What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)

[jjraak]

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and all who avoided the Reading pop festival, here in Tilehurst Towers we could hear the music clearly at times and other times just the bass. If I write and complain will they send me free tickets for next year?
Blood sugars this morning were 1st reading 3.8 and 2nd reading 4.5, I shall go with the 2nd reading.
Well @gennepher an interesting tale the local wildlife are lucky you take good care of them and again I take my hat off to you on dealing with technology.
Now it’s time for me, me’s and myself to go and get on with life.
Stay safe all and hugs where required.

Ouch for the low
Off biking today ?
Good luck getting bloods to match up if so

As for music..a mixed bag, do I discern a wish to have been there in person ?

If so write in & complain.. you might just get a complimentary ticket to shut you up...

 

[jjraak]

Fbg 6.7

Okay.
Now what do I have to report about yesterday?

Ah, I know.Daughter from Oz, on Skype googled when I showed her the trail cam pictures. She informs me that cats and badgers can get on very well. But foxes are another matter...
And then I got notice my card reader was coming in a few minutes!

So the rest of the day (instead of setting up something important) was putting the trail cam cards into the card reader and figuring that out. It was easy actually, after pressing a couple of wrong things.

I downloaded them on to my defunct iPhone from years ago. It worked. Made for easy viewing. And it allowed me to delete the pictures on the SD cards from the iPhone. So, for good measure, I reformatted the cards before I set up the trail cams (no idea if that was necessary). I did have to reset some settings on the more basic trail cam, but not on the other.

This morning it is raining, so I haven't taken the cards out of the trail cams yet. I am hoping I can leave them permanently attached to their posts now, instead of untying them to bring them in to look at the pics. But I had repositioned one of them last night, so it depends how successful that one was.

So, yesterday I was able to look at all the earlier pictures, and videos (without wearing down the batteries on the trail cams, by viewing them in the trail cam). A lot of interesting videos. During the night before last, my garden was tremendously busy with the foxes and the badgers. As soon as I had come in for the night and locked up, they came out of hiding. So, they must have been in the undergrowth while I had been out in the garden. Also Jade was wandering in and out of the garden during the night in between badgers. Midnight seems to get on well with the badgers. See the bottom two pics on the collage. I took stills from the video. The playful badger was playing Kissy Kissy with Midnight, and almost got him on the nose. Midnight just watched as you can see, he didn't flinch an inch.

My Creative today. A collage. The first pic, in the collage, shows evidence of a cub. It looks like a fox cub to me. Midnight watched it through a few 10 seconds video clips, then he got down and went in the undergrowth to investigate it. And I am hoping mum or dad fox was not about. At one point two badgers came in together. There are different size badgers and different size foxes coming in. Considering my garden is fenced all round, all these creatures are deliberately trying to get in my garden!

Just watching the flocks of sparrows and bluetits and pied wagtails feeding as I write this, and Mr Robin is eating from his favourite half coconut fatball.

A cuppa now and see if I can retrieve a SD card...

Have a good day.


P.S. Guess what? I am on the bed going through the trail cam pics yesterday afternoon when I look up because there is a noise. And reflected in my glass door, underneath my Believe sign is a reflection of the flypast of the Red Arrows in formation.

HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY...I did get to see them!!!

By the way, if I had been watching from my garden I wouldn't have actually seen then, they were flying so low..

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How oblivious we are to how cats in particular stay safe during the night hours sharing space with the less domesticated creatures of the night

Fascinating stuff

And another 1+ for the excellent use of tech.

Us silver surfers, we might be slower getting there, but not much we can't do, when we put our minds to it

Hoorrah, the grey army..

 

[jjraak]

6.5 this morning. I had pasta salad for dinner last night and someone mentioned the bg effect is over a longer period.

Hi.

Yes indeed, some foods have a long life re spikes

A slower or delayed spike, can catch us out when adhering closely to the 2 hours rule

Think those with cgm capture and prove that point.

Never did myself, but others did test at the 3 & 4 hour marker if pin pricking

I rarely have pasta now, closest I get is courghetti spirals

Natty little cone spiral cutter, easy to clean & takes up little space in the knife draw, suits us fine.

