Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

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Thanks you guys. The good news is that I had a "mild" heart attack, by cardiac standards...I am very grateful to have been around to hear it. Huge wake up call!!

Wow, glad you're okay (well, in this regard anyway ) and thanks for sharing the wake up call.

 

[zogger]

Helps put it all into perspective I guess, what's important or not...

 

[zogger]

Your friends out in the driveway missed you I bet!

 

[mainewoods]

One of the key words they kept throwing at me was everything in "moderation". It's been so long I had to look it up in the trusty Funk and Wagnall! (a kind of dictionary for you young fellers)

 

[mainewoods]

Our "friends" in the driveway have increased to 18 daily. I think more slip in after dark. The good wife has kept them fat and sassy in my absence,Zog!

 

[MustangMike]

Avoid processed meats. Almost all the studies that have concluded that red meat is bad for you classify a hot dog the same as they do a lean steak, which is nonsense.

Venison Backstrap will always be one of my favorites, cooked very rare! I cut it like Fillet Minot! (about 4" length). I also always eat plenty of veggies, I see the wife has a nice spaghetti squash from my garden on the counter to be included with tonight's dinner.

Glad they caught it early Clint, good on your wife! Tell her we thank her for keepin U around!!!!

 

[Marshy]

Take care of yourself Clint and heal up. Glad to hear your caught it in time.

 

[dancan]

I've had to watch my sodium for a while now , Wendy's are the best for a fastfood place , baked taters are safe and some of their salads are safe , what and how much you put on them is what you have to watch out for .
Venison and other wild meats are lean so they are the healthiest , keep of feeding them "pets" but don't get them too fat LOL

 

[hardpan]

Thanks you guys. The good news is that I had a "mild" heart attack, by cardiac standards. If I hadn't gone to the hospital when I did it would have been a totally different outcome. I thought it was heartburn. Wife , being a nurse for 40 years, said you need to go, now! My LDL ( bad cholesterol) was off the chart. I had another attack 2 days before that, in the middle of the night, but I told her I thought it was heartburn because it went away within minutes. Never self diagnose! After talking to a cardiac therapist, I found I have been eating just about everything wrong over the years. Biggest offender---- sodium. Biggest producer of sodium---- processed food and restaurant meals. It has taken 62 years to build it up to these levels, but make no mistake, it's building. Listening to cardiac specialists for the last few days has taught me a lot about what not to put into your body. I am very grateful to have been around to hear it. Huge wake up call!!

My uncle Roy had that wake up call when he was in his late 60's and the doctor bluntly laid out the plan for life extension - diet and exercise. Roy followed it to the "T". Everyday, no exceptions, he was on his treadmill or exercise bike if inside and in decent weather he was outside walking a lot and working. Salt and some foods became his enemy so his eating habits changed a lot. It may sound corny to some but he was reborn and had no complaints. I cut a lot of firewood with him when he was in his 80's, a steady and solid work horse. His big garden was a picture of the way others only wished theirs could be. Roy died 6 years ago, 4 days after his wife of 70 something years. I think of him every couple days when I use his ash shovel to clean out my wood burner. He was 96 when he passed. Follow the plan and live on my friend.

 

[mainewoods]

Amen to that, hardpan! Thanks for the story!!
I was saving red meat for last,Mike. It was one of the first things they warned about. Venison was the first thing they recommended as an alternative! No problem with that one, AT all!!!
Thanks Marshy, and everyone else, for the kind words.
I'm feeding them "low fat" # 14 grain, Dan. They are all invited to a barbeque !! Moose meat is even leaner, but don't tell Bullwinkle. LOL

 

[dancan]

Yesterday's stuff , 24* and sunny , Tee shirt and ice cleat weather today

 

[svk]

Did some scrounging in my garage and shed today. Apparently one corner hadnt been visited since my dad passed 15 years ago.

Found a 6' peavey (yes with the point at the end), a small sledge head, and a pair of log tongs (going on trading post shortly FYI).

 

[zogger]

Did some scrounging in my garage and shed today. Apparently one corner hadnt been visited since my dad passed 15 years ago.

Found a 6' peavey (yes with the point at the end), a small sledge head, and a pair of log tongs (going on trading post shortly FYI).

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The tongs are cool

 

[1 stihl nut]

Thanks you guys. The good news is that I had a "mild" heart attack, by cardiac standards.

Biggest offender---- sodium. Biggest producer of sodium---- processed food and restaurant meals.

And spending time on internet forums where you have to take everything you read with a grain of salt.

 

[olyman]

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Health advice is extremely confusing. You remember when eating eggs were seen as a really bad thing? They used to say it would raise your cholesterol so you should at least throw out the yolks. Finally they're changing it to make it clear dietary cholesterol has little bearing on your body's cholesterol level. Read a book by Gary Taubes called "Good Calories, Bad Calories." It was excellent. Main take away is regular sugar is just as bad as the infamous high fructose corn syrup, saturated fat isn't bad for you, carbs in general are the devil, etc. I've been researching a lot about supposedly healthy diets and basically everything I thought I knew was wrong. I've been driving my family crazy for months lol. Just kinda pisses me off how this nation is getting fatter and there's so much misinformation out there it's really hard to find the truth.


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do yourself a huuuuge favor,,and dump all margarine in the trash. muh SIL,told me,,after I read a bunch of articles,,that that junk,,was one molecule off of plastic.......set a tub of that trash outside,,and not one animal on any type will touch it.. try that with butter.. he told me,,that they are sure that that is whats causing hardening of the arterys.........I wont let female use that junk in nothing............

 

[KiwiBro]

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I wont let female use that junk in nothing............

I respectfully suggest blunt force trauma will be your downfall long before hardened arteries.

 

[svk]

Margarine tastes like crap anyhow.

 

[KiwiBro]

Margarine tastes like crap anyhow.

Amen.

 

[dancan]

Went out today on a quest today for more wood over there .

2 1/2' of ice/snow no need for snow shoes , more than 16" on the lake
When I got over there I had a look around .

Found a few that are dying , but not dead yet , weather permitting , we'll drop these next weekend and winch them across the lake .

Pioneerguy600 checking some dead standing stuff , but alas , it was no good

I did manage to find 1/2 a load of some stuff I had left behind from the last time I was there so I'm happy

The dog and my stomach said it was supper time so the rest of the wood will wait for another day

 

[MustangMike]

Cute little puppy!