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Me too Bob, I've decided that I'm not going to be doing this much longer myself. And Zina from Gladys has said several times that she wishes I'd retire.

I never turn the heater control on the dash all the way to either side, hot or cold. I'll turn it all the way in summer, but if I turn the heat off now it takes forever for the heater to blow warm air again, and if I turn the heat all the way off I'll still be burning up unless I open a window. And there are several more trucks that are the same way, the mechanic at the shop said it was because the red antifreeze gummed the heater valve up.

This is "Odds and Ends", the place for those types of posts. Just ignore "Odds and Ends" and you'll be fine.

I see her now!

Maybe that's the secret to Grape Nuts- I noticed a box of them on the shelf last week that I probably bought a year ago, I didn't know I even still had them. It was as hard as rocks, I couldn't eat it anyway. So I threw it out last week, then the next day I saw several birds walking around with bent beaks. If only I had boiled it for a few hours first, all would have been well.

I can not see Aunt Jemima either.

I thought Bob lived in Nevada...🤣

I think they're against everything Bob. I was reading on the interweb this morning, some woman said biden had done more good in the last 4 weeks than Trump had done in the last 4 years, and biden has not yet done one single thing that is for the good of the country that I can think of. I don't even know how they come up with such ridiculous garbage, could they actually believe that? I always heard you shouldn't speak ill of the dead too, and the hatred some of them are spewing about Rush Limbaugh is almost unbelievable, but then you consider the source. I guess when you think it's perfectly fine to murder innocent babies nothing else would bother you much.

How about a happy dog- Here's a hawk on a pole, it doesn't look very happy...but it might be, who knows.

I saw an eagle in Florida too, it was on top of that tower.

No, that's Zina's sister- the one in the car. They're originally from Connecticut, she's a big Patriots fan. Zina doesn't follow football at all, and I don't either for the most part, not since the kneeling started.

I prefer to boil them, then I make chicken and dumplings when the brake shoes are done😃.* *this is a joke. do not make chicken and dumplings with the water you boiled the brake shoes in, it might make you sick, no matter how good it tastes.

I got a prescription for Allopurinol now, the doc said to start it after this flare-up was over. I started it yesterday, take 1 pill a day for a week, then 2 a day from then on.

yep

Right again Bob!

I'm already out of likes, but you're right Bob.

absolutely, getting elected then being set for life is b.s!

Oh, we're down here working, but we did go to Twin Peaks. I saw some beautiful wimmens there too. And this is just me, having a drink of water.

Yep.

Wow, twins! That would be pretty neat.

Hi Mike! Yeah, she saw me because I was standing next to her car. That's Zina's sister, so I'd better not say too much, if I know what's good for me!

Kind of looks like Audrey Landers.

I went to Florida and saw a smokin' hot girl in a car. I think she saw me too.

yeah, I knew about the beer. Seafood- shellfish especially, red meat...all the good stuff. I've been drinking the heck out of tart cherry juice, I even have cherry extract pills in the truck, but I haven't reached any definite conclusions as to whether it helps or not. I do have some gout tea that seems to help quite a bit though.

So, last Wednesday I went to Greenville S.C. with a load of steel. I noticed that my left knee was aching some, but not real bad. I went to sleep and woke up at 10:30 that night because it hurt like somebody had hit me in the knee with a grubbing hoe. Next morning I could barely walk. It took me over an hour to get the tarp off of the load of coils and get it folded. Instead of going to GA. and getting the load of skid steers I came back empty because of the intense pain. My knee looked like this by Friday morning- I went to the doctor Friday, I didn't even argue about it this time, and he wrote me a prescription for this- I've never heard of it before. He said he would give me the prednisone again if I wanted it, but he said it had lots of side affects and it wasn't something you wanted to be taking all the time. So I said I'd give this a try. He said the biggest side affect was diarrhea...great. But I've been at home ever since, so that's a good thing. It doesn't seem to work very quickly though, most of the pain didn't go away until yesterday, and it's still swollen now- It's gone down some, but still not back to normal. It feels really weak when I walk too. This is the second time I've had it in my knee, and it's much worse than having it in the feets. Much worse, the pain is just unreal. I asked the doctor about allopurinol, several people have told me they were taking it and have never had a problem with gout since they started taking it, but he said we had to get this flare-up taken care of before I started taking anything as a preventive measure.