DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Jul 23 - 05:40 PM

I took a 15-minute trip into the midday yard and transplanted some cannas to a new area, then turned on the soaker hose and accidentally created a bog. When I went out to check an hour later I stepped on the mulched area and submerged my shoe and sock, up to the bottom of my jeans, in the resulting slurry. No more water there for a while. I'll leave the cannas and tomorrow I can lift them out if it doesn't dry enough by then. They prefer getting more water and being well-drained at the same time, but these plants were quite parched and might benefit from a good soak.

Jon, emergency responders are trained in techniques to help lift people, and to shift people who have fallen or can't get up completely on their own. I called the local fire department (Volunteer) when my friend Susie's husband was on his knees leaning against their bed and couldn't stand. She called me first, we couldn't lift him. I asked them to not use sirens, that we hoped it was a simple matter of someone helping him up, but we'd let them evaluate as far as if he needed more than help to their car (she was trying to take him to the doctor.) He ended up in the hospital - but the thing is - they picked him up without causing pain that Susie and I were causing when we tried.

The Amazon Fire stick in my office (installed in 2020) was always glitchy, updating, twirling, turning itself off. Drove me nuts. I bought a Roku stick during Prime Days and just installed it. The Fire didn't work well even when I had it on the Ethernet, using the house WiFi this Roku is fast and I can see replacing a couple more of these Fire sticks that don't work very well. They have a trade in program that doesn't offer much, but they pay the shipping and I'll get a few dollars off my next purchase.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Jul 23 - 12:46 AM

Between points earned and a credit toward a trade in I ordered another Roku stick with a good discount. Color me converted: this summer I've decommissioned both of my Fire tablets and two of the TV Fire sticks.

One of the 2x4s for the fence was so warped that there was no fastening the pickets to it this evening; at present it's a placeholder on the bottom tier of the new panel to keep Zeke from drifting into the neighbors' yard overnight and in the morning I'll get a replacement plus the next panel's worth of pickets and cross-members. The pickets I did put up are fastened only to the top and middle supports. I'm surprised with myself that I brought home a plank in that shape, but I don't think it could have warped that badly in just a few days in the yard.

I left a gap when putting up the pickets so I can get through to water again tomorrow. Next comes the new post and the gate. I'll be measuring and putting that together before I put up the next panel.

Considering this is the age of air conditioning, ceiling fans, and insulation, I have to wonder at how people in past times in North Texas (or the American Southwest in general) managed to sleep at night with the heat that builds up in houses. Here in Texas the "hip roof" was designed to pull heat from the house, and dog trots - an open air passage through the middle of a structure - helped with ventilation. Novels set in the mid-late 1800s do a good job of portraying the heat (Cormac McCarthy, among others) and it's clear that the only thing that made this area livable was the invention of air conditioning.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 26 Jul 23 - 05:23 AM

SRS we told only to use the 999 emergency service for a life threatening emergency. There is a Norfolk County Council run service called Swift who have teams who will get people up from a simple fall where there are no medical concerns. Their teams carry an air cushion thing they can insert under the casualty and pump up. Their service often has all teams out and no one available though. When this happens, Swift’s own advice is to call 999 as there is no other service who’d do the lifting.

In dad’s case this time round, there were medical concerns as well as the need to get him up and out of the chair. On the medical side, sometimes you may not be sure whether or not to call 999. In this case, you can call 111. They will ask questions, assess the situation and get an ambulance if they feel it is needed.

Dad’s coming home this morning. They gave him blood tests, a brain CT scan and possibly other tests? but found nothing wrong. It’s an odd one. Slurred speech, confused speech, difficult getting the right words out and loss of or decrease in usage of an arm, the symptoms dad has been having on and off do make you wonder about possible small strokes.

And the ambulance taking dad home can’t find us. I don’t know what goes wrong sometimes. We can be difficult to find as going by road signs, the bungalow is out of the village for our address and it is a bit tucked away, set back from the big semi. Over the years, I’ve had several people thst they have been on our road many times and never knew our building existed. On the other hand, the instructions to find us should be easy to follow. Most people find us straight away with them but the odd one gets in a mess.

Ah, he’s home and now they are struggling to get him into bed. I do wonder about ERS (a private company that handles non medical transport for the health service) and the training their drivers get. When I first saw them struggling, I told one of the drivers about the equipment we have and the Ross return is the usual method for transferring dad. I was told that they are not allowed to use them. And it gets worse. The drivers have said they can’t move him and the only thing they can do is take him back to hospital. We’ve got Mike from Elite coming in now and we hope he can help… Ah Mike’s here and dad's in bed. In don’t know where we go from here...

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Jul 23 - 09:38 AM

It sounds like having several levels of assistance has been helpful (and not helpful at the same time!) - we have a volunteer fire department here, and mutual assistance agreements with surrounding communities for fires and big accidents. There are commercial ambulances through the whole region that are called when the fire department/EMS folks deem it necessary, our EMS folks don't do any transport. They do first aid and EMS stuff and the lifting I mentioned.

I've rescued my mud-caked shoe (my favorite pair for yard work). A stiff bristled brush was all that was needed and I'll be looking for more shoes like this (it has a few more weeks wear, but they're showing their age.) They don't lace, just have a sturdy loop at the back of the heel to pull them on.

Off to get lumber and plan out the gate part. I may have a bag of concrete in the garage and I have the posts and the hardware, just not the latch part. I'll arrange it so the gate can lock/unlock from either side and place a key nearby.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Jul 23 - 10:20 AM

Air conditioning is grand, and we had it running in our hotel room in Sicily for the whole week on our recent holiday. But there's no such thing as a free lunch: aircon is a massive contributor to global heating on account of its power-hungry nature.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Jul 23 - 11:20 AM

Which is why I have installed very efficient heat pumps and keep the thermostat set high.

