Same here Colonel. When I was about 20, I worked on a pipeline job in eastern Utah -- and lived back across the border in Grand Junction, Colorado. It was agonizingly hot - 110F every day -- and when the work day was over we were exhausted. On the road back into Colorado there was an old AW Root Beer shop. I'd limp up to the counter and order TWO large ice cream floats and knock them down in minutes. After that I'd feel tip top. That'd put five pounds on me easy today.
Haven't been to Lauterbrunnen, but to Zermatt & Lucerne. Switz is one beautiful place. And most expensive I've seen. Coke/glass of wine/pizza for 2 - $67. At least no tip.Good morning D-League. It's currently 72° and foggy here in Eastern Kentucky. This afternoon will bring mostly cloudy skies, with a slight risk of a shower and a high of 90°.
Everyone stay safe out there today.
The Mrs dug up our potatoes this morning. They're her babies...loves growing them. More and bigger than last year..but she said the skins were thin..but they were starting to come up above ground. Seems I read somewhere once that when the tops dry/die out, to cut them off and then let them sit for a week or so before digging them up? Does that thicken the skin?
My nephew (MD at a large hospital) will not take it. He wanted to go that route..but his hospital requires a signed letter by a minister. He's not a church goer (not an unbeliever..like more and more these days he just doesn't go). So his mom talked to her pastor if he would...declined because the Assembly of God approves of the vaccine..so either he wouldn't do it, or couldn't.
Don't know if her minister had to sign or not, but she seemed to think an action by Tn governor is helping the Vandy employees who object.
OC, I had a guy ask me one time if I planted the potatoes with the eyes up on the taters, I said yes. So he says, why don't you plant them with the eyes down so the taters will grow on top of the ground! Didn't have an answer!!!
Supposedly if you have had covid you are in better shape than having had the shots.
That's all we use BBUK
Have not had the shot and have never been tested for Covid. Don't know if I have ever been exposed or not. Don't wear a mask and haven't since retired 1 Sept 2020 except for visit to the VA doctors office. I am in the corner of the herd immunity mindset. I have not inoculated for anything since retiring from the military in July 97.
When I get "unsalter" butter, I just add salt!
It is probably one of the safest things on earth to ingest if you drink water. Nations have fought wars over salt. In my Army days we carried salt tablets in our pistol belt and ate them like M&Ms . There were salt tablet dispensers all over the base. You could grab them anytime you wanted one.
I haven't thought about salt tablets in many years till I read your post. I remember them now.
I am saying this with all sincerity but when I had a trainee fall out due to heat or heat exhaustion we gave them a sip of water and let them rest for about 15 minutes, then gave them a handful of salt tablets and a canteen of lukewarm water.
We used to take salt tablets -- an egg-yolk yellow color and a little bigger than an aspirin - during conditioning in the summer when I played high school and college basketball. Later, when I pipelined out west they passed them out. We wore long-sleeved denim or khaki shirts becasue of all the sparks and flame generated in welding and cutting pipe. I can remember my blue denim shirt having huge white rings from the salt after taking those pills...I am saying this with all sincerity but when I had a trainee fall out due to heat or heat exhaustion we gave them a sip of water and let them rest for about 15 minutes, then gave them a handful of salt tablets and a canteen of lukewarm water.
Salt tablets were also used to prevent leg cramps during training. We did not have any negative issues with salt tablets. I have been out of the army for over 50 years so I have no idea if this SOP anymore. I guess they carry around IV's now. I don't have a clue.
Do you know if the military still uses them? We would make every soldier take a couple as they were going through the chow line. Signs were all over the place reminding the troops to take their salt tablets.
Looks good. I might give a try.
When i was in usaf basic training way back last century in the summer of 1966, we all had to take salt tablets. i was skinny as a rail and the heat never bothered me, but i sometimes took as many as 10-15/day. a few years later when i was 27yo, newly married and began seeing a dr i was told i had hbp and have been on daily meds ever since. i’ve thankfully been in good health otherwise and never overweight. i’ve always wondered if the salt tablets had anything to do with it, or maybe the new wife?
Luck of the draw i guess. neither my mom or dad had it although dad died of heart attack at 70 but mom lived to 90.
That's a good question, Sawnee.
BBUK, eat lots of squash and onions and baked potatoes with the skin on it, that will help!!!!
My avatar says it all. Our late great Chloe. Passed away October 2019. Best dog ever. No offense to Marty but he's catching up.
Pebbles, My Guard Dog... He guarded all the food in the house... (He is buried at my house in Summerville, SC.)
That was at our Home in San Antonio...
This is our house in South Carolina (Summerville) He is about buried exactly on that spot as he loved that place for some reason... Just about two feet or so to the left of that picture... He died in my arms...
