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I was hoping they would have kept him at least overnight. But whatever. I now know to avoid that facility.

Nelson is darling. Bees too. So interesting about the queen. How does one go about picking the queen? Is she bigger or is there another reason that particular bee is queen.

Sunny I cannot imagine having to smell all that smoke if there are fires where you are. Fire scares the bejesus out of me. Everyone in the path of Laura this is a bad one. I read that storm surge could travel as far as 30 miles inland. If you have not evacuated please do. I have a friend that lives in Houston and during Harvey she had 60 inches of rain in 3 days. Her house was ruined and she just recently finished fixing it. She will be on the lesser side if it goes where they say and I think Metalmouse and Miss Red and Dooogiooo And Moooomm will get some of it.

How about some pics of the new house ? I am so happy for all of you.

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Thanks for all the supportive comments. Y’all are great. :wave:t3: :heart:

Have any of you anxiety sufferers tried CBD oil for anxiety? I never smoked weed more than a few of times (I know, as usual, totally out of step with my generation), because I never knew what effect it was going to have. I preferred drinking… but that’s another story. Don’t drink anymore.

I had bought some hemp oil a while back, intending to try it for anxiety and forgot all about it until this evening. The xanax I took this morning did not completely eradicate the anxiety, so I found the hemp oil in the fridge and took half a dropper under my tongue. The taste is not bad-- has sort of a nutty flavor.

Anyhoo, I swear within 15 minutes my anxiety was gone. I bought it on amazon where apparently the acronym “CBG” isn’t allowed so everything in that botanical/culinary family is called “hemp.” There’s a local shop that specializes in hemp/cbg products… I think I’m going to visit them tomorrow and see what they’ve got.

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Happy birthday, Nettie!!

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Thel, I have not tried CBD oil for anxiety, but when I first moved here to Totally Legal Washington, I got some real deal (not hemp) CBD oil capsules because I’d heard they helped with lupus pain. They did nothing, but I may not have taken enough, since they were $10 per capsule. However, a friend here who has trouble sleeping takes CBD oil (again, from cannabis), and she swore by it. If the hemp stuff works for you, you’re golden!

SCAdian, I don’t recall your nickname, but thanks so much for the hugs!

Red, Nelson is adorable!

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Front to back: Gideon, Iris, and Alice. Gideon, alas, is the only one still with us. :frowning:

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Jackson

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BuddyBoy, Scooter are adorable. Lucky Louie was lucky because he had you.

Hope MRIs and ultrasounds go well. I always liked knowing, for me that was better than not knowing. Fixing something was a whole other problem.

At least I tried to give her credit for Mel Gibson. I sleep with Mel too. He sure gets around.

Sigh, me too. Can’t visit my sons because of Covid, one is in Texas, one is in Michigan. If not for my grand kidlet Harriet I would never get any human touch. Makes me hang onto my cats all the more.

Once upon a time insurance would let them. Another sigh. This falls in the category of penny wise and pound foolish.

birthday :birthday:and happy :tada:wishes​:confetti_ball: Nettie

My oldest son is in San Antonio-supposedly the worst hurricane storm they will get is bad wind driven rain. He has his dog to hunker down with. They’ll get through it together. Dogs are like that : )

@SCAian
The kitties and bunny are sweet. Would love to be able to pet them. Pet some fur for me, whatever they like best. Jackson’s fur looks like caramel.

Goodnight, sleep tight everyone. Mel, do your job!

Boo

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It’s waffle about bees time!

If you lose a queen in summer, if there are any female eggs or larvae up to 3 days old in the hive, the bees will make a new queen.

It’s one of those weird cool things that we don’t fully understand- bee eggs come in only two types, male and female. For the first 3 days of their life, all baby bees are fed exclusively on stuff bees produce themselves from a gland- royal jelly. After this point, female larvae destined to be workers get switched to a diet of ‘bee bread’, which is mostly pollen, but when the colony decided it needs a new queen, the chosen larvae (genetically indistinguishable to the ones who become workers) carry on eating royal jelly.