( Last thing we needed was another piece of kitchen tech taking up space after being used 1 or 2 times, before being put away ....though might be getting the George foreman back out with the spiralling price of energy costs )

Maybe try it, if you haven't ?..can't say i notice courghetti spoiling the meal, but like I say little experience of pasta since DX..maybe my taste buds have evolved.

 

[gennepher]

Happy bank holiday...

A run of mid 7's for me...so nothing of note

A little more mobile of late, has seen walking increase nicely (crutch aided)
Now shoulder is probably back at near 80‰ the stairs using bannister rail is way more easy

Which allows me to take stairs up or down in a more normal fashion (the majority of the times )


Still struggle with that sideways movement of knee, so a straight set of stairs is almost doable, (given it's not too many.).but any turn in stairs and it's back to baby steps.

And with hand grip now back to 50% holding crutch is also adding to my confidence when walking, allowing pace to pick ...so a win/win, i think.

Been keeping up with forum

Fascinating stuff with the garden, @gennepher ..so much goes on at night.

And I am slightly in awe at how you approach the treatment to evict your uninvited guest @ianpspurs ...though I am mindful the public part is a very credible & sensible 'it is what is '...but the more private side must have your mind wandering at times....a hug, if acceptable for the worry that must cause.

Hope everyone else has the very best of a bank holiday monday....

You are doing very well, even if it may not feel like it at times.
Progress is there.
Hugs for Marley (he'll scratch and claw back no doubt). My little Ammy has witchery pointy ears just like Marley. I noticed this morning as she shot into the kitchen to devour her breakfast in the minimum gulps.
The night is a wonderful mysterious place....

And a quick hug for you!

 

[dunelm]

Fbg 6.6

Well, my plan for my post this morning didn't work. The Red Arrows are based at Hawarden Airport this weekend, for displays at Rhyl (i think). Yesterday morning I watched Red Arrow 4 come in from the Peterborough direction on the plane app. I can only watch one at a time on the app. So I am not sure whether they were all together at that point. They were in mid Wales for a bit, and then were joined by a helicopter which was leading them quite slowly towards Hawarden. I wondered why, and then I realised there was a lot of air traffic in their path, commercial and otherwise. Finally there was very little, and then no air traffic in their vicinity. So, they proceeded much faster towards Hawarden, all the while being led by this helicopter. The plane app told me the helicopter was leading them. I was hoping they would come over my bungalow. A lot of air traffic does that as it is coming to land at Hawarden. But alas no, they came in a different route by the river. Maybe they come into a different runway? I heard the helicopter bringing them in. I can pick up helicopters very well with my cochlear processor. So that is the nearest I will get this weekend to experiencing the Red Arrows!

Now, the trail cameras. Repositioned them last night. The little one picked up nothing, although it should have picked up both badger and fox, the only two visitors last night. But they came multiple times. It must have something to do how the sensors pick up the surrounding stuff or not. The large one picked up 398 pictures and videos last night and the early hours of this morning. Half were pictures, half were 10 second videos. I couldn't look through them all, it would have taken all day and depleted the batteries in the trail camera. I need this card reader which will be coming next week sometime, and then I will be able to play them on the much bigger screen of my iPad.

So, I picked these to photograph the screen of the bigger trail camera. Best I can do today!

I made a collage of 4. Both badger and fox came in many times during the night from 9pm through to just after 4am. I do not know if it is different foxes coming in, but they seem different sizes. One looked awfully big.

You can see the badger (top right) come in to the bucket of water at the far end of the swing. He was drinking the full 10 seconds of the video. It is hard to see, but Midnight is on the swing, watching the badger. Have a look at the first picture as the badger is leaving the picture, and you can definitely see Midnight on the swing watching the badger. The second the badger gets out of frame, Midnight jumps off the swing and follows him. Brave cat? He is not in the least bit scared of the badger.

Bottom two are of the fox. He also goes to drink water from the bucket, but not in these pics. The fox is constantly checking the swing to see if Midnight is on there. I think the fox and Midnight are not friends. There has been a couple of occasions recently when Midnight has stunk to high heaven in a morning, and I think it is with a skirmish with the fox. The fox has sprayed him. I would like to see if I can capture on the trail camera what happens here.

Cuppa tea now.
So much to do.
Have your best day.