The materials for the gate are stacked and ready to use, now to buy the parts I don't have, mainly, two 2x4s, some corner braces (the technique in this video) and a few extra heavy-duty lag bolts. I'm glad to say that this project will declutter leftover stuff from past projects (deck screws, bag of concrete) or parts from things I've dismantled (galvanized fence post, crossmember supports, hinges).

A friend is coming for a late dinner so I'll stop working on the fence at some point (either at a good stopping point or before heat exhaustion sets in) and shower, vacuum, and get ready for dinner. Too bad there isn't time to wash the dogs, I'm used to them but realized this morning that everyone could use a quick scrub. Maybe if there's time before I shower? I use a squirt bottle of vet shampoo and a hose in the backyard.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Jul 23 - 04:30 PM

Our government is talking about banning gas boilers and making us all have heat pumps. That's great, except that a boiler might cost three or four grand to install whereas a heat pump comes in at about eighteen grand. As an aside, they are also banning new petrol/diesel cars from 2030, even though electric cars cost a fortune, they have limited range, there is nowhere near enough charging infrastructure (and it's getting worse) and that the nation doesn't generate anywhere near enough electricity to support the policy. Apart from that, fine!

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Jul 23 - 04:36 PM

I had my pickets and all but the last board loaded in the SUV when the beefy guy whose pickup was parked next to me arrived back at his vehicle and he offered to load the bag of concrete. I was happy to let him - I do so much of this stuff myself, but I have begun to draw the line at these bags of sand, gravel, concrete - they are so dense it seems easier to hurt yourself trying to lift them than equally heavy bags of things like potting soil or dog food. I have no science behind this suspicion. I bought a bag of rapid set (the stuff in the garage is the regular 24-hour type) so when I decide where to put the next post and get the hole dug it'll be set and ready to work on within about 30 minutes. You don't dawdle when you work with this stuff.

Shopping on the way home I picked up a rotisserie chicken to use for the rest of the week. The friend here for dinner tonight will get a salad and my zucchini and pork casserole. I blanched a dozen smallish tomatoes that are overripe but still edible; they'll be the tomato part of that casserole. So far my garden ingredients in our dinner will be zucchini, onion, poblano, garlic, basil, oregano, and tomato. I bought the pork sirloin, olive oil, fresh mushrooms, and the cheese that go in it. I still have a lot of potatoes, I might think about adding one of them to the mix (they're the waxy red lasoda, it wouldn't fall apart like a Russett.)

I did enough fence and gate work today just bringing home the materials. I'll take a nap, wash a dog, shower, then vacuum before starting dinner. I'm looking forward to figuring out this gate, but I'll do it tomorrow morning when it's cooler out.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 26 Jul 23 - 05:32 PM

Beaver:

Came last Tuesday and finally recovering. It seems to have taken more out of me this time and causes me to be concerned about how much longer I can keep doing this. Malaise that started 1 July took two weeks before I felt safe to travel. I do believe it was a virus as Charmion described, so I attacked with Pau d'Arco (herbal antibiotic) successfully. Lost 10 pounds and now trying to keep it off.

SRS: no hope of me keeping a food diary; I have tried and failed so many times. The only thing I manage to keep any record of is pottery firings - They have been essential to my life and relative peace of mind!! I keep finding food ones that I started and gave up on - as recently as two years ago.

The bread: Dimpflmeiers - mostly organic loaves but some just pumpernickel made with spring water and no additives. Heavy, thin sliced ones with sunflower seeds or sandwich types - not so dense! Not easy to find in grocery stores so I just get fed up and order it and pay the shipping for the convenience of knowing it is in the freezer. I tried two new-to-us sorts this time - heavy with flax seeds, and plain but sandwich shaped which I have, curiously, been using for my one slice toasted with almond butter for BF. Very tasty. The half round type I use for grilled cheese sandwiches; last night's was cheddar, green pepper and apple slices.

The water here is not potable and that at Dupont is disgusting so I do not buy anything that needs much washing - use distilled water with vinegar for fruits, esp soft ones. I was in a bar/restaurant on Friday and the water (in town) was undrinkable; I could smell it. Had left water bottle in car and did not want to leave to get it.

The good part was that a very fine musician of my acquaintance, Noah Zacharin, was playing with a friend of his; I was able to sit with two of his neighbours - nice folks. Major social event for me. I ordered nachos with chicken - one of two things on the menu I would tolerate. Had nachos for lunch on Sat and Sunday! Not bad for $40 - food, large tip and tax. This place is 5 minutes from here and, in the 3 hours I was there, I did not see anyone I know.

Got a nice handful of blueberries the other day. Need to feed those guys! Meant to ask Larry when he and Abbie (dog) visited. We were able to sit on the back deck - no rain or mosquitoes!!! I think he said peat moss - all I need is enough energy to fetch some. Home Hardware I think; they will put it in car for me. And I need a sweep for the bottom of the back screen door; a garter snake seems to lie in wait along the bottom edge - catching the aft sun? I prefer not to have it in the house.

Did manage to throw half a dozen butter dish tops and bottoms and trim them. With any luck they may fit each other - or the previous ones that need tops of bottoms that fit! Does the law of something mean that someday I will manage to match all.... ??? I measure! This time I made the bottoms smaller than the tops. The bowl shaped lid pulls in as it dries; the plate does not shrink as much.

Weather has been quite decent and good rain. I can keep the house ok by closing east drapes in the am and west ones in the pm; the aft sun can raise the indoor temp several degrees - nice in the winter!

