I have a problem with ear wax. Have had it for centuries. So, every couple or three years I have to go to have the wax removed.
😦 I am suddenly deaf in my right ear. It happened all of a sudden. I know what . the problem in, but I can'[t get it fixed on a Saturday.
The guy is going to try to sell me a hearing aid.
I really should get one.
But I don’t know that I will.
Chas, my mother-in-law just had that done, too, only in her case she hadn’t had it done for some time, and she was denying that she’d experienced hearing loss until my sister-in-law pressed the issue. When she went to the doctor, her blood pressure was way up, since she was expecting to need a hearing aid and she was dreading the cost involved, but it turned out it was only ear wax.
But they told her to clean her ears periodically with peroxide, which my mother did to us kids from time to time. You might want to ask them about that, if you can stave of further cleanings by doing that.
Donna,, it wasn’t rock concerts, but your are partly correct.
It isn’t about the ear wax, but I also have tinnitus. That is from my AF service as a radio operator.
They tell us not to put the earphones over your ears, but to the side, to avoid ear5 problems.
However, in our military planes, in those days, we didn’t have insulation and if you didn’t have the headset over your ears, you couldn’t hear for the airplane engine racket.
But I can generally ignore the buzzing in my head.
🙂 Great news for my daughter becoming a member of the College of Paramedics of Saskatchewan!
🙂 Soon to be daughter-in-love asked me to go wedding dress shopping with her! I’ve never had that experience as I wore my mom’s dress and was too far away to go with my sister.
😦 Wedding will likely be a destination wedding – not sure how that works for some who will want to be there
🙂 I’m so ready for our spring schools – we have almost 2000 public school students coming to our camp for their outdoor recreation experience. Our cabin leaders share their life story (testimony) at campfire and then they stay in the cabins with the students – conversations are many and life changing. So many of these students then come to camp in the summer where they see and hear the whole gospel message! In fact, many of our cabin leaders came to be campers and now staff just in this way.
Oh, Kare, wedding dress shopping can be so fun! Be prepared that it can also be frustrating–she may try on a lot before she finds one she actually likes. I’ve done it several times–I tried on a few myself, then bought a very basic one, took off the one decoration on it, and had a friend make a lace jacket and pin and sew lace pieces all over it to make it my dress. (We were copying a dress in a catalog, but with lace I chose myself.) I went shopping with my sister, who then made her own dress, but she tried on a few to get a feel for what looked good on her, and then I went with her in shopping for fabrics. I also went twice with my older stepdaughter (who found the process more stressful than fun, but eventually found a dress she loved). And I went with at least one of the friends for whom I was a bridesmaid.
I think the most significant thing is you can tell her what looks good with her face or otherwise flatters her, or tell her that some lace or some neckline is gorgeous, but for the most part let her choose what looks good. Take a tape measure and a camera. When we went, I took at least one photo of her in every dress she tried on, knowing that she might not make the final selection that day, and she had the photos to look at and decide which features she liked and which looked good on her. The first time she tried dresses on, I tried to be really discreet in my photo taking, thinking it might embarrass her. (I didn’t ask her to pose, for example, but just snapped a shot when I got a chance.) But it turned out she really appreciated that I took the photos, and thanked me, and showed some of them to her grandmother to let her in on the process, too. Of the dresses she liked better, I took more photos, at more angles, and sometimes asked her to pose so I could get a specific shot.
Thanks, Cheryl, some very good advice. I am NOT going to tell her I don’t like a dress unless SHE is not liking it or wonders why she doesn’t like it. I’m just along for the ride and the fun. I will definitely take pictures for her – great idea!
What would I use the tape measure for? (having never done this)
🙂 Saturday at last. This was a long, dragg-y week.
😦 The state of the nation. I’m getting seriously worried following the violence Friday at the Trump event. It all seems to be spinning into dangerous territory now. …
😦 We need a gifted, reagan-esque leader to provide a vision going forward. But I don’t see anyone like that on our political horizon. And even that may not make a difference at this point. It seems like the nation is being ripped apart at the seams (now with the very real specter of political violence thrown in) in a way I haven’t seen since the late 1960s.
🙂 Rain. We had a good downpour yesterday afternoon. The sun is out today with no more rain in the forecast for a week anyway — but at least we’re getting some moisture. Now we hope we’ll go back to what is a normal rainfall year this/next winter (2016-17) rather than returning to drought conditions. It will be a while before we’re out of the woods with the effects of the long drought as it is, but if we can get back to normal rainfall years at least it won’t get any worse and it will give us some time to get back to where we should be.