This diet difference as a larva means; the shape of the bee changes (she’s longer, pointier and wider, with much longer legs for some reason), she can mate and lay eggs (actually some workers can lay eggs, but they only hatch into males, and they usually get removed by other bees before they hatch, so we only recently realised), and instead of living for only 6 weeks (for a worker born in summer, as they’re so busy) to 6 months (if born in winter they mostly stay in the hive and don’t wear themselves out so fast) like a worker does. Queens can live up to 4 years, laying up to 1000 eggs a day in the height of the season, almost all of which will become workers. At the biggest, a hive can have 60,000 bees- one queen, a few hundred drones, and the rest all workers.

Drones do no work and are only produced (from unfertilised eggs) in summer. There are no drones in the picture. All drones do is try to mate with new queens, gangs of them from multiple hives congregate in special areas, waiting for new young queens to show up to get laid. If a drone does mate, it kills them. If not, they get kicked out the colony to die at the end of summer.

Losing a queen will kill the colony if there are no suitable eggs/larvae around, or if they new queen hatches so late in the season there are no drones around; she’s only got a short space of time in which she can mate, and if she doesn’t, she’ll only lay unfertilised eggs that will hatch into males, which just sit around waiting for food instead of getting off their arses and gathering their own honey.

Confused yet?

-end of bee waffle-

Anyway, I’m all proud of myself today- I got out of bed at the time I set my alarm for, rather than rolling over for another 10 minutes then waking up 3+ hours later like I have done every other day for weeks. As I’ll need to get up early for irk from next Tuesday, this is important. I think I’m going to go to the posh garden centre and get some nice coffee and cake to reward myself, unless it’s chucking it down too badly. I am not one of nature’s morning people, so I have to resort to self-bribery.

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For future reference, our sleeping buddies are Mel(atonin), Al(cohol), and Ben(adryl) :sleeping: :sleeping: :sleeping: My daughter finds Ben much more effective than Mel. Al works for me sometimes, too.

shoe - I sent you the cilantro seeds. Guess I should have included a note, huh?

I slept great till about 3:30 or so. I’d hoped to doze a bit longer but FCD was kicking someone (something?) in his dreams and but the time I arranged myself out of the line of fire, I was wide awake. So I read on my tablet till 5-ish, and now, here I am, showered, dressed, fed, and waiting for daylight so I can walk.

I’ve realized that my 'mater and cuke plants won’t do anything more - my own fault for letting them get all wilty too often. So today I’m going to clear them out and start making plans for my spring crop. I also need to run to the credit union with my checks from the lawyer, and I’ll probably take Roxy along, then head to the playground for a while.

The kids will be moving most of their furniture this weekend, but the beds will remain till next weekend. Daughter wants the long Labor Day weekend to start acclimating Roxy to their new house.

This is their new home - the pic was taken in the winter - today it’s hard to see the place for all the leafy plant growth around it! And what’s missing is another separate building that was a studio but will now be SIL’s gaming room - he plays a lot of Nintendo or something.

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Once they take the living room pieces we’re giving them, I’ll bring an old chair and foot stool pair up from the basement for me. FCD will continue to use the recliner. And I’ve got a couple of small tables that will go into one of the guest rooms, but for now, we’ll use them in the living room. Poor Higgs will be losing her various perches…

And once it gets light, I’ll take my walk. But for now, I shall continue to surf. Happy Thursday!!

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 77 Amurrkin out and clear (as opposed to fuzzy?) with a predicted high of 94 and looks to be mostly N.O.S. for the day. The big plan of the day is to slow cook a rather large chikin (says bakin’ hen on the label), and a rather large Boston ::snerk:: BUTT! ::snerk::. They shall become Brunswick stew, or the main ingredients therein, after they are cooked and ground up. My Kitchenaid stand mixer has a grinder attachment. Have I ever mentioned how much I lurve my stand mixer? Anywho, Brunswick stew makin’ shall occur on Sattidy but I want to get the meat cooked today so’s it can be cooled and ground. Tomorrow I shall be involved in mowage over to the church house. As for the rest of the day, I foresee a haircut and possibly some quality cee-mint pond time. Sup shall be of the break the fast kind.

