so waht ya doin today?

[dale2242]

My wife is recovering nicely since coming home.
She is walking with the walker quite well and even ventured free style with me holding onto one hand.
Off to her first chemo infusion today since being home from the hospital.
They will be giving her more lower doses of chemo than originally planned because of her weakened condition.
All in all, Her progress has been good.
It just needs to continue with any more hiccups.

 

[Bret4207]

I am resting today it has been and will continue to be a busy week. One trip to Cardiologist and two to the Oncologist. The next trip will be to the Oncologist for the Moderna (Covid) booster. I am seriously immunocompromised and the first two shots probably did little or no good, as I was in the middle of chemo when I took them. The booster may provide a little protection. Sorry anti-vaxxers, I am just trying to stay alive. Without some protection, I am a prime candidate for the crematorium should I get the Kung Flu! A couple of dozen people I know have died from that stuff. Yep, I know allot of old folks, because I am one.

Not anyti-vax Charles, just pro-freedom. Kind thoughts and prayers sent your way!

 

[Bret4207]

I'm feeling a bit roughed up.
I took the 4 wheeler out for a ride today.
12 one way miles, and I didn't even get to the end of the 'road' I wanted to go down.
[by road I mean 2 track that's about 55"s wide and is half on bedrock]
I'm pretty sure it eventually drops down behind a big chunk of private property, which is next to a ranch that runs a deer and elk hunting operation.

I think the wheeler actually has too much torque, you can feel it try to throw you off the back when your on a hill, or if you goose it in the mud.
I know it'll drag an ELK up a 20+% grade no problem though.
I think I will take another day or two and ride all the way back down to the bottom.
and then check out the other trail that cut's back down towards town, if the second road comes out where I think it does I should be able to just drive up there from the house.

I have almost no experience with ATVs. Gords little Honda is only a 300 and 2wd. That thing has an amazing amount of power for what it is. He was drawing logs with it already! I'm impressed. Not so much with the Coleman SxS that is busted...again!

 

[Rick]

My first one was a 300 2wd Tracker. Was pretty amazing what all it could do but a guy has to have his toys and I upgraded to a 570 4wd Tracker. The 300 held it's resale value well, they gave me within $200 of what I paid for it new and I had it for over a year.

 

[KeithB]

Got my JBL wireless Bluetooth speaker to work with my Raspberry Pi, now I have sound without cable clutter. Found a good internet radio source, going to check out some other music sources today.

Bought eight 13" steel wheels yesterday, going to use them as the base for some uprights that will support a horizontal rod and some shower curtains. I want to make some see-through barriers around our radial arm drill and manual knee mill. Both of them put chips everywhere. Don't want to anchor them to the floor, I want to be able to move them around if necessary.

Transferred money to title company yesterday, going to sign the paperwork right after lunch to finalize purchase of our residential lot.

 

[Charles Graff]

Not anyti-vax Charles, just pro-freedom. Kind thoughts and prayers sent your way!

I am at a loss to understand how I am any less free for taking the Covid Vax. I don't get it. I have taken all kinds of vaccines all through my life from childhood until now and never felt any of them compromised my freedom. Everything I have done in life has been the result of a choice made first by my grandparents who raised me and then by me. Well, there is the payment of taxes thing, a bit of government coercion involved with that.

 

[Ian]

I gotta see it.
just cause google shows a road there don't mean it's even remotely passable [even on foot]
I run into 2 different ones like that today, one of them I have hiked in on at least 8-9 times in the past, now your better off hiking up the ridge line from the bottom.

Earth, not Maps. Satellite photos with good enough resolution to make out trails if you know the area. The program shows elevations, distances, and you can adjust the view angle and direction just like flying over the area.

 

[KeithB]

Being vaxxed gives me the freedom to go out in public with a hell of a lot less dread than before. I still wear a mask in stores and other indoor environments 'cuz Indiana is kind of a hillbilly state with a low vaccination rate and I have serious trust issues.

Freedom means that private businesses should be free to keep unvaxxed people out of their establishments or off their ships and airplanes and require employees to get vaxxed as a job condition. The employees have the freedom to look for another job don't they? Travelers can find another mode of travel can't they? School corporations should be free to require masks and vaccines. Students can always be home schooled can't they?

Rights and freedom are great when paired up with responsibility.

 

[Hawk]

Google Earth is your friend....

I use Google Earth Pro a couple of time every day.
You can find stores, routes to destinations and plan trips.
I used it when I was working as a Registered Public Land Surveyor.
You can put markers to mark points of reference (such as deer lease stands) and project sites.
You can also use it to scout openings in the forest for hunting stands and routes to get there.
Its an amazing tool!

 

[KeithB]

Just got back from the title company. We now own 2-1/2 acres of residential property!

 

[L Ross]

I don't know your exact circumstances or location, but hearing someone has to go through that to have a woods road makes me grateful I live where I do!

Oh I have my forest land in a DNR program which keeps my woodlands from being taxed as recreational property. When I had a timber cut scheduled the forester suggested I apply for a matching funds grant to cut properly designed logging roads rather than the half assed roads loggers want to make in their hit and run attack on your property. With the hills here we get serious erosion if care is not taken.

