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Like I said your gifted. Glad you were thoughtful and kind too, to those baby cows.

On the ranch I had 250++ cows that were everything from purebred Simmental…. to Red Angus…..to Dual Purpose Shorthorn…. to crosses of all those. When a calf was born there was an even chance that it would have enough horned genetics that I would have to dehorn it, and the sooner that was done after birth the easier it was on the calf. Conventional dehorning methods were very chancy because depending on the calf’s age, size of the horns or hornbuds, and method used to dehorn it, it could be very painful and traumatic for the calf. The three methods in practice were #1 “the gouge”, which created a large wound in order to remove the  horn base and caused lots of bleeding; #2 the hot iron which burned out the horn base and again created a large painful wound and much trauma for the calf, and #3 Dehorning paste; the choice I used which was to put some caustic  paste on each horn bud which seemed to work best unless it was raining or unless the calf rubbed its head against its mother while sucking. Then there were burns that sometimes got into the calves eyes and created other issues. Anyway, this was a very unpleasant part of the cattle business….. until a new invention came along called the Buddex Cordless Dehorner.  It was expensive but only burned a tiny ring around the horn bud which killed the nerves and blood supply to the horns….and the horn bud fell off on its own over the next few weeks. So I bought one and had no more dehorning issues after that until my Buddex Dehorner quit working. So naturally I took it apart and found and fixed the problem, called the manufacturer’s rep in the USA to explain what I had done, got chewed out and told I had  voided my warrantee by opening up the unit and fixing it myself, but we talked for awhile, getting to know each other….and a week later I got a call from him again, asking if I was interested in becoming the Canadian Distributor and Warranty service for their company. They had been trying to handle it from the USA and had been largely unsuccessful in Canada due to border issues. They had only sold about 100 dehorners in Canada over the past year but had sold  1000+ in the USA. So the upshot was that I became their exclusive Canadian Distributor and Warranty  Service, I advertised in the farm papers across Canada, sold 1500+ of them in the next 60 days, repaired a few, and had added a lucrative  sideline business to my remote ranch. One thing I have learned over the years is that initiative normally pays.

Sometimes it pays to “bend” the rules!

Well I’m glad you put your health first. The rest will be there after we die.
I knew quite a few nurses that retired early and all regretted it financially. I was able to talk one into waiting till she 66 that would of really messed her up if she retired a few years earlier. It’s a stressful and physical job though. One told me she took it on the outside advice it’s best to take it early which is fine I suppose if you have other income sources or you don’t expect to live to much longer but other wise people like that were giving out really bad advice to people like her and others who didn’t. Some had spouses but when something happened to that spouse they now only had one income and it devastated them. I told them at 59 or 63 you are going to feel different at 69 and definitely at 75-80. Your not likely less you get a cushy type job going to be able to keep working. The stress alone there gonna have enough if it and that’s what happened.
At that time I didn’t know I’d have this much trouble walking although I knew I was going to have trouble but didn’t know it would affect the strength in my hands a bit too so wouldn’t even be able to get a job in anything typing either.
As the years went on they’d asked if I retired yet and then ask aren’t you afraid you won’t live to draw all that money paid in? I’d tell them if I didn’t I wouldn’t care anyways. Fear was not a factor nor over these vaccine either. In fact I fear the so called vaccine more than the virus. I remember just before I left one nurse said I got one shot that’s all I’m gonna get. I didn’t want to say anything it would just cause her stress when inflation was rising but wonder how that worked out.
What’s worse is all these younger nurses with all those years put in you can’t even retire and all that experience forced out over this dam mandatory vaxx. These were nurses that did their homework, experience and gave many years of their lives and missed holidays and birthday of their kids with their family’s and treated as if they were inconsequential by these stiffs behind the scenes. It shows they don’t appreciate them nor the well being of the patients. Health care is on the wrong side of health right now in so many ways.
This won’t be forgotten and as far as aim concerned these stiffs should be fired.

Thank you for opening your memory box on the ram pump for me. Popular Mechanics magazine… 2 inch pipe… 15 ft drop.  Awesome.

