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I watched a story once where they were talking to a former logger. He said he had what he referred to as a supernatural experience where he started hearing the trees scream when they were being chopped down. He knows people think he is a wack job but he believes firmly to this day that he heard what he heard. He has since found a different line of work.
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Speaking of trees, decade or so ago I finally got a chance to go back to the city where I grew up from the age 2 to 22 after being away for 30 years. The house still resembled its old self, but was missing was the grand old chestnut tree out front.

Just seemed so weird not having that tree there any more, in fact, many of the big old trees were gone from that street... sad, it just didn't feel like "home" as I remembered it.
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I remember all those old scarey movies,, I still love "animal" horror films! The one that scared me for life was Frogs.. handsome Sam Elliot.. lonely southern mansion in the swamp;; almost put me off camping!!
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I remember a movie as a kid
Krakatoa east of Java
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I just watched a great doc/movie on You Tube called "Krakatoa, The Last Days August 1883". It's based on interviews with actual survivors and diaries, including those of a scientist that was there. Very well done and SO interesting....
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CM,
And I'm guessing big, strong and handsome Howard Keel didn't put up with triffids either
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CM, I'm not sure of the title. I was in elementary age. My family loved watching scary movies - Alfred Hitchcocks, the ever-depressing Twilight Zone, etc... But I remember that the movie was a black-and-white film. So, it must be an old re-run film before 1980's. I just remembered that they always showed it moving at nights.

I can tell you factually, since I've experienced it personally, that One tree can sure shake itself hard while all the other shrubs and tall trees are not moving, no wind blowing their leaves. This happened a few years ago. I - the cowardly one of my whole siblings - stared at the shaking tree with its leaves making such a racket behind me - turned my back to it and Pretended I didn't see it doing that. =)
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Book, you are surely to heaven not talking about The Day of The Triffids, are you? Believable?????

Think this through. Those triffids would first of all have to see off Himalayan balsam and Japanese knotweed and giant hogweed. Our natural earthbound plant life wouldn't put up with triffids for a moment, don't you worry.

Gershun, trees are true landmarks in our life and there is nothing remotely dumb about being attached to them. Hugs to you.
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Book, I talk to trees too. I had two huge, bushy pine trees outside where I used to live. I lived at that place for almost thirty years. We moved this last October. These trees started out waist high when I moved in and now they are 60, 70 feet. I cried when we moved. This may sound dumb but I felt like they were my friends. They even comforted me when my dear Mom died. I still miss them.

Remember that movie The Birds. There is a place here where I live where the crows gather. Thousands of them. It's eerie. Especially when you consider that a group of crows is called a murder. :P
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Not sure the decade but.... Birds attacking people. Dogs attacking people. Clowns killing people. Dolls killing people. Lightning causing natural disaster. A volcano eruption in the middle of a city... unnatural tornadoes...

I think the one that scared me the most and found believable was the plants/vines creeping slowly to kill people. I sometimes talk to plants and trees, telling it how pretty it is. I don’t think I ever got over my fear of that old black and white movie.
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Remember all the disaster movies from the 1970s - Poseidon Adventure - towering inferno - earthquake ?
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Gersh, you cracked me up. I was chuckling as I read it. Good thing I could never finish watching that show. I've tried so many times. I much prefer to read/watch the documentaries on it. Fascinating stuff. Sad, too... They have the modern day version with regards to that Italian cruise ship captain and his crew abandoning ship without even telling the passengers. I believe he finally went to trial last year and they found him guilty. When I watched the news stories on it, it reminded me so much of the Titanic. I think it was the contracted out workers who helped the passengers get off that ship, too. It's been a while. My memory may be fuzzy on that detail.
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Book, go and have fun! Just don't watch the Titanic before you go. Just saying.........:P
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Niece in Colorado just FB messaged me. She's treating herself and her mom (my older sister) to a 7-day Hawaiian cruise next year in May. Her mom has always wanted to take the Hawaiian cruise. Niece is inviting me. She knows that her mom and I are close - bookworms, nerdy, bookworms... not adventurous (as in hiking, canoeing, etc..). I said yes, I want to go!

I might have to purchase+miles for my airline ticket to about $700.00 which will save me another $700 from just completely buying my ticket. My tax refund can cover that ticket. Oh.... Oops, I thought I was going to have to cancel my trip to Texas this year. I just remembered my boss will be covering for that ticket.

