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Getting ready to leave for the airport.
I was just down for a day to do a customer visit for my work.
Had I been here any longer I would have gave you a shout JD.
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Happy B-day, Ray!
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Not really effective. It will stop ticks on the ground or slightly higher, but ticks climb up into bushes and trees to be able to latch onto animals coming by. If they were all in the ground, it would be hard for them to reach the animals feet at the speed animals walk. Avon's "Skin So Soft" stuff is a pretty good tick repellent, and it can be put on clothes and skin... Plus, it smells ok.
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good day all, this morning i took my 5 yr old daughter to swim class. She is learning to swim but seems to be behind in the class compared to some of the other kids. The teacher had them jumping off the diving board and swimming to the ladder.... my daughter was too scared to do it. She said she didn't think she can swim that far to reach the ladder. I felt bad but told her maybe next time she will try it. I'm figuring some of these other kids must have pools for how easy it comes to them. We do not have one. We went to the beach over the weekend but its a little harder for her with the small (tiny) waves/current and all. Anyone have any pointers or tips to help kids learn to swim?
hope everyone is doing ok.
Happy bday Ray
Hope your son is ok JD
hope everyone is doing ok.
Happy bday Ray
Hope your son is ok JD
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I was thinking next to the small BPP or the kelty MAP and maybe the bk9
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Happy Birthday, Ray!
When I was little, my class would go to the YMCA in the winter to swim. I was not a very strong swimmer and pretty uncomfortable in the water. One day, noticing my hesitation to get in the pool, my teacher picked me up and tossed me in!
Luckily she tossed me in the general direction of a parent chaperone, so I was in little danger. Sure did piss me off, though.
I learned to swim pretty quickly after that.
When I was little, my class would go to the YMCA in the winter to swim. I was not a very strong swimmer and pretty uncomfortable in the water. One day, noticing my hesitation to get in the pool, my teacher picked me up and tossed me in!
Luckily she tossed me in the general direction of a parent chaperone, so I was in little danger. Sure did piss me off, though.
I learned to swim pretty quickly after that.
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Blackout curtains help a lot. When I was working over night, I would come home, have a beer or two and relax for a couple hours, then go to bed. Some people stay up for several hours, then sleep.
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LOL. Thanks, WW.
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Eat seven of these and collapse from a carb coma.
Only way I can sleep in the day is to make the room as dark as possible.
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Have some one else with you also and superman her into the pool. She will be upset for a hour, maybe a day or so, but she'll get over it. Or get to class early and you go do some cannonballs and stuff and show her how fun it is. Lead by example and all that jazz.
Double layer velvet curtains, along with ear plugs.
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Anybody have any tips for night time sleeping???
Just kidding.... I seem to sleep easier in my hammock than my bed.....
I went to bed this morning feeling tired around 5AM.. Laid down in bed and just laid there for about 30 minutes trying to fall asleep... Decided it wasnt going to work so i got up, came down stairs and laid in the hammock to watch TV.... I was asleep within minutes.
YMMV but thats the only tip i have.... I guess someone with chronic insomnia is not the best person to give this advice...... But hey if you KEEP not sleeping eventually you could/will develop a higher level of alertness, seeing things in almost slow motion and moving objects may blur together at times..... When it starts it can feel a little strange... But you get use to it
Insomnia is also more common with people of higher intelligence... SO just say your not sleeping because you're a genius
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So, I'm by NO means a computer guru, I know just enough to be a pain in the ass. The rest of my family however knows enough to be a pain in MY ass. My sister brought me her netbook today (running Vista, with IE as her only browser, protected by Kapersky (last updated in 2011), and was trying to install iTunes so she can sync her iPhone to it). Sweet baby Jesus riding an ass! This thing too almost a full minute to recognize a SINGLE keystroke!
Now it's at least something resembling usable however it still a CRAP! Removed IE, Removed Kapersky, removed close to 3 gigs of random bloatware she had on here. Got Chrome installed, got M$oft SE installed (and updated and ran... found 125 "infected" files that got quarantined and removed), got iTunes installed, and stripped down somewhat, and got the pictures off of her phone onto a hard drive and also backed up to her cloud account. If this thing would have had an CD drive I would have just formatted the whole damned computer and loaded up a fresh OS to start from scratch.
Now it's at least something resembling usable however it still a CRAP! Removed IE, Removed Kapersky, removed close to 3 gigs of random bloatware she had on here. Got Chrome installed, got M$oft SE installed (and updated and ran... found 125 "infected" files that got quarantined and removed), got iTunes installed, and stripped down somewhat, and got the pictures off of her phone onto a hard drive and also backed up to her cloud account. If this thing would have had an CD drive I would have just formatted the whole damned computer and loaded up a fresh OS to start from scratch.
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When I was little, my class would go to the YMCA in the winter to swim. I was not a very strong swimmer and pretty uncomfortable in the water. One day, noticing my hesitation to get in the pool, my teacher picked me up and tossed me in!
Luckily she tossed me in the general direction of a parent chaperone, so I was in little danger. Sure did piss me off, though.
I learned to swim pretty quickly after that.
lmao.... thanks for the tip cb. however, i want her to want to get in the water again.. not to be terrified of it because daddy literally scared the $hi7 out of her. i appreciate the response though. made me laugh. that may work with some but i don't think my kid is one of them.
you too c-bear. ty. so that is the consensus then? just launch her in the water? lol.... i will mull it over and this weekend if we get to a pool i may give it a go....
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Southern NH (where I live) is the worst place in the country for deer ticks and Lyme disease. ....they said that all the snow we had actually insulated and kept moist all those ticks, so we are having one of the worst summers ever for Lyme.
I've taught and coached swimming, and the best advice I can give is to just keep them in the water....eventually she'll build up some confidence. Just don't let her NOT go to lessons...
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Tman, all of my kids could swim very well (6 of them). You are in Florida (I am a native) so access to water is easy. Lakes are a bit better than the beach. Less people, small, if any waves, no salt. The best way top get them swimming is to go into the water with them. I started by letting them cling on to me, and going out deeper and deeper (I could still stand). The letting them get used to the water... swimming while I held them up (hand on stomach) and then letting them go backing off a few feet, and letting them swim to me. No instructor can remove the fear of water, trepidation, and uncertainly as well as a parent. They see you comfortable in the water and they learn to be comfortable with you and then themselves. Some kids take longer than others, but it does work. Swimming classes with a stranger can reinforce their comfort while instructing strokes and their form. You are the key.
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I was exactly the opposite problem. I had no idea how to swim but threw myself into the pool, the deep end no less. I remember I had one swim class, and my parents WARNED the teacher that I do that. The teacher didn't really believe the parents until she turned her back and I ran full steam to the deepest end of the pool and cannonballed in. Once in though I had no idea how to get myself out, so I just sat on the bottom of the pool till someone came and got me.
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