You misunderstood a bit.  I am not doing all that now; I just mean usually.  I have not been to work for four weeks. I have done nothing but go through all this and try to recover.

I do try to do things for myself, and things I enjoy.  I have my little pressure-reliefs, and I know how to make the most of little things.  But I am with you on other people doing my chores and projects.  I would rather do things myself, and that is no doubt part of my overload.  The only things around my house that I have contracted out in my twenty or so years of home ownership were the roof and my recent furnace/AC installation.  I’ve done plumbing, electric, carpentry, welding, and more.  And, of course, the yard in season.  Can’t help it; I a do-it-yourself-er. But I hate that damn yard!  I do the least I can get away with.

The only thing that is going to help is to retire, which will free up time and take away a lot of stress.  And that is coming very soon.  I am 68, 69 in the spring.  The time is nigh for retirement. It will probably be this year.   Yes, you should stay retired and enjoy what time you have left.  That is exactly what I am thinking.

As far as being a message from God, well, happy to help if that what God wants. 😉

You have more energy that you think if dealing with all that while recovering from Covid. Maybe try to do something your self you like more often.
I remember trying to take the burden off some things by paying people to do stuff. Like mow the lawn. Thus go the saying about if you want it done right do it yourself. It resulted my blue berry tree and tulips getting mowed down and my lawn mower broke collectively on two different try’s by two different people. Paying others sometimes helped sometimes more trouble that it was worth.
Your a message from God to me right now though.
Since I retired was was getting restless although my feet told me nope not again were retired can’t do lol I was thinking there something out there. Then here you are reminding me why I should stay retired and enjoy what time I may have left. Whether I hold on to that I don’t know.

No, not people so much.  Not really a problem there.  I have evenings to myself without interruption most of the time.  It’s just the other stuff that I mentioned.  I manage a big load most of the time, and then something extra comes along.  Mind control, and turning my thoughts to better things.  That’s my problem in a nutshell.  And I keep working on it. I have a whole bunch of tricks and techniques I’ve picked up over the years, or developed on my own.  A lot of things work sometimes, nothing works every time.

I can’t say I could blame you then for doing what you have to do to get some sleep.
I know and remember when working what you mean about stress and getting your mind off things so you can sleep. Those things will still be there so yes think of yourself first. If you don’t who will lol
I think was another plus getting away to the mountains. Away from work, even around the house always something to do or bills to pay, out of sight out of mind. To put all that on hold.
Sounds like too maybe I’m wrong you need to put limits on people too. Sometime people don’t realize. A part of that sleep hygiene you call it would be let it be known this is YOUR TIME and unless the house is burning down don’t bother me.

Thanks for the reply.

A couple of responses: I did get and use some Ensure when I was at my worst.  It was really difficult to get myself to eat even if I was hungry.  Just made me nearly nauseous to actually eat.  But that is gone for over a week.  My appetite is back and food is appealing.  I’ve been eating well.  That was, in fact,  one of the things that made me realize I was truly getting better.  So that’s ok.  Although I might add Ensure now and then for extra calories if I don’t start putting weight back on.

My insomnia is not chronic.  It is not caused by any imbalances or other things, I am sure.  It is episodic; comes from time to time when I encounter some extra stressful situation (I have and live with plenty of stress all the time. I know it’s not healthy, but I really have no choice; I have too much to do all the time, both at work and at home, and I just deal with it.  Prioritize and let the rest go.  But it weighs on me.), or perhaps there are things on my mind I can’t get away from.  It might cause a sleepless night.  The problem arises when it goes for more than one night.  Then I begin to worry that I won’t sleep again that coming night, and it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.  Until this recent episode in the middle of my covid experience, it was always self-correcting.  I would get some sleep-even if it wasn’t a full night’s worth–and it would go away because I knew I would sleep again.  This is the first time I have required a prescription pill.  I hate having to take it, but I think it is the lesser evil at the moment; I need sleep to keep getting over my remaining covid symptom.  And it is getting better; just not quite quickly enough to suit me.  But then I’m impatient; part of my nature.

