Tuesdays Ten

 

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Good Morning All;
Another fine day ahead, and will be typing fast so's I can get my backside outside.
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I finally have my 1st tulip!
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Did you have breakfast yet?
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There might be another miracle in the making. John Pryes came yesterday afternoon to look at the Simplicity tractor. (This is the one with the tiller on it).
Maybe, just maybe, I might have that garden yet. He ended up taking it home so he can work on it there.
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Brandy came along too. She helped me out a lot, even crawling down into the water pit for me to get the hose turned on. I have to get another shut off valve for it though, it is dripping as I type.

I especially loved her shirt.
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Also quite funny is this- Received in an email from my daughter Jennifer.
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I firmly believe this kid should have gotten a higher score.

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Confession... .............(Maybe).

Last year 'someone' might have stolen some lilacs from Kelli and Tim's place. And 'someone' might have then planted them along the east side of my garden...
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And now there might be a few blooms on my side of Flintville too!
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I am in the process of digging out the west side of the old garage.
This has not been cleared for...

Hmmmmm............ (thinking now)...

Well, it probably has never been done.
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Many clumps of quack grass and nettles
(aka "itchweed" among others).

These are so easy to dig out too. With their runners for roots I just loosen the soil with a fork, (that's the hardest part), and keep on pulling the roots out. Bet some of those shoots were 3' long!

I hope to throw a few flower seeds in the ground there.

After I get rid of the nettles

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Makes me itch to even look at them

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I quit digging when I could no longer keep standing and stooping without shooting pain down my back and legs.
Quite like the mark of Zorro I had to leave hand prints on the side of the garage when that pain threatened to put me down to the dirt.
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Come hell or high water, I shall resume my project today-
Rain coming tomorrow

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I copied this from Newsweek. CLICK for the whole story.

"The Path of a Pandemic"
Around Thanksgiving 2005 a teenage boy helped his brother-in-law butcher 31 pigs at a local Wisconsin slaughterhouse, and a week later the 17-year-old pinned down another pig while it was gutted. In the lead-up to the holidays the boy's family bought a chicken and kept the animal in their home, out of the harsh Sheboygan autumn. On Dec. 7, the teenager came down with the flu, suffering an illness that lasted three days. He visited a local clinic, then fully recovered, and nobody else in his family took ill.

This incident would hardly seem worth mentioning except that the influenza virus that infected the Wisconsin lad was unlike any previously seen. It appeared to be a mosaic of a wild-bird form of flu, a human type and a strain found in pigs.

It was an H1N1 swine influenza. Largely ignored at the time, the Wisconsin virus was a step along the evolutionary tree, leading to a virus that four years later would stun the world.

Flash-forward to April 2009, and young Édgar Enrique Hernández in faraway La Gloria, Mexico, suffers a bout of flu, found to be caused by a similar mosaic of swine/bird/human flu, also H1N1. And thousands of miles away in Cairo, the Egyptian government decides pigs are the source of disease, and orders 300,000 animals in the predominantly Muslim (therefore not pork-consuming) society slaughtered.
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Each of these three incidents is related to the unfolding influenza crisis.
It is the manner of human beings to seek blame during times of fear.
Fingers are now pointing, either at the entire pig species Sus domestica, or at the nation of Mexico.
Such exercises in blame are not only scientifically ill founded, but are likely to prompt government actions that, at the very least, are useless and, at worst, harmful for efforts to control a pandemic.

Forget for a moment that this happened in Wisconsin...

(If I wasn't mad before, I sure as hell am now).

Would somebody please tell me if this is true WHY there is NO vaccine?
After all, this is 3 and a half years later!?!?
wth?

Then this article, click here. Maybe horses can help?
"horses with the flu have antibodies for the human H1N1."
That was 1918!  Again I ask, WHY is there no vaccine???

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Methinks the weather people are overworked when they issue a statement like this:

"Parts of the South will see plenty of showers and thunderstorms on Tuesday as a cold front slips eastward. The main precipitation threat will be on either side of the Mississippi River."
Hmmm... Really? Ya think?

Have a great Tuesday! Must get my backside outside now.

XOXO
Me

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Posted to Y! 360, Tuesday May 5, 2009 - 10:15am (CDT)