putting together the patio chairs that needed restaining; and the moon gate that needed repair and restaining.
Did I mention we had raccoon tracks on the fence? Cheeky beggars. The fish are safe, even Ari, who’s a sitting duck if we didn’t have those rocks on her tank cover. And I have now sprinkled black pepper around Ari’s tank and coyote urine (dry) around the pond.
Ari’s doing a tiny bit better. We’re crossing fingers. It’s amazing the poor fish can manage a yard square tank, when she’s about 16-18 inches long, herself, but she’s been amazingly ok about it. For one thing, she’s the most hand-tamed of our fish, and she doesn’t freak when I daily lower her water level so her back is out, then refill with fresh water. Many fish would have a fit. She’s just such a sweetheart about it all I hate seeing her so injured. But the wound has stopped bleeding, and is now showing some hope of healing, where before, infection had just made it a mess.
I managed to drop a 50 lb box of books atop my foot. I could scarcely lift the box—set it where I thought was stable, and it plunged from about waist high, edge down, onto the instep of my foot. Oweeee. Good bones, I’m telling you. Dad had good bones. And I do, thank goodness. I’m going to be a wee bit sore.
Got to figure what we’re having for supper. I’m just not inspired this evening. But I’ll think of something. Maybe mac and cheese. That might work.
Oweeee indeed! 50# is a lot for your foot to take; keep an eye on it and I hope it doesn’t do more than bruise. I have an ugly toenail from dropping a 45# box of tiles. It sounds like your foot is sturdier than mine. Good to hear that Ari apparently is recovering from her Close Encounter of the Eagle Kind.
Summer’s winding down alright. I painted the south side of the house last week. That’s where we get pounded. Guess my next chore will be getting up on the roof with the leaf blower and cleaning out the gutters. Not fun. Have I mentioned occasional BPPV, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo? But I know the Epley Maneuver–not that it’s much good on the roof! 😉
I’m a mortal hazard on high spots unless I have a rope. I have a sort of vertigo that pitches me toward the edge…I lose my balance. I always thought it was just in my head…until I turned my head abruptly while walking the edge of a dune at Great Sand Dunes, and tumbled several hundred feet down to the bottom of the dune slope, with a heavy Polaroid Land Camera, the old sort that weighed pounds, hanging by a strap and involved in the whole tangle. It is really hard to stop rolling when you’re downbound on a dune with a damned camera and a shoulder bag banging about. No, alas, it’s not in my head: it’s at least partly in my inner ear. I’ve rappelled down a cliff about 30-50 feet with no vertigo—but there was a rope involved.
You need to know how to do the Epley Maneuver!
Clearly I need something. It’s why I don’t go onto the observation deck of tall buildings. When it hits, it’s so sudden and so violent I have zero time, just–I turn, the eyes see the perspective, the inner ear goes sideways and—I’m down, hard.
Not providing medical advice, of course, but perhaps you should investigate BPPV, where calcium crystals in the inner ear get where they oughtn’t to be. The Epley Maneuver is totally non-invasive, but it can move those crystals back to where they’re benign.
My attacks come when I’m laying in bed. My eyes are telling me everything has “velocity but no translation”. 🙁 If I stare at something, it stays put but it wants to slide away, and everything about it is moving but not really leaving its place. Strangest darn sensation! When I sit/stand up I’m basically OK. But sometimes if I’m sitting hunched over and look to the side, turning one ear down the other up, I’ll get a little light-headed. I pretty much sleep on my side, one ear down, the other up. Doing the Epley Maneuver, maybe a couple times, puts the world right again.
50# OUCH!
It’s so nice to hear (read) that Ari is doing better…I didn’t realize how big she is!
We have lots of baby goldfish! We thought there were two or three, then yesterday they came out in a school….at least two dozen, with at least five black ones. Atevi fish?!
Hope your foot is okay!
I did a lot of work today, but it was all the computer sort — DAZ newsletter, Forward Motion for Writers Website, Vision for Writers ezine, A Conspiracy of Authors (ACOA) website, and even updated my own website with my new novel release. Oh and the Smashwords stuff for that, plus change a couple descriptions of things here and there. I hope to finish the first draft of a novel tonight, but I want all the rest of this crap . . . um, necessary work out of the way first.
Russ’s last day in New York is the 19th. He’ll be at the new job on the 24th. We have no idea how he’s getting from there to here. LOL
You might try spraying some colloidal silver on Ari’s owie. It is a wonderful antibotic and anti-viral and anti-fungal, so it can stop most any kind of infectious problem that might be going on. And it is completely harmless to animals, and fish. I use it anytime I get an owie, and it really speeds up the healing. I do have a gel form that sticks to the wound better, but that wouldn’t be as good for a fish, I imagine.
I trust you’ve heard of Oregon’s blue man, Paul Karason? He’s been on TV, Oprah, I believe and on YouTube. If a little is good, a lot must be better. Can’t trust those Doctors! 😉 When he went outside he exposed himself like a piece of photographic paper.
My guess is that if he is indeed that blue (I do find it hard to believe he is), he was making his own silver and his generator wasn’t making it right any more. The silver bits got too large and started staying inside his cells instead of moving thru, but this would be occurring in ALL his cells, not just his skin.
I doubt he ‘suddenly’ turned blue, like a exposed film, though. It would take years and years for that level of color intensity to develop, considering how small even the larger particles are. And looking at the pictures of him, I say he’s been photoshopped and/or he’s using some sort of topical cream/makeup to make his skin appear bluer. The silver accumulating in the skin wouldn’t be so evenly spread either, I’m pretty sure
And of course, there’s always the high probability that Big pharma created this ‘problem’ fellow, to scare unknowing people away from using silver (which actually much cheaper to use AND works better than most of their Frankenstein mixtures but which more importantly, they can’t patent) as part of their ‘strategy’ to destroy the credibility of the alternative health industry since a LOT of people have found silver, herbs and such to be just as effective as well as much safer with far few side effects, if any.
Quite unlike big pharma’s stuff that usually has so many side effects you need more medicine to manage the side effects and on and on. If you think that’s just a coincidence, think again. The more pills big pharma sells, the better, eh? Their only concern is making money—for the most part, they care NOT at all about human suffering. Unless of course, they can make an expensive drug and sell it to alleviate that ‘suffering’.
Another aspect of that is those dependent on drugs for their ‘health’ are also easier to control. Tell them what to do and threaten to take away their drugs if they don’t, and voila’, you have an instantly docile and biddable group. What dictator wouldn’t love that???
Anyway, I’ve used colloidal silver for everything from colds to fungal infections for probably the better part of 20 years (it was one of my earliest alternate health methodology discoveries), and it has served me well. I have not a single bit of blue in my skin anywhere, even though I’ve used it both internally and topically most of that time. But then, I always make sure my generator is working optimally, and it is done at the correct temperature and so on. And big pharma isn’t paying me to pretend it’s caused me problems, either.
Ohh.. and I, too, am glad your foot survived that squishing so well! I don’t even want to think how long I’d be in a cast, were that me!