Nettie happy birthday belated. I’d do my usual carryin’s on, but I don’t know how on this new fangled board.

Thel hope today is a better day.

I want to snuggle and love on Nelson and Buddy all day long, even though from what Butters has said, that probably ain’t Buddy’s thing. HRH Lucky Louie, even though I never personally met him, was my friend. He got many intartoobz skritches from Unca Swampy over the years. Butters hope things are better for the hubs today,

Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy, Then, I shall get the meat stuff on to cook. Afterwards I suppose, bother of bothers, I should purtify and don appropriate bein’ about the public attire if I am to get a haircut.

Happy Thursday Y’all!

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Morning, mumpers! I am trying to irk but it’s getting irksome…there’s some building work going on next door, the idiot neighbour is having his front wall fixed (I think) as he had the original one built cheaply and it’s falling to bits. There’s been hammering and drilling, now there’s a cement mixer going…still not sure if he’s having it repaired, demolished or partially rebuilt. Anyway, it’s annoying background noise so I’ve had to close my window for a while.

Today continues the last couple of days’ pattern of spreadsheet hell - we’re working on finalising results for all our continuing students so we can do marks scrutiny and have some kind of exam boards to get them all processed into next year. I say “we”, it’s just me really as my boss and co-irker are both off on leave so I’m doing the lot by myself. It’s irritating and tedious, but it’s getting done. Then I have the joys of a timetabling meeting this afternoon which will probably involve wailing and gnashing of teeth in all directions, just because it’s timetabling.

At least I get to finish at a reasonable time today as it’s outdoor bootcampy thing tonight. My turn to do dinner which will be leftovers from the freezer, and then my favourite singer in the whole entire world is doing an acoustic performance from his living room in Spain this evening so I’ll be tuning into that. Slightly sad, because I should have been seeing him and his band (and a bunch of friends) at a local venue for a live performance tonight. The show’s been rescheduled to next March, but the venue might not survive that long.

Belated happies, nettie - you’ll have to imagine Swampy singing to you!

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I did CBD oil for about a year. It did not calm me down totally, but it took the edge off. Not nearly as good as Xanax. I take it now whenever my stomach gets the jitters and it helps.

Last day of 90s weather. Tomorrow is starting the cool down then upper 70s for the next week. Huzzah! Ariel pulled her shoe Monday so Matt is coming tomorrow to rebuild it.

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“There are two kinds of people, morning people and those who hate morning people.” I’m in the second group. :slight_smile:

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Dispensary worker here. :wave: Amazon is touchy about anything cannabis-derived (because it’s not legal in all states) so will officially only sell hemp-based products.
Some sellers invent weird typos to get around this, but it’s rife with the potential for fraud.

If there’s a local shop where you can speak with an actual sales clerk & get recommendations on specific brands & products, you’ll likely find something that works well for you.

Nuts thanks for posting all that! I absolutely love learning that kind of thing, and read the whole post with rapt interest.

MOOooooommm thank you so much for the cilantro seeds! It put a big smile on my face to get “friendly” mail (i.e. not a bill) and then to start planning gardening stuff for a moment.

I love the variety of critters being showcased here.
Axolotles
Bunnies
Chihuahuas
Derps …
… next we need Elephants! Or Emu!

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Morning all. Slept in till 8:30am, so ready for the day (what day is it, anyway?). According to the weather maps, N. Ali-bama might get some weather from the hurricane this weekend, just depends when it takes the left-turn that most maps are showing. I think red is more likely to get some nasty stuff.

If the Parks folks allow the fields to open after the rain yesterday, may have my first soccer practice for the kids since April (I had one spring practice and then the season got canceled). 8 and 9 year old boys, I’m sure they ready to bust out, and so am I–but with care.

