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[camperstig]

BL.... Do an eagle Wave! We will be watching...

Safe travels all

Off to the pool to meet with P.T. doc

[Phyl]

Good Morning...Happy Friday    ...!




Today   56F     Tonight  41F


 
Karen-sure hope  you'll be one of the on getting for dry macular degeneration.  Hope she can find out this works and you she is  qualify. I think it only prevents further deterioration of the condition, but e

Lani-a safe journey for Mike

CLynn- cute blue kitty this AM. Thanks for BB update and that lovely close up of Iris

Tig-glad you're able to get your usual morning swim






   Prayers for:  Victims of natural  and Man-made disasters plus those who rescue them. The Fallen / Our Allies in Defense of our country. And   #47.   Police and First Responders.   'Little Gray' and 'Little One' and  all abandoned, abused , lost cats , stray, unloved, homeless  and feral cats.
The Bluebirds of Cane Ridge, Tennessee,  Sauces bald eagle cam nest, Hummingbirds, Bumble Bees  and Honey bees everywhere . As always, Beakers, Cheers and RRP / families.

[Phyl]

Nature 365:

https://www.nature365.tv/video/2025-04-11-prairie-chicken

https://www.nature365.tv

[Phyl]

Cicadas are back—and this time it’s the ‘mother of all broods’


The eastern U.S. is about to be inundated with trillions of Brood XIV periodical cicadas—which were first documented by the pilgrims in 1634.

ByJason Bittel
April 7, 2025
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/brood-XIV-periodical-cicadas-emerge?rid=EBE150D77D2DB51479B2E2AEE712FBB9&cmpid=org%3Dngp%3A%3Amc%3Dcrm-email%3A%3Asrc%3Dngp%3A%3Acmp%3Deditorial%3A%3Aadd%3DWeeklyEscape_20250409&loggedin=true&rnd=1744328959452



Periodical cicadas have red eyes and emerge from the ground at 13- or 17-year intervals. Brood XIV is part of the latter group.
Photograph By Rebecca Hale, Nat Geo Image Collection

[tsk34]

TIG    Good decision.  I still see folks in large crowds wearing masks.  Camper can take some pics     How did the pool go today - Curious.

OLDGUY    Dueling pianos - The song begs for audience participation  LOL  Good one.      Cute compilation vid for Hana's 12th b-day 

PHYL   Jim home - yay.  Wonder what they did?  Hope he can rest for a few days now.

KAREN   I had not hear about the shot for dry macular - boy, that will help a lot of people.  I also heard there is now a test for Alzheimers.   

BL   I'm confused about who is moving but do enjoy the Masters - Let  know what hole you will be on and I'll wave!

LANI    LOLOLOLOL  Mike's desk.  Yesterday between Tim's recliner and his table - I moved the table to get at all the spilled stuff in between.  Good grief.  Every now and then I have him tip the recliner back while I vacuum up all the food under it 
(((Mike)))  Travel is exhausting..   I'm having a hard time realizing I just cannot do what I used to do!  Yesterday hauled 3 hoses from the garage out to their faucets.  One I unroll and lay along the side of the house so it is hidden behind plants so it can be used where there is no faucet.  Took me about an hour.  Can hardly get out of bed today.  SIGH     

CLYNN   Sure hope you have clear sailing for tomorrow.  Southern IL has really had a lot of rain.

[Puff]

Phyl

UGGGG!!!!!  Memories of the cicada.  It was and is an absolute horrid way to spent a summer.  Hated to even go outside to get the mail.

My one big consolation is that it is an 11 or 13 years scheduled plague.  I won't be here for the next onslaught; if I am I won't know or notice anything.   

P   

[oldguy]

Clynn - I see that this current flooding on the Wabash is expected to peak on the 13th (Sun) at 31.2 ft  in Mt Carmel.  This will still be 3 feet below the record from May of 2011.
Closer to Albion is Bonpas Creek at Browns (4 miles E.) - This was at 3.5 feet on Apr. 2 and peaked at 24.5 on the 6th - it is slowly coming down and is still at 18 feet.  No reports of closed roads in the area because of flooding.  Note: Hwy 15 has 2 areas of construction near Sims and Fairfield to the W. of Albion.  Safe travels...

[camperstig]

some bounce

TSK... It was good. He took my H.R. first and we/I did walk/run laps in the shallow end in between all the other 10 exercises... some in the deep end.
It was funny to me when he grabbed a couple noodles for me to use in the deep end when I was doing a scissor move. I asked if I could ditch the noodles. He said yes, if you are comfortable. So I showed him I could do the move with my hands stationary above the water. I think he was impressed I was so comfortable.

