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When I was younger I had that. It was even worse than that though. I had to go to the hospital a couple times when I was younger cause the whites of my eyes would swell up over the colored parts of my eyes. Had to get steroid injections around the orbital socket.
 
GSO1962 said:
We had a female chow/coyote mix along with a black lab