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Just More of Ken's Nonsense
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Mary Stetler
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Yes, I think I like tomatoes all over the kitchen counter and the jars of dilly beans in the background. Easier to see.
Mary Stetler
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One last personal note on magnesium and cramps. If I get cramps at nite a spoon of mustard will get rid of them immediately although I do take a bit more magnesium then. But I have found that if I sleep too soundly with one leg on another or one raised too high, the cramp may be from lack of circulation which makes me think of periferal artery disease.That was for dramatic effect.
Beth Gallagher
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Apologies for cluttering Ken's diary with cramp discussion, but I don't have nighttime muscle cramps. I had a weird cramp in the arch of my foot after wearing different sandals but that was a one-off and I just stood up and walked it off.
I hope you don't have PAD, Mary! I still have occasional chemo/radiation related cramping across my upper torso but that is an entirely different ballgame. I take magnesium but it does not touch the chemo cramps, and neither does mustard, pickle juice, etc. Those cramps are from hell and take my breath away, causing me to ugly cry like a toddler.
I only mentioned the foot cramp in response to Ken's "stretching caused a weird pain" post.
These random old-people pains are annoying. Sorry for the OT stuff, @Ken Anderson .
Mary Stetler
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It's ok. Ken is old too.Apologies for cluttering Ken's diary with cramp discussion, but I don't have nighttime muscle cramps. I had a weird cramp in the arch of my foot after wearing different sandals but that was a one-off and I just stood up and walked it off.
I still have occasional chemo/radiation related cramping across my upper torso but that is an entirely different ballgame. I take magnesium but it does not touch the chemo cramps, and neither does mustard, pickle juice, etc. Those cramps are from hell and take my breath away, causing me to ugly cry like a toddler.
I only mentioned the foot cramp in response to Ken's "stretching caused a weird pain" post.
Sorry for the OT stuff, @Ken Anderson .
2.2 miles
I want to go for a hike in the woods, but it's been raining all day. If I get rained on while walking, the experience is often pleasant as long as the temperatures aren't low, but starting out on a walk in the rain is a different thing. I might have to do it, anyhow.
Okay, I went for a two-mile hike through the woods in the rain, and it wasn't bad at all. It was actually more than two miles, but my watch decided to pause my workout partway through, for reasons unknown, so it didn't count the portion of it from then until I noticed.
I've never noticed much of a homeless problem here in Millinocket. A few years back, we had a few drug addicted individuals living in the wooded area that is now a normal part of my walk, known, for some reason, as the Monkey Trails, but they've been gone for at least a couple of years. However, this summer, I have been seeing people walking by pushing wagons, of the sort that children used to play with, with stuff in them (I haven't looked closely enough to see what, but it looked like there was a fan of some sort in one. There is one woman who looks, shall we say, down on her luck, who walks by with her wagon of stuff, sometimes empty, sometimes with stuff in it, and then there is a couple, who probably aren't chamber of commerce members, who go by separate from the other woman. Well aware that I might look homeless at times, when I am on a walk, I'd say they look homeless.
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For some reason, Bing doesn't want to index the directory pages for Amelia, Ohio, which I added a couple of months ago, so let's see if its spider will follow it from here.
3.1 miles - a night hike. The green areas are wooded areas or parkland, and unless I am planning a particularly long hike, I arrange my hikes to go through wooded areas wherever possible because it's boring to walk along a sidewalk. Millinocket has a lot of wooded areas in town, and the town itself is surrounded by wooded areas, although some of them aren't easily walkable. Some are maintained walking trails, which are relatively easy, although there may still be a lot of roots and rocks; others are ATV or snowmobile trails, and some of the areas I walk on are animal trails. At times, I just barge through the brush when I have reason to believe that I will come across a trail, or maybe it looks like a trail when I started, and I have that masculine dislike of going back the way I came. I often regret those, largely because I will tend to get wet, bitten by mosquitoes and black flies. This particular walk was all in areas that I am familiar with, however.
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Another night walk - 2.7 miles
I got a little twisted around in the wooded area to the north, as I missed my trail in the dark. I had a flashlight but was trying not to use it.
This was recently done, profiling Millinocket, where I live. Peter Santellano profiles towns all over the country, and does a pretty good job of it. If you haven't watched his stuff, you might want to. The guy who is showing him around is a jerk, although he doesn't come off that way in the video. I don't think they show our house; although they drive right by it, the camera is focused on the other side of the street, but they show a large part of the town. The GNP buildings, what's left of them, are just a few blocks south of me. He stops in at Preble Oil, where we get our heating oil from. Nice people. He also interviews Joe, our electrician. We hired him to do work on our house before he got his license, so he still charges us what he charged us then. He lives across the street and a couple of houses down from us.
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Mary Stetler
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Lots of small towns around here went down here. But then they started to be bedroom communities for Milwaukee. Now they are also becoming a drug highway. Chicago to Green Bay.
You're not too far from where I grew up, then. I was born in Marinette, Wisconsin (only because my parents preferred the Marinette hospital to the one that was then in Menominee), and grew up in Wallace, just north of Menominee, Michigan.
I slept so well yesterday that I logged 24 standing hours yesterday on my Apple Watch.