Now to order groceries and purchase movie tickets for this afternoon. TTFN

[karengramke]

Good morning and happy TGIF
Phyl, as you have probably read, macular, degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in the world. There has been very little successful research done to either cure or stop. This degenerative attributes of the condition. There has been a shot for wet, macular degeneration, but it has been deemed unsuccessful when used winfir dry. as I have dry  And this is the first treatment that has proved to be anywhere near successful in treating the condition.  No, it doesn’t cure it, but it does as you say, stop the degenerative process to some degree this to me will be a miracle.  I am legally blind in my right eye, and I cannot read anything on the eye chart at the doctors office the Square where the letters are too busy I completely blanked. In other words I see no letters. I cannot read with my right eye, but I do have sight in my left eye, although it is not anything like I had, and is not correctable with a Lens.   My reading is confined to that on the iPad, which I used to read and also to hold over things like the oven controls, medication, bottles, checks, and credit card information by putting the iPad into a photo mode and holding the  the thing to be red  under  that lens, I am able to see. So it is not only that this shot only stops the process it is the only thing available to save my remaining sight.  I hope I qualify for this treatment.   If this was available a few years ago, I would have sight in my right I would not have to have any help. I could drive myself everywhere I wanna go it wasn’t to be tho. .
Clynn, Safe travels to your moms and have a great time are there I know you will be careful on the road
There are maps showimng where the cicadas are to emerge this year.  I am not sure But I do not think it is as far north as Chicago. You might want to Google the cicada, map.
Have an enjoyable day

[kbshcb]

This is a pic of a raptor center (UofM) where I volunteered, placing a baby GHO back in it's nest with it's sibling and mom nearby.

This is right down the street from me, my city's Woodlake Nature Center.

A visitor noticed a baby owl on the ground, the nature center alerted the raptor center. They picked it up and it had a broken ulna. Baby's bones heal quickly and in a few days it was placed back in it's nest.

[LisaG1967]

Good Morning Beakers


((karen)) - Hope that you qualify for the shot. 

BL - Hope you have a great time in Augusta!

Lani - Glad to hear Mike returned home safely, and relaxed.  Thanks for the bear study yesterday.

clynn - Have a safe trip to your Mom's in the morning. Great pics of the BB kiddos. They sure are growing like weeds.

tig - Good luck at pool with PT doc, oops reading further...it was good 

Phyl - Thanks for the 365. 

((tsk)) - Hope you are feeling a lil better this morning, from your busy outdoor work yesterday.

Puff - I remember you were not crazy about those cicadas. 

kb - Glad the baby was placed back in the nest.

oldguy - Morning 

[camperstig]

KB... Way cool

[tsk34]

TIG   You are not new to the pool.  Glad you did so well and hope his "10 exercises" will help you along further.

KAREN   Sure hope you can qualify.  Bad now for sure but you wouldn't want your eye to get worse.   I think we had punishment enough last year with cicadas so do not think we are in for it again this year.

KB   Very cool about the owl.

LISA  Do feel the effects from yesterday but all will go away.  Dug out a dead conifer from my garden - not too bad and will be a perfect place to relocate a hosta I want to move.  I won't have to dig a hole for it  LOL

[baziunc]

Howdy Beakers! 

TSK, yes, we definitely have to come around to coming around to changing how we do things as we age.  You definitely stay very active and busy, no less. That's a good thing! Yay for Spring, and the garden and yard perking up again! You know how to pace yourself.  The first shot for dry macular degeneration was approved back in Feb. 2023, and another, second one, was approved shortly after in Aug. 2023. There are lots of TV ads for them these days. They sometimes can help slow the progression of the disease in some people. They have some potential serious side effects in some people, like many medicines do, and there are quite a number of contraindications. My best friend has that condition, inherited... runs in her family - her father had it, and 1 of her sisters has it now, and maybe a 2nd of her sisters, too, I'm not sure. Anyway, my good friend, a retired PA, who I visit in Atlanta occasionally, got one of those 2 new meds/injections for her dry macular degeneration several times, starting back in 2023. She may have tried both of them - I don't remember that now, though I do remember her talking about it. I don't remember how long she got those injections, but she was not one of the lucky ones to get a slowed progression benefit, as best they could tell. The related question about that always is, well what would have been your eyesight status if you hadn't taken the med? No one knows the answer to that question, of course. It's a "maybe" result, and for those that it helps, it's a God send, in terms of retaining more vision longer. My friend's status is pretty advanced now - she's my age - it started in her latter 60s for her. She went to a convention in Florida a year or two ago, or so, for equipment and aids for people with different kinds of disabilitites, and got to try out some new cutting edge tech for people with limited vision, or none. She has the financial ability to afford some of those things that have become available, so that has been helpful to her in her daily activities at home. I hope more research will continue for this awful condition that robs people of their eyesight. Sad that so many research studies and trials are being forced to end, especially before results are known for so many of the studies that were in progress and showing signs of possible good results.

