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First, for those who didn't see what I said to PP (slightly edited): At this point, I don't know yet. Things are going so fast, we have enough time to think and make a decision, hope something doesn't interfere with the decision we made, and then make the next one. The oncologist wants to have a stent put in WoHB's liver, in the hope it will bring the blood tests within norms to qualify for the clinical trial. We don't have the schedule for that, but it's likely next week, so we can see results ASAP. We won't know more until we've had some results from actual chemo. I will keep you all informed. Thank you, Petite.

How can I not panic when this guy sends me an email wanting to turn all my students and faculty into clams? Or maybe it is me that should be a clam?? Our lockdown blinds help keep your teachers clam and your classrooms safe with your schools custom protocols printed directly on them.

Ding ding, yes it was the California enduro series, at Mt Ashland. It is borderline Cali my husband got 3rd place for expert men 50+

Don’t know but petite would get the squishy ball interview.

I cannot even imagine the emotional roller coaster you and your wife are on. I do not possess the words or the skill with words to offer you any comfort or take away your pain and fear, but know that I will be praying for miraculous healing for your wife, clarity for her caregivers and peace, strength and comfort for you all. Stay strong brother and take care of yourself as you take care of your wife.

Or Patsy Cline’s Walkin’ after Midnight. At 12:23 Sunday morning I got a call from BV, mom’s assisted living place. Apparently, Mom went for a walk out the front door last night. She had her walker and was wearing pajamas and was barefoot. This was between 11 and midnight. Opening the front doors sets off an alarm unless you have a code. The alarm went off. Mom reaches the street that BV is in on and went down the sidewalk. Fortunately, the first passing car was a cop who stopped and asked he what she was doing. Mom didn’t have an answer and by then the aides from BV came up looking for whomever set off the alarm. Mom went back to BV and was put to bed. Today, the director called and said Mom is moving to the 3rd floor memory care unit where she can’t just leave the building like that. JFC mom. She fell again today and went to the ER because her back hurt. Nothing broken but this is the 5th fall and fourth trip to the ER in a month. I need mom bubble wrap.

Next week have to move my Mom to an assisted living place plus move my stepfather from the nursing home we just put him in a couple of months ago also into the assisted living place. Turns out that the nursing home was about $4000 month more expensive that we expected. I didn't do any of the financial paperwork so I'm not sure where the error happened. However with my Mom and Chuck both in the same place, it's much cheaper. Once we sell their house, things will even be better for them.

Chain and cassette installed at 17,325 miles. Not the first in that time frame mind you, probably the third cassette, fourth chain.

Made some carrot soup using the original Moosewood recipe. I have not made it in years and this is probably the first time I made it correctly. When I first made it..I did not have a blender so I mashed the carrot It was ok..but certainly not a creamy soup. Today I got to use the immersion blender I ordered months ago I filled almost 2- 25 oz jars ( brought one to my neighbor)..filled 2 plastic bowls..and had a small serving. Too much soup for 1 person..but great to share.

It's only the teachers that will become mollusks. Not admin. You are safe for now. Pearls of wisdom. #seewhatIdidthere

...at ~400 posts/day, we hit a MILLION in a little over a week!

Here lies the anonymous biker. He couldn't see the trees for the forest.

So...after work on Friday I start vacation. In the time of Covid..no big travel plans..probably not even up North. However...I need to shop for work clothes and I won't do that on a weekend. I need to go the Menards or Home Depot and I won't do that on a weekend. My car needs a wash..and I would like a pedicure. There will probably be a day trip and orchard visit as well. I am making my list

I used to have a whole stack of round tuits in my desk.

Thanks to a bunch of geomagnetic activity from the sun moving into a new solar cycle, the famed aurora borealis will be visible in places such as northern Idaho, northern Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin.

For dinner tonight. A chicken with mashed potatoes and a vegetable. Tomorrow will make soup with the leftovers.

You might find this amusing

Clothing is always causing problems, it should be banned.

You spelt vagina rong.

Wheelies? Skids? No handed riding? Jumping things?

So the new neighbors ARE friendlier than we first thought. It takes two to tango, but two couples to 6969!

I'm crying here for you HB. Be an advocate for your wife. And with your wife. Fingers crossed for your clinical trial drug. Check back in here on the regular. Folks were & are very helpful for me Prayers sent up for you both

Well..the prayers are a happening..hugs to you both

no comment... Really Ed NO COMMENT!!! (mutter)

I'd get the interview where they are chasing me down the street with the cameras running.

Even for work clothes Home Depot is a bad choice, try Tractor Supply they sell Carrharts and Dickies.

