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Hi, Daryl!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

 AH>  I take it bears & other animals scratch themselves on
 AH>  trees when they're moulting or whatever....  :-)

 DS>  I didn't think bears molted, but they likely shed.


          That's probably the word I should have used.  IIRC, now that you've
reminded me, it is birds which moult (Canadian spelling of same).  Oops!  :-)



 DS>  "Shed Happens". 


          Uh-huh.  Years ago, when we had a large white hairy dog, one of our
friends dropped by unexpectedly & asked if the living room carpet was new.  I
chuckled & told him I had just finished vacuuming.  Then I added "I guess you
thought we had a tweed carpet."  His expression told me I was right....  :-))



 DS>  I finally got that annuity in after my Mom's death...but
 DS>  it's already shot with the 50% to my brother, then repairs
 DS>  on the car, medical expenses, and possibly installing a
 DS>  generator.


          Unfortunately repairs & medical expenses aren't always predictable,
but they can eat up one's savings very quickly... (sigh).



 DS>  I don't lose power that often, but when I do, it tends to be
 DS>  for quite a long time...as it was  in June and July, 2019...
 DS>  after severe thunderstorms pulled the electric meter off
 DS>  the north side of the house.


          Good grief!  I didn't know about the electric meter, but I remember
times when your BBS was down for quite awhile because of thunderstorms.  Mark
invariably tells us when you are offline in such cases.  Thankyou, Mark.  :-)



  DS>  with no air conditioning, the apparent temperature was well
  DS>  over 100 degrees. It was like taking a hot shower, then not
  DS>  drying off afterwards, and then climing into bed still naked.
  DS>  People die in conditions like that every day.


          Yes.  When we have such situations around here people with asthma &
other respiratory conditions are advised not to go out.  Because we live near
the ocean the temperature rarely exceeds 90 degrees... but because we're also
surrounded by mountains we get temperature inversions in which the smog hangs
around for days.  About a year ago, I realized "This means means you!" when I
needed to take a break during what would otherwise be a ten-minute walk.  :-Q



 DS>  I like what the late Red Skelton said about his eye doctor,
 DS>  who he called "the optimist" ...


          He was a comedian who did his thing while I'm a retired teacher who
enjoys making people think and... like you... testing their mettle by teasing
them a bit.  The first time our optometrist, who was a lot younger then & was
probably reciting from textbooks, instructed me to "look at the big letter E"
without my glasses on I played dumb & asked "What letter E?"  I find him very
quick on the uptake, and one of the best optometrists we've ever had....  :-)



 DS>  I've decided with my health, and COVID-19, it's not worth
 DS>  traveling outside of central Arkansas anymore.


          Understood.  In the past six months we haven't been more than fifty
miles away from home.  Our world shrank a lot once we'd added a wheelchair to
the equation, but now I'm seeing a lot more activity in my favourite echoes &
I'm hearing a lot more often from my BFF during our high school days....  :-)



 AH>  * Origin: Wits' End, Vancouver CANADA (1:153/716)

 DS>  The name sounds like where I've been at lately. :P


          Glad to know you understand where I'm coming from... [wry grin].




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