(((Karen))), I hope you qualify for the eye injections you mentioned, and that it will help! Have you been able to get an appt to get the maneuvers done to help get rid of your vertigo? I hope you can get rid of that soon! As Pooh would say, "Oh, bother."  Meanwhile, I hope some meds will help a bit for your back till you can get to your doc for more treatment.

OG, thanks, I enjoyed your video of Graham Nash's song - LOL, and his story about how he came to write it. LOLOL!! Of course I was a major CSNY fan and had their albums, but Graham Nash was a major heartthrob of mine, way back, and I loved a couple of his solo albums, which I basically wore out. 

Clynn, I bet you're going to see a lot of flooding in places. I feel so much for all affected by it. Smooth travels!! 

Lisa, I would kill for that bagel you posted!!  I'm dieting - trying to lose the comfort-food poundage I put on over winter. 

Tig, good exercise! I guess the "can't have private PT at the pool more than once" issue got resolved. 

KB, aww, glad the baby owl was found and repaired and released back to his family so quickly.

Lani, LOL, on the collection of foodstuffs, etc. you found under the stack in Mike's hideaway/office.  Glad he got home okay, and got to just sit and relax. Your description reminded me that my father often practiced that sitting and thinking vs. sitting routine, and he often put out that saying that goes, "Sometimes I sit and think, and sometimes I just sit."  I now practice/say it, too.

(((Phyl))), glad Jim is home and looks/sounds some better. Hope you both keep resting and convalescing till you're both well again.

BL, enjoy Augusta and The Masters! 

Puff, I always thought the cicadas looked really cool, and when I was a kid, we used to collect their hard shed skins from a giant oak tree trunk in our front yard. LOL. Hopefully you're not in an area where they will be too awful this time!



I'm a big fan of science, and not just because I was a math and chemistry major in my wayback. 

Later, Gators!

[clynndunn]

oldguy, my Grandparents were about 1/2 a mile from Kitchen's Bridge over the BonPas. That area was part of Browns, but it was closer to Bone Gap. My sister and I used to ride our bikes down the gravel road to the bridge and play. There was an old one room schoolhouse there that Mom used to go to. and there is a little cemetery on the other side of the bridge where my Great Great Grandparents are buried. Someone posted a picture of the flooding om FB and I posted it a couple of days ago, but when I went back to look at it, it wasn't there and now I can't find it! The flooding was way more than I have ever seen. Grandpa hauled a row boat down the road to the edge of the flood and we went to my Grandmother's Aunt and Uncle's house to check on them, they lived close to the BonPas on a small hill. Uncle Albert was a proper gentleman, he wrote a column in the weekly paper called The Bard of the BonPas. And Mom and I always go to Fairfield a couple of times, that is where the Walmart is!  It is 15 miles west of Albion, and the Little Wabash floods near there almost every year.

THE BARD of the BONPAS: Albert M. Walton lived southeast of Bone Gap near Bonpas Creek. This well known man was highly respected for his faith, honesty, integrity, wit, sage advice, and wisdom. He was born in a log cabin March 11, 1890 to James and Florence Walton. He married Clara Horton in 1917.


baz, it should be smooth sailing tomorrow, but I do wish it was 50 miles instead of 500! My vision drives me crazy at times, left eye is blurry and I am constantly wanting to rub it so it will be clear. Doesn't work. If I really need to be visually alert, like when driving, I close the left I and I can see fine. Oh well, we all get our aging afflictions, and we just do the best we can! Right karen?  I was a big seamstress until we got Erin, and then Kelsey. No time after that!! I used to weave baskets too! I love any one of the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg-Qdrr3XSk

Lisa, beauty of a bagel, you find the most beautiful treats to go with the coffee!

tsk, not only chuckling at what Lani found on Mikes desk, but also what you found in Tim's chair! Where oh where would they be without us... Ed would be laying in a gutter somewhere, starving and dirty.

Phyl, cute stick legged Raggedys, they are so cute! I sure hope you and Jim are on the road to feeling better!

Hellgate Canyon - This guy arrived with a stick! Gentleman 🌹🤞🏻 And Iris is not running him off!


Gotta go get some things done!