Subj : Health Was: Nuts To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Sun May 03 2020 09:10:00 Hi Nancy! BM>>>> Hmm! I think the previous message even though you split needs to BM>>>> be even further split! NB>>> Possibly... I did manage to keep the length of each of the new NB>>> parts just under 200 lines, but we managed to add relatively NB>>> lengthy replies... maybe more needs to be snipped out.... BM>> I did snip some, and then added a lot! NB>> We both have been... both.... ;) BM> And now probably even more snipping or splitting! NB> Judicious snipping, if nothing else... ;) I snip! I clip! I hack! NB>>>> it wasn't only Japanese that would have had the parasols we were NB>>>> talking about.... it was common enough in the Western world.... :) BM>>> <1800's Real Estate agent> And here we have a lovely drying and BM>>> storage area for the cowboys' parasols when visiting here at the OK BM>>> Corral. Wrong 'western'! NB>>> Yup... wrong western.... More likely the coasts, and Middle America NB>>> and New England.... Europe as well... :) BM>> Yes, seems umbrellas and parasols were used more by city-folk in the BM>> 'cultured' areas; they just got soaked in the Wild West towns, though BM>> I'd suspect the accuracy on that detail in movies and TV shows to be BM>> wanting. NB>> I'd not be surprised if the cultured folk would bring their parasols NB>> with them when they went out West, though... that sun can get mighty NB>> hot... ;) BM> Plus their mindset is probably still dress for the East. I'm sort of BM> thinking the Lisa Douglas' mindset (Green Acres TV show -- long enough BM> ago you may have seen a segment or two ). And even with current BM> real life there are the "you're a tourist" give-aways: the natives BM> don't wear , or at least not as depicted on TV and movies. BM> Similar for back then: the newcomer lady might wear the bustle and BM> sport the pink parasol whereas the residenced lady probably a skirt BM> without any metal enhancements getting in the way. Some sort of BM> protection from the Sun a probability, just not as fragile. NB> Sounds likely... :) They probably brought the delicate parasol, clothing, etc., they had along, found it didn't hold up, and then purchased a purchased a pretty replacement that was sturdier, so met both needs. NB>>>> And pretty hard to write more than a paragraph on "I played outside NB>>>> with my siblings/friends" or "I read lots of books".... :) BM>>> Which is pretty much what I did during my summer vacations. I BM>>> definitely was not bored - kept busy playing, reading, etc., but "I BM>>> rode my bike with my friends to Fairgrounds Elementary (school on the BM>>> other end of town)" or "rode around on the trails in the woods" barely BM>>> adds a short paragraph. NB>>> I suppose one might go into more detail as to what was seen on the NB>>> trails in the woods.... or which books were read... or even which NB>>> games one was playing.... Maybe half a page.... BM>> Not much changed on the trail from my house up the hill to where my BM>> friends lived -- essentially a block away. Books -- I remember BM>> reading a ton of them but wasn't anywhere near the number of the BM>> contest winner. Slight disappointment but I also didn't want to spend BM>> all summer reading. Games.... Yup: maybe could get a page if I BM>> streched out the angst on the reading contest! NB>> There you go... List all of that ton of books you did read... and then NB>> a paragraph of how badly you felt when it turned out that someone else NB>> had read more than you had.... Maybe even a sentence wondering if the NB>> winner had read books that were much shorter than the ones you read... NB>> Or was it based on how many pages read already... BM> Sounds like I should have written my What I Did Last Summer report in BM> the style of a therapy session!! Oh the humanity! I read only the one BM> _War and Peace_ while the winner won with the Dr. Suess series! NB> Reading contests Should be based on how many pages, at least.... NB> Or maybe, even better, how many words.... You'd spend most NB> of the summer just counting the words... ;) Ugh! Even Dr. Suess only went to two! (One fish, two fish.) BM>> Almost got to find out: car grill got damaged by the hail storm. $50 BM>> for the silver replacement option, $75 for the black one (like on the BM>> car now). YouTube does have a video someone shot of them replacing a BM>> grill and headlight on same model; think the year was off by one. To BM>> replace the grill also need to remove the bumper. Ummm.... The OEM BM>> grill is close to double in price, labour isn't horrible, still below BM>> the deductible. On the list: huge backlog due to other body work from BM>> the storm including their 400+ cars on the lot. NB>> Good news is that they have work to do, I guess.... BM> I think they might have preferred to have been bored! One dealer BM> seems to be advertising selling off their hail-damaged inventory as-is BM> (with dents) while the dealer where our grille will be replaced seems BM> to be fixing some, though drove by the lot earlier this week and was BM> relatively empty, so maybe sold off the more-costly to repair BM> inventory?? NB> Or maybe the collision shop was full.... :) That could be! Those darn spherical hailstones could be live driving on ball bearings! BM>> Hmm: I'm going to have to check that out: I have some sort of heating BM>> to my side mirrors and just assumed when the heat was on some went to BM>> the mirrors. Trouble is my trips are short -- even when working -- so BM>> no time for a correlation to develop if maybe I need to have the front BM>> and/or rear defroster/defoggers on also. NB>> There's some defrosting to the side window when you have the heat on NB>> (there's likely a special vent directed that way, like my car has), NB>> but the mirrors wouldn't be affected by that... In my experience the NB>> mirror defroster is operated by the same switch as the rear NB>> defroster/defogger in any car I've driven with that option... BM> Right: did find in the manual there is heat directed to the side BM> mirrors when the rear window defogger is on. Suppose would have BM> figured that out if I needed to drive more than ten minutes anywhere! NB> As long as you had turned on the rear window defogger... ;) Which I sometimes did: parked in the driveway the rear of the car faces East and there have been times when leaving later the back end of the car was clear so no need to turn on that defogger, so no heat the to side mirrors. NB>>> Yup... you weren't looking for them before... :) It's like buying (or NB>>> thinking about buying) some make of car and suddenly, you see them NB>>> everywhere.... BM>> There are a ton of gray or white or black cars (the other car is a BM>> darker gray); there are only a few of us yellow cars! NB>> Well, that would make you stand out anyway... ;) BM> It's generally easy to find my car in a full parking lot! NB> As long as you indeed are the only yellow car there.... ;) Usually a few but still not that common. :) ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... 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