I went for a ride on the back roads of central Massachusetts today and saw something in the middle of the road. I thought it was a dead animal that someone hit. I started to go around it and saw that it was alive ! It was a very young porcupine ! I didn't want it to get hit. So I tried to get it to move. It came up to me and then tried to go under my car. Not what I needed. It started to move into the woods and decides to stop again. So I tapped it with my foot. It turns it's back to me and did the quills up threat. I have now been threatened by a baby porcupine ! :LOL:

An April update.

Dad has been home for a little over two weeks now. He is getting around with a cane, but is very determined to make a full recovery. His speech and cognitive function is more or less back to normal. He admits, that asking him too many questions at once confuses him but it's dissipating as time goes on. The human body is an incredible thing. He has many appointments lined up, but things are on the up and up.

That is great. Wishing him a full recovery.:)

Am wishing him a great recovery, he should do like a man and get well soon.....

Lol [emoji23]🥸

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I posted a longer updated answer in another thread "Little League Donations," but today I gave away roughly 12k cards (40 boxes) at a little league celebration due to the generosity of collectors in this group and on Twitter.
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Very cool of you to do that Tim. :)

Need a good laugh, listen to this:
https://youtu.be/yuoFsi2iIi0
:D

Second and final baseball card giveaway this year. 52 boxes today, bringing a total of 92 boxes. Today's giveaway was during A Gonzaga Baseball game against Pepperdine. Kids were on the field for the national anthem. Afterwards they came to a grassy play area where I was set up. I think 70 kids were in attendance, so nearly everyone got a box.
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I really need to hear some good news. Anyone have any ? :o

The best I have is I recently got a front row floor seat at next years Strongest Man on Earth strongman contest. I also already have the room next door at the Embassy Suites reserved for 6 days. I also bought tickets for the 3 days of amateur mens and womens contest held the same weekend in the mornings before the pro show. Should be another amazing time at one of the best strongman contests of the year.

It does sound amazing. Where and when will that event be ?

August 15-17 2025 at the Blue Arena in Loveland Colorado. I have been to the last 3 and they have been amazing. When you buy front row floor seats they come with an athlete panel the day before the event. You get to ask the strongmen questions, they feed you a nice meal, and you get a very nice goodie bag. You also get a meet and greet with all the athletes after the show on Sunday night to get autographs and pictures.

The athletes also stay next door at the Embassy Suites so you see them all week long at breakfast and many other times. My favorite active strongman smokes cigarettes and I got to BS and have a smoke with him last year.

That sounds like a load of fun. :)

I was lucky enough to win an auction for a pair of tickets to the Jets/Patriots game a few weeks ago. I won them in a charity auction for the Make a Wish Foundation. They were 3 rows behind the Pats bench at about the 35 yard line and included a parking pass. I won them for $400 dollars.

I'm a Pats fan and have been since the late 60's. That was the closet, and by far, the best seats I ever had. It was a great experience. I got a couple of autos (Bourne, Pop Douglas), beautiful weather, great seats and a perfect outcome when the Patriots scored with 22 seconds left to win the game to beat our hated rival. I expected the Pats to get smoked quite honestly. This was a bucket list item for me. I'm starting to do them now that I'm getting older (66 tomorrow).

I did the "Wall" at Fenway in 2023 as another bucket list item.

A recent buy made me really happy. I bought 3 pinbacks on ebay for $16.53 including tax and shipping. I sold a damaged one for $250.00 and put the other 2 in an auction and hoping to get around $600-$700 each. So that's a nice profit.

Very cool. I've only been to one Patriots game. :o

Went to dr today
Bcg treatment works -bladder looks good
So doing 3 week treatment follow-ups every 3 months or so

Good to hear that the treatments are working for you. I completed 28 radiation treatments for prostate cancer on October 21st. The side effects are just about gone now.

Wishing both you fine gentlemen nothing but the best.:)

I agree 110%. Wishing you both a full and speedy recovery.

Thank you. :)

About 3 mos. ago I broke my left foot. Long story short, I have congenital issues with both feet and after 60 years on them, the 5th metatarsal finally blew out. A break called a "dancer's fracture", which gave my wife a good laugh since me dancing is like the Monster doing a soft-shoe to "Putting On The Ritz" in Young Frankenstein. Good news was that it has healed well and I got out of the boot and into a hiking boot a few weeks ago.

Three days after I got into the shoe, the 5th metatarsal on my right foot blew out. At least I had the boot. This one is worse, a Jones fracture, which is what they call it near the bone head, and it is a substantial risk for complications and surgery. Great news is that yesterday I went back for re-check expecting to be scheduled for surgery and instead heard that the bone is healing perfectly and faster than expected, and I don't need to go under the knife. I still have a long road ahead until the bones are fully healed and I can start PT and workouts again, but the surgery recovery is absolutely brutal and incapacitating, so being spared that is a huge win. :D

Just knock on wood that everyone here is doing fine

Adam, I hope you heal fast.

