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Gabes,
You would think after three months I would be reading labels more diligently. And I do for foods (apparently not for supplements). I read my Vitamin E ingredients list and Soy was at the top of the list. Unreal. Thanks for the caution and your vigilance.
Tex, I have had enough. Being home for two days and watching the squirrels terrorize and taunt my dog, I am loading the BB gun (just scares them off in case anyone thinks I am hunting squirrels).
Rich
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Gabes-Apg
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Rich
no problems
my experience was that as I removed certain ingredients, within 4 weeks i would have reactions so that was my indicator that something was not agreeing with me
ie i removed gluten slowly got better and then BAM reactions so i removed yeast slowly got better and then BAM reactions, i removed caesin (i had been lactose free for 8 years or more) and then bam more reactions and I removed soy and since then symptoms are minimal and i am not too badly other than managing stress, and fatigue and nuruturing my immunity when it is fighting something.
this process took me about 6 months.
given the week you have had, it would be worth seeing if soy is your irritant,
I use Rice Brain oil for cooking, it has Vit E and no soy....
no problems
my experience was that as I removed certain ingredients, within 4 weeks i would have reactions so that was my indicator that something was not agreeing with me
ie i removed gluten slowly got better and then BAM reactions so i removed yeast slowly got better and then BAM reactions, i removed caesin (i had been lactose free for 8 years or more) and then bam more reactions and I removed soy and since then symptoms are minimal and i am not too badly other than managing stress, and fatigue and nuruturing my immunity when it is fighting something.
this process took me about 6 months.
given the week you have had, it would be worth seeing if soy is your irritant,
I use Rice Brain oil for cooking, it has Vit E and no soy....
Gabes Ryan
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"Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned"
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Rich,
FWIW, I had a squirrel problem last year, myself, (housebreaking - they would cut a hole in the screen wire to get into the house through a porch). I finally bought a squirrel-sized live trap, and trapped about half a dozen of them, and I moved them to the next creek, (about a mile away). Needless to say, I don't feed the cute little critters any more.
The ones that are left are now much better behaved. 
Tex
FWIW, I had a squirrel problem last year, myself, (housebreaking - they would cut a hole in the screen wire to get into the house through a porch). I finally bought a squirrel-sized live trap, and trapped about half a dozen of them, and I moved them to the next creek, (about a mile away). Needless to say, I don't feed the cute little critters any more.
The ones that are left are now much better behaved. Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Tex,
I think I will get some cages and take the squirrels for a ride, or, cut all of my trees down.
Gabes, I have been soy-free except for the Vitamin E which you pointed out to me. Will eliminate that now too. We will so how it goes in a few weeks.
Rich
I think I will get some cages and take the squirrels for a ride, or, cut all of my trees down.
Gabes, I have been soy-free except for the Vitamin E which you pointed out to me. Will eliminate that now too. We will so how it goes in a few weeks.
Rich
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Hi Rich! Glad you are back. 
I am currently in Dallas, visiting my son and daughter-in-law, and their new little daughter, my first grandchild. I was a little concerned about the TSA and their new "enhanced pat-down", but at PDX they were just using the old metal detectors, and when my son scoped out DFW before he picked me up he said that it looked like the ones they had weren't being used there, either. My granddaughter is more beautiful than her pictures, of course. It will be hard to leave, but I won't miss the taste of McKinney water. Even the filtered water tastes like it came from a pond. Which it did, I think. 
Squirrels... nasty little rodents. I live-trapped one once and took it several miles away to release. Within a few days, it was back. I knew it was the same one because it had part of it's ear torn off. One jumped on the back of my 15yo's leg last year. I think it came to an untimely death, however, because we haven't had trouble with it recently. For a while, we would check to see if the squirrel was about before we left the house.
I answered your Q about the Denver airport in an old post. It's actually in Colorado Springs that they hollowed out a mountain. Pretty interesting details about it from my father, which I passed on.
With all this concern over the TSA (fortunately I had taken the handful of .22 bullets I had forgotten about and my knife out of my purse) and the upset in my schedule, I expected some MC problems, but so far so good!
I am currently in Dallas, visiting my son and daughter-in-law, and their new little daughter, my first grandchild. I was a little concerned about the TSA and their new "enhanced pat-down", but at PDX they were just using the old metal detectors, and when my son scoped out DFW before he picked me up he said that it looked like the ones they had weren't being used there, either. My granddaughter is more beautiful than her pictures, of course. It will be hard to leave, but I won't miss the taste of McKinney water. Even the filtered water tastes like it came from a pond. Which it did, I think. Squirrels... nasty little rodents. I live-trapped one once and took it several miles away to release. Within a few days, it was back. I knew it was the same one because it had part of it's ear torn off. One jumped on the back of my 15yo's leg last year. I think it came to an untimely death, however, because we haven't had trouble with it recently. For a while, we would check to see if the squirrel was about before we left the house.
I answered your Q about the Denver airport in an old post. It's actually in Colorado Springs that they hollowed out a mountain. Pretty interesting details about it from my father, which I passed on.
With all this concern over the TSA (fortunately I had taken the handful of .22 bullets I had forgotten about and my knife out of my purse) and the upset in my schedule, I expected some MC problems, but so far so good!
Marliss Bombardier
Dum spiro, spero -- While I breathe, I hope
Psoriasis - the dark ages
Hashimoto's Thyroiditis - Dec 2001
Collagenous Colitis - Sept 2010
Granuloma Annulare - June 2011
Dum spiro, spero -- While I breathe, I hope
Psoriasis - the dark ages
Hashimoto's Thyroiditis - Dec 2001
Collagenous Colitis - Sept 2010
Granuloma Annulare - June 2011
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Linda in BC
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Ah, Marliss, a woman after my own heart! Carries a knife in her purse! You just never know when you are going to need one! I have lost a few good ones that way going through security.. ooops! I forgot I had that in there! I wouldn't have 22 bullets though..that's my husband..the hunter. My question is.. why didn't you just shoot the little bugger (the squirrel) (if you had the bullets? )
Linda
Linda
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I've lost at least one pocket knife by forgetting about it at the airport. I try to remember to remove it now if I fly. You just never know when you might need a knife.I haven't (yet) carried any shells in my purse though. HaHa
Glad to hear you didn't have any bad experiences going to security, Marliss
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MBombardier
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My son lost a hunting knife going through security once. He had taken his backpack camping, and had forgotten to clean it out before going through security. They had a good laugh on him.
Linda, I live in a pretty-densely populated area, so shooting a gun might just bring the police. I do keep the 12-gauge loaded in cause I need it, which my husband is not too happy about, but since the shell is not chambered, he lives with it. My father says that there is no sound so fearful to an intruder as the pump action of a .12-gauge, but the one night I thought I heard someone breaking in I grabbed my tear gas spray and my cell phone. Go figure.
Linda, I live in a pretty-densely populated area, so shooting a gun might just bring the police. I do keep the 12-gauge loaded in cause I need it, which my husband is not too happy about, but since the shell is not chambered, he lives with it. My father says that there is no sound so fearful to an intruder as the pump action of a .12-gauge, but the one night I thought I heard someone breaking in I grabbed my tear gas spray and my cell phone. Go figure.