BS: stay afloat while others don't

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Dec 24 - 09:25 PM

And now we're having a steady soaking rain, which is needed.
of course, it may freeze overnight ...

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Dec 24 - 11:58 PM

I put the faucet cover back over the back yard spigot after doing some work this week that required a hose. We haven't quite actually had a real freeze yet; the basil is still green in the pots on the driveway side of the house though some of the sweet potato vines have slumped from the cold.

Odd weather this fall.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Dec 24 - 06:44 PM

We are getting thick powdery snow overnight.
Just in time for tomorrow's choral Christmas concert,
a fresh coating of white snow on the landscape.
And it is to be bitterly cold, single digits Fahrenheit.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Dec 24 - 03:29 PM

Winter solstice and no turning back, not even for the weather.
It is bitterly cold outside and
there is a coating of snow on the ground.

The choral concert was a success, although
it was difficult to warm up the church sanctuary for the concert
with the subfreezing temperatures outside.
Still we had good attendance and the audience received us warmly.

Now we get a couple of weeks off,
until it's time to rehearse for concerts in the New Year.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Dec 24 - 06:11 PM

Where I'm staying, we had
a combination Christmas/Hanukkah dinner,
complete with singing around the menorah.
A good time was had by all,
even if the apple crisp could have been a little better.
(besides, there's chocolate candy around)

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Mrrzy
Date: 29 Dec 24 - 01:54 PM

65° here today, Fahrenheit...

We are titrating down on the meds. Much better.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Dec 24 - 03:32 PM

Mrrzy, grand that things are more stable with your meds.

Here in New England, we've had enough precipitation in this county
that we have had our status changed from
severe drought to moderate drought.
So much for staying afloat . . .

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Mrrzy
Date: 31 Dec 24 - 12:06 PM

Indeed, keb!

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jan 25 - 11:11 AM

Moving to where idyllic village life in Green Mountains that enhance privacy and visitors is desired, I would choose Vermont. It is where Robert Frost, Rudyard Kipling, Sinclair Lewis and other authors built homes. It holds the open secret of other authors' residences. If you choose this road less traveled it may make all the difference.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jan 25 - 01:59 PM

The license plate tags have been delivered, complete with sticker.
It took something like ten weeks for the order to be processed and delivered, but now they are here.
Big sigh of relief.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Helen
Date: 07 Jan 25 - 01:56 PM

Hi all,

I hope you had a good silly season. Happy New Year!

I caught a bit of a news item yesterday about Vitamin B6 toxicity caused by taking too much B6 so I searched for an ABC (Oz) News article and found this one from a couple of years ago.

High levels of vitamin B6 in supplements, weight-loss products can cause toxicity, chronic illness

It appears that the resulting symptoms are not picked up by many medical professionals. This article also mentions a woman who was on the keto diet, including taking various supplements and taking meal replacement shakes to lose weight and she started having some very worrying symptoms. It took a long time, and a lot of medical consultations before one of the medical professionals suggested checking her blood and found a toxic level of Vitamin B6.

I just thought it might be worth checking out, especially if anyone here is taking vitamin supplements, or other foods or drinks which include Vitamin B6, and which might increase the risk of excessive Vitamin B6 total intake. FYI, I take a Magnesium supplement with other vitamins for leg cramps which includes Vitamin B6, and now and then I take a multi vitamin, but usually not even once a week.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jan 25 - 06:37 PM

Good point, Helen. The named item in supplements often have something else for a synergistic effect, like Vitamin C with a side of Vitamin D3, or Omega 3 and Vitamin A, etc. I've just looked at my supplement bottles - the calcium, Vitamin D3 and B12 are directed by my doctor, all OTC versions. The few that I take manage to give me near the recommended amounts, though I get about 350% of the D3, and the B12 bottle tells me that 5000 mcg is (!) 208333% of my daily requirement. The magnesium I take has inactive ingredients including glycerin. If it isn't made from bones then it is vegetable glycerin (made from coconut) that I avoid. Nothing on the bottle makes vegan claims so I will assume it is beef not coconut sourced.

In your article she talks about being on the Keto diet - that in and of itself shouldn't be a culprit. How she gets her protein (via processed foods versus simple meat, egg, dairy sources) is probably the problem. I avoid most processed foods, and stopped taking iron because I'm eating more meat these days, keeping beef to about once a week. We would get more Omega 3s from various meats if they were grassfed, and chances are most of mine isn't, so I take an Omega 3 fish oil supplement. (Animals fed grain to fatten them end up with more Omega 6 from the grain.)

Staying afloat - starting up a new 12-pocket folder for organizing bills and printouts of payments, receipts, etc. Tidying accounts, looking to see if there are new features I can be using. Taking a clue from all of the folks having to race from their homes in California and making sure the one file box that I would take with me if I had to evacuate is complete. I live in tornado alley on a creek next to a bunch of woods - it isn't inconceivable.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Mrrzy
Date: 10 Jan 25 - 11:04 AM

I had no idea that Kipling had been in Vermont.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Helen
Date: 10 Jan 25 - 03:36 PM

No, I don't think the keto diet was the culprit, but the person on the diet might have been using supplements and meal replacements while on the diet, and they were the culprits.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Jan 25 - 04:33 PM

Mrrzy, He was, but it was a really weird time.

Helen, that is most likely.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Jan 25 - 06:58 PM

So, Kipling in Vermont, I looked it up, quick and dirty-like.

The Vermont sojourn had to do with Kipling's marriage; his in-laws lived there.
A brother-in-law ruined the whole experience and Kipling left,
but not before he and his wife had two daughters born to them there.

If you saw "My Boy Jack" on public television,
you know about John Kipling, the son.
This latter was born later, in England,
after the Kiplings fled from Vermont.

That said, the Kipling house is still there and is held in trust,
with furnishings of the period.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Jan 25 - 07:40 PM

Another chorus rehearsal tomorrow evening.
The chorus has a happy problem: there are so many new people
that there is hardly enough space for everyone
in the rehearsal room.
Actually our director is beating the bushes in town
for a different place to rehearse that won't cost the earth.
But too many people is a fortunate problem to have,
far better than too few.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Mrrzy
Date: 13 Jan 25 - 08:53 PM

Indeed!