I just need to google if it's feasible if I should go on a cruise if I have vertigo problem. I hate to spend the whole time hiding inside the cabin... Actually, I have never ever had any desire to go on a cruise. You're stuck on a ship for days and days. I mean, I do have my books which I spend all my free time reading anyway. But... I would like to experience a cruise at least once in my lifetime.... Eek... I'm already panicking... Did I forget to mention that I'm terrified of water??? (I still panic when the bathtub water starts rising above my ankle.)  When I go to the beach here on island, and wade into the water, I start panicking when the waves hit me anywhere above my knees. And we have Tame waves not like one sees in Hawaii or Virginia. Excited but scared...
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I was at the pharmacy today and I was told there is a new shingles vaccine out and that you should get it even if you had the old one (which I did have a few years ago). I'm going to get the new vaccine. I definitely had chicken pox (still have the scars) but I haven't had shingles and I'm praying not to get it. It's miserably painful under the best of circumstances and yes there can be complications. So sorry for the loss of your brother, Gershun.
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I was planning to sleep in late this morning. I purposely decided not to sleep my usual time. I went to sleep this morning at 2:00am.  The sunrise woke me up nice and bright at 6:00am...  early till 2am, I was busy downloading lots of free ebooks or on sale $0.99 maybe due to Memorial Holiday. I was finding series of books for $0.99. Series!

Okay, confession time. I was looking at each and every free or $0.99 sales to see if their audio books were also on sale for $1.99. When I do find it does, I read the summary and then listen to the audio sample. I once bought a book series and the audiobooks - only to find out I couldn’t stand the narrator. .. I found one interesting series on sale for both - and the narrator had a nice voice but spoke with a very, very Pronounced “sssss” at the end of the word of ‘s’ sound. Her ‘wants’ ended up with ‘wantsssss’. I couldn’t even finish the end of the audio sample. .. In college, in the speech class that I dropped out of, I learned that was a common problem among speaking - the sssss sound. The instructor showed us how to not do that. I adjusted my speech to avoid the ssss. I still sometimes find myself falling back to it.
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Speaking of shingles........don't want to scare anyone but my eldest brother died due to complications from shingles. It wasn't diagnosed early enough and the virus went into his brain which caused encephalitis which led to pneumonia. Scary.

So, better safe than sorry in my opinion.

Bookluver, I agree. We should all appreciate more sunsets. Due to my insomnia, I appreciate sunrises as well. LOL
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I got the shingles vaccine a few years ago. I know a few people who have had shingles. Very nasty - no, thank you!
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I was hoping to find out that the shingles vaccine might also protect you from the worst of chicken pox but no it doesn't. Dang.

You really don't want to be getting either of these, they are both utterly miserable; but unless your GP is going to recommend you get both vaccines, and will tell you what order to do it in, I'd at least get the shingles one.

Any suggestion that you might check your immunity? I don't know if you can, or how, but I'd have thought it worth doing.

Daughter 2 was four months old when chickenpox visited our household, and exclusively breastfed (sorry if TMI). She got a total of nine poxes, not very long lasting, and it would have been quite easy to miss them altogether; whereas Son was wretched for days and Daughter 1 got cellulitis on top and gave us some serious heart-stopping moments.

BUT Daughter 2 then got shingles *aged 5* - we had paediatricians and infectious disease specialists poking their heads into the consulting room just to gawp at her - and has a mildly peculiar immune system in other ways too.

It's a really mean and horrible virus family. Be as fussy and demanding as you like, and whatever the doctors decide in the end make sure they've thought it all through properly.
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My eyes landed on my cholesterol pills. I saw the issue date: 04/11/18... I have a 3 month follow-up with the blood test referral already given to me for it. I haven't been taking the pills for weeks. I opened it and counted how many pills are left. 20 pills out of 30. I haven't even finished the original bottle. If I was taking this faithfully like I should, I would be on my 1st refill, soon to be 2nd refill on June 11th... I have a feeling that referral blood work will be expired by the time I complete the 3 months trial basis to see if the cholesterol pill is working.
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I did a google about taking the shingles vaccine if you never had chicken pox. They do recommend it. Even if you had shingles, they recommend you still get the vaccine. Seems the shingles can re-occur.

Sis invited us to dinner at a Chinese restaurant. The chicken cashew was such a disappointment. It was darker color than it should have been. And very salty. Good thing I also ordered beef brocoli.

Anyway, on the way home around 6:45pm, we were driving down the side of the high hill (or small cliffside). I looked out towards the ocean and gasped. I said, "Look! The moon is so beautiful! It's so big and round! And it's orange!" I said that we should take a photo of it. {hint, hint} Hint was not taken.