Michelle, I read a column by Peggy Noonan on Trump, and in the comments section was one obviously in German that included the words “Adolf Hitler” and “Heil, Trump,” and so I ran it through a German/English translator. I e-mailed the German to my husband, so let’s see if I can find it . . . (Humorously, the translator gave “Heil Trump” as “Healing Trump!”
Here’s the comment, which needs no translation for the “gist”:
IIch frage mich, was die letzten verbliebenen vernünftigen Menschen in Deutschland der Weimarer Republik gedacht haben, als vor ihren Augen die übrigen Deutschen für eine andere Trickbetrüger in der Geschichte gewählt, Adolf Hitler.
Die Situation in Deutschland war sehr ähnlich zu dem, was scheint jetzt in den USA geschehen. Die Menschen hier haben sie das Gefühl, nicht offene Ohren zu stoßen, inmitten einer schwachen Wirtschaft, entscheiden mit einem nicht getesteten Außenseiter zu gehen, der das Land wieder groß zu machen, verspricht von Menschen loszuwerden er ein Hindernis fühlt.
Wir haben Leute in South Carolina wie der Vizegouverneur sagte, er für Trump stimmen werde, weil Trump “, sagt, was er meint und meint, was er sagt.” Nun Hitler “, sagte, was er meinte und meinte, was er sagte,” auch.
Heil Trump!
Und ich habe Angst, dass, wenn Trump gewählt wird, wird Amerika das gleiche Ergebnis wie die Deutschland, die Hitler gewählt, mit Russland die Verwaltung über eine Hälfte und China die andere. Machen Sie sich bereit für die Mississippi-Wand, wenn Trump Präsident gewählt wird.
😆 One of the guys on our SS class came in an hour late this morning. In fifteen minutes the class was over.
But he was forgiven. We were glad to see him.
He is the one whose wife’s funeral we attended last Tuesday.
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I have a problem with ear wax. Have had it for centuries. So, every couple or three years I have to go to have the wax removed.
😦 I am suddenly deaf in my right ear. It happened all of a sudden. I know what . the problem in, but I can'[t get it fixed on a Saturday.
The guy is going to try to sell me a hearing aid.
I really should get one.
But I don’t know that I will.
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Too many rock concerts? That’ll do a number on your ears. 🙂 And watching AJ’s rockin’ Christmas light show videos every year, of course.
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Chas, my mother-in-law just had that done, too, only in her case she hadn’t had it done for some time, and she was denying that she’d experienced hearing loss until my sister-in-law pressed the issue. When she went to the doctor, her blood pressure was way up, since she was expecting to need a hearing aid and she was dreading the cost involved, but it turned out it was only ear wax.
But they told her to clean her ears periodically with peroxide, which my mother did to us kids from time to time. You might want to ask them about that, if you can stave of further cleanings by doing that.
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I have heard of peroxide, but never tried it. I don’t see how that will get the gunk out of my ear. They poke inside the ear, and it hurts.
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Donna,, it wasn’t rock concerts, but your are partly correct.
It isn’t about the ear wax, but I also have tinnitus. That is from my AF service as a radio operator.
They tell us not to put the earphones over your ears, but to the side, to avoid ear5 problems.
However, in our military planes, in those days, we didn’t have insulation and if you didn’t have the headset over your ears, you couldn’t hear for the airplane engine racket.
But I can generally ignore the buzzing in my head.
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🙂 Great news for my daughter becoming a member of the College of Paramedics of Saskatchewan!
🙂 Soon to be daughter-in-love asked me to go wedding dress shopping with her! I’ve never had that experience as I wore my mom’s dress and was too far away to go with my sister.
😦 Wedding will likely be a destination wedding – not sure how that works for some who will want to be there
🙂 I’m so ready for our spring schools – we have almost 2000 public school students coming to our camp for their outdoor recreation experience. Our cabin leaders share their life story (testimony) at campfire and then they stay in the cabins with the students – conversations are many and life changing. So many of these students then come to camp in the summer where they see and hear the whole gospel message! In fact, many of our cabin leaders came to be campers and now staff just in this way.
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Oh, Kare, wedding dress shopping can be so fun! Be prepared that it can also be frustrating–she may try on a lot before she finds one she actually likes. I’ve done it several times–I tried on a few myself, then bought a very basic one, took off the one decoration on it, and had a friend make a lace jacket and pin and sew lace pieces all over it to make it my dress. (We were copying a dress in a catalog, but with lace I chose myself.) I went shopping with my sister, who then made her own dress, but she tried on a few to get a feel for what looked good on her, and then I went with her in shopping for fabrics. I also went twice with my older stepdaughter (who found the process more stressful than fun, but eventually found a dress she loved). And I went with at least one of the friends for whom I was a bridesmaid.