Sounds are not the issue, either.  I always have a fan going for white noise.  More recently I have rigged a laptop to my stereo system in the bedroom.  I can play sleepy-type stuff from YouTube videos (like rain or railroad track sounds, etc.)  I’ve got that part under control; I am not bothered by unwanted noises.  I also observe the usual “sleep hygiene” recommendations; regular bedtime, computer off for a while before bedtime, quiet reading, and on and on.  None of that stuff is the problem.  When this situation arises, the problem is all inside my head (I’m hearing the Paul Simon song, lol)  When I can turn it off, get my mind on something else, I relax and fall asleep.  The problem is, it can be very difficult to keep your mind off the stuff that is causing the stress.  What I need is better mind control, re-direct to calm and peaceful thoughts, and the emotion will follow.  But it can be really difficult to do.   As always, thanks for your input.

Your really gifted mechanically figuring that stuff out by yourself and the work that goes with it. It’s amazing to listen to although something don’t register. I use to be the type seeing brother do this or that I could too but that didn’t always work out too well and sometimes almost got me killed lol I decided some people are just gifted in some things and to be glad they are around.

Your doing great. The best we can because we’re on our own with Covid. Just have to address the symptoms as they come. I ordered ensure so when not eating I could drink instant food plus get vitamins. They were only 220 calories each though. The insomnia can interfere with your energy and well as short term memory or recall. A lot of people especially retired have that complaint. There prescribing cpap’s as a quick fix it appears. I really don’t know if they were assessed properly for really having sleep apnea. A friend might try it now. I think in some cases with post retirement it’s too much energy. There not as active anymore so they don’t sleep through the night. It started happening to me too and when Covid hit, started to get chills, fever and extreme fatigue I welcomed it. I thought finally I can sleep and slept through the night.
Not being physically tired enough I think it makes you easier to rouse for any sound including irrelevant too that you might ignore if physically tired. A car, sirens what ever.
I think WiFi and all the electric too. When I went to a mountain in a cabin with no TV WiFi et all to go water rafting few years back I didn’t remember falling asleep.I put a movie on from my iPad I down loaded and laid down. All of a sudden it was 5 am and didn’t not remember even starting to fall asleep. I decided to check that and went back couple weeks later and the same thing happened. Still working at the time if I woke for any reason I could immediately go back to sleep. After retired that unused energy I might stay awake and wonder if WiFi and internet is part of that in that you can also turn it on lol It’s also quiet away from the city in the mountains. Nothing to wake you.
There might be multi reasons for insomnia.
One thing that helped when I didn’t want to go to sleep but knew I had to while working was lavender oil. A nurse told me about it at work when I wasn’t getting enough sleep because I didn’t feel tired. She got me a bottle and paid her. Said dab it on your body like forehead even your foot. You should be able to fall asleep I didn’t have much faith it would work but thought I’d try it. It actually worked. She had issues with management and we all did she retired and lost track of her so don’t know where she got that brand. I had her hole number but after the work thing I didn’t want to bother her. I had a over active thyroid though that gave me a false sense of energy plus could eat anything and never gain weight. When I dropped 20 Lbs pretty quick I didn’t need to lose and didn’t feel right and was getting tremors in my hands. I could feel something being released in my body.bit took some thought to do that. I wanted a thyroid check and didn’t even have to ask this doctor Before I finished telling him my symptoms he told me he’s doing a thyroid panel. The lab results set up a emergency visit with a specialist and a lot of tests and biopsy to check for cancer. Now I’m on medicine to slow the thyroid hormone release and probably cant eat what ever I want but works out. It slowed my metabolism and wasn’t hungry. At first I had to make myself eat. I wasn’t going to have it removed after they found a nodule because it wasn’t a hot nodule and either way I’d be on medicine and thyroid has multi purposes. So will have to do a sonogram every few years. Most people fearing cancer just have it removed.
But as far as energy it can go two ways. It can also cause fatigue or low energy warned the specialist. It’s very strange.
So things can change in your body over time so good to have a lab check up including thyroid.
Part of the reason one of the doctors, doctor Patterson at flccc who treats long haulers and now vaccine problems said from memory as I listened to a lot of them was there is still some inflammation going on that one of the things he treated with was anti inflammatory’s.
Ie Part of the inflammation stage luckily mild with us but with too many of them as it hit people with cytokine storm Ards blood clots , is inflammation your body cleaning up after the battle. It then has to rid itself of all those dead spike protein floating around. Dr Patterson was a proponent of pushing for longer disability time because of it and what he called long haulers because it’s a real illness.
So if you are still within the norm perhaps keep doing what your doing because it seems to be working. If your not getting enough calories you can add health shakes or Ensure or Boost.