As we continued driving down the cliffside, I said, "That is awfully big for a moon. I've never seen a moon that big. Maybe it's the sun????" Sis and hubby couldn't tell if it's the moon or the sun... Hubby said maybe it's the sun because it's setting on the opposite side of the sunrise. Wow... I didn't know we can stare right at the sun while it's setting. I mean, my eyes weren't hurting from looking at it directly. It was Orange!!! I mean the whole circle was orange. No other color in it... It's too bad sis and her hubby are not into natural beauty. I'm going to write a reminder note to myself to try to leave tomorrow around 6:30pm and find a beach where I can take a photo of the sun setting. FYI, someone on FB videotaped the sun setting behind the ocean line. The sky was purple, red and orange! Beautiful!
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"It is not possible to have shingles if you have never been exposed to chickenpox or the varicella virus that causes it.

"Once exposed, the virus can lay dormant for years. Most adults with the dormant virus never experience an outbreak of shingles or any further problems."

www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154912.php

I guess it's possible you have been exposed to the virus without actually breaking out in chicken pox?  I imagine that's what your doctor is thinking, anyway. Is it possible to have NOT been exposed? Like, did you have a really isolated childhood?  Otherwise, you could've been exposed a hundred times at school and just not had the actual pox.

I've been thinking about getting the vax, but I'm not quite 50 yet....


Edit:  I just read that chicken pox is way more serious in adults - adults are more susceptible to complications like pneumonia, joint inflammation, and encephalitis, among other things.  Maybe you should get the chicken pox vax!

https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/chickenpox-varicella-vaccine-guidelines-for-adults#1
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Has anyone had the shingles vaccine?

Dr suggested it today

I told him I had never had chicken pox as a child - he found that odd and asked if I was sure
Yes I'm sure
He said I should get it anyway
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Had tooth surgery, been on amoxicillin. I remember as a kid getting penicillin shots. So nice just taking a pill.

Well, this sounds crazy, but my mind has been clearer and I am quicker on the recall than I have been in years. Hey I liked this :) I will be seeing my primary doctor next week for a routine check up and will ask her about this.

Yet I just checked on the internet and found medical reports that antibiotics can cause mental confusion. And here I had just the opposite. Oh well, I have always had some opposite reaction to meds, like pills to calm me down would make me nervous. Go figure.
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It's a beautiful Friday afternoon

Yaba daba do
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Gershun, I, too, thought I would go back to work in offices, since I had done Real Estate, managed a Best Western, secretarial at the Nat'l Park service, etc. etc. - boy had office work gotten past me! So I asked at the local AL if there were any residents whose FAMILIES might like a regular (paid means regular, as opposed to volunteer, which can mean when you feel like going) visitor. Guess what? It just so happened that someone's daughter was going away for 6 weeks and they would love to have the mom (Alzheimers) visited 2x a week while she was gone. This was private pay, a very good rate, only 2 hrs, which I put together with my shopping, visit to mom, lunch with a friend, or any other reason to get dressed and go to town. The job ended up lasting 2 years; half way through another daughter asked if I could visit her mom weekly - she'd like 2x a week, but can't manage that right now - and that is still happening - 2 1/2 years later. At only once a week, it pays for a housekeeper (Yeaaah!) and a day of handy person helping hubby outside (so I don't have to). Well worth it, and we have fun; out to coffee, lunch out or at the facility, drive to the river and sit with a DQ, sort her medicine cabinet, read to her, sit in the sun/shade and talk.... I always come back in a better mood, and always manage to make her laugh! What would a caregiver or relative who could afford it pay for that? Also, I'm another pair of eyes and ears if there are any problems.  What do you think?
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When I was in college or maybe high school, my dad always told me never quit a job until you have another one in the bag. In some part of my brain, I still hear him saying that. I come from a part of WV along the Ohio River valley where most people worked big farms, plus had a day job in Charleston. My mom worked full time, even past retirement age. I have all of that floating around in my head and I’m where will I work if I retire. What’s my next job?
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Willie and all, I get the extra money issue. Hubs lost his job a few years ago,, it was not great paying,, but you really miss it when its gone! He now stays home with mom and takes care of her, and our property and the river home his dad owns, and has lately started for mowing/snow removal for a neighbor or two. My job paid more, and I had the benefits.. but it's been a challenge! And yes as freqflyer says,, I am not ready to retire yet! I could,, but I'd go crazy and I know it! My hubs temperament is better suited to stay home.. I plan to work 2 more years,, but I may work longer if I feel up to it.
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temporary jobs worked for me for a long time.
word of mouth, not an agency.
in my field of medical assistant.

but look at me now, i cannot even capitalize properly at my age.

but once you get out into your neighborhood for a day or two,
you might find everyone else is having the same struggle, or worse.

promising myself to hide out at home more, it is a crazy world out there!
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All good ideas and I will definitely consider them. Thx everyone!
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