In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Eating salt.
I was thinking that eating salt, having salt in the GI tract, would cause, via basic osmosis, the water to be drawn out of the body, into the GI. That would be dehydration, I conjured.
Is that wrong? What am I missing there?
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Quote:It depends on the concentration. With enough water, the salt concentration in your GI tract becomes the same as the salt concentration in your body. When they rehydrate you, they use 0.9pct saline in water.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Eating salt.
I was thinking that eating salt, having salt in the GI tract, would cause, via basic osmosis, the water to be drawn out of the body, into the GI. That would be dehydration, I conjured.
Is that wrong? What am I missing there?
That's why I always follow salt with water. The only reason why I take it by the 1/4 teasp is bc I hate the taste, so I can get it over with and wash it out of my mouth by drinking water. Otherwise I would just mix it in water to the right concentration, but then I'd have to drink it gulp by hideous gulp. Bleh
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Unless it's ham and vegetable soup. Or chicken and sausage gumbo. THAT salty water I don't mind!
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Just found out a second person I know is going in for knee replacement surgery in January. The friend I had lunch with yesterday(Tuesday) doesn't have a month or a date yet.
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Off to mah jong in the morning then last thing to get into the mail. Also some groceries to do to.
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Back and in. Post done but no luck at mah jong.
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Quote:I have to do this while I have the energy. Still need to make some phone calls about hubby's RMD. We keep getting notifications that he needs to RMD one of his contracts and make it automatic, but that was already done, so either his retirement admin didn't notify his former employer or his former employer is slow to update their files.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
And you two are doing Christmas cards already!
Well, for whatever reason, October, November, and December are always a crunch for me ... maybe because I'm dealing with medicare and all the other various insurances, and a train of birthdays and holidays ('Eating season' begins in October with a birthday early in the month, and doesn't end till Easter!), plus I'm completing my record-keeping and 'accounting' for the year.
And this year has been somewhat busier than usual with some additional things to do.
So ... sigh ... once again my Christmas cards will be late.At least I get them done at some point.
AFA insurance, since we've selected our medigap coverage lo these many years ago, I haven't made any changes, altho I DID look at alternate Rx plans I stuck with the ones we have as being higher rated and still cost effective.
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SIX: Yeah. Everything is a huge mess now. That thing kind of played a pretty important role in my day-to-day activities, and with it pulled out from the wall in the living room with the doors off and the drawer out and everything it used to hold had to have a new temporary home, my first floor is kind of in shambles. Even worse since all of my tools were moved down to the basement and the pantry is now largely filled up with stuff that was once in the cabinet, so any tools I've been using are all over the kitchen floor instead of constantly taking them back up and down when I need them.
(Yanno... I can probably at least clean a lot of that up now. I think I'm pretty much done except for paint now unless I notice any spots I still want to fix after the primer goes on).
Stuff's out of the way so I'm not tripping over anything, but it will be nice to get that done finally.
Today I at least finally got all the wood putty sanded down, and then I caulked everything. I doubt I'll get to primer today though.
My goal is to get this finished before my brother comes in town for a week. Since I've also got other obligations in between now and then, I'd better make the most of whatever down time I've got.
If I can at least get everything painted so I can put stuff back in it I'll be fine. It's alright if I clean up the old hinges and door clasps for spraypainting while he's here. We've got a few days in the 50's still coming up, so it will be nice to be able to do that in the garage.
That's got to be done while he's here no matter what though. I got that can for that purpose, and also to do some touchups to the poles for the lazy susan cabinets I never did since I ran out back then. What's leftover I'm going to be using on a new keyboard/mouse platform for my brother's desk since his old one broke. He bought some nice wrist wrests we're going to attach to it. It's perfect timing there because instead of doing that while he wasn't around I want him here to let me know where he feels everything is the most comfortable, and the next time I go down to visit him I'll install it for him and see if we need to buy any new hardware for it.
The nice thing is that except for that can of spraypaint, I haven't spent any money working on this, and the paint is going to serve two other purposes so that $9.00 doesn't go to waste.
In fact, all of the interior work I plan on doing to keep be busy until spring shouldn't cost me any more money since everything I plan to do was already purchased before. The only thing that I think I might possibly have to pay for at some point is some more primer depending on how far what I have in the reserves lasts me. I've got 10 gallons of various paint for various tasks in the colors I plan to use sitting in my coat closet on stand by.
Next step probably is the coat closet, since that is just an easy paint job and adding one bracket in the center of the shelf. After that I'll work on the pantry so I don't have to use all of my kitchen cabinets for things that don't belong there like all my spare lightbulbs, 3 years worth of toilet paper and paper towels and large bulk purchases like my coffee and cereal supply.
The pantry might end up being a project though. I haven't decided if I want to just keep it simple shelving like it is now or put a little more effort and creativity into it.
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it will be great to have your brother over for sure!
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On this end, medically we're all having problems, including the dog.
Shit happens when you get old, so that explains hubby and me, and daughter has had Neuro problems since birth accident. (We filed a complaint against healthcare provider but didn't get very far.)
AFA the dog is concerned she had bad teeth and needed extractions so is on antibiotics, pain med, anti-inflammatory and soft food for the while. Since I don't want her to go thru THAT again I'm looking up doggy toothbrushes and toothpastes!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
it will be great to have your brother over for sure!
Yeah. It will.
He didn't come in last Christmas, so the last time he was in was in May of last year. My Grandma's memory isn't what it used to be, and she can't believe she hasn't seen him in nearly 2 years now. I'm going to make sure we get to visit with her and my aunt at least twice while he's in.
I actually did end up doing a lot of priming after making that post that day. It takes a LONG time to paint cabinetry like that by brush, so I only got to the cabinet itself and didn't do the drawers or the doors.
It looks like I had some caulk shrinkage/cracks in 3 spots that were pretty deep (and I should have probably used some backer rod on), but there is primer on top of it for more caulk to stick to, so I'm going to hit that real quick and prime everything else and hopefully at least get the first coat of paint on it today.
I know I haven't been posting in here much, so I can't remember if I ever put any status updates on the house flippers that bought the foreclosure behind me recently. They were getting work done, but then the city tied them up on permits for about a month and a half.
Well a few weeks back they poured a beautiful new concrete driveway, so no more weed garden there anymore.
And just Tuesday they put the posts in for the new privacy fence and I think today they'll finish it. It's BEAUTIFUL. And they installed it right and I got the "good" side. (I'm so glad I have before/after pictures of this).
Maybe next summer I'll consider getting permits in order and building what little I'd need to fence in my yard on both sides of the garage with a few gates. I've never built a fence before, but I know a person or two who have. We'll see what wood prices are like. I'm only doing it if they're cheap. I've gone 10 years without it already.
It really would be nice to have that done though. The biggest reason I haven't ever gotten a dog is because I've never had a fenced in yard that it could play in. It's a gigantic back yard, so when it does get fenced in properly it will have plenty of space to play.
Sorry to hear about the health issues on your end. :(
I hope you still manage to have a nice Christmas.
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