The spring I used to power the hydraulic ram was about 150-200 yards from the log home I had just built. The spring came out of the ground on about the same elevation as my home and dropped over a steep bank. I had ample flow to capture/fill a 2″ pipe continuously without getting any air into the system. I built and submerged a screened input box at the spring to keep any debris from entering the system, ran the 2″ pipe  through a hole in the intake box and down to the Hydraulic Ram, a drop of about 15 feet as I recall.  The continuous  flow of the water into the Ram set off  the “clacker” (which was a u-shaped piece of flat iron with a rubber cup over the exit pipe that delivered the water through a 1″ PVC pipe to a 200 gallon tank I had installed in the loft of my house.  I also had installed an overflow in that tank so when the water was not being used it would drain out the overflow and back into a gravel basin I dug in the ground. The system ran 24/7 and provided all the water we needed in the house to flush toilets, etc just like any other home.  Once I knew the system would work I buried all the outside lines and covered the spring with a small insulated shed.

The pictures you are showing is a commercially made hydraulic ram, as you know, and would probably be much easier to work with. The plan I used I had to build the Ram from scratch. I got my plans from an old (1938?)Popular Mechanics magazine I found in the main Library in Modesto California. It gave detailed instructions on how to build a Hydraulic Ram and I followed them as closely as possible. I used all the same material they suggested including cast iron pipe which had to be embedded in concrete. Otherwise I think the water hammer would have broken it….So when my ram was completed it looked like a concrete block about 3’X3′ with cast iron pipes sticking out. Of course when those original plans were drawn there was no such thing as PVC or ABS pipe.

Since I am no longer living  remotely close to that property (800 miles away)I have to use memory and guess to try to answer your other questions. I think the water dropped about 15′ from the spring inlet box to the Hydraulic Ram Pump. So from the pump to the house loft tank I’m guessing there was an elevation change of 30-50′, and the horizontal distance  of  150-200 yards. The water hammer I can still “hear” in my mind (lol) and it seems it was slightly faster than one clack per second when properly adjusted.  Once it was all “tuned” properly there was very seldom a problem with it’s continuity. It just clacked away night and day and deliver maybe a half gallon of water to the tank every minute….and if it was interrupted for some reason it would create a continuous “clatter” sound rather than the one clack per second sound….and also, then, it would not produce any water.

I hope there is something in this that is helpful Aquila.  Let me know if I can answer any more questions….and all the Best from Silverngold!

I’ve been hoping that we’ve just seen a higher low @ $1780 gold, same with the HUI at 240 or so.

But based on your cycle’s maybe that’s not realty, which would mean the HUI is heading for new, lower lows.

We wait…

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GoFundMe Seizes Millions In Trucker Protest Donations, Will Give It To Charities Instead

Update (0725ET): After the radical leftists in San Francisco who operate GoFundMe seized millions of dollars from the Canadian “Freedom Convoy” and vowed to refund donations to donors (upon request) or disburse the funds to “credible charities” (like Black Lives Matter, Greenpeace, and Planned Parenthood Matter), the internet went absolutely mental Friday night about the crowd-sourcing platform’s decision.

Rebel News’ Ezra Levant equated GoFundMe’s decision as “stealing the money.” He said the crowd-sourcing platform should have “automatically refunded its donors.”

