General Discussion, Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Posted on June 11, 2025 by Stella

Day ONE HUNDRED FORTY-THREE of Presidential recovery.

 

 

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  1. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    June 11, 2025 at 12:12 am

    Stellars….

    Hickory Nut Falls…

    Iconic North Carolina Park Is Finally Reopening 9 Months After Hurricane Helene

    “Chimney Rock is a western North Carolina jewel.”

    By Meghan Overdeep – Published on June 6, 2025

    https://www.southernliving.com/chimney-rock-state-park-reopening-hurricane-helene-11749846?

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    • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
      June 11, 2025 at 7:44 am

      Mornin’ Lucille!

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
      June 11, 2025 at 8:14 am

      Having been to Western NC many times, it’s my opinion that it must surely be one of the most wonderful of God’s creations. So far, my favorite places are the Cherohala Skyway, which crosses from Tennessee to NC, the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forrest, and all around Fontana Lake.

      Good morning Lucille, and it’s wonderful to know the progress in the mountains. I know that the Amish are still there, lots of them, helping the people. In my opinion, if any people ever in history went out and lived Christianity as Jesus intended us too, the Amish are one of the finest examples.

      Remember the Amish school shooting in Pennsylvania in 2006?

      On the day of the killings, members of the Nickel Mines community took food to Roberts’ widow. Six days after the shooting, families who had just buried their daughters attended Roberts’ funeral. Money from funds that poured in from around the world was diverted to the killer’s family, even though many victims faced huge medical bills.

      Thank you for the update.

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      • Stella's avatar Stella says:
        June 11, 2025 at 10:34 am

        Morning Menagerie!

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      • Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
        June 11, 2025 at 4:26 pm

        Good day to you, Menagerie! I’m glad to have run across the “Southern Living” article on the renewal of the North Carolina areas so severely damaged by the terrible storm and flooding. Blessings on all who have worked to restore it. With their willingness to so directly help their neighbors, the Amish do, indeed, reflect the teachings of our Lord. May they be especially blessed with more and more faith to follow Him.

        How lovely that there’s a forest named after Joyce Kilmer and that you’ve visited it.

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    • Stella's avatar Stella says:
      June 11, 2025 at 10:26 am

      Morning Lucille!

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    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
      June 11, 2025 at 11:46 am

      Mornin’ All. Another great day here, weather-wise. We had a t-storm yesterday and it poured rain so hard it was drumming hard on the metal roof. There were those little tiny round frozen balls everywhere for about 10 minutes and then it was all gone. The rain soaked into the dry soil immediately. But, I enjoyed the storm.

      Hope you all have a great day.

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  2. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    June 11, 2025 at 2:37 am

    The Smartest Way to Get Your Garden Dug

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  3. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    June 11, 2025 at 3:59 am

    10 Of Grandma’s Favorite Summer Sides

    Grandma knows best! 

    By Mary Alice Russell – Published on June 2, 2025

    https://www.southernliving.com/grandma-summer-sides-11746162?

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
      June 11, 2025 at 8:28 am

      Lucille, that’s a gold mine collection right there. Almost all are our summertime favorites, except succotash and I’ve never heard of lady peas.

      In heaven when you get settled in, your first meal is going to have okra, I just know it. And that’s the way to cook it, just like they describe. Summer has no finer bounty than okra. One of my sons and his family is in New Orleans today. I told him I sure wished I was there just for lunch, a big ole bowl of gumbo.

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    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
      June 11, 2025 at 11:42 am

      Great recipes. I have never had the succotash, so I may have to try that. Of course, potato salad and baked beans were always at every picnic and I wish I could fry chicken like my mother did. I can only get close. I love fried okra.

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      • Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
        June 11, 2025 at 5:30 pm

        My Mom wasn’t an imaginative chef-type cook. She did have her specialties, though. Fried chicken was one of them; cole slaw another (her dressing was super).

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  4. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    June 11, 2025 at 7:24 am

    Good mornin’, kids, and happy Hump Day! I hope y’all are getting ready for a long summer. Another contemporary coffee maker. Keep your head on a swivel and carpe’ your coffee!

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    • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
      June 11, 2025 at 7:43 am

      Mornin’ T!

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    • czarina33's avatar czarina33 says:
      June 11, 2025 at 8:10 am

      modern art.