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Fbg 6.6

Well, my plan for my post this morning didn't work. The Red Arrows are based at Hawarden Airport this weekend, for displays at Rhyl (i think). Yesterday morning I watched Red Arrow 4 come in from the Peterborough direction on the plane app. I can only watch one at a time on the app. So I am not sure whether they were all together at that point. They were in mid Wales for a bit, and then were joined by a helicopter which was leading them quite slowly towards Hawarden. I wondered why, and then I realised there was a lot of air traffic in their path, commercial and otherwise. Finally there was very little, and then no air traffic in their vicinity. So, they proceeded much faster towards Hawarden, all the while being led by this helicopter. The plane app told me the helicopter was leading them. I was hoping they would come over my bungalow. A lot of air traffic does that as it is coming to land at Hawarden. But alas no, they came in a different route by the river. Maybe they come into a different runway? I heard the helicopter bringing them in. I can pick up helicopters very well with my cochlear processor. So that is the nearest I will get this weekend to experiencing the Red Arrows!

Now, the trail cameras. Repositioned them last night. The little one picked up nothing, although it should have picked up both badger and fox, the only two visitors last night. But they came multiple times. It must have something to do how the sensors pick up the surrounding stuff or not. The large one picked up 398 pictures and videos last night and the early hours of this morning. Half were pictures, half were 10 second videos. I couldn't look through them all, it would have taken all day and depleted the batteries in the trail camera. I need this card reader which will be coming next week sometime, and then I will be able to play them on the much bigger screen of my iPad.

So, I picked these to photograph the screen of the bigger trail camera. Best I can do today!

I made a collage of 4. Both badger and fox came in many times during the night from 9pm through to just after 4am. I do not know if it is different foxes coming in, but they seem different sizes. One looked awfully big.

You can see the badger (top right) come in to the bucket of water at the far end of the swing. He was drinking the full 10 seconds of the video. It is hard to see, but Midnight is on the swing, watching the badger. Have a look at the first picture as the badger is leaving the picture, and you can definitely see Midnight on the swing watching the badger. The second the badger gets out of frame, Midnight jumps off the swing and follows him. Brave cat? He is not in the least bit scared of the badger.

Bottom two are of the fox. He also goes to drink water from the bucket, but not in these pics. The fox is constantly checking the swing to see if Midnight is on there. I think the fox and Midnight are not friends. There has been a couple of occasions recently when Midnight has stunk to high heaven in a morning, and I think it is with a skirmish with the fox. The fox has sprayed him. I would like to see if I can capture on the trail camera what happens here.

Cuppa tea now.
So much to do.
Have your best day.

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Oh dear - fox spray - blaghhh! Still better than having a dog who would probably love to roll in anything with such a delicate perfume. Thanks for the collage.

 

[dunelm]

@gennepher dehydrating with an air fryer. This happens to be like ours but I think some in The D and D Norf have deluxe appliances

we have a multi use steamer/pressure cooker/ sauté thing, a Ninja foodi and our Ninja oven looks like this:

 

[dunelm]

Fbg 6.7

Okay.
Now what do I have to report about yesterday?

Ah, I know.Daughter from Oz, on Skype googled when I showed her the trail cam pictures. She informs me that cats and badgers can get on very well. But foxes are another matter...
And then I got notice my card reader was coming in a few minutes!

So the rest of the day (instead of setting up something important) was putting the trail cam cards into the card reader and figuring that out. It was easy actually, after pressing a couple of wrong things.

I downloaded them on to my defunct iPhone from years ago. It worked. Made for easy viewing. And it allowed me to delete the pictures on the SD cards from the iPhone. So, for good measure, I reformatted the cards before I set up the trail cams (no idea if that was necessary). I did have to reset some settings on the more basic trail cam, but not on the other.

This morning it is raining, so I haven't taken the cards out of the trail cams yet. I am hoping I can leave them permanently attached to their posts now, instead of untying them to bring them in to look at the pics. But I had repositioned one of them last night, so it depends how successful that one was.

So, yesterday I was able to look at all the earlier pictures, and videos (without wearing down the batteries on the trail cams, by viewing them in the trail cam). A lot of interesting videos. During the night before last, my garden was tremendously busy with the foxes and the badgers. As soon as I had come in for the night and locked up, they came out of hiding. So, they must have been in the undergrowth while I had been out in the garden. Also Jade was wandering in and out of the garden during the night in between badgers. Midnight seems to get on well with the badgers. See the bottom two pics on the collage. I took stills from the video. The playful badger was playing Kissy Kissy with Midnight, and almost got him on the nose. Midnight just watched as you can see, he didn't flinch an inch.