Been lucky so far, Mel or Ben or Al have never been needed for me to fall asleep–yet.

Have read all but absorbed little, so good thoughts and positive waves to all. Now need to get the bacon, lettuce and tomato out of the refrigerator and into my mouth…

All y’all take care.

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I had to look this one up. @swampbear is this basically a very, very meaty bean soup?

It sounds nice. Not possible to make a small batch, tho.

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Talking of critter variety pics, when do we get Pretzel pics Shoe?

No garden centre cake for me today- the rain did eventually stop, but a bit late; it’s nearly dinner time, so I’ll go tomorrow.

I am Not Allowed to buy any more plants though- maybe a pot, but no plants. There is no horizontal surface in the house on which I could possibly stick a plant on which I have not yet stuck a plant, they’re even hanging from all the skylight windows. I keep thinking I’ll get juuuust one more tiny plant- apparently forgetting it’ll grow into some giant redwood–esque thing in a few months. I’m banned from any more until I’ve at least got rid of some of the current duplicates.

I bought quite a few over the last few years, then got into postal swaps while I’ve been stuck inside- you take cuttings, and swap them for cuttings of something new- a nice cheap way of getting stuff. Problem is, everyone’s really generous, so you expect one new plant and you get a box of 5 different things, and of course you have to grow them, then take cuttings, and spare cuttings just in case you lose the parent plant, and then you realise you need a machete to get into the bedroom.

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Legal state. I only use CBD topically on the area of my neck and shoulder where the chemoport canula was installed–my body did not like it!

If I were ever to get a tattoo, it would be

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Morning, almost afternoon Mumpers . I slept in way longer than I should have done. But I fell asleep on the couch and/or the chair as per usual. No real plans for the day. As it is my day off, which is why I slept in in the first place. I really should clean some, though I doubt that I will. Thinking about ordering Chick-fil-A for lunch, and I do need to pay bills if nothing else. Onward and upward.

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Morning everyone. Hubs slept well and I managed to talk him into sitting up in the recliner for a couple hours. I am afraid he’ll get pneumonia lying down all the time. He is back in bed now napping. Daughter should be here around 3ish. I had his office girl/ yard girl run the CT report up to PCP. Still not heard about when we can get the MRI. We have a neurologist appt tomorrow. Should be interesting to maneuver those stairs again both up and down. We have discussed getting a stair lift but that won’t happen overnight.

Plan for the rest of the day is a nap now and then a plan once daughter gets here for cooking. I hope everyone has a great day.

Nuts that is fascinating about the bees. Very cute house FCM.

We have CBD oil, capsules and cream. The real McCoy and I bought some for the dog hoping it would make him less aggressive but it didn’t. Maybe I should give it anyway. Any advice on that Shoe? Does it need to accumulate over time for full affect? It wasn’t cheap for the dog. I got both chews and pills especially formulated for dogs.

My back aches from trying to help hubs up and down but it will be fine.

Happy almost weekend.

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Nut thank you for the bee waffle. It was very helpful.

Butters any update on hubby?

Swampy you lost me at “tomato” in the stew. I’m weird like that.

Mom congrats on the almost empty nest!

SCA I agree with you completely. I’d rather stay up all night than get up early.

I am trying CBD oil again (hemp) for assorted aches and pains. I’ve noticed that it seems to be helping my knees quite a lot. Not sure if it’s just pain relief, but it feels like healing is happening. I’m not getting help on the older pains (like head and back). Has anyone else noticed older versus newer pain/injuries?

Today is not a great day, spoons-wise, but kids have school, etc, so I’m on duty. Tomorrow I’m to get botox for the first time in a long time. It means I’ll be out of my house for a longish bit, so that’s new. Tonight is leftovers. I’m going back to cuddling with my son’s dog. I get him while my son is in class. He’s a cross between a sweetie and a terror, but we love him anyway.