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
      June 11, 2025 at 8:17 am

      You are on a creative roll there T. Just don’t change the coffee recipe, Wee might snap! Good morning, and thank you!

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      • texan59's avatar texan59 says:
        June 11, 2025 at 8:23 am

        Good mornin’, Menage! After watching a certain fella make his mark on the art world with little to no talent, I’m thnkin’ about becoming a coffee pot designer, as I too have little to no talent in that field! I would never change up the coffee recipe! 😉

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        • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
          June 11, 2025 at 8:38 am

          Before my middle son got his license and a car to drive, we used to go walk downtown most mornings before school and work. The art museum downtown had some weird, huge metal sculptures out on their property.

          He researched how much they cost the city, and how much the artists’ works sold for. Came up with a scheme to get rich. He was going to change my husband’s name to a European pronunciation, and seriously wanted him to make the sculptures out of scrap iron the shipyard had lying around. Son was then going to market and sell them.

          We got a kick out of it, husband never considered it.

          Son, I’m proud to say today, is a very, very successful sales management professional with lots future accomplishments ahead of him.

          Sadly for us, I am actually sure we missed quite the opportunity. I really believe, even as a high school student, he’d have sold some gawdawful clap trap of metal.

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    • Stella's avatar Stella says:
      June 11, 2025 at 10:25 am

      Mornin’ Tex! A work of art.

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    • Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
      June 11, 2025 at 5:38 pm

      That’s a beauteous pot, Texan! I found perfectly matching cups but for whatever reason the photo refused to be copied. These mugs would go nicely, though, for a multitude of uses with coffee being primary….

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  5. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    June 11, 2025 at 7:30 am

    Mornin’ fellow kids!

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  6. czarina33's avatar czarina33 says:
    June 11, 2025 at 8:16 am

    National Making Life Beautiful Day – a celebration to those who make life beautiful. Whether you’re creating beauty by building relationships or helping others achieve personal success, your actions create a ripple effect. You are making life beautiful not just for yourself, but for those around you, too.

    National German Chocolate Cake Day – always welcome

    National Corn on the Cob Day – perfect!

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  7. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    June 11, 2025 at 8:46 am

    Apparently, the big protests happening this Saturday across the Country have been in the planning stages for quite some time. Here’s a link to their graphics library that you can use for your posters. Looks rather professionally put together to me.

    https://brandfolder.com/s/vqbb79z4p6hhkgkrxwp9nh

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  8. Stella's avatar Stella says:
    June 11, 2025 at 10:46 am

    Good morning to everybody! I don’t know much about herbal medicine, but I recently ran across something that really works for me.

    To explain, one of the prescription medicines I take (calcium channel blocker) has the side effect of swelling in the feet and ankles. Rather than ask for another prescription (like Lasix/Furosemide), I looked for an herbal remedy.

    What I found is Dandelion root, which I am taking in capsule form a couple of times a day. It works at least as well as Lasix, while being more gentle, and reportedly it is potassium sparing.

    I will discuss this with my doctor at my next appointment, but I thought I would mention this, as I believe it could help many people.

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    • Stella's avatar Stella says:
      June 11, 2025 at 10:51 am

      This is from an NIH study, which found dandelion “shows promise as a diuretic in humans”. More on its history, from the same report:

      Species of Taraxacum have been employed as a diuretic for over 2000 years in both Traditional Chinese Medicine and in Ayurvedic medicine.3–5 The species found in most U.S. and European herbal remedies is Taraxacum officinale (L.) Weber (Asteraceae), commonly known as dandelion, Herba Taraxaci, or Taraxacum herba. It is used ubiquitously as a remedy in a variety of conditions. Even before publication in Elizabeth Blackwell’s Curious Herbal in 1734, the use of dandelion leaf as a diuretic persisted across cultural and temporal barriers. In French, dandelion is known as pissenlit, a colorful description of its diuretic activity. These ethnobotanical and historical data suggest that various species of dandelion have been widely employed for urinary and renal diseases to enhance the renal elimination of fluids. As suggested by Mills* when societies socially and geographically distant from one another find common uses for the same genera, this provides empirical evidence of a medicinal plant’s pharmacological activity.

      https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3155102/

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      • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
        June 11, 2025 at 1:25 pm

        I am concerned and appalled at how casually doctors hand out drug prescriptions with horrific side effects. And yet with every trip to the orthopedic surgeon’s office, I see and hear from people in awful pain who can’t get temporary pain relief for their broken bones, or other surgical procedures.

