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Old 05-29-2012, 08:43 AM
 
Location: State of Being
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I really doubt that anyone complained. The Caregiving Forum is a new creation, in response to demand. (City-Data only creates new forums when there are enough requests for one.) So naturally upon the decision to create the new forum, the moderator would look for existing threads which would fit under the subject of the new forum and move them there. Yours was not the only thread so moved, and I don't think it has anything at all to do with you personally. I, too, regret seeing the Retirement Forum split up, but that's the way the ball bounces.
Yes, I think you are right. I hope the Caregiver forum is successful - I think it will eventually get a lot of use. The issue is not that uncommon.

I would like to see this chat thread more used, too! It would be nice to discuss random things or continue discussion here when a thread gets a bit off topic and has to be reined in, lol.

For example, I would like to be able to ask how various members are doing, where they have traveled lately, or what books they are reading.

 
Old 05-29-2012, 12:27 PM
 
Location: Near a river
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For example, I would like to be able to ask how various members are doing, where they have traveled lately, or what books they are reading.
I just got done with a novel by Elizabeth Strout, who earned the Pulitzer Prize—Olive Kitteridge, a collection of interrelated stories about a retired couple who are natives of Maine. The story is not fruffy but one of the best written novels I've ever seen and I can see why she got the Pulitzer. She really nails what it's like to grow older within the context of strange relationships and dysfunctional families. I'm not a novel reader, generally, but I read this in two sittings, couldn't put it down.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/bo.../Thomas-t.html
 
Old 05-29-2012, 01:34 PM
 
Location: Cody, WY
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I recently read the mystery novels of Caroline Graham. They're British police procedurals centered around Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Barnaby, an astute dective who is also and avid gardener and artist. The author spends far more time on the background of her characters than most other mystery writers providing an unusual but fascinating group of stories. I definitely recommend these. Start with the first in the series as they do progress.

Amazon.com: The Killings at Badger's Drift (Inspector Barnaby) (9781933397047): Caroline Graham: Books

Rita Mae Brown and her kitty collaborator, Sneaky Pie Brown, just published The Big Catnap, the latest of her series on her four-legged detectives aided by their human dependent. This particular one was enjoyable but the plot itselfl seemed unlikely. Start with the first in the series.

Amazon.com: Wish You Were Here (Mrs. Murphy Mysteries) (9780553287530): Rita Mae Brown: Books

I just began Origins of Metallic Currencies and Weight Standards. William ridgeway;s 1892 account will delight the numismatist, metrologist, classicist or any well-read person. He discusses the change from the cow as the monetary unit to gold and other equivalents. You'll learn about ancient trade routes from Europe to Russia and the Middle East. Ancient man discovered first gold, then copper, then silver. Iron sometimes, however, was something of a wild card appearing wherever it did. It's a veritable cornucopia.

For the one who loves to learn for the sake of learning I can't recommend this enough. He has a good chatty writing style and this book has been a real page turner for me. Ridgeway was a classicist and relates much to Homer as well as Greek historians and geographers.

Long out of print, I bought a reproduction on amazon. I was very happy with the quality of both reproduction and binding but that particular printing is no longer available. There are others, however.

Amazon.com: The Origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards: -1892 (9781112199349): Sir William Ridgeway: Books
 
Old 05-30-2012, 04:56 AM
 
Location: Floyd Co, VA
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For example, I would like to be able to ask how various members are doing, where they have traveled lately, or what books they are reading.
I've been sick for a few weeks, nothing serious, just enough to keep me from doing much more than moving from bed, to couch, to recliner and back again. As a result I've done lots of reading - mostly novels by J. A. Jance, both those featuring Sheriff Joanna Brady, set in AZ and those whose main character is J. P. Beaumont, which take place in the Seattle area.

Took in three additional foster dogs, so I now have five. Our county pound is about to undergo some repairs and they needed to empty out half of the 12 dog runs in order to make the repairs. I'm a bit tempted to adopt one of the dogs, a black lab/chow mix who is a bit shy but very sweet. On the other hand I will be very happy to find a forever home for the 7 month old shepherd pup who is a rowdy, high energy youngster and a bit much for me to handle.

