Work Detail Follow-up
It looks like the first rain is about to fall on The Property where I sprayed starting at about 7:00 PM. That is an honest 10 hours for the spray to diffuse into the leaves. I think I am going to be OK on both the spraying and the spreading of fertilizer.
The operator's greatest exposure to the herbicide is from handling the jug of concentrate. The little bit that drips down the outside of the spout migrates across the surface of the plastic jug and up the outside of the cap. If you ONLY COULD HAVE ONE PIECE OF PPE, a rubber glove would be the thing. If you didn't have a rubber glove, a disposable plastic grocery bag would be enough.
I did get to talk to the father of the man who lives next to the Upper Orchard. He is a fine story-teller and didn't need much encouragement. It turned out that the German Shepherd is his dog.
Statins
Caveat emptor, let the buyer beware.
I don't know how to communicate this gently, but you could take several of the knee-jerk "its a racket" type comments, change the commodity being discussed to anything else and attributed to Senator Bernie Sanders or Fauxahants Warren and nobody would doubt the source.
The profit motive is not the problem. If "profit motive" always corrupts, then Capitalism is always immoral. The problem is not Capitalism, it is the coercion and the regulatory moats and regulatory/licensing capture that occurs when producers/marketers/legislators/regulators collude to protect their rice-bowls. It is when they distort "the market" that it is corrupted.
I don't know any millionaires who advise people to hire the cheapest accountants and otherwise-unemployed legal counselors. I don't know any people who seriously care about their health and the health of their family who rely primarily on voodoo witch-doctors for preventative care (although they might grasp at straws when all hope seems lost).
One of the conversations I had with the old curmudgeon is that seven-of-eight studies in a meta-study show neutral impact on overall mortality in the group who took statins. The phenomena of 'risk normalization' is likely at play. The wide-spread implementation of ABS didn't lead to a reduction in the number of traffic accidents because drivers "absorbed" the reduction in risk by increasing their risky behaviors like increasing tailgating and increasing their driving speed through curves. They figured that they had paid for the option so they should harvest the benefits rather than the insurance company.
It seems likely that people taking statins decided they could now eat more fried foods and ice cream and that they didn't have to hit the gym. The pill would take care of all that.
Hire the best professionals you can find and afford and will listen to.
As a side-note, I think there is a marketing opportunity in the pharmacy business for a compounded drug that addresses high cholesterol and high blood-pressure with one pill. Maybe a combination statin-and-sildenafil or a statin-and-tadalafil.
Happy girls
One of the comments thanked me for the Russian Folk Group that sang California Dreaming. This video has the same kind of happy-vibe.
And a part of the culture 40 years ago
Those are what the Bud Light commercials SHOULD have been.
If you want to take a "statin" and still avoid pharmaceuticals try Red Yeast Rice supplements.
ReplyDeleteI think that sildenafil is for another age problem.
ReplyDelete2,4.D will stick to your shows , after walking through wet sprayed areas , designate that footwear as non-garden footwear . I never ever spray it near the garden nor on windy days . LV400 is the Ag use concentrate , works the best . But the shoes serious about that , stuff gets in the garden off your feet and then you get a rain and you'll see some wilting plants.
ReplyDeleteI did smell my shoes after spraying and they smelled like old running shoes.
DeleteI walked backwards as I was spraying so I would not walk through it. I paid attention to the wind direction and sprayed with it or sprayed cross-wind. I am sure it looked hilarious to anybody who was watching but the only thing that wet my shoes was the dew.
Awesome , always like to share tips and tricks about gardening and such , I am usually wearing old crocs or barefoot when gardening unless the job at hand requires sturdy footwear . Made many mistakes through the years and learned from them , still make mistakes and still learning. I enjoy your blog it is on my morning lap around the internet .
DeleteTaking "Tad" as part of the healing process from protate surgery. Daughter says hair on my bald spot is appearing. Blood pressure is at normal without the other stuff I was taking which clocked down my metabolism. (chubby consequences)
ReplyDeleteWhat is “tad”
DeletePecker upper!
DeleteWon't be taking statins, nope,nope,nope.....................
ReplyDeleteWednesday morning: Slight rain, not much, need more !!!!
Vis a vis the cheap account and lawyer, an old woodworking sage once said, "Buy the best and only cry once."
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