Hours later, around 0200 ET Saturday, GoFundMe released another statement that said, “due to donor feedback, we are simplifying the process and automatically refunding donations.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/gofundme-steals-9-million-canadas-freedom-convoy-truckers-under-pressure-trudeau

P.S. That link you sent talks about symptoms that last between 4 and 12 weeks.  Says most recover fully within 12 weeks.  I am well within that parameter, and really just about at the low-end parameter.  That gives me hope that my case is not out of  ordinary and that it is reasonable to hope it will resolve on its own doing the things I mention.  I’m hoping.  Maybe whistling past the graveyard, but I really have no other options at the moment.

You wrote: Since the virus generally stops multiplying by the eighth day maybe you should talk to your doctor if you have a good one about getting steroids for long hall Covid if that’s what it is and do as assessment on you and blood work. When you get run down other opportunists sometimes can come around. You should be better by mow. I’m glad your body’s working on it.
It’s just fatigue?

Yes. That’s the only symptom I have that is still bothersome.  I have not had fever in about 12 days. Fatigue is much better than it was at its worse, but it is not gone.  It has been getting better in little plateaus of a few days at a time, as I mentioned, but it is not gone.

Unfortunately, I do not have a doctor now.  My doctor of only a couple of visits–in August for physical, and October for follow-up–failed me miserably during my recent covid/insomnia episode.  I am looking for new doc. That means I am dealing with this stuff on my own until I find one.  I’d be hesitant to try any kind of aggressive treatment of myself on my own.  I have heard of, or know, a number of people who had the fatigue and it took quite a while to get over it completely.

Other factors that I think are involved include the fact that this whole episode–covid and insomnia (insomnia has been improved by prescribed sleeping pills; seroquel, and I know I have to wean myself from that soon)– has gone on a little over four weeks. Because I had trouble eating for more than two weeks, I lost almost ten pounds.  And I have no weight to lose; I am tall and slender, and don’t carry extra weight. So I think it is possible that all that time doing not much physical, as well as being down to my lowest weight of all time, is contributing to weakness.  What I am hoping is that if I just keep taking care of myself with eating, vitamins, and ivermectin in prophylactic/maintenance doses of say, twice a week, and pushing myself to be as active and physical as I comfortably can, I will re-build strength.  If this strategy doesn’t work in a week or two, or if I find a new doc soon, I will adjust and try something else.  I am willing to put up with it, and let it be gradual, but improving, if that would be ultimately successful, and if I wasn’t harming myself by letting my body do its work and fix itself.  Do you think that makes sense?

does that mean that the Nasdaq is bottoming?

If so, what does it mean for pm’s?

It is a mystery to me that so gold market analysts understand Intermediate PM timing only by looking back after the fact.

We began our A wave down in the middle of Nov. Then we had the B wave which has stalled out for several weeks. Next comes the final Capitulation C wave down to the bottom of this Int. trend.

Exact bottom timing can be off by a few weeks as these cycles be long or short….But, no way have we seen this bottom yet. It’s coming very soon. Average cycle timing would put it around Feb. 22/23.

At any rate putting cycle timing aside one can clearly see indicators are not in any way there yet. It looks like so far this is going to be a shallow bottom say around $ 1750. Where ever it lands it’s not here yet.

I’m with you, especially when you say if it starts here, they’ll attempt to threaten and somehow bring in BLM and Antifa to cause problems.

Good they should have other fundings. I’ll never use go fund me again. They charge to use it to donate and then play gov agenda but if your BLM or Antifa that’s no problem.
I think the truckers should be supported and can only imagine the gas prices for travel and time off work.
Already Alberta is backing down on mandates or says they will and hope they hold them to it and Quebec backed down on extra taxes for those who refused the jab. Not enough but they’re starting to get the message.
I have a feeling when it starts here it’s going to be met with hostility and threats by the global puppets in the government.

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He’s trying to find the right correlations to predict where gold is going. The USD hasn’t helped him despite being down 5 days in a row. COT’s looked a lot better yesterday, so that may help him?

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Scientists in Wuhan have flagged a deadlier coronavirus found in bats from South Africa. They say the virus is one mutation away from infecting humans. Its mortality rate is around 33%. Palki Sharma tells you how the world must respond.