(May 5, 2020 01:26 PM)confused2 Wrote: [ -> ]Everything likes sunflowers. Sunflowers are for sharing.
Lots of running going on over here. Can't say I've experienced a runners high yet - near death experience on a few occasions.
Walking suffices for me, especially since the dog does enough running for both of us (chasing after squirrels), when its along a certain uninhabited path where a leash isn't needed.
(May 5, 2020 03:15 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: [ -> ]From what I understand about bird feeding etiquette there are a couple of varieties of sunflowers. One is Black-oil and the other Striped. I use the Black-oil in my bird feeders because when compared to the Striped, their shells are much easier for all seed eating birds to crack and the kernel contains more fat. The Black-oil shells actually feel soft. Not sure what variety is used more for human consumption, and I'll wager it's the Striped variety in a bag of unshelled sunflower seeds....they feel harder to me. So if you don't want the little songbirds around your feeders then present the birds with the Stripe.
Yah, black-oil was preferred for literal bird feeders (thistle or niger seed used to be the thing for attracting gold finches when the males have their color in warm weather).
Though it might depend upon location (like living near woodlands), sunflower plant wise getting the non-migratory birds addicted to black-oil seeds during the wintertime still carried over to grown sunflowers with the striped seeds. Even though it probably required more effort to extract the seed. (Or not, if they were handily held in place by the flower disc or head rather than the chickadees and
titmice usually having to fix the hull between their feet on a branch while they pecked). Squirrels will eat anything (gray at least), even peaches before they're ripe.
May not matter if only a patch of sunflowers is being grown. Those can be purely for attracting insect pollinators or the birds themselves, outdoor decorative purposes, soil detox, or the fewer seeds being intended to be fed to birds later, anyway.
Thought struck me today..... would the Covid body count be much higher if we didn't have the internet? For one thing I think visiting has been kept down because we don't really need to physically go to friends and family.....the temptation to visit might be far greater than if internet wasn't available.
Do you mean far greater? ^^
Been having an odd experience of dizziness when I lay down in bed or change positions in bed. Anyone ever hear of this?
(May 9, 2020 10:12 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]Been having an odd experience of dizziness when I lay down in bed or change positions in bed. Anyone ever hear of this?
Hopefully it's just mundane BPPV -- unless treatment is difficult to access or it's an extreme annoyance to seek. Then not so "benign".
https://www.menieres.org.uk/information-...tions/bppv
Who is affected by BPPV?: BPPV is estimated to affect roughly 50% of all people at some time in their lives and becomes progressively more common with age.
Symptoms of BPPV: The vertigo is generally rotational (like getting off a roundabout) but sometimes sufferers,
on lying down, will feel that they are falling through the bottom of the bed or, on getting up, that they are being thrown back onto it. The classic provoking movements to induce BPPV are:
lying flat, sitting up from lying flat;
turning over in bed; looking up (e.g. hanging washing) or bending down, especially if also looking to the side. The duration of the vertigo is brief; usually five to 30 seconds but very occasionally lasts up to two minutes.
What causes BPPV?: BPPV is caused when loose chalk crystals get into the wrong part of the inner ear. These microscopic crystals should be embedded in a lump of jelly. The crystals weigh the jelly down and make that part of the ear sensitive to gravity. The crystals are constantly being re-absorbed and re-formed and over time fragments come loose. Lying flat can then occasionally cause some of the loose debris to fall into one of the semi-circular canals; the parts of the ear responsible for sensing rotation. Movement in the plane of the affected canal causes the crystals to move along the canal, stimulating it and giving the sensation of rotation.
What Is Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo?
https://youtu.be/1AfvNsaQnTE
Top 3 Signs Your Vertigo is BPPV (Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo)
https://youtu.be/PcINJ7p09-Y
Good! The relatively harmless condition with the big fancy name. Thanks!
I think this wearing masks thing (UK) is just a trick to keep us inside. Mrs C2 has made one out of a 25 year old shirt that has exactly the same effect as being suffocated by a 25 year old shirt. Learning from that experience I find there's also the need (or possibly the irresistable temptation) to talk in mufflefiffle. Left to my own devices I'd just stay at home and starve.
(May 11, 2020 09:54 PM)confused2 Wrote: [ -> ]I think this wearing masks thing (UK) is just a trick to keep us inside. Mrs C2 has made one out of a 25 year old shirt that has exactly the same effect as being suffocated by a 25 year old shirt. Learning from that experience I find there's also the need (or possibly the irresistable temptation) to talk in mufflefiffle. Left to my own devices I'd just stay at home and starve.
Yah, one large store I was in decreased its air conditioning. Which made the mask seem all the more suffocating as one tried to draw in extra air to counter the heat, especially while pushing that cursed shopping cart from end of a football field distance to the other. Plus the restrictive, one-way arrow pointers at the end of long aisles forcing a customer to frequently have go to the opposite side in order to enter, at times merely to pick up a single item in an aisle.
My house is empty now. Both of my boys returned home. It’s awfully quiet. The younger one lives in a state that’s wide open now, e.g., gyms, restaurants, swimming pools, parks, etc. He sent me a picture of him and his girlfriend at a local pub. We’re still on lockdown. A few parks are open to locals only and few non-essential stores are slowly but surely opening up again. I went to Napa yesterday. It was off the chain. People everywhere. It’s sad, though, there’s this quaint little town that I love up north. They have a restaurant there that’s been in their family for years. All the old-timers eat there. I love listening to their stories and the food is awesome. The waitress was working in the small grocery store next door. She said that the restaurant wasn’t able to withstand the closures. They’re out of business for good.