        I have said this before, and I’ll say it again. If you are one of those people who don’t have pain meds filled because you don’t need them, re-think this. Fill them, put them away, hoard them. If you ever have a broken bones, especially a large bone, or joint injury, or serious trauma, you are going to find that you get several days of pain meds and then you’re expected to make do with OTC stuff.

        And you won’t get a dosage that even touches the pain level.

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      • Reflection's avatar Reflection says:
        June 11, 2025 at 5:43 pm

        Stella,

        Isn’t it interesting that the links to most of the drug related sites, say the results are inconclusive as to the use of dandelion as a diuretic?

        Yet, the NIH link you provided shows benefit as a diuretic in a short-term study in females. And the potassium-sparing action is notable. The nutrition in the younger, tastier leaves is significant.

        All admit to the long term use of dandelion by the public, without harm, (in general.)

        To know your source for the dandelion root is important, since some formulations are better than others. Yours is working for you.

        Like most herbs, adverse reactions are possible, so starting with a small amount is advisable. Some people develop a rash from the leaves.

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        • Stella's avatar Stella says:
          June 11, 2025 at 6:19 pm

          This quote from the NIH study also makes a lot of sense:

          As suggested by Mills* when societies socially and geographically distant from one another find common uses for the same genera, this provides empirical evidence of a medicinal plant’s pharmacological activity.

          And the fact that it has been used as a natural diuretic for centuries all over the world.

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        • Stella's avatar Stella says:
          June 11, 2025 at 6:24 pm

          I think it is just common sense that any substance (herbs, foods, prescribed medications) can have adverse reactions. Re medications, I mention the side effect of swollen ankles and feet that I experienced from a calcium channel blocker. And a recently prescribed drug (to replace one that became more expensive because of insurance coverage) caused my blood pressure to drop so much that I had to put my head down to avoid passing out. I am also allergic to penicillin, and the contrast dye used during X-rays! Testing for effective dosage is also smart.

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      • Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
        June 11, 2025 at 7:13 pm

        Depending on the website, some say dandelion supplements or fresh dandelion leaves are OK for chronic kidney disease, others say not. There’s not as much objection to dandelion tea. It’s the potassium level which is the problem.

        Everyone should read every single label to see exactly what a product contains and what the milligram level plus daily percentage every item is. It’s a pain in the neck but finding out how much sodium products contain is an eye opener. Better to eat fresh on most everything.

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
      June 11, 2025 at 11:03 am

      I confess to having been influenced somewhat by Secretary Kennedy. I’m looking into lots of stuff relating to food and drugs these days.

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    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
      June 11, 2025 at 11:50 am

      Interesting.

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  9. Stella's avatar Stella says:
    June 11, 2025 at 12:58 pm

    This is very interesting.

    Summary:

    His reform agenda is radical:

    → Investigating taboo topics like vaccine injuries and autism causes
    → Breaking up the scientific “old boys club”
    → Prioritizing replication over flashy new research
    → Cutting pharmaceutical middlemen
    → Restoring transparency to public health

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  10. Stella's avatar Stella says:
    June 11, 2025 at 1:25 pm

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  11. Stella's avatar Stella says:
    June 11, 2025 at 1:42 pm

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  12. Stella's avatar Stella says:
    June 11, 2025 at 4:55 pm

    This is fun! Which song was ‘most recognizable’ the year you were born?

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  13. Stella's avatar Stella says:
    June 11, 2025 at 5:23 pm

    Frederick Forsyth, Day of the Jackal author and former MI6 agent, dies aged 86

    Frederick Forsyth, the author who turned his adventures as a journalist and work with MI6 into bestselling thrillers, has died after a brief illness aged 86.

    Forsyth brought a reporter’s eye to his fiction, transforming the thriller genre with a series of novels including The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File and The Dogs of War. Combining meticulous research with firecracker plots, he published a series of novels that sold more than 75m copies around the world, and won him honours including a CBE in 1997 and the Crime Writers’ Association Diamond Dagger award.

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/09/frederick-forsyth-day-of-the-jackal-author-and-former-mi6-agent-dies-aged-86

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