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Quinine And Ivermectin

Quinine And Ivermectin

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COVID-19 is still looming out there with it’s slavering, drooling, consuming meanness… I understand that a vaccine is still way over the horizon, somewhere in the distant future… But I’ve been reading about a number of “potential” cures or treatments… I’m not suggesting trying any of them… I’m not endorsing and/or encouraging anything… I’m just reading stuff on-line… So here are a couple I’ve just recently read about… Food for thought… I’ve heard and read a lot about hydroxychloroquine (HA!—my…

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Quarantine ~~~ Day Number 23,725…..(and counting)

Quarantine ~~~ Day Number 23,725…..(and counting)

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We’re all right… We’re sitting tight… However…..Paolo always breaks for freedom at the first opportunity… We make sure he has the appropriate supplies and apparel when he goes out… When he returns home, I make him strip and dump all his clothes in the laundry machine… We store his face mask in the food cupboard over night……. …..(so that the cats don’t nibble through the elastic-ear-holder thingies)……. …..then in the morning…..it gets re-spritz’d with colloidal silver before he leaves the…

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COVID-19 Virus…….And The Farm

COVID-19 Virus…….And The Farm

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Life is a tap dance… …..if you are lucky…..you can keep up with the tempo… …..as this corona virus pandemic unfolds…..the dance steps keep changing… …..we don’t know what tomorrow will bring…..we’re just taking one day at a time… …..so many things in life are like a Twelve Step Program… …..you can plan ahead as much as you want…..but you still have to take it one day at a time……. …..which is where we are at……. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I’m trying to…

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Doctor Atkins…….I’m Sorry…

Doctor Atkins…….I’m Sorry…

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I’m back on my diet again……. My holiday-hiatus is over……. It was only supposed to be a few days……. Not a few months……. I won’t approach our nasty/judgy scale……it’s never been my friend. …..plus, it’s always been eleven pounds heavier than my reality, anyway… I’ve inhaled every new flavor of Blue Bell Ice Cream that I could find…….I’ll have to wait for next year’s seasonal “Christmas Cookie” flavor to come back again……………..I recommend it… *****YOU JUST HAVE TO CLICK ON…

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The Horse Psychic

The Horse Psychic

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I’m pulling out all the stops… Yesterday I had a psychic come to our property to “read” my horses and the land… Surprised? Oh…….come on……. …..you shouldn’t be by now! …..and here’s a spoiler…….it’s not the first time she’s been here either… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sabrina came yesterday… (alias…alias…alias) She’s crusty…….I like her… Years ago (2004) she was here to read two of our horses… One of which, we were having a great deal of behavioral trouble with……. Sabrina told us…….all she…

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Addy——Here We Go Again…

Addy——Here We Go Again…

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So now let’s delve into the “Saga-of-Addy”……. Or maybe, given our recent two year span, it should be called “The Sad Sojourn of the Farm in the Swamp”(?) Addy seemed off her food two weeks ago…….her head-set was carried lower than normal…….her eye focus was not quite right……. …….you know, all those intangible things that set off flares and alarms!?!… So, I started taking her temperature… It was elevated…………. …..103.4F….. …..@#$%$#@! Our vet zipped by and took blood for comparative…

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Opportunistic Papaya

Opportunistic Papaya

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I didn’t plant it… It just showed up… …..and kept growing… …..and growing… …..and growing…… I don’t remember even buying a papaya anytime during the last year… …..but someone in the area must have……. …..and then aided by some low-flying, papaya-fed, digesting bird……. Voila! …..Papaya Tree! …..actually I’ve discovered, it’s not a tree……. …..it’s an herb….. What!?! …..well then, it’s a really big herb. ***More Information Than You Ever Needed To Know About Papayas*** Our “tree” is over two-stories tall…

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Fasted Bloodwork

Fasted Bloodwork

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I’m a complainer… I’m a procrastinator… Sometimes I’d prefer to keep my head in the sand and not know what’s going on… And sometimes I have to pull up my big girl panties and act like an adult…………. I don’t like tests on my body… The older I get…….the more tests I need… My warranty is winding down… I don’t mind the actual tests……….it’s fitting them into my day. So many steps have to happen… It’s a pain in the…………………neck….

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Shaving A Clyde

Shaving A Clyde

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Call it Clydesdale-sacrilege, if you will……. I’ll get to their full-body clipping later… But for today, we were just concentrating on their leg feathers… Two horses;  Eight legs… Hours of scissoring.  Hours of shaving… I learned this time and wore my work gloves. Otherwise, holes would have been worn into my thumb joints………….again… That would have been because of the need for preliminary scissor-cutting of that extra long, tough Clydesdale leg hair……. (I measured some of it…….9-plus inches) We needed…

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Update

Update

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  Addy’s bloodwork came back. It was slightly improved from the last panel which was done the third week in June. It wasn’t great…….but it was better……. Her first two blood panels in March and April were bad… And we don’t know why… …….but they’ve gotten progressively (albeit slowly) better since then… …….and this most recent one was better still…(not great, but better)… I wish I could figure out how to get the reports copied to this blog…….but that’s beyond…

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