Messages From The Heartland

[David In Indy]

Thanks Kelda!

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A few minutes ago I was cleaning the television screen in my bedroom. I sprayed the screen with Windex and when I went to touch the wet screen to wipe it off I got a huge static electricity shock. It scared me so much I dropped the windex bottle on my foot. I don't have my shoes on and so that also hurt since the bottle is almost completely full. And now I'm scared to touch that TV again!



Maybe if I turn the tv off and wait a few minutes it won't shock me again. That's one of the worst parts of fall and winter, all these static shocks I always get.

[Kelda]

Thanks Kelda!

{{{{KELDA}}}}


A few minutes ago I was cleaning the television screen in my bedroom. I sprayed the screen with Windex and when I went to touch the wet screen to wipe it off I got a huge static electricity shock. It scared me so much I dropped the windex bottle on my foot. I don't have my shoes on and so that also hurt since the bottle is almost completely full. And now I'm scared to touch that TV again!



Maybe if I turn the tv off and wait a few minutes it won't shock me again. That's one of the worst parts of fall and winter, all these static shocks I always get.

 

[David In Indy]

Well the leaves are falling fast and furious now. In buckets. It's raining leaves! I've been spending the mornings out trying to rake them and keep up with the deluge. And now I somehow went and hurt my arm. I guess I was out raking too much. I keep in shape, that's for sure, lifting weights and what have you. I have very strong arms, but for some reason my right arm is hurting like HELL. It hurts on the top, in between my elbow and my hand, up on top. It must be due to all the constant back and forth motion from the rake, rather than the up and down motions from my weight lifting. Oh my! That almost sounded pornographic! Up and down motions!

Anyhow, I'm going to pop a few vicodins and probably head to bed. And with any luck my arm will feel better in the morning so I can go out again and rake some more!   

[David In Indy]

It's not so bad raking the leaves in the yard. I hate it when they get stuck behind the bushes... which is where most of them go. WHY is that? Maybe because the wind blows them in there. You have to stick the rake back there and then start pulling. The rake gets caught in the bushes, the leaves don't want to come out. It sucks.

[Shasta542]

Do a pre-rake stretch and warm-up. 

[Kelda]

Do a pre-rake stretch and warm-up. 

 

[David In Indy]

Do a pre-rake stretch and warm-up. 

Is that something like "Yoga with a rake". I'm trying to get a mental picture of this.

It's getting COLD here! I can't believe it. It only reached into the upper 30s F today. Right now my little weather machine thingy says it is 33.2 F outside. Brrrrr! I think winter has officially arrived in Indiana! Time to get out those winter jackets again. Just the other day it was in the 70s outside.

[Shasta542]

Is that something like "Yoga with a rake". I'm trying to get a mental picture of this.

  

Yeah--and you might want to do the warming up in the back yard. 

[David In Indy]

Is that something like "Yoga with a rake". I'm trying to get a mental picture of this.

  

Yeah--and you might want to do the warming up in the back yard. 

NO!! I can't do that because my neighbor facing the back side of my house will see me! She doesn't like me.

She thinks there is something WRONG with me!



She might be right! Especially if I go outside and dance with a RAKE!

I will do those yoga rake exercises INSIDE the house and then rush out before the effect wears off!

[David In Indy]

I've been getting cold chills ALL DAY! You know the kind where you notice something creeping up your spine and it feels a bit like electricity, and then you shake your head and say whooaa!!

I've been doing this over and over today. Mom used to tell me when I did it that it meant "somebody was walking over my grave".

Cheery thought that!

Honestly I don't know why I'm doing it, but I wish it would stop. I just did it again a few seconds ago when I was thinking about the "grave" bit!