With the help of two new friends who do just the sort of work I needed help with we've managed to get the big garage cleaned up and all the stuff in it organized so I'll be able to park my Suburban in it just as soon as I get the door fixed and it once again opens all the way up.
 
Old 05-30-2012, 07:07 AM
 
Location: Edina, MN, USA
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Took in three additional foster dogs, so I now have five. Our county pound is about to undergo some repairs and they needed to empty out half of the 12 dog runs in order to make the repairs. I'm a bit tempted to adopt one of the dogs, a black lab/chow mix who is a bit shy but very sweet. On the other hand I will be very happy to find a forever home for the 7 month old shepherd pup who is a rowdy, high energy youngster and a bit much for me to handle.

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This makes me laugh and brings back memories of the 2 bl lab/chow mix pups I had (at the same time) that were a laugh a minute but got into more trouble. I let them out and had to go back in the house for a minute and that quick they manage to wiggle under the fence into the neighbors yard and were standing at the edge of my neighbors pool eyeing the water - grabbed them just in time. Fun though.
 
Old 05-31-2012, 12:42 PM
 
Location: State of Being
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I've been sick for a few weeks, nothing serious, just enough to keep me from doing much more than moving from bed, to couch, to recliner and back again. As a result I've done lots of reading - mostly novels by J. A. Jance, both those featuring Sheriff Joanna Brady, set in AZ and those whose main character is J. P. Beaumont, which take place in the Seattle area.

Took in three additional foster dogs, so I now have five. Our county pound is about to undergo some repairs and they needed to empty out half of the 12 dog runs in order to make the repairs. I'm a bit tempted to adopt one of the dogs, a black lab/chow mix who is a bit shy but very sweet. On the other hand I will be very happy to find a forever home for the 7 month old shepherd pup who is a rowdy, high energy youngster and a bit much for me to handle.

With the help of two new friends who do just the sort of work I needed help with we've managed to get the big garage cleaned up and all the stuff in it organized so I'll be able to park my Suburban in it just as soon as I get the door fixed and it once again opens all the way up.
I hope you are doing much better now! Folks around me have been knocked back for a month or more with some kind of upper respiratory infection that doesn't seem to respond well to 2 rounds of antibiotics and for some, even prednisone. Losing a month of time being pretty much confined to the house is no fun. So I hope you are doing much better now.

I have a chow (my 3rd) and despite their reputations, my chows have all been so very sweet natured, loyal and great companions and guard dogs. I bet the lab/chow mix is a really nice dog. I fostered cats (if that is even possible! I think they ran my household!) in the 70s and always would find several I couldn't say good-bye to. My sister adopted one I had fostered and she lived to be 23 years old. I swore it was b/c of my fine care at the beginning of her life, lol.

I really appreciate finding out what others are reading. I am looking for an absorbing book and now I have some great suggestions!

Send the folks over to work on my garage next . . . :-)
 
Old 05-31-2012, 08:58 PM
 
Location: Cody, WY
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I fostered cats (if that is even possible! I think they ran my household!) in the 70s and always would find several I couldn't say good-bye to. My sister adopted one I had fostered and she lived to be 23 years old. I swore it was b/c of my fine care at the beginning of her life, lol.
I admire people who can foster animals. I couldn't because I'd think of them as mine and could never let someone I didn't know have power over them. Years ago my late wife came home with a mother cat and three week old kittens she'd found. It was an eighteen year project.

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I really appreciate finding out what others are reading. I am looking for an absorbing book and now I have some great suggestions!
I'd be happy to write about other books I've read if you and the others would tell me what you like. I'd like to get reactions to what I have recommended as well, I read a fair amount, mostly nonfiction the last few years. Let me know. Pehaps I've read something you'd enjoy.
 
Old 06-01-2012, 04:10 PM
 
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I admire people who can foster animals. I couldn't because I'd think of them as mine and could never let someone I didn't know have power over them. Years ago my late wife came home with a mother cat and three week old kittens she'd found. It was an eighteen year project.



