

    Oh Yorkie, that is every morning at my house.  There is video on this theme...at the end, the cat finally takes a baseball bat to it's unresponsive owner.  I've been thinking about installing an extra door (creating 2 doors between my bedroom and my cats) just for sleep.  One door closed would just have paws underneath or kitty bodies slammed against.  What kills me is what "they" do to you before you actually wake up.  My fat cat actually pounces on my chest and then quickly runs away - "drive by."  I've caught her a couple of times because I'm in more lucid sleep, otherwise I would just wake up and go, hmmm, waking up, no cats around here...

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  • QuinnCat
    QuinnCat Member Posts: 3,456
    edited July 2013

    Found the video!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0ffwDYo00Q

    Cat Man Do - Simon's Cat

    This is reality.

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  • pupmom
    pupmom Member Posts: 5,068
    edited July 2013

    Kam, HILARIOUS! My yorkie does similar stuff, in a doggie way of course! My question is, how the heck did they take control? Undecided

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  • Alyson
    Alyson Member Posts: 4,308
    edited July 2013

    Love Simon's cat.

    Mine collaborate I am sure. They do the run by, sitting by  my head, then one skates around the edge of the bed on his back- great for the bed. The other finds a bag or some paper to sit on, play with them attack. If they haven't got a reaction they then have races up and down the hall way. usually that is enough and some one goes and feeds them.

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited July 2013

    Wendel does the same.  Prances like a little horse!

    Just because she's cute.............

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  • QuinnCat
    QuinnCat Member Posts: 3,456
    edited July 2013

    Alyson - ah yes, "kitty maneuvers" is what my friend calls those running back and forth moves (with very loud feet).  The little contact I've had with dogs, I notice they make very noisey yawns!  

    Have to make pie for tomorrow....I'm procrastinating.....help!

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited July 2013

    Loved that cat video so much and it was quite famaliar.  I'm sure I'll be playing that one a lot more than once.  Loved the purring and kneading....

    Beautiful pictures as always.

    Jackie

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
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