The new Beaver pond across the road is causing the stream to rise. Steve cannot mow as close to the stream. I am delighted to have the beaver; though I have not seen any, they have been enlarging their pond! And a large brood of wild turkeys, with mom have been enjoying the area. Also, resident woodchuck, who was sitting in one of the raised beds the other day - posing!

There were lots of cherry tomatoes coming along at Dupont - for Robin to pick and enjoy. It does look better with the grass cut. The perennials have enlarged in the front garden and the canna are blooming, and the wonderful Roxanne greets me at the front steps, reminder of friend Tina.

Steve came to cut here again - without invitation! I guess it is easier for him. He also told me he would deal with the new woodpile - move last year's to the front and stack the new behind. He is a good worker, takes care of his tools, organized ... One might say he is hyper-active - And I may be starting to understand his speech impediment!

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Jul 23 - 10:45 AM

Dorothy, both the bread you buy and the weather you're experiencing sound nice! Here, I buy the multi-grain bread at Aldi and keep it in the freezer to use as needed, or put pita or tortillas or my own dinner rolls into the freezer for the same reason.

I have a whole bunch of pre-gate steps to do today but I am prepared to construct a gate. I have to dig a hole where I want the gate hinge to go and put another post in, then shift the existing panel crossmembers onto that post and cut off the rest, leaving the gap for the gate. And before I put up the gate I have to put up the next panel beside it so it has a new panel end to close against. So of course the allergies are acting up this morning, and air quality is moderate (no Ozone alert today, but I won't be surprised if there is one tomorrow.) I'll be in and out all day as the heat dictates, and will actually construct the gate in the shade of the garage.

Trash day today has several things that have needed getting rid of that aren't donatable or reusable, and aren't eWaste (that goes to a different collection place). And I've decided that the only way anything is going to break down when it's at the dump is if there is SOME organic material in each bag, so I try to add the paper shreds and will occasionally dump something that is too large for my countertop kitchen waste bin (yesterday, an overlooked cucumber). Not enough to create a huge source of methane, just enough to let future dump miners (because you know that's were all of this is headed) know that the organic stuff helped the old ceramic thing break down into elemental kaolin clay. I'm sure this is trash science on my part, but I do wonder what scientists think about the state of American trash (someone must be thinking about this?)

Dinner went well and Cookie sat under the dining table the whole time getting head scratches from my friend.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Charmion
Date: 27 Jul 23 - 06:39 PM

I have acquired a new bedstead — well, new to me. It’s a single (all the bed I need), Mission-style, built of quarter-sawn oak by a Mennonite firm. New, it would have cost close to a thousand bucks *without* a mattress, but I found it on Facebook Marketplace for two hundred. I offered another fifty bucks if the sellers would deliver, and they eagerly complied.

So now it’s time to re-home the queen-sized bed I shared with Edmund, which is much too large for me and the cats, and somewhat oversized for this modestly proportioned house. I’m not sure yet how to do it, but I’ll figure it out.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Jul 23 - 11:34 AM

I've considered downsizing to a double to use the antique bed frame I have in my room, but I suspect it would creak like an old wooden bedframe, so I simply have the headboard leaning against the wall at the head of my queen-sized bed. I rarely let dogs sleep on the bed, but when I do, they're notorious bed hogs, and larger helps give me a little space.

Sticker shock hits when you price nice sheets. Do you have a guest room with a bed?

Cat and caterpillar sitting this weekend. I helped her create this monster by spotting a half-dozen caterpillars in the parsley last month. Most of those have pupated and then turned to butterflies, but there is a straggler from that batch plus some new ones that have come along. If someone tells you you'll "rue the day" they might mean if you have a pot of rue the butterflies and caterpillars will keep you busy. :)

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Charmion
Date: 28 Jul 23 - 12:45 PM

Yes, I also have a double bed, a late-Victorian piece inherited from my father’s family. It’s what I’m sleeping on now, and thrashing around on. It will stay in the larger bedroom, on the windward side of the house, and I will move back into the smaller bedroom on the leeward side.

Sheets for twin or single beds are often marked down at the end of the season when the much more popular queen-sized sheets are sold out.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Jul 23 - 01:07 PM

Let us know how it goes! Buying twin sheets in August can be difficult if you live in a college town. Every dorm room in America seems to have twin bunk beds. My son had a standard twin the first year but managed to get a room with a long twin the second (and final) year he spent in a dorm. So more sheets. (Even though they're big and heading off to college, I made a point when helping both kids move into their first dorm room of making their beds for them. There's an element of homesickness even in the most exciting new activity and I thought that perhaps knowing Mom made the bed would be a nice transitional gesture.)

I'll get to the gym this week because of the cat sitting that is on the way there. I may also get some burritos on my way back home since I'll be driving past several restaurants and a number of food trucks. More exercise will be good because yesterday I made a small batch of hand pies. Apple with raisins and walnuts and cinnamon sugar. One cup of sugar, 1/3 cup of butter for the crust, plus the rest - it comes out about 500 calories per pie. Maybe I can make them smaller next time.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Jul 23 - 03:02 PM

Alpha-gal syndrome from a tick bite is affecting half a million and growing in the mid-Atlatic to Southern states. It makes you allergic to red meat with stomach problems, hives, joint pain, etc.
Don't diagnose yourself. Even doctors don't know much about it.

Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) is a serious, potentially life-threatening allergic condition. AGS is also called alpha-gal allergy, red meat allergy, or tick bite meat allergy. AGS is not caused by an infection. AGS symptoms occur after people eat red meat or are exposed to other products containing alpha-gal.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 28 Jul 23 - 03:37 PM

I’ve been looking at the Met Office DataPoint service today. I’m not sure if I’ll do anything with it but I can get text forecasts for regions and other areas such as national parks for it. eg. here’s a bit for East of England from this evening on.

createdOn="2023-07-28T13:40:24" issuedAt="2023-07-28T16:00:00" regionId="ee”
day1to2
Headline: Dry to begin with locally heavy and showery rain overnight.
This Evening and Tonight: A predominately dry evening across the region with isolated showers possible. Cloud increasing through the night as a band of locally heavy and showery rain pushes up from the southwest, affecting most areas through the early hours. Remaining mild. Minimum Temperature 16C.
Saturday: Overnight rain will clear quickly eastwards through early morning, followed by a mixture of sunshine and showers. Turning drier and brighter later in the afternoon and through the evening. Mild. Maximum Temperature 23C.

I can get daily and 3 hourly forecasts from it as well as hourly observations for a 24hr period. These come in xml and json formats I’ve written some php code to get the json output into something readable. eg. Here’s a snippet from a 3hrly forecast for Cromer:

Forecast for CROMER dated 2023-07-28T18:00:00Z
2023-07-28Z
21:00
Wind Direction: S
Feels Like Temperature: 19C
Wind Gust: 18mph
Screen Relative Humidity: 78%
Precipitation Probability: 6%
Wind Speed: 9mph
Temperature: 19C
Visibility: Good - Between 10-20 km
Weather Type: Cloudy
Max UV Index: 0

There are some 500x500 overlay images for things like rainfall and pressure but I can’t see what to do with them. I suppose it might help if I could find a base map to try to put them on.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Jul 23 - 06:05 PM

We've been hearing about that meat allergy condition for a couple of years now, but it seems to have hit a growth spurt lately. So when Jon travels to parks with good weather, careful in the weeds and woods, don't get into the ticks. I try to avoid the woods across the road from me each summer because we've always had a tick problem there.

I've spent the afternoon helping a Freecycle acquaintance figure out how to set up a TV antenna outside her apartment on the patio to get some kind of signal that she can't get with an indoor antenna. We're discussing how to camouflage the base of a spring-loaded pole that she'll attach a small TV antenna to. A couple of buckets of potting soil with flowers should do the trick. I hope some of the problem solving we've been doing on this have been instructive.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 29 Jul 23 - 01:54 PM

Beaver:

Finally threw a few small pots this am but not very well done. Seem to have lost the knack for my usual mug shape. Rather disconcerting as I once threw 40 in an hour. Will try again later today.

We are having a cool spell!!! Overcast and squall warning. At library now - for the internet - but will try again a bit later, after a cup of green tea.

Nice fresh veggies at Farm Market this am! And folks with whom to visit. Had terrific 7-11 Cafe last night - lots of good musicians and good potato soup. And on Thurs, the annual BBQ of the horticultural society was very well attended; I spent the time visiting with a new-to-community potter about my age, and her husband, who live a few minutes from me. A visit in our future.

R needs a key to the studio door at the Mill; I have one but I am here. I remembered giving one to a woman who was using it a few years ago and -LO! - she could still find it and took it next door to our friend Geri (close to Mill) so R can obtain it when/if.

Light rain falling. Time to go home for lunch and another try in the mug department.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Jul 23 - 03:03 PM

Amazing she could find the key! I do try to put tags on keys around here but there are still a lot that end up loose in the junk drawer in the kitchen.

Air quality is poor today and the heat interminable. I have a low-grade headache as a result. I'm making a more efficient run this afternoon to feed cats and go to the gym (assuming Motrin works soon) - feed cats medical stuff for "lunch" then after the gym swing by and give them dinner. Lunch time just needs to be an hour before or after a regular meal with other medications.

I'm loving the nectarines I can get at Costco, and a neighborhood grocery still has good peaches. I've made more jars of fresh pickles and if I can get another piece of feta I'll make more cucumber tomato and feta salad. I'm getting to the end of tomato season for now. And I have to make hummus this evening.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 30 Jul 23 - 06:14 PM

Beaver:

Beautiful day, bit of rain - drizzle. And folks had the audacity to complain that it was just above freezing this morning! It sure is unusual or the end of July but a clear warning to prepare for a winter that may also be unique.

I was delighted that Ann could find that key. She gets full points!

I had a social couple hours today with nifty people and then went home with no energy at all. The few pots I threw yest4erday morning, which were not up to snuff, might get trimmed tomorrow. Do wish I would find a bit more energy.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Jul 23 - 11:09 PM

I finished closing up the next panel on the fence after replacing the warped 2x4, and it was plenty hot after 30 minutes. Next I hung sheets on the line, but didn't want to turn on the dryer for the rest of the stuff in the wash (clothes end up stiff as a plank on the clothesline). A spare piece of woven clothesline now spans the covered patio between two high-up plant hooks. It is looped every few inches so the garments from the laundry were put on hangers and spaced apart by the loops. This way I don't need to bake my brains in the sun at the clothesline. Who knew that it would get too hot out for drying clothes on the line?

Dorothy, have you had any blood work to tell if you're low on thyroid or iron or some other thing that we tend to run low on as we get older?

Today at my friend's house (cat sitting) I released an eastern swallowtail butterfly that just this morning was still a pupa, but was fluttering around the delicate enclosure when I arrived to feed the cats dinner. There are caterpillars and pupas several in various states and I'm hoping nothing else decides to transition before she gets back home tomorrow. It was a nice surprise to find the butterfly. There is a lot to know about all of the stages.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 31 Jul 23 - 09:41 AM

Beaver:

SRS: Visit to Dr last month elicited him trying to figure out if anything could be done... It is up to me to figure out the ways of my body. The dietician helped and I am trying to figure out how to make things better -at 86! This morning is propitious. I am hoping to get some decent work done today- just an hour before the studio gets hot - it is currently at 60! So I am taking a warmer bag of clay out from the LR which is 68! Feeling like it is possible. I think about iron but hope it is in veggies, chicken, nuts. I have always heard too much iron is not good either.

