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Issue #1166

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The Ontarion
Russ
Nova Scotia Sus
Doug

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From Greg, The Ontarion

Hello everyone!

Isn’t it incredible how long the summer weather is lasting? When I think back to the days of my youth, I remember how short the summers seemed to be! Maybe that was because us kids knew we’d be returning to school shortly after Labour Day!

Now one season flows into the next!

I just returned from my daily walk around the block! It takes me one full hour to walk the entire block! Of course our block is quite big! The Nephrologist insists that I walk either one hour or ten thousand steps per day! He’s concerned with the good of my heart, so he says!

What a kidney specialist is thinking about my heart for I don’t know! I guess it’s all connected and I can’t live without either one of those organs!

Now if I could only get rid of this damned cough that’s been bugging me for 6 weeks! The family doctor says that the cough is persistent and affecting thousands from the maritimes to BC!

He said the medical professionals can’t get a handle on what’s causing it, or a treatment for it! No medicine or cough drops seem to help get rid of it!

He said it lasts in most cases over 100 days!

They’re just calling it the hundred day cough!

It’s a dry cough that won’t allow you to cough anything up! Thus, “the dry cough” name!

Just have to put up with it I guess!

Oh well, what’s one more illness?

Fortunately, life goes on!

I hope you’re all keeping well these days!

Thanks for tuning in again!

Bye for now!

All the best!

GREG.

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From Russ

They were working just fine until I had my annual check-up the other day, now the right one doesn't work.

"You do not have 'Age-related Macular degeneration', but diabetes has done some damage as can be expected. You should be alright for another year; that will be $85 for today" said the eye doc.

But, I'm NOT alright! I phoned and left a message as there was no one manning the ship. They didn't call back, so I went to their office today - nobody home! The sign on the door read,

Office hours 9:AM to 4:PM Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday

Pretty 'skimpy' hours, for a doctor. Next window of opportunity is next Thursday. I'll have my 'aggressive' daughter-in-law make the call - if they don't make an emergency appointment for me, they'll be sorry!!

Bettie is my driver, and 'care-giver' (and sometimes my mother!) God bless her!

I'm having trouble typing this story as I see clearly with only my left eye.

Russ

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From Nova Scotia Sus

Finally our road construction is done and we have a beautifully paved road and no construction crews holding us up. It seemed to be construction everywhere we went these days. Hopefully our property taxes are not increasing from all that work. Now I can give my car a good cleaning from using all the gravel roads just trying to avoid the construction.

Here in Nova Scotia we have so many back roads as we call them. My Dad loved driving them looking for good fishing streams. He called it culvert hopping. Many of the fish he caught were brought home to be placed into our ponds to multiply and stock. In all he dug out 3 ponds on our property and was successful. The fish could leave or come back as they pleased. Dad knew what he was doing and he never had to restock.

I am forever thankful to my parents for what they created here and we do our best to continue their path.

Sus

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From Doug

How’s it going…..eh?

In a previous issue I mentioned the milky silty water flowing down our local rivers. I had said it was the result of the melting ice fields up in our local mountains the was the cause. That was correct but I’ve narrowed it down from that broad explanation. Turns out that while that is true, much of the milky runoff is from where the melting ice fields are now exposing old ash beds. Ash from the volcanic activity that was wide spread around here thousands of years ago. There is one particular ice field on the north side of Mnt Garibaldi that has melted back and exposed the old ash that was laid down those many millennia ago. The melting ice water is eating into and wash away the find ash particles, as well as the rock particles and is flowing down into the rivers. Now you know.

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We all must endure a constant barrage of span emails and spam text messages. Most are quite easy to spot as they are written in very poor English and make no sense at all except for their attempt to grab your personal information. Others however can be a bit tricky to spot, depending on circumstances. A common text scam these days is the one that tells you that your package can not be delivered due to some missing information. This one is easy to catch if you have not ordered anything on line but could well catch you are indeed waiting for a delivery.

I had ordered an item that was to be delivered via Canada Post and low and behold, I got a scam text alerting me to the fact that my item could not be delivered and was being held until I followed the embedded link and filled out the ‘missing’ information. This scam would have been easy to fall for except that I tend to be suspicious of everything regarding text messages and email ‘notifications’. The message certainly looked legit but just didn’t seem ‘right’. Needless to say, I deleted it without clicking on anything. And, guess what, my package turned up that very say day. If I had followed the link I’d have alerted the creeps to the fact that I existed and they’d have hounded me for address and banking info. So, never follow any link that is sent to you. If you are not sure, contact the business or where ever and ask them. That simple.

Now, here’s another important tip…. When (not if) you get a phone call that is even just possibly a scam, do not under any conditions use the word YES. They will start the conversation by asking if this is ‘so and so’. Now here’s the thing, they are recording your voice. So, by replying with a YES, you have given them permission to do whatever it is they are trying to do, such as follow up on emptying your back account or some such thing. They will record the whole conversation and then edit it to make it sound like you have agreed to all sorts of things. Therefore, never reply with a YES, just simply ask who is calling, or NO, that person is not here, that kind of thing.

The thing to keep in mind is that the low-life scammers are depending on something that is common with OUR generation, that being, we tend to be polite, and we tend to want to be helpful and cooperative. It goes against our childhood training to not do so, but we must for our own good. So, let yourself be rude, let yourself be a jerk if necessary. It’s hard but it’s the best tool against a world that is stacked against us. And, have fun doing it.

Doug

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Have a Good One
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