Well the grant program was a great idea except we could never get chosen and time was a wastin' so we decided to just foot the bill ourselves. We were out this evening inspecting the progress thus far. There is be hundreds of man hours of hard work before these roads are finished. We have a lot of rock in our hills and while that will make for good solid roads in the end the raw cuts are a mess right now.

 

[fiver]

shorter trip today in a different area closer to home, but a lot more effort.
good part is I found a back way into one of the spots I spend 1-3 days in during the Deer hunt.
bad part is it involves some nasty trail, 2 streams and a river?
2+ foot deep and about 20' wide is about river size I guess, the official name has the word creek in it..
I did pick up a Grouse on the way through so it wasn't a totally wasted trip.

 

[462]

This morning, the hand doc gave the right trigger thumb a shot of cortisone and said to give it two weeks to take full effect. Then I went to the 100-year-old, family-owned and professional-grade lumber yard and bought two pressure treated 2"X12"X8' Twenty-bucks more than Home Depot, but these were milled from real wood and will never corkscrew nor rollercoaster.

 

[Ole_270]

I've been fighting carpel tunnel syndrome for 3 months. Dr scheduled an MRI that showed 3 degenerated discs in my neck. Sent me to another hospital 30 miles away for steroids shots in the neck. The first lasted maybe two days, the second about a week. Three weeks ago the local Dr said he was going to setup an appointment with a big city hand specialist that comes to the regional hospital 35 miles away once a week. After waiting a week with no call, I called the regional hospital and setup the appointment myself. Today was the day. I asked the admitting nurse if the locals had ever called. Nope. Not the first time they've dropped the ball. The nurse at the regional hospital was aggast at the lackadaisical treatment by the local. After this appointment, I'm waiting to hear when they've scheduled an appointment with another hospital 90 miles away for an electrical speed test on the nerves to see where the damage is. Then when the results come in, make an appointment with the regional hospital for a consult with the once a week Dr to decide on what surgery. Then make an appointment for that surgery. I'm three months in with bad carpel tunnel, hardly getting any sleep at all. Looks like my mid October Mule deer and Antelope hunt with my son and son in law is going to be in danger.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Relief was immediate for me W/the release surgery. Mine was bi lateral as well did both @ one time. Good luck it was no big deal. Im back & was back pretty quickly to full hand strength.

 

[Bret4207]

I am at a loss to understand how I am any less free for taking the Covid Vax. I don't get it. I have taken all kinds of vaccines all through my life from childhood until now and never felt any of them compromised my freedom. Everything I have done in life has been the result of a choice made first by my grandparents who raised me and then by me. Well, there is the payment of taxes thing, a bit of government coercion involved with that.

When it's your decision, that's fine. When it's forced onto you, it's not. When it's forced on you because it's part of a scheme to gain control of the sheep so the sheep get used to doing what they are told so their masters can get their way...well, you take it from there.

 

[Rick]

 

[Bret4207]

Being vaxxed gives me the freedom to go out in public with a hell of a lot less dread than before. I still wear a mask in stores and other indoor environments 'cuz Indiana is kind of a hillbilly state with a low vaccination rate and I have serious trust issues.

Freedom means that private businesses should be free to keep unvaxxed people out of their establishments or off their ships and airplanes and require employees to get vaxxed as a job condition. The employees have the freedom to look for another job don't they? Travelers can find another mode of travel can't they? School corporations should be free to require masks and vaccines. Students can always be home schooled can't they?

Rights and freedom are great when paired up with responsibility.

"Knowing that no one has a gun gives me the freedom to go out in public with a hell of a lot less dread than before. I live in a hillbilly state with redneck gun lovers that think they have some "God" that gave them the right to go around armed to the teeth." You see where vaccine MANDATES take us Keith? What a private business does is their business. If they don't want people in there, fine, so be it. But I'm talking about MADATED vaccination- FORCING people to allow an injection into their body. If they can mandate this, they can mandate a tracking chip be implanted into your body or mandate euthanasia of people with medical conditions that make them a drain on The Partys resources.

You once asked me if I thought "Atlas Shrugged" was good literature Keith. I don't know if it's good literature or not, but I do know the theme is frighteningly accurate.

 

[Bret4207]

I've been fighting carpel tunnel syndrome for 3 months. Dr scheduled an MRI that showed 3 degenerated discs in my neck. Sent me to another hospital 30 miles away for steroids shots in the neck. The first lasted maybe two days, the second about a week. Three weeks ago the local Dr said he was going to setup an appointment with a big city hand specialist that comes to the regional hospital 35 miles away once a week. After waiting a week with no call, I called the regional hospital and setup the appointment myself. Today was the day. I asked the admitting nurse if the locals had ever called. Nope. Not the first time they've dropped the ball. The nurse at the regional hospital was aggast at the lackadaisical treatment by the local. After this appointment, I'm waiting to hear when they've scheduled an appointment with another hospital 90 miles away for an electrical speed test on the nerves to see where the damage is. Then when the results come in, make an appointment with the regional hospital for a consult with the once a week Dr to decide on what surgery. Then make an appointment for that surgery. I'm three months in with bad carpel tunnel, hardly getting any sleep at all. Looks like my mid October Mule deer and Antelope hunt with my son and son in law is going to be in danger.

My wife wears braces on her hands at night. I think they're made just for carpal tunnel sufferers. Lets her sleep fine. Worth a shot.

 

[Rick]

Silly silly Rick . . . . He thought we had a no politics rule here.