Opened Internet to pay bills and now off to pottery. A beautiful, breezy, sunny day. The studio will get too hot in a couple hours!

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 31 Jul 23 - 04:52 PM

Sorry it’s all computer from me but I’m not doing much else… I’ve had another look at the met office site and found some climate data to play with. I’m not sure what I’m doing with it but here is a view of a spreadsheet I’ve made. The data in the downloads are per year but I’ve been grouping it for charts (I’ve used 5 yearly grouping for that spreadsheet). I wrote a program that does this pretty quickly but does anyone know how to do this in LibreOffice Calc or other spreadsheet without a lot of editing?

  Year    jan   feb   mar   apr   may
  1900   4.20   3.10  3.8   8.2   10.5
  1901   3.30   1.7   4.1   8.4   11.2
  1902   4.70   1.5   6.8   7.6   9
  1903   4.30   6.6   7.3   6.5   11.3
  1904   3.50   3.7   4.4   8.9   11.2
  1900   4.00   3.32  5.28  7.9   10.64

eg. instead of the first 5 data rows here, I want the row in bold.

Mum’s been having a bad patch and I’ve had another go at finding her things to do. I bought her Lorna Doone to read, Calamity Jane to watch and Prosperous, Christy Moore to listen to. The last 2 of these led my to by an external dvd drive as my laptop and my parent’s new ones don’t have a built in drive. I’m not giving that to mum but will use it to get the dvd and cd on mum’s laptop.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 31 Jul 23 - 04:53 PM

According to the UK wide data I downloaded (or my attempts with it), going from 1900 till the end of June 2023:

Our hottest month was July 2006: , 23.3C
Coldest month: January 1963: -4.5C
Wettest month: October 1903: 219.8mm rain
Driest month: February 1932: 9.6mm rain
Most sunshine: May, 2020: 266.9hrs
Least sunshine: December 1912: 19.4hrs

It looks like there is some averaging going on. I've done the Max Temp for all regions the met office supplies and I get:

UK: Jul 2006: 23.3C
England: Jul 2006: 25.2C
Wales: Aug 1995: 23.5C
Scotland: Aug 1947: 20.7C
Northern Ireland: Aug 1995: 22.1C
England and Wales: Jul 2006: 24.9C
England N: Jul 2006: 24.1C
England S: Jul 2006: 25.8C
Scotland N: Aug 1947: 20.1C
Scotland E: Jul 2006: 21.4C
Scotland W: Aug 1947: 21.6C
England E and NE: Jul 2006: 24.4C
England NW Wales N: Jul 2006: 23.3C
Midlands: Jul 2006: 25.7C
East Anglia: Jul 2006: 26.7C
England SW Wales S: Aug 1995: 24.3C
England SE Central S: Jul 2006: 26.1C Jul 2018: 26.1C

I’m pretty sure I’ll leave it at that. In the unlikely event I do have another go and get somewhere with it, I’ll start a new thread.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 31 Jul 23 - 04:56 PM

Beaver:

NOT getting hot today! Thinking of those who are suffering! Threw well today and now need to go back and trim previous ones. Today's might be ready tomorrow.

No idea where my energy was hiding but today is good! Cooked up a pot of mixed veggies and a pot of carrots which got missed in the first round. Threw in some fresh dried oregano, stripped from stems I brought in a few days ago. Had sweet potato/apple/cinnamon/chicken for lunch. Nibbling at hydroponic lettuce from Farm market - on counter in a large cup of water.

Cool, crisp day is clearly my kind of day!

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Jul 23 - 11:14 PM

Dorothy, I'm guessing that it is a lot harder to get too much iron than it is to get too little. My doctor said to eat more meat, but I also take a low dose iron supplement. Meat is typically a small part of the diet, a couple of ounces of chicken in a sandwich or mixed in with cheese ravioli this week, for example. I rarely eat a whole chicken breast or a steak, it is usually part of a dish with vegetables, rice, potatoes, pasta, etc.

Jon, if it is a simple matter of coding and you're wanting to automate it a little bit, I have in the past used MS Word tables. For example, if you make want to show a sequence of characters but don't want to type it all the way down the page, you can put the parts of each line in a cell, and leave some cells blank between the elements.

<b> (rendered using html character entities so you can see the code here) is three characters that can each be placed in a column. Leave the next column empty, then do your next sequence, maybe <i>, another three characters. When you have figured out how to space these things, and you can add &nbsp; (non-breaking space code to keep the line together). With Word, if the whole column is going to be <, for example, then select the column and type in that symbol to enter it on each row. Enter the content of each identical column as you work across the page and then type in the variable data in the columns you've left empty.

When this is all assembled, then select the row or the table and choose to combine columns; that leaves all of your symbols and characters in each line in place where you want them. (You may want a column <br> so they don't all run together on one line.)

I'm guessing that this might be what you were asking about. I think I was making columns of names and years when I used this in the past, or something comparable. For documents we put online in html using an editor like Dreamweaver or Frontpage (versus a PDF that looked just like a print document.)

This heat certainly saps energy. 106^o today, and all week. I have to get out early to do some work in the yard (code enforcement wants my trees next to the street trimmed and I didn't get to it over the weekend).

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 01 Aug 23 - 07:04 AM

SRS, I don’t think I’d be functioning at all in your heat!

