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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,212
    BlueBirdMusic wrote: »
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    Super Guppy... meet Beluga XL. B)
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,212
    edited March 22
    BlueBirdMusic wrote: »
    Never a Ford person, but I would like to have this "Bluebird".

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    1956 Ford Thunderbird $58,950 Marietta FBM

    Doesn't seem like a bad price... I mean, you can't get a decent current production pickup or "full sized" SUV for that. :#
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,212
    edited March 22
    So... we are part of a local food coop here in the "Upper Valley". The Coop has some advantages (e.g., excellent meat, seafood, and produce), but, of course, not cheap. We don't shop there often -- but we do when it counts (e.g., prime rib for Christmas dinner).
    Every month they have a giveaway for coop members -- if you bought something that month, you're entered. We only found this out when, out of the blue, a year or so ago, we got a call telling us we'd won! Stopped by and picked up our prize, an environmentally sincere ;) tote bag filled with environmentally sincere cleaning products.
    Fast forward to yesterday. Mrs. H was starting our first tranche of seeds for the garden (tomatoes). She wanted a spray bottle to mist the pots and the seedlings without over-wetting them. She asked about the things we'd won three of, so I went and got one. Nice glass bottles with a spray head.
    I opened the environmentally sincere packaging, started to extract the contents, and began laughing uproariously.
    Mrs. H, not surprisingly, wondered what was up*, so I showed her the (three) packets of cleaner packaged with the spray bottle.
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    Here's the front and back.
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    * I am, of course, normally so sober and serious-minded. B)
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,696
    edited March 22
    We've had activity for weeks now. The white bird box on the corner of the cottage has been checked out a lot, and we think a female has built a nest in there with a little help from a male. We've seen ANY chicks born there and also some sad broods that didn't hatch, or maybe one egg that didn't hatch.

    There's been one male Bluebird that attacks its reflection on our new window panels this year. He's done it A LOT! He's the one with the female. They both go in and out of the box at first. Then he goes to the hole and hangs there and peeps in quite a bit.

    Anyway, I thought I would snap a few pics of the. The Female didn't come around while I was taking them.

    The shepard hooks are just 4 feet away from the panels. This guy sits on them a lot.

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    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.

    “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
    --Mark Twain.

    “If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.” - Steven Wright
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  • BlueBirdMusic
    BlueBirdMusic Posts: 2,816
    Yikes, I've been FIXATED on Blue Birds!


    My mind has been sorta crazy for about 2 weeks, or since around March 8.

    I took a home COVID test and it was positive on Tuesday March 10. I called my doctor started taking the latest
    Paxlovid 30 pill pack or six pills a day for five days.

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    My costs for the pills at CVS Pharmacy with supplemental insurance - $777.00


    During this period, I have had the usual COVID symptoms, lots of strange dreams, warped thinking, unbelievable tiredness, and the taste of food completely disappeared. A trip to feed my three cats up and down stairs felt like a trip to the moon,

    Light at the end of tunnel
    Today is the first day that I have felt like I am headed totally in the "getting well direction". The congestion in my throat has subsided and I am thinking more clearly. Tiredness is still a big issue.

    I have no idea how I became infected. My travels in the prior week to March 8 only to Chic-Fil-A, Target, Home Depot and Publix. All within two miles of my house.

    Perspective
    I have been to no crowded events since February 7, 2020. That was a trip with my friend to see the The Eagles when they kicked off their "Hotel California" 2020 Tour with three sold-out, heavily lauded shows at Atlanta's State Farm Arena on February 7, 8, and 11, 2020. The 3.5-hour concerts featured the album in its entirety, accompanied by an orchestra and choir, followed by a greatest hits set. Note: Hotel California was performed twice.

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    The show started with the Hotel California LP on the phonograph The Eagles soared through their many hits on Friday, February 7, 2020, at the first of 3 sold out shows at State Farm Arena on their Hotel California tour

    COVID was not named yet. My friend and I were slightly worried about the virus. I read that Friday March 13 2020 was the first time the virus really broke free in the United States. Now six years later on Friday 13, 2026, my friend and I have encountered the virus. We had all the Covid vaccinations up until about two years ago.

    Be careful COVID is still out there.

    I did my daily reading of the Polk Forum during this period. I feel blessed at 80 years old surviving COVID-19 and being a member of this forum.
    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"
    Harry / Marietta GA
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 27,264
    By now you should have known those "vaccinations" for Covid are a JOKE !! you have had all that RNA crud put into your system and it has done what for you? NOTHING ! It sure DIDN'T stop you from getting covid.
    How many times have you gotten Smallpox or the Measles after being vaccinated?
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,696
    edited 10:24AM
    WOW. You are blessed. o:)

    I went through it a couple of years ago. I didn't get an experimental vax. But I went to see a Doc about my upper Resp. cough that wouldn't end. I was diagnosed with COVID-19 and prescribed Paxlovid, also. I only took a few pills and had to stop it. The pax sucks! I then got better quickly from the cough, but stayed weak for at least a year or up till now, I guess.

    My wife worked in medical research for 30+ years and didn't like the overall info the medical administrations were, or really weren't giving out, so we waited until more info came out. We still haven't.

    I know I didn't pay much for my Pax. My wife got Covid 19 and gave it to me. She pres. Pax. also, and didn't pay much either. She DID take all of her pills, and she didn't really slow down much after getting better. Same weight, same workaholic she is. :D Your cost SUCKED!!! I wonder what our insurance differences are?

    Walking from the front of my house to the back was hard for a week or so, too.

    I'm 68.5 but was very active. I lost 15 lbs. in about a week, and I'm still around 150+ now. Haven't gotten my weight or full energy back. Many nights, I felt like I was going to go to sleep, and that would be it. :s


    I feel for you and am glad you're feeling better. ;)

    Upper respiratory infections are bad news for us elderly folks.

    I like having you on this forum a lot. Don't go anywhere now. ;)

    Get healthy and keep looking for Bluebirds.

    Here's a pic I took a few minutes ago. I think they want to use one of our 3 boxes we have up for Bluebirds.


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    Standing guard again while she's in the box.
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    This pic shows how close those shepherd's hooks are to our glass panels. B)

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    Cardinals come around a lot, too. :)

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    Get well, my friend. o:)
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.

    “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
    --Mark Twain.

    “If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.” - Steven Wright
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  • Geoff4rfc
    Geoff4rfc Posts: 2,941
    @BlueBirdMusic glad you're back on the mend!!!
    Set up: 11.2 HT + 2ch

    AVP: Marantz AV8802A - Sources: BRP Panasonic UB9000/CDP Emotiva ERC 3 - DAC: Denafrips Venus - Display: LG OLED EVO 83 C3 - Amplification: Emotiva XPA-DR3, XPA-6, XPA-2 x 2 - Speakers: Focal/PolkAudio, Mains/2ch - Kanta No2, C - Sopra, SS - LSiM702, WS - RTiA9, RS - RTiA9, FH - RTiA3 - Subs: Epik Empires x 2

    Cables: Mogami AES from CDP to DAC - AQ McKenzie XLR from DAC to AVP to amp for 2ch, Emotiva XLR's for the rest - Douglasconnection: Furutech Alpha 36 12g speaker wire for 2ch, Furez 10x2/Canare 4S11 speaker wire for the rest - AQ Forest48 HDMI for the display, AQ Carbon48 HDMI from BRP to AVP - VR3 filtered power cables for CDP, BRP and AVP, Emotiva power cables for the amps - AudioQuest 707 power conditioner.

    EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
    When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman
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