12/6/2018

This morning I am baking a "Pumpkin/Black Walnut Tea Bread". I seasoned it with cinnamon and nutmeg and ginger. Soon my kitchen will be fragrant with fall.

I havent had black walnuts in years. When I was a kid, I used to go out with my father and gather wild black walnuts....trying to beat the squirrels to the favorite trees. This was in North Hatley Quebec and also in Ohio.

Black Walnuts are tedious and difficult to open and...

12/6/2018

This morning I am baking a "Pumpkin/Black Walnut Tea Bread". I seasoned it with cinnamon and nutmeg and ginger. Soon my kitchen will be fragrant with fall.

I havent had black walnuts in years. When I was a kid, I used to go out with my father and gather wild black walnuts....trying to beat the squirrels to the favorite trees. This was in North Hatley Quebec and also in Ohio.

Black Walnuts are tedious and difficult to open and...

Well, I again bid you welcome to this cozy respite known to you as Scattershooting. It's where I go here, there, and everywhere. While you're pondering your Christmas shopping endeavors, let me share with you all endeavors of another kind.

Mine, of course....

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(Note: original thread closed, apparently, as retarded by mods).

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First of all, as time goes by ever so swiftly, you need to get your colon checked out. Just do it. Get that colonoscopy.

And that was what I did this morning, as I have done every three years or so for the past ten years. Coming out of the procedure area, I got the best news that any doctor, even the nicest of the nice, could ever give.

No polyps.

None. Nada. Zip. Zilch. And this is with a history of polyps. My...