Thanks for the idea. It isn’t quite what I was thinking of but it was only a curiosity question from me.

As for my solution I mentioned, it took me a while to write but I thought that if I was to do all the 119 met office files was probably worth it (plus it gave me something to do). After doing a few input files (which took under 1 second each to process), I realised that would land me with with loads of csv files and database tables so. I revised my thinking so I'd just put all the met data into one table. It’s easy enough for me to extract what I want from there. Eg if I wanted all max temp data for UK region from 2000 on, I could use (I wouldn't type it every time I’d save this for reuse and modification or alternatively write it as a stored procedure so I'd just need to supply Dataset and Region names and year):

SELECT `year`, jan, feb, mar, apr, may, jun, jul, aug, sep, oct, nov, `dec`
FROM Hot JOIN Dataset ON Dataset.DatasetID = Hot.DatasetID JOIN Region ON Region.RegionID = Hot.regionid
WHERE DatasetName = 'Max Temp' AND RegionName = 'UK'
AND `year` >= 2000

Using dbeaver, exporting a csv for a spreadsheet to open is only a couple of clicks away. dbeaver also exports html and I’ve put the output of that query here.

Mid posting, I decided to write a stored procedure so I'd now just need:
CALL selectdata("UK", "Max Temp", 2000, 2023)

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Aug 23 - 09:48 AM

Jon, that table you posted a link to was a thing of beauty, and it was clear with the chart what we were seeing. You and Bill D both have a great set of free and easy to use tools that are out there that I'd never hear of except to read your posts. (Most of them, anyway. I occasionally go out looking for the answers to illustration or html questions and have to spend a lot of time research and reading reviews before I'm willing to download and try them. Such as how old is it, how often are they updated, do they carry a massive Trojan spyware payload, that sort of thing. . . )

I went out at 7am and trimmed the low-hanging branches over the street, but have one larger limb I'll need the saw on the pole for and I'll wait till this evening. I finished my pruning and was hand-watering when the village code enforcement truck rolled past. I have until Friday to finish pruning. Now the bird baths are full I'm working in the office, ceiling light off so any birds that land in the filled birdbath outside the window are less likely to see me.

Yesterday the next door front-facing fence that abutted mine was replaced with an attractive and sturdy fence composed of recycled plastic planks. They trimmed at the corner where they met and they aren't actually connected but are so tidily set up that no one would know, and there is no gap to worry about. And when the old fence came down they saved the galvanized poles for me, so two more in my small collection (last year I gave a half-dozen fence posts to another friend who used them when he installed a fence across the street - these don't travel far!)

Today I have errands to run, but I must wait until the mail arrives since a package must be signed for.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 01 Aug 23 - 12:07 PM

There’s some good stuff out there, SRS.

I thought I’d stop with the met data stuff but I’ve just written a web page that tries to give totals for the met data by region and within a year range. Max Temp is the only dataset with any data in.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 01 Aug 23 - 12:44 PM

Beaver:

SRS: I eat about as much chicken as you do. Many years ago we were warned off too much iron. ...

Not full of energy today but pulled handles for the new mugs and moved stuff around, measured butter dish lids that still have no bottoms - 6 @ about 13 cm. Maybe I will try throwing some today. After lunch.

Very grateful for this cool week!! Bought a watermelon and it may be helping me feel better. So going home now - from library - to close drapes on west windows and have lunch, starting with melon.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 02 Aug 23 - 10:51 AM

And have had a go at a chart from the data here. The chart can do up to 3 months. The max temp series is still the only one I've added to the db.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Charmion
Date: 02 Aug 23 - 01:10 PM

Much to my surprise, I find that I sleep much better -- even in summer -- with the bedroom window shut and the curtains drawn tight. Who knew?

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Aug 23 - 02:25 PM

Errands to run, with a shopping list in hand to be most efficient about each stop and finish quickly. Too bad several of these stores don't open until 10am (anyone else remember when they were all open at 7 or 8am? COVID was the final blow to those early hours.)

I put the old hose caddy at the curb last night and as of this morning the hose storage (with a leaky connection) has gone to a new home. Other things are headed for tomorrow's trash.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Aug 23 - 06:52 PM

There's just no way to get out to stores when the temperatures are reasonable, so I've worked out a route and a list - since I ended up not going this morning I have to go this evening (or the pharmacy is going to keep texting me three times a day that I have an Rx to pick up). It hit 111 this afternoon.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Aug 23 - 11:49 AM

Shopping after dark isn't something I usually do, but I got part of my list taken care of. And I parked near the entrance under a parking lot light.

For declutter, it's difficult to see your house through someone else's eyes, but this morning I gazed at the kitchen and ended up taking an old magnetic dry erase board off of the fridge. A start. I haven't used it since the kids graduated, it kept track of a few events we all needed to know about. Onto the buy-nothing page it will go just in time for back-to-school.

At the same time I noticed a list from 2020 that I asked a friend to send; he was going through cancer surgery and I wanted to know how to reach someone local if I didn't hear from him for a while. Either to get an update, or to alert them to go check on him. I'll update that list with my nearest neighbor also. I used to have them for neighbors on each side and across the street, now the new folks on the uphill side have a sibling up the block and the folks across the street have children coming regularly, but for them I should probably get that updated info.

I've been seeing walled-sized cards in Instagram ads - "if something happens to me, my pet is home alone." I guess I should have something in my wallet with that and refresh the feeding instructions and list of vets, etc., for just in case.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Aug 23 - 10:28 AM

Still jumping through hoops for the library card renewal. One more attempt later today (after a parcel was delivered for me at my ex's house. Not everyone who has a library card owns the house where they live, but they need to show they get deliveries or mail there.) Since I did the math and realized Pepper is nine now I'm giving her the glucosamine supplement Zeke gets. No point in ordering something I don't need just to get the package label, and both of our names are on the label. Pro tip: if you send a package to someone else and want to know that it has arrived with the photo of the delivery, put your name on the package also.

