peavey

@peavey (16936)

United States • Age 79

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Harbinger of Autumn?

peavey @peavey (16936) • United States 30 Jul 18

We had a hailstorm last night that was the most destructive I've seen for years right here. They have had them all around us, but yesterday was our turn. I wish I would have taken pictures! Anyway, it turned very cool last night...

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Do You Hoard?

peavey @peavey (16936) • United States 23 Jul 18

I tend to keep more things than I need. For instance, I have a bureau full of yarn. I keep saying I will use it up one day, but there is more yarn than I will ever need and when I start a new project, I often go and buy specific...

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We were so poor that...

peavey @peavey (16936) • United States 20 Jul 18

Some of the responses from Richard's post about buying bags of white margarine were about how others were "so poor that.." Some of them, at least, were joking, but no joke, I grew up poor. I was the oldest of 8 kids so that's a...

poor

wood

water

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If I can just make it through July...

peavey @peavey (16936) • United States 13 Jul 18

This month I have to renew my driver's license, get an emissons test for the car, get license plates renewed. I have already paid for the next 6 months of auto insurance. I am tense because I don't know if I can pass the...

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Do you want attention when you're sick?

peavey @peavey (16936) • United States 3 Jul 18

.My sister had knee surgery a couple of weeks ago and her kidneys failed. They brought her to the hospital near me and she has had all sorts of problems from pneumonia to heart palpitations to having to have surgery for what they...

hospital

sick

surgeries

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Would you cut this tree?

peavey @peavey (16936) • United States 16 Jun 18

It was all I could do to not reply with what would have been taken as a rude response. We have a "neighborhood" site here (through Facebook) where locals post things of interest to the community. Cottonwood trees are one of the...

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BIrd waterers

peavey @peavey (16936) • United States 13 Jun 18

I like to watch birds in my yard so I feed them to encourage them to come and stay. With this hot weather, I have been trying to find a way to give them some water to drink nearby so they will stick around a little longer. I put...

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Literal minds

peavey @peavey (16936) • United States 25 May 18

I know, I know... stories about grandkids, right? I'm going to tell it anyway. My two youngest granddaughters were here with their daddy a few days ago. We had eaten lunch and the kids wanted a treat, so they got the candy jar...

kids

granddaughters

practical mind

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Salad Time!

peavey @peavey (16936) • United States 16 May 18

I grew up eating lettuce, tomato and onion salads with cucumber sometimes. and cole slaw. That's about all the types of salads Mom ever made, Well, she made an awesome mashed potato salad, too. It took a long while for me to...

salad

vegetables

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Will Artificial Intelligence Rule the World?

peavey @peavey (16936) • United States 24 Apr 18

As in robots... "AI" is becoming more commonplace in the workplace as well as the home, from robots on an assembly line to robots that vacuum your floor to robots that fly over us in the sky. I believe that the idea of robots...

robots

artificial intelligence

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Why are some discussions deleted?

peavey @peavey (16936) • United States 26 Mar 18

I am a conservative, but I am not a right wing nut and I am willing to listen to other ideas. I don't respond to name calling and so on, which all too often occurs any more. Anyway, I have been disappointed several times lately...

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Flitting from one thing to another

peavey @peavey (16936) • United States 16 Mar 18

The post by Icydoll reminded me of my granddaughter who stayed a couple of hours with me over the weekend. She flitted from watching a movie to playing a word game to playing with the piano to playing with toys on the floor and...

flit

one thing to another

changes

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Slowly coming back...

peavey @peavey (16936) • United States 9 Mar 18

About a year ago I discovered that I had cancer again. In May I had surgery for lung cancer and three weeks later, in June, I had a bilateral mastectomy. Since I am not a spring chick any more, it really took its toll. They say it...

cancer

life

oxygen

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Who, Me? Stressed?

peavey @peavey (16936) • United States 16 Nov 17

I thought I would get a jump on Christmas this year and bought some magazine subscriptions online, one each for my youngest granddaughters and one for my son. Okay... so I got the confirmation email for my son's subscription and...

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Processing pumpkins

peavey @peavey (16936) • United States 19 Oct 17

I don't celebrate Halloween, but I love the fall of the year. We usually go out to a farm that sells pumpkins and winter squash for very little money. Cutting out the middle man really makes a difference. Anyway, I buy a pumpkin...

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First snow of the season

peavey @peavey (16936) • United States 10 Oct 17

It started snowing Sunday evening and snowed all night long and through the day Monday until around 1 o'clock. In colder weather, we would have had several inches piled up but it was wet, heavy snow that melted quickly. It was...

first snow

snow

freeze

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Cancer: We just don't know

peavey @peavey (16936) • United States 16 Sep 17

I don't want to worry you more, but I know from experience that you can think you are doing everything right, eating well, exercising, keeping your weight down, using only safe cleaning products, organic fabrics, etc., etc. And...

cancer

cure

what to do

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Dumber, Smaller, Weaker

peavey @peavey (16936) • United States 11 Sep 17

Do you think you are smarter than your great great grandparents? Bigger? Stronger? Probably not, according to this: http://thetruthwins.com/archives/scientists-discover-proof-that-humanity-is-getting-dumber-smaller-and-weaker If...

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I am SO ready for fall!

peavey @peavey (16936) • United States 5 Sep 17

I missed most of the summer due to recovering from two major surgeries but I am now beginning to feel like myself again - too late to do many of the things I would have liked to do. No traveling, even overnight, no garden, no...

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Changing weather

peavey @peavey (16936) • United States 1 Sep 17

I have no intentions of debating climate change, but after making a statement to the effect that we have lots of snow here and are more used to blizzards, I got to thinking. That's not really so any more. When we moved to...

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