+1 I just hope you fellows will be okay.

To a fun note I had my first flower open on my Jade plants today. It is a very long slow process. The first signs of the flowers starting was 6 weeks ago. It will now be easily 2 months of the flowers opening.:)

I went to the VA a few weeks ago for a regularly scheduled check up. I go every 3 months for them. The last time I went my blood pressure was 200 over 102 and my doctor was very concerned, especially with me having a pacemaker. She put me on a blood pressure medication called Candesartan Cilexetil. I'm happy to report that after going there Thursday for a follow up check up, my blood pressure was down to 127 over 72. Much, much better!!

We started celebrating Christmas. Mannheim Steamroller came to Spokane. My retired mother is a big Christmas music fan. We took her to dinner and the performance. It was a good night.

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Great to hear that you're doing better. The VA pays 100% for all my medical issues. They are way better than they used to be.

Tim,

Is the Mannheim Steamroller similar to the Trans Siberian Orchestra ?

Thanks!
Here's a link to sign up to get free tickets to events for current military and veterans.

https://www.vettix.org/

Thanks ! I'm signing up now. :)

I haven't used it yet. I've been buying my tickets for about half price for baseball games. It's from a website for Veterans, Current Military and First responders. Here's a link for that:

https://www.govx.com/tickets/categories/1000/mlb

Not sure if this question is serious or tongue in cheek, but they are miles apart. Many miles.

This year both of my daughters moved to different states, in completely opposite directions. One I haven't seen since August. Both are home for Thanksgiving now. Wife and I are very happy.

Good luck to all in getting their health back in line.

Am signing up to now [emoji41]. Thanks

you gonna scam some veterans ?

Thanks, Dave. I've been consulting Dr. Google on how to heal fractures faster and it seems that some of the studies I found have some good ideas, cryotherapy in particular. Apparently, icing a fracture reduces inflammation and stimulates bone regeneration. The Jones Fracture hurts a hell of a lot more than the Dancer's Fracture but is actually healing faster.

I read comfrey known as bone knit works for bone mending
Your herb shop should have it

Okay I think I can still get some cause am signing up now.

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This thread has become scammer catnip.

Good to hear your healing fast Adam. :)

I'm shooting for a full recovery by the National. Should be about the right time-line for PT and working back into shape. Hopefully I am out of the boot at my next MD visit just before Christmas.

I usually go out for long rides on the backroads of western Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire when I get tired of sitting around at home. I was on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere in the middle of a town forest in Wendell Massachusetts. It's about 90 miles west of Boston. I saw a female moose walking down the road in front of me ! A man was walking down the same road from the other direction with his dog, and his cat following behind him.:) He saw the moose too. He said he's never seen a moose around that area before. I've never seen on before at all. They're huge ! It made my day. :)

An obtuse post about a loose moose, not a crass post about a Mass lass.

I have not seen my Cariologist to have my pacemaker reading in 3 years. So I had an appointment for today.......The reading showed no signs of A-FIB in three years and my heart sounds great. I still need to lose some weight but the heart seems to be doing good.
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That's always good news about your heart checkup. I bet most of us get told to lose some weight from the doctor. :p

We recently had two hummingbirds get into our house. No one I called would try to remove them, so I was on my own. Someone on YouTube suggested a crazy idea. He said they always fly up and toward the light and he created this type of trap that they flew up into. It worked and I was able to release them both outside! I did my good deed for the day.

You're a good man. :)

I gotta say, first seeing hummingbirds out here was a frickin' trip.
Always heard of them and saw pictures, of course, but when one was just sitting there in front of me, floating 'unmoving' in mid-air while checking out a persimmon tree...I really had trouble processing what I was witnessing.

We used to get hummingbirds around in my mother's yard in central Massachusetts. They would dip down to get water from the grandkid's kiddie pool. It was very cool to watch.

My mom got a hummingbird moth in her yard one day. if you haven't seen one of those, it's weird. words that came out of my mouth was "That's an ugly hummingbird." They have alien antennas.

I have good news to add also. First, my doctor told me that Rinvoq seems to be working to control my Crohns Disease. I tried three different medications last year. Happy to have one work finally.

Second, my son won a game MVP in his hockey tournament last weekend in Wenatchee, WA. He's a goalie, and he and his co-MVP goalie pal combined to lead the team to an 8-2 victory and 5th place in the tournament. This was his second game MVP this season. His first MVP was for entering a game losing 4-0, and not allowing a goal in the second half of the game. They ended up winning 6-4.

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Good to hear they found something to help your condition. Congratulations to your son.