The thermometer is creeping up every day. Just as winter 2021 was fiercely cold, this summer is dreadfully hot (though the cold lasted for under a week; we're going on two months for the excess heat.) In my attempt to use less water I'm going to start showering at the gym (I usually just change and shower at home at the end of the day.) When I wash my hair it takes a bit longer so there will be a water savings. Driving there means burning gas, but I'll make several stops to be an efficient run.

More stuff in the trash this week, and thinning out stuff brought home from the knee surgeries. I don't need duplicates of the device they want you to blow into to test your breathing or all of the huge ace bandages. I already gave away the first set of ice packs (the 2020 surgery) but last week an "ah ha!" moment, realizing I could use the large ice packs in my grocery cooler, so they're in the freezer awaiting any shopping trip. (I used to have a Mudcat Memorial large blue ice pack in the freezer that Amos Jessup left behind when he and the family spent the night on the drive from California to North Carolina, but I gifted it to someone else so it has moved on. I don't remember if it was to Joe Offer or someone else.)

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 05 Aug 23 - 10:41 AM

Well, I carried on with the met stuff… Still no more data added but I’ve been playing with the charts. For the php jonbanjo.com uses (no python there), I’d started with the free version of jpgraph but I had a couple of problems with it and it wouldn’t do what I wanted so I had another search for a php graph package and found php-libplot. I thought I’d give it a whirl. It only handles line type graphs, has a few bugs and limited features so I’d not recommend it. I stuck with it though, modifying and adding code to suit me. Now that I've added tooltips to display values when the mouse is held over a point,I’ll settle for what I have here and here

Mark and Paul and their wives came yesterday evening. It doesn't look as if I’m going to get my missing bits I’d like from the shed but I hope to talk a few things over with my brothers before they leave which I guess will be Sunday afternoon. Their priority at the moment is sorting dad’s bedroom out.

Dad has been stuck in bed since his discharge from hospital mainly because the carers can’t get him up. An OT called on Thursday and said a hospital bed would make that easier as well as enabling him to get in better positions, eg. for meals when he is in bed. The OT has ordered a bed but the room needs clearing out to take it. It’s a small room which currently has 2 single beds and an aisle less than 1m wide between them. Both will have to come out for the hospital bed but as dad is in one, my bothers can only take one out today I don’t know how shifting the bed dad is occupying will be arranged.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Aug 23 - 12:55 PM

I'm glad family is there to help, Jon. Do you store the furniture somewhere or will you donate or send it off with family? It sounds like a convoluted property with many smallish rooms (and some out-buildings? I know I've seen photos).

Laundry is finished; the washer ran overnight and the dryer ran with just a few things (the rest is hanging to dry) so I now have clean underwear to change into after my shower at the gym. The volume of laundry in the summer is so much less, with t-shirts and shorter pants that it doesn't look like I need to do laundry when in fact I'm running out of undies or my favorite type of socks.

The ex had another of the home-services trades at his house yesterday, this time to seal all of the cracks and crevices that mice, rats, raccoons, whatever, might have been using to get into the attic. Now there is an exit available for anything still up there but they can't get back in. Not sure if it's a Hav-a-heart trap or just a one-way flap of some sort. These workers are having to get into his attic when the outside temperature is 110. They need hazardous duty pay.

Waiting for the allergy medications to kick in before starting my rounds. The house is so stuffy because the doors and windows haven't been open for weeks, maybe house dust is getting me. Or from my few garden and birdbath excursions ragweed drifting up from the creek.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 05 Aug 23 - 01:40 PM

I’m afraid there hasn’t been much help for me today. Paul and Cheryl have gone back to wherever they are staying and are only popping in tomorrow morning just to say goodbye before they go back to Sheffield. I’m not sue what Mark and Karen are doing tomorrow but I think they are away for tonight soon.

There’s not much to the bungalow. Starting my end, there is my room then the kitchen. Next there is a corridor and on the right of this are the bathroom and study. At the end, it’s straight on to dads bedroom and left for the living room. The living room is a later extension to the building and makes the L shape.

There are 3 sheds in the front. One small one, one big one and the one I used as my workshop. In the rented part of the field, there are the old pigsties of which 3 are usable (2 x wood stores and the BBQ one) and a brick building we call the Wendy House which holds most of the gardening equipment.

There is a lot of stuff to dispose of. And I don’t know what will happen there...

Thinking washing machines, mum can’t use ours (since getting a new washer drier a couple of years back, she left the laundry to me) and I can’t help her. Mum’s carers are doing the washing now. The app for the machine has been handy as a carer has sometimes been uncertain how to use the machine. I can see the settings they have made on my phone and confirm what they’ve done is right before they set it going.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Aug 23 - 01:43 PM

Wendy House? I can operate a few lightbulbs and TVs with my phone, but intentionally haven't set up other "smart" devices.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 05 Aug 23 - 01:51 PM

In the UK, a Wendy House is a kid's play house.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Aug 23 - 10:48 PM

It was a mildly productive weekend, keeping in mind that anything that takes one outside deserves consideration: can it be postponed until fall? I have my renewed library card and I picked up a few spools of thread for a new indoor project with the new to me sewing machine serger.

