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I am preparing to mow by having a lovely cup of coffee.
brb …
Btw, my theory concerning our current economic dilemma is:
Once is not a pattern.
Twice, yep, you got you a behavioral pattern.
(hint: S&L crisis of the 80s constitutes once)
Lovely horse!
Isn’t he sweet? He was just a pup when I took this.
Lovely horsie! Looks so peaceful…
I know that Hurricane Ike blew out a lot of stuff – but he also blew IN a hurricane-load full of allergens, and a hurricane-load full of teh STOOPIDS attacking the clinic yesterday. Excuse me while I rant…
When I got to the Clinic at 9 AM Sunday, there were no fewer than twenty-four grown-ups there – all with (drum roll, please…) – RUNNY NOSES!
Runny noses with no other symptoms. No fever, no sore throat, no shortness of breath, no headache, no fatigue – just two dozen human people who had clear nasal discharge, symptoms that had lasted less than 24 hours.
When I asked them if they had ever had seasonal allergies, twenty-two of the twenty-four answered “yes”. When I asked them if they had tried any over-the-counter remedies they said “no”.
These two dozen adults were so freaked out with their friggin’ runny noses they were willing to shell out their $15, $25, even $50 co-pays for a physician to tell them that they had seasonal allergies – again. Here, in Allergy Central for Planet Earth, at the beginning of ragweed season, the Dreaded Runny Nose Epidemic (which may be a symptom of impending death in another three or four decades) has struck again, with its attendant symptoms of Stupidity and Hysteria.
I do know how miserable full-blown allergic rhinitis can be – but, for crying out loud – RUNNY NOSES???
(Remember the Hippocratic Oath, drchelo..”First do no harm”. At least I did not rip their empty heads off)…
Rant, rant, rant.
I wonder what they’d have thought if I had told them to try Neti pots or echinacea? Or moving?
I do feel your pain. Really I do.
I just got over one and a half months of battling an ear infection threatening to become one of those things that oozes green stuff ::ew::
It was finally vanquished only days ago.
I get them because of allergies – start in my sinuses and ease their way into the ear. And *this* go round, my nose was so irritated that Sino-fresh, saline, *what*ever only irritated it more.
It is with extreme pride that I say to you: I did not go to the emergency room.
And I strongly sggest you tell the about Neti pots, saline solutions and the like. Do it, drchelo!!!
My dear sweet sweetie has problems with allergies and I cannot get him near the Neti pot I bought for him. He won’t, won’t, won’t, but he also knows that the more he bitches, the madder I get because he won’t do anything about it!
drchelo, how many men and how many women were these idiots?
Sino-Fresh – he’ll do that!!
I have to say I cannot blame your sweetie for the neti pot abhorrence. I can’t do it either. Feels like drowning.
Guess you’ve never had your sinuses flushed? Wow, that really clears your head and the Neti is quite a bit like that. When I had a really, really bad sinus infection, that was the only thing to help my body fight the infection. I had three sinus flushes in 6 days and was well within a week.
Biscuit, I’ll pass along the Sino-Fresh. Sounds exciting.
Much to my surprise it was about 1/3 women and 2/3 men. The women were all under 40. I’m showing my age here, but they were apparently too young to have any sense.
I know that seasonal rhinitis can lead to sinus infections, middle ear infections…and it can make you miserable. But there are SO many remedies out there for the runny nose part that it makes NO sense to me to go running to the Urgent Care Clinic on a Sunday morning for a runny nose, without trying anything else.
But, I can’t let any symptom just slide because I think someone is an idiot. I sent an eight-year old child to the ER when his daddy brought him in for “cough” – the nurse and I noted that he was taking HUGE deep breaths about every third or fourth breath, in spite of excellent oxygen levels, clear lung field and a normal nasal exam – turns out he had had his swimming lesson that morning, and had swallowed way too much pool water, and had a case of incipient “dry drowning”!
His dad was initially pissed about being sent to the ER, but he called us later to thank us for picking up on this potentially fatal situation.
So – even runny noses need a history and physical examination. It doesn’t hurt to have a sharp nurse to pick up on “vibes”, either!
Biscuit,
If that beauty is yours, you may find it missing next February when I’m down in Texas.
I wish he were! He’s the sweetest little boy – very fetching. But alas he belongs to my neighbor and only pastures on my land.
I soooo heart him!
Several years ago at the FTWorth Fat Stock Show I met MY horse. One day I will find him again and have a place for him on my land. He hugged me! (Have you ever had a horse hug you?) He is MINE! I am HIS!
Oh, you guys know that I am an equine massage therapist for abused and neglected horses?
You lucky! I just love horses – they’re such stinkers!
They do have such a sense of humor and are tricksters. I saw a horse hide tools from his owner who was trying to mend a fence. The horse actually laughed and thought he was so clever! And then there was the horse that had sexy eyes and enticed women closer to his paddock and then tried to bit your titties and then laughed about it.
Then there was this 17 hand stallion that had been neglected. I was massaging him from stem to stern. When I got to tail, he breathed a sigh, relaxed and farted in my face. That is a high compliment for me!
What a nice thank you. He must have felt real good.
:troll
I love horses!
Two of my friends took me to lunch today in honor of my birthday and gave me a $50 gift card to Whole Foods. I can’t remember the last time I was given a birthday gift! It was so nice it was worth being eligible for a senior discount.
Happy birthday!!!
Happy Birthday, Kate! I hope you enjoy the shopping spree…
:purple: will dance with :dots: for your birthday!
Happy birthday Kate! Enjoy yourself.
Thank you guys!
We had a bit of a scare tonight. One of the puppy girls was napping on the floor, rolled over and screamed in pain. She tried to stand up and fell over — couldn’t put any weight at all on her left front foot.
We got her to the emergency animal clinic right away. Fortunately, it looks like a bad sprain — nothing broken or seriously injured that they could find. They gave her a shot for pain and some NSAIDs for inflammation, said to keep her quiet for a day or two and check with our regular vet if she isn’t substantially better by tomorrow.
We have no idea how it happened, but it looks as though she is going to be all right.
Ouch! It is so scary when one of the dog babies is hurt and screams.
I don’t even want to count the $ I’ve spent getting x-rays and urgent trips to the vet…Dudley with his subluxating kneecaps, the Demon dog overdoing it on his shoulders.
It is hard keeping a Cattle Dog quiet in a crate. Dudley is happy in a crate, and did not mind a couple of days of quiet time, protected from the harassment of the Demon.
I hope your puppy girl is OK in the morning. I’ll bend St. Francis’ ear for her. He is used to hearing from me. He is my most favorite saint!
Happy Birthday, Kate!!!!
I have a great xray of kittie turds all lined up inside my cat. The night before I was leaving for a month in Ireland he threw up the most evil looking stuff, I though it was part of his pancreas, well I did, so my daughter and I spent 3 hours in the Vet ER and $300 later he was deemed to just be “constipated” the little bastard, he KNEW I was leaving!
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