My Creative today. A collage. The first pic, in the collage, shows evidence of a cub. It looks like a fox cub to me. Midnight watched it through a few 10 seconds video clips, then he got down and went in the undergrowth to investigate it. And I am hoping mum or dad fox was not about. At one point two badgers came in together. There are different size badgers and different size foxes coming in. Considering my garden is fenced all round, all these creatures are deliberately trying to get in my garden!

Just watching the flocks of sparrows and bluetits and pied wagtails feeding as I write this, and Mr Robin is eating from his favourite half coconut fatball.

A cuppa now and see if I can retrieve a SD card...

Have a good day.


P.S. Guess what? I am on the bed going through the trail cam pics yesterday afternoon when I look up because there is a noise. And reflected in my glass door, underneath my Believe sign is a reflection of the flypast of the Red Arrows in formation.

HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY...I did get to see them!!!

By the way, if I had been watching from my garden I wouldn't have actually seen then, they were flying so low..

View attachment 56135

Smashing, tech know how, red arrows, smashing pictures.

 

[dunelm]

Happy bank holiday...

A run of mid 7's for me...so nothing of note

A little more mobile of late, has seen walking increase nicely (crutch aided)
Now shoulder is probably back at near 80‰ the stairs using bannister rail is way more easy

Which allows me to take stairs up or down in a more normal fashion (the majority of the times )


Still struggle with that sideways movement of knee, so a straight set of stairs is almost doable, (given it's not too many.).but any turn in stairs and it's back to baby steps.

And with hand grip now back to 50% holding crutch is also adding to my confidence when walking, allowing pace to pick ...so a win/win, i think.

Been keeping up with forum

Fascinating stuff with the garden, @gennepher ..so much goes on at night.

And I am slightly in awe at how you approach the treatment to evict your uninvited guest @ianpspurs ...though I am mindful the public part is a very credible & sensible 'it is what is '...but the more private side must have your mind wandering at times....a hug, if acceptable for the worry that must cause.

Hope everyone else has the very best of a bank holiday monday....

you are getting there - good days outweighing bad days - take it easy

 

[dunelm]

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and all who avoided the Reading pop festival, here in Tilehurst Towers we could hear the music clearly at times and other times just the bass. If I write and complain will they send me free tickets for next year?
Blood sugars this morning were 1st reading 3.8 and 2nd reading 4.5, I shall go with the 2nd reading.
Well @gennepher an interesting tale the local wildlife are lucky you take good care of them and again I take my hat off to you on dealing with technology.
Now it’s time for me, me’s and myself to go and get on with life.
Stay safe all and hugs where required.

You absolutely must complain. Hope your blood sugars settled upwards a bit.

 

[dunelm]

Good afternoon everyone from a swinging from dull to bright afternoon here in the dark and dangerous north. Wonderful day doing an explore around Lud’s Church with the grandchildren. Lots of blueberries and blackberries picked and eaten, the odd Elderberry and a few nibbles of Beech nuts on the trails. ‘Collections’ made of things of interest to take home and a round trip of nearly six miles with ice cream and orange squash to finish. We are now back home. Little Miss Pamplemouse and I have done the shopping and the ninky nonks are out with Gran. Sticky rice with chicken and sugar snap peas for dinner tonight. Grandchildren's choice, so probably a chicken salad for Mrs Miggins and myself. Art bit - another one completed so best get on with another one.

 

[jjraak]

we have a multi use steamer/pressure cooker/ sauté thing, a Ninja foodi and our Ninja oven looks like this:

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Was looking at one of those....
Very good reviews

How do you find it ..acceptable ?

 

[jjraak]

Good afternoon everyone from a swinging from dull to bright afternoon here in the dark and dangerous north. Wonderful day doing an explore around Lud’s Church with the grandchildren. Lots of blueberries and blackberries picked and eaten, the odd Elderberry and a few nibbles of Beech nuts on the trails. ‘Collections’ made of things of interest to take home and a round trip of nearly six miles with ice cream and orange squash to finish. We are now back home. Little Miss Pamplemouse and I have done the shopping and the ninky nonks are out with Gran. Sticky rice with chicken and sugar snap peas for dinner tonight. Grandchildren's choice, so probably a chicken salad for Mrs Miggins and myself. Art bit - another one completed so best get on with another one.