I think the most significant thing is you can tell her what looks good with her face or otherwise flatters her, or tell her that some lace or some neckline is gorgeous, but for the most part let her choose what looks good. Take a tape measure and a camera. When we went, I took at least one photo of her in every dress she tried on, knowing that she might not make the final selection that day, and she had the photos to look at and decide which features she liked and which looked good on her. The first time she tried dresses on, I tried to be really discreet in my photo taking, thinking it might embarrass her. (I didn’t ask her to pose, for example, but just snapped a shot when I got a chance.) But it turned out she really appreciated that I took the photos, and thanked me, and showed some of them to her grandmother to let her in on the process, too. Of the dresses she liked better, I took more photos, at more angles, and sometimes asked her to pose so I could get a specific shot.
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Thanks, Cheryl, some very good advice. I am NOT going to tell her I don’t like a dress unless SHE is not liking it or wonders why she doesn’t like it. I’m just along for the ride and the fun. I will definitely take pictures for her – great idea!
What would I use the tape measure for? (having never done this)
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🙂 Saturday at last. This was a long, dragg-y week.
😦 The state of the nation. I’m getting seriously worried following the violence Friday at the Trump event. It all seems to be spinning into dangerous territory now. …
😦 We need a gifted, reagan-esque leader to provide a vision going forward. But I don’t see anyone like that on our political horizon. And even that may not make a difference at this point. It seems like the nation is being ripped apart at the seams (now with the very real specter of political violence thrown in) in a way I haven’t seen since the late 1960s.
🙂 Rain. We had a good downpour yesterday afternoon. The sun is out today with no more rain in the forecast for a week anyway — but at least we’re getting some moisture. Now we hope we’ll go back to what is a normal rainfall year this/next winter (2016-17) rather than returning to drought conditions. It will be a while before we’re out of the woods with the effects of the long drought as it is, but if we can get back to normal rainfall years at least it won’t get any worse and it will give us some time to get back to where we should be.
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They announced yesterday we’re not longer in extreme drought and it’s been raining all day today, so we should be normal.
Except, I think they’ve been moving the “normal” amount over the last couple months. I thought we hit normal in December . . .
Ever wonder how Hitler got elected? Look around; there are parallels. 😦
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michelle, they keep up a steady drumbeat here that the drought isn’t — and won’t be — over for YEARS, we have so much make-up to do.
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Michelle- The Trump-Hitler parallels are scary. Trump wouldn’t kill 6 million Jews (or Muslims) but he seems too dictatorial to me.
😠Carson endorsed Trump. I do not understand why.
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Michelle, I read a column by Peggy Noonan on Trump, and in the comments section was one obviously in German that included the words “Adolf Hitler” and “Heil, Trump,” and so I ran it through a German/English translator. I e-mailed the German to my husband, so let’s see if I can find it . . . (Humorously, the translator gave “Heil Trump” as “Healing Trump!”
Here’s what I e-mailed him:
This is the first time I ever pulled up a translator, in this case German-to-English, for this column in a column by Peggy Noonan on how the Republican party is shattering and Trump’s ascendancy is proof (http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-republican-party-is-shattering-1457050017).
Here’s the comment, which needs no translation for the “gist”:
IIch frage mich, was die letzten verbliebenen vernünftigen Menschen in Deutschland der Weimarer Republik gedacht haben, als vor ihren Augen die übrigen Deutschen für eine andere Trickbetrüger in der Geschichte gewählt, Adolf Hitler.
Die Situation in Deutschland war sehr ähnlich zu dem, was scheint jetzt in den USA geschehen. Die Menschen hier haben sie das Gefühl, nicht offene Ohren zu stoßen, inmitten einer schwachen Wirtschaft, entscheiden mit einem nicht getesteten Außenseiter zu gehen, der das Land wieder groß zu machen, verspricht von Menschen loszuwerden er ein Hindernis fühlt.
Wir haben Leute in South Carolina wie der Vizegouverneur sagte, er für Trump stimmen werde, weil Trump “, sagt, was er meint und meint, was er sagt.” Nun Hitler “, sagte, was er meinte und meinte, was er sagte,” auch.
Heil Trump!
Und ich habe Angst, dass, wenn Trump gewählt wird, wird Amerika das gleiche Ergebnis wie die Deutschland, die Hitler gewählt, mit Russland die Verwaltung über eine Hälfte und China die andere. Machen Sie sich bereit für die Mississippi-Wand, wenn Trump Präsident gewählt wird.
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😆 One of the guys on our SS class came in an hour late this morning. In fifteen minutes the class was over.
But he was forgiven. We were glad to see him.
He is the one whose wife’s funeral we attended last Tuesday.
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