Last weekend the weather was warm and sunny but ride plans fizzled in deference to projects that had to be finished before cooler weather. This weekend had a few hours for a ride so I headed out for a loop around the Mohawk River to take in some sections of recently opened bike trails I hadn’t yet ridden. The car dash said the temperature was 35F at the bike path parking lot. A fog had settled in because of the warmer river. Since most of the ride followed bike paths or trails I wasn’t too concerned about being visible to drivers. A group of Army ROTC cadets were on the bike path doing a 12 mile hike with full packs. They were scattered all along the path, I imagine because they’d been given staggered starts. I have to say even though they were all physically pushing themselves, they were uniformly polite and courteous as I went by. The path at one point descended down onto an old railroad bed near the river. The fog is just starting to burn off. Along the path, though, shrouded by the trees, the fog still hung on. This section of the path is heavily used normally. Today I shared it with only the ARMY ROTC cadets and a few walkers. And now, a true highlight of the ride! My favorite bridge – the Thaddeus Kosciuszko Bridge! Around here it’s usually called the Twin Bridges because most people can’t say ‘Thaddeus Kosciuszko’ let alone know who he was. These two spans carry I-87 across the Mohawk River. The route, entirely by accident, ran past the Cohoes Falls. The falls are about 70 feet high and about 600 feet wide. The fog on the river and the rising mist partially obscured the falls, but created a scene that made the falls new even though I’d been here a dozen times. Just downriver from the falls are the Harmony Mills. Water taken from the Mohawk River powered these factories. This one building runs for blocks. Another mill sits out of the picture to the left, another out of the picture to the right, and still more down the road. These buildings were renovated into apartments and lofts – and beautifully restored. Not far from here during the excavation for a mill building the Cohoes Mastodon was discovered. Now turning north to parallel the Hudson River, I picked up the Champlain Canal Trail. This is Lock 4, with the old Champlain Canal stretching around the corner in the distance. The old canal and the Trail pass through Waterford where the Barge Canal begins its climb around the Cohoes Falls. (Couldn’t New York come up with a better name than the ‘Barge Canal’?) Here boats can head across the state to the Great Lakes or go downriver to New York City. The first lock in what’s called the Waterford Flight, a series of six locks that take the modern canal around the falls. A series of locks from the old Champlain Canal called the ‘Sidecut’ acts as a waste weir for the modern lock. These locks used to be working locks that transported canal boats from the Hudson River to the Champlain Canal. Compare the size of the locks… Today, the old Champlain Canal acts as a surge pool for the next lock up in the Waterford Flight. In short, when that lock transits a boat down all the water in that lock has to go somewhere. It’s released into the old canal. This small dam maintains a constant water level between locks. This quite ordinary and uninteresting block of concrete used to be a weigh lock. The canal boat tolls were based on the weight of the cargo. One method calculated weight by how much the water rose when the boat entered the lock. The second actually put the canal boat on a huge scale and drained the water until the boat rested on the scale. Once weighed, the canal authorities knew what toll to exact from the canal board captain. Not exactly EasyPass… I followed the Champlain Canal Trail across some sections new to me, then turned west over the roads to pick up a new section of the Towpath Trail. One road paralleled the old Erie Canal. These boats were docked in an abandoned section of the old canal. I wonder how many of the boat owners even know it. The new Towpath Trail section started under the opposite end of the TK Bridge shown earlier. It was quite wide and smooth even though the surface was stone dust. This new section ended, and I picked up the ‘Bird Watch’ section. An older section, I think they should have called it the ‘Root Watch’ section, better suited to a mountain bike. I bounced about on my touring bike until the trail widened again. This is the Whipple Bridge – not the ‘Mr. Whipple’ of toilet paper fame, but Squire Whipple. In addition to inventing new bridge designs Squire also patented a weigh lock for weighing canal boats. The old Erie Canal seen from the Whipple Bridge. It looks like nothing special until you realize the canal you see was excavated by hand, and all that dirt was hauled away by horse and wagon. The Mohawk River at Lock 7 on the Barge Canal. The lock is on the left, Goat Island with a small waterfall in the center, and the power plant on the right. Back on the road, and nearing the end of the ride. The modern bridge crosses the Mohawk River just upstream from where an Erie Canal aqueduct crossed. Small portions of the aqueduct still stand, and in the summer the local urchins jump off them into the river. The marina on the right uses a section of the old Erie Canal as a boat launch. Profile for today’s ride:

I have a chicken boiling to make some soup Been feeling like shit maybe chicken soup will help

I decided to let the sider stay inside for the winter. Building a warm little cottage for him as @Kirby suggested and running a gas line to it seemed like a lot of work. I'll let him stay happy and warm in his current digs.

I like bread fruit margaritas. WHAT INGREDIENTS ARE IN A BREAD FRUIT MARGARITA? The classic breadfruit margarita has only three ingredients, plus on additional optional ingredient. tequila lime juice triple sec simple syrup or agave (optional) breadfruit Making a simple breadfruit margarita from scratch is easy – all you need to do is slice the breadfruit into quarters and set aside, then combine 2 ounces of tequila, 1 ounce of triple sec, 3/4 ounces fresh squeezed lime juice and 3/4 ounces simple syrup in a cocktail shaker over ice. Shake vigorously to combine, then strain into a cocktail glass over ice. The simple syrup is optional, and will make a slightly sweeter drink to balance the acidity of the lime juice. Feel free to use more, less or even completely omit it if you prefer. After you have enjoyed three or four breadfruit margaritas you can throw the sliced breadfruit in the trash.

Took a bit, but the fish, coral and the anemone. Even the pitty loves watching the fish swim from her chair. Now we just give it time to fully cycle and become a stronger system before I add more things.

How about not having any of the right thickness cycling socks?

BOOM! @bikeman564™ to a tee! Palace Skateboards is a streetwear brand founded in 2009 that has quickly become one of the most desirable on the market for fashion-conscious millennials.

So far so good

You could build it a little spider house so it has somewhere nice and cozy outside. Except for that evil frog eating spider!

Lots are measured in Achers Back achers Knee achers Hand achers

Trick or Treat!

...and @Dottles handles skid marks!

If anyone remembers Delta Burke, she is a Southern gal who packed a punch! Or, at least, a sassy remark!

I've managed to put it off long enough to have forgotten what it was.

He lived before all the fake news channels. What he said isn’t true anymore. i liked Calvin and Hobbs.

Hope this doesn't impact you, although it's nice to know you'll be ok.

Well shit! Welcome back, Honey Badger!

There’s no other course of action with rabble. Who ever heard of rabble placating? Rousing rabble is just how it goes.

Hey Kirby & other others interested in fun wildlife spotted this morning: a blue heron high up in a 10 storey high tree, scraching its throat. And its buddy stretching down, with a punk hair cut.

@Philander Seabury is not always old. Wait..... Let me get back to you on this.

@Kzoo is snot always eville.