I'd be happy to write about other books I've read if you and the others would tell me what you like. I'd like to get reactions to what I have recommended as well, I read a fair amount, mostly nonfiction the last few years. Let me know. Pehaps I've read something you'd enjoy.
Yes, letting those kitties go was not easy! It helped knowing one of the sweetest found a home with my sis.

I would very much like to know what nonfiction books you have enjoyed and appreciate that you would take the time to share that info.
 
Old 06-01-2012, 05:38 PM
 
Location: Cody, WY
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I would very much like to know what nonfiction books you have enjoyed and appreciate that you would take the time to share that info.
Here are a few I've read in the last year or so. I not only enjoyed them but learned a great deal.

http://wwwhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/p...ls_o06_s00_i00

The bead trade is possibly the oldest commercial activity. Beads over a hundres thousand years old have been found. The book is sumptuous and very complete.

Amazon.com: Money of the American Indians and other primitive currencies of the Americas (9780878410019): Don Taxay: Books

Distinguished numismatist Don Taxay has compiled a short (158pp.) but facinating acoount of both Precolumbian and later forms of primitive and ad hoc money. He includes everything from quills filled with gold dust to empty bottles.

Amazon.com: Rations of the German Wehrmacht in World War II (9780764335204): Jim Pool: Books

What did the men and women of Der Wehrmacht eat? Chocolate bars with extra caffeine for one, this was a commercial product before the war. After reading this you'll know more than almost anyone you've ever met on an obscure but fascinating topic.

Amazon.com: Mousehole Forge (9780966325614): Books

Great Britain's oldest and longest anvil maker in business provides for an intereesting company history. It's an interesting insight into the life of a small manufacturing business.

Amazon.com: The Old Measure: An Inquiry into the Origins of the U.S. Customary System of Weights and Measures (9780615376264): Jon Bosak: Books

It's a fascinating account of Anglo-American Customary measure and how that measure compares to other s back to the dawn of recorded history. I need to write a review for amazon on this one.

Amazon.com: Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World (9781585673483): Adrienne Mayor: Books

Here are some of the first weapons of mass destruction and just plain nastiness. The author is familiar with Greek mythology and tells us wwhat the magic really was.

These are few that I've really enjoyed. I hope that some are of interest to my elderly confreres. Do let me know.
 
Old 06-02-2012, 11:12 AM
 
Location: State of Being
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Here are a few I've read in the last year or so. I not only enjoyed them but learned a great deal.

http://wwwhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/p...ls_o06_s00_i00

The bead trade is possibly the oldest commercial activity. Beads over a hundres thousand years old have been found. The book is sumptuous and very complete.

Amazon.com: Money of the American Indians and other primitive currencies of the Americas (9780878410019): Don Taxay: Books

Distinguished numismatist Don Taxay has compiled a short (158pp.) but facinating acoount of both Precolumbian and later forms of primitive and ad hoc money. He includes everything from quills filled with gold dust to empty bottles.

Amazon.com: Rations of the German Wehrmacht in World War II (9780764335204): Jim Pool: Books

What did the men and women of Der Wehrmacht eat? Chocolate bars with extra caffeine for one, this was a commercial product before the war. After reading this you'll know more than almost anyone you've ever met on an obscure but fascinating topic.

Amazon.com: Mousehole Forge (9780966325614): Books

Great Britain's oldest and longest anvil maker in business provides for an intereesting company history. It's an interesting insight into the life of a small manufacturing business.

Amazon.com: The Old Measure: An Inquiry into the Origins of the U.S. Customary System of Weights and Measures (9780615376264): Jon Bosak: Books

It's a fascinating account of Anglo-American Customary measure and how that measure compares to other s back to the dawn of recorded history. I need to write a review for amazon on this one.

Amazon.com: Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World (9781585673483): Adrienne Mayor: Books

Here are some of the first weapons of mass destruction and just plain nastiness. The author is familiar with Greek mythology and tells us wwhat the magic really was.

These are few that I've really enjoyed. I hope that some are of interest to my elderly confreres. Do let me know.
What a fascinating list! Thank you so much for sharing it.

I think I will start with the last book you mentioned - I am rather fascinated with weaponry.
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