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Dear Mrs J, all the positive energy I can muster is pointed towards you for stone/pain passage. As always ...

Good morning H2O. I have needle phobia som interestingly, I end up being a life time blood donor. Adding in pre computer records I’m going on 100 donations. My fear goes back to childhood when I was held down for a butt stab. Not many kid friendly techniques in those days. I’m scheduled to donate this afternoon and I still feel anxious. I just close my eyes and bravely remember a scene from my beloved Peanuts. I believe Linus was getting a splinter removed and his mom told him to, during the procedure, pretend he was captured by pirates and to be brave by not telling them where his treasure was hidden. I remember back and use that, of course like Linus, without fail, I tell them where the treasure is hidden every time. As always ...

Good evening Phineas. I’ve never been tested on my own but as a regular blood donor, Ive found out that one of the sample vials is used to test for antibodies. I have never been notified of being positive. .I am now, thanks to loving daughters, fully Pfizer vaccinated, the daughters knew that, left to me, I probably would have waited until the 12th of never, as always ...

Good afternoon, Irish, Julien. In my urban area rare lawn grass is protected as endangered. As always ....

Good morning Tip. It seems there is little morality when it comes to frozen. All one seems to be left with is rulers and dreams. As always ....

Good morning Gs, you and yours are blessed and blessed. As always.....

Good morning, Will. You’ve just handed Forky his next avatar. As always .....

And to think that I had thought I had, chronologically, run out or reasons to get excited. As always .....

Absolutely....... you have better odds with a dollar and a dream, however that is difficult to explain to a person who lost a loved one to a side effect. As always......

Thank you Will. You’ve helped me narrow down my preference for NYC Mayor. As always ....

Good morning, Liberty. As an extreme ‘S/F’ example; if we could draw from the rising oceans to allow gentle, evenly spaced, rains to fall across the Sahara, turning it into that continents bread basket ..... how would that effect the rest of the planets dominoes? As always .....

Good morning badger, thank you article/attachments. It seems that it’s DIY Do or DIY Don’t. As always .....

Good morning, Mrs J. Its probably the closest theme song available to announce the 17th year emergence. As always .....

Good morning, Liberty. Yes, I was surprised to see the posting. His response, I believe, was a more fun, tongue and cheek although it was written as a serious reply. I never checked back to see any reaction. The folks in the Mid Atlantic forum are generally warm , welcoming and have well placed senses of humor. Of course considering the state of my senses I may have gotten the S19 mixed up with another but I don’t think so. As always ...

Good morning Nibor and Liberty. It scared the “WTF” out of me. I haven’t checked but I could imagine how those folks reacted. As always ...

Good afternoon all. S19 just posted in the Mid Atlantic forum, as a reply to Storm Chaser Chuck, that the current trends could lead to a DC to Bos snowstorm with Blizzard conditions. Could it be a possible vaccine side effect? As always ....

Good evening Irish. I remember my grandmother telling me how she and her 1920’s Dyker Heights neighbors used to run out with shovels to collect the leavings of the numerous horse drawn vendor carts. Vegetable gardens provided a necessary extra for the households of that era. The more common , at that time, mounted police also provided good deposits. As always ....

Good evening SS14. The season we just left is the one I’ll soon be a permanent part of. April being my birth month, I will always have a special fondness for. My favorite American poet, Paul Simon, said and sang it best; “ April come she will. When streams are ripe and swelled with rain” the summer and fall will follow until, as Paul says, “A love once new has now grown old” being alone and near the end give the words a greater meaning to me. As always ....

Good morning A Z, I already received my 04/01 wake up call. My mirror wasn’t steamed when I got out of the shower. That did it. As always....

Good morning DRWx, I got the P2 shot noon yesterday with no effect. After 19 hours it kicked in with all you’ve described plus mild nausea and aches in an instant. I went horizontal for two hours took some over the counter pain pills and am back to normal with the effects fading. I guess we know it’s working. Stay well, as always ....

“Horn growth” you say. Thank you WWX. I just received my second ‘PZ’ shot today. Now, at least, I have something to look forward to. As always .....

Good morning losetoa6, lovely photo, so peaceful. However in reference to being canceled, albeit temporarily, H2O’s point is well placed. As always .....

Well done, Phineas. ( if you have the time ) I expect to see a screen play for ‘Tales of the NNE’ in short order. (Try not to cast H2O as the fellow walking in) As always ......

I remember in my early USPS days I was just returning to the work floor when I heard screaming and a mob of employees, including supervisors, running full tilt out of the cancellation room. No smoke/fire or unusual sounds, what could it be? I walked into the room and there on a letter uptake belt was a snake. It was traveling opposite to the direction that the belt was moving and going nowhere. Having watched enough ‘ Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom’ I looked closely saw no fangs and knew at best it was probably an insect eater. I gently placed my hand on its head with my thumb under the lower jaw and lifted it up. The snake, which I also believed was a common garter wrapped itself around my arm and remained calm. From a distance, as no one would come near me, I asked if I could keep it. Bureaucracy kicked in immediately. I was told I would have to fill out forms to have it released to me. I placed it in a small box and transported it home and released it into the postage stamp. The backyard was covered with a bed of English Ivy at that time. I never caught sight of it again. The snake, as a joke, was probably dumped into a regular mail box. Thank you, Uniblab for kindling a long dormant memory. As always....

Good morning, Will. Many of the species in our area are harmless and beneficial. It’s a shame that their institutional bad reputation is promoted more often by myth than by fact. As always ....