A few items were added to the donation bin, one listed on the buy nothing FB page, and a couple of items added to the box that will go to my son when I have enough to seal it up and mail.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 07 Aug 23 - 05:26 AM

I had a notice pop up on my laptop yesterday saying that /home was running out of space. I checked and found I’d 1GB of my 118GB free. It turned out a log file for the display manager was using 58GB! I deleted that, emptied the downloads folder and a couple of other bits and I now have 75GB free.

Both sets of relatives left fairy early Sunday morning so I didn’t get the chance to get anything done I’d hoped for. Maybe next time and both brothers have indicated that they will try to come back “fairly soon” and said that they are freer now than they had been. They did sort a couple of things out with mum though and they’ve done a good with dad’s bedroom.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Aug 23 - 10:51 AM

Getting your dad's room set up is an excellent start, Jon, and virtual decluttering is as satisfying as the physical removal of too much stuff. I'm getting set to do a full backup on a new external HDD and then will install Win11. It's not my preference but I keep stumbling over it, though I will do some reading first and figure out what days will be best for reinstalling all of my software. And if there are programs that will misbehave with the new OS. An upgrade like this can tie up a lot of time so I may have to use the little laptop in the kitchen until everything is in place in the desktop.

The tractor sprinkler is making a slow pass along the back of the house and I'll put down a soaker hose about 18" away from the back wall to run more often; indoors the cracks showing on the back wall are increasing again as the dry weather shifts the foundation. This is watering despite a slight chance of rain today, but rain in this high heat means gawdawful humidity and instant evaporation. It'll feel like a wet sauna without any of the benefits we'd get from a good soaking rain.

I'm continuing my contact list updates today with the neighbors on both sides and across the street. I'll print out my list for them in case they don't see me for a while or something happens and they need to contact family. It would help to have that for them also. I should bake some muffins to take across the street, I haven't seen her in ages. With COPD she rarely ventures outside.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Aug 23 - 02:54 PM

I was lucky to know Katlaughing and her inviting kindness.

I too feel a total brain shift going from music to visual arts.

After nearly 3 weeks of non activity the lazy days of summer are at a close.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Aug 23 - 08:05 PM

The lazy days of summer feel enforced upon us here - try to do much and you risk your life in the heat.

When Jon mentioned clearing out log files it reminded me of layers of old desktop files that I've dropped into folders and moved into the next computer with each replacement, intending to pull the files out and put them to use. Sometimes I did, but often I made a desktop shortcut to the folder and never really unpacked it. I ended up with a lot of duplicate files and convoluted storage. So this afternoon I have stayed in my office chair and sorted through and reorganized a lot of that.

I try to not use the computer default desktop because it lives on the C: drive; I use a small SSC for all of the programs for speed and keep data on the older HDD drives. I move the Desktop file to the D: drive, but still stuff builds up so I also will check the status of the SSD space.

There are now 1,246 items in the Recycle Bin, soon to be emptied. And I need to take a break to do some Essentrics stretches because my back is going to complain about the sedentary day.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Aug 23 - 08:09 AM

We live at a tipping point and a brutal Russian war but it's good to realize how things are gloriously better now than in 2020 on a human level.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Aug 23 - 10:50 AM

A few weeks ago I brought home two large bags of roasted unsalted peanuts in the shell, a regular dog treat, and this morning decided to top off the dogs' canister with some. Out flew a fully-formed weevil. Ugg. Top quickly put on the canister (Tupperware, so it will seal) and the bags and the canister all into the freezer. And a sticky trap that was near the kitchen compost bin for gnats is now sitting on the table just in case that one weevil wants to give itself up quietly. I hate those things. Out of an abundance of caution I'll open one of the pantry moth traps I have stored away; I hope they keep, I've had these for a while. If not, they're cheap enough at Lowe's.

COVID is rising again, I have plenty of tests here for the time being. They are still available free from various places (libraries, some pharmacies, insurance providers will mail them, etc.) My hall pantry shelves store a mix of large kitchen utensils, canning jars, canned and bottled food, baking goods (flour, sugars, powdered milk, etc.) and as of 2020, a section with COVID supplies—Gloves, masks, and tests.

The mail carrier is driving past; I keep the cooler on the porch with bottles of water and this morning brought it in to give it a good scrub just because. The rest of August looks like a scorcher and I'm ready to open the next case of bottled water (from Costco - inexpensive, and two of their bottles can be squeezed into the cooler with ice.)

I've pulled out some old soaker hoses that will be arranged under some of the front yard trees that are ailing in this heat. I'll coil them over the roots out to the drip line and see if I can save the one that looks most likely on its last legs. My water bill this summer is quite high for me, even though I'm not watering turf, just around the foundation, the vegetable garden (what's left of it) and the trees. The neighbors with green lawns and sprinkler systems have bills probably double mine. The backyard looks better than years past because I've let a little native groundcover take over about the back 1/3 of the area. They're small and tough and it isn't as dusty as it has been with just dead turf grass.

The Swedes know the secret to happiness: You are not your stuff

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Aug 23 - 11:18 AM

Lifehacker sometimes has some interesting tips, but this time it gets a firm "Hell, no!" Who would intentionally put this monstrosity in their kitchen over the sink?

/rant off

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 08 Aug 23 - 01:14 PM

All the laptops here are SSD and I think the system drives on the desktop PCs are too. Any other drive in the desktops is probably HDD. My laptop has a 500GB drive with the main big partitions: Windows 11 (combined system and users) 250GB, Linux system 80GB, Linux users 118GB. On the off chance I did find one day that I wanted to store a lot of big files, I got a 2TB external SSD to use with it.

I think the only thing I’ve done since my last post is tidy up my Cromer text weather forecast pages (eg. here and make another page for some of our mountain regions. It’s something to do, I suppose.