Made a nice soup earlier. Boiled sweet peppers, white mushrooms, sweet potato, red beet, garlic, broccoli, red cabbage and once soft added vegetable broth and steel cut oats to it. Finally added yellow curry paste and a can of coconut milk. Once everything was really soft placed it in a blender for a soup.
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Iargo Springs outside of Oscoda, MI requires video. See it here: https://youtu.be/R-yIf_jktiw?si=KekJhS5IxGeucdgk
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Deer fawn in backyard. Left gate open last night and momma deer made herself at home with my okra plants. Debris line on French is where the water got up to in our recent Texas Hill Country floods
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I am so sorry. I wa wondering how much you might be affected.
Beautiful picture.
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Wow! I hope your house is uphill.
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House was fine. My daughter’s house got some water and they had to remove about 2 feet of Sheetrock and insulation to let it dry out in one part, but overall not bad. Sadly, about 100 families in our county lost everything, and we were not even the hardest hit.
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A friend and I came across one with a diameter about the size of that of a basketball a couple of weeks ago. I’ve never seen one washed up before that was even half that large!
It looked a lot like the above but add a pale yellow section to the outside rim, about half as wide as the sections visible in your pic.
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Saharan dust is a significant component of West Indian soils. In the geological record, this forms distinctive reddish paleosol layers that often alternate with marine deposits, correlating with the glacial ups and downs of sea level.
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A marigold:
(I’ve also made a version out the nearly white grains of pollen on the front of the petal edited out.)
We seem to be growing a fine crop of aphids this year:
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Second or third time in a decade finding the pineapple bolete.
Potentially found an orange bolete with tons of snails munching on it.
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Looks like you’ve been playing badminton!
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I’ve been trying to get back to where I was before and go beyond. I’m struggling with dumbbells because my missing index finger is not there to help hold it and the middle can only do a portion of what it was before. The thumb can’t get as tight. I was able to get up a 50lb dumbbell with my bad hand 3 sets of 6. My forearm and hand was hurting. I tried 60 and just could not hold it. Though last I could barely hold 45lbs. I was able to get 200lbs on the shoulder press bench machine using both hands. I’ve been back into rucking. Rucked 6 miles with 120lbs on Saturday.
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You are making incredible progress, although it probably doesn’t feel that way to you right now. Learning new ways to accomplish old tasks and learning what modifications you need (as well as yow to use them) will take time. You are learning to use your body in new ways, and that will take a lot of practice.
Have the wounds healed ok?
Thanks for the update. I will keep praying for your recovery.
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I’m still healing. The thumb still has like a single layer clear scab or something and the very tip is still not healed up all the way. I have to have another minor surgery on the middle finger tip. I have a few weeks of physical therapy less and it’s mostly focused on sensitivity and fine motor skills. They did a test using small prongs and I can’t feel a distinction between 1-2 prongs. So we are working on that and inhabe been having to do stuff like close my eyes and place washers on and take them off bolts. They don’t hurt to bad but hurt enough that it’s slowing me down at work. My percentile was down to 38%. Supposed to be able to move 2,400 parts in a 8 hour span of this one part I’m working with. Was only able to get a fraction of that. But with other projects I was at 200%.
Outside of work I can mostly text with them. Can’t type at all on a keyboard. Well a little. I’m going to a prosthetic place in a few weeks. Everyone and then at work I feel sick to my stomach randomly when operating a machine. I’m hoping within a few more months I’ll be able to get back up above 100% on everything. If not I’ll quit on my own. Not going to work in a place where my max is under the standard even if they won’t fire me because of it.
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Your work at the shop is a massive on-the-job OT session 5,6 long days a week. You have been forced to complete your work differently with no choice of your own, and you are making good progress. I challenge any of your coworkers to do as well.
At the moment it’s a job. It pays the bills. It’s likely that there are better jobs out there, but it can take time to find one and deal with all the red tape. Your doctor can help you deal with paperwork for work accomodations.
Has your employer made any progress on work safety? I have thoughts on this that are not fit for public discussion.
Hang in there. You are doing a great job.
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In our prayers still. PTSD is a real thing. There is some indication playing Tetris helps, of all things.
It reminds me of a story a speaker told. He had an amputation and a little kid kept looking at it and finally asked what happened. He replied “I’ll tell you if you promise not to ask any more questions” to which the boy agreed. He then said,“It was bit off.”
You gotta laugh a little to keep from crying, sometimes.
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My job is pretty accommodating. Ultimately I’ll still have to reach the standard. But that’s years down the road. Plus it’s just some parts I’m not doing super good with at the moment. Other machines and parts I still out work most others in and still have good quality. They even talked to me about maybe moving from being a press operator to getting forklift certified and moving material and parts from unloading bay to presses and then from presses to the quality control bay and then prepare them for shipping. Then doing press operations for OT if I want on weekends. They ordered light curtains that are coming in for presses that did not have them, including the one I got hurt in. They created new steps on if two people are operating a press only one can be within three feet of the press and buttons.
I’m still debating on what I want to do with the original emergency room visit though. I do feel like I was kind of shoved out and not actually treated. Showed up with fingers missing and still had to do about 20 minutes of paperwork. Then the fingers never had the oil and metal pieces taken out of it. Just poured a solution over it. Then was given the shots but they worn off in 8 hours when was still 13 hours short of the appointment time and when it wore off the pain was just exploding.
I’m mostly just trying to move past it all. I do wish I lived in a state with better workers comp but it is what it is. I figure in another years time I’ll have a better idea on it all. Short of another accident next year should be far better in every way.
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I didn’t want to ask at first, but right away I wondered, where was the light curtain?
Closest I even came to being squished was when a chain on a hoist broke and dropped a load of lumber into a pit I was in just moments before.