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Lovely day by the sounds of it ..

And cracking painting.

 

[gennepher]

How oblivious we are to how cats in particular stay safe during the night hours sharing space with the less domesticated creatures of the night

Fascinating stuff

And another 1+ for the excellent use of tech.

Us silver surfers, we might be slower getting there, but not much we can't do, when we put our minds to it

Hoorrah, the grey army..

Midnight amazes me how he interacts with wild animals...
And still stays safe...
Yup!
Silver Surfers rule!!!!!!

 

[dunelm]

Was looking at one of those....
Very good reviews

How do you find it ..acceptable ?

Hi @jjraak, we don’t have a conventional oven in our kitchen, just an induction hob and this Ninja oven sat on the worktop. There are only two of us normally. I can cook two things at once in it, for example some chicken and a tray of roast mixed veg or fish and some veg. We rarely use the Ninja foodie, only if there are lots to cater for. The multi cooker comes out for autumn/winter when we do soups, stews, slow cooking. Works for us and uses less electricity than conventional (big) ovens.

 

[dunelm]

Lovely day by the sounds of it ..

And cracking painting.

Thank you @jjraak and yes, it was a cracking day out.

 

[ianpspurs]

Happy bank holiday...

A run of mid 7's for me...so nothing of note

A little more mobile of late, has seen walking increase nicely (crutch aided)
Now shoulder is probably back at near 80‰ the stairs using bannister rail is way more easy

Which allows me to take stairs up or down in a more normal fashion (the majority of the times )


Still struggle with that sideways movement of knee, so a straight set of stairs is almost doable, (given it's not too many.).but any turn in stairs and it's back to baby steps.

And with hand grip now back to 50% holding crutch is also adding to my confidence when walking, allowing pace to pick ...so a win/win, i think.

Been keeping up with forum

Fascinating stuff with the garden, @gennepher ..so much goes on at night.

And I am slightly in awe at how you approach the treatment to evict your uninvited guest @ianpspurs ...though I am mindful the public part is a very credible & sensible 'it is what is '...but the more private side must have your mind wandering at times....a hug, if acceptable for the worry that must cause.

Hope everyone else has the very best of a bank holiday monday....

Thanks. I hope your recovery continues however frustrating things seem at times.

 

[ianpspurs]

Good afternoon everyone from a swinging from dull to bright afternoon here in the dark and dangerous north. Wonderful day doing an explore around Lud’s Church with the grandchildren. Lots of blueberries and blackberries picked and eaten, the odd Elderberry and a few nibbles of Beech nuts on the trails. ‘Collections’ made of things of interest to take home and a round trip of nearly six miles with ice cream and orange squash to finish. We are now back home. Little Miss Pamplemouse and I have done the shopping and the ninky nonks are out with Gran. Sticky rice with chicken and sugar snap peas for dinner tonight. Grandchildren's choice, so probably a chicken salad for Mrs Miggins and myself. Art bit - another one completed so best get on with another one.

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Stunning art. Is it an insult or a compliment to say it looks like a photograph?

 

[gennepher]

Oh dear - fox spray - blaghhh! Still better than having a dog who would probably love to roll in anything with such a delicate perfume. Thanks for the collage.

Thanks

 

[gennepher]

Smashing, tech know how, red arrows, smashing pictures.

Thank you very much

 

[gennepher]

Good afternoon everyone from a swinging from dull to bright afternoon here in the dark and dangerous north. Wonderful day doing an explore around Lud’s Church with the grandchildren. Lots of blueberries and blackberries picked and eaten, the odd Elderberry and a few nibbles of Beech nuts on the trails. ‘Collections’ made of things of interest to take home and a round trip of nearly six miles with ice cream and orange squash to finish. We are now back home. Little Miss Pamplemouse and I have done the shopping and the ninky nonks are out with Gran. Sticky rice with chicken and sugar snap peas for dinner tonight. Grandchildren's choice, so probably a chicken salad for Mrs Miggins and myself. Art bit - another one completed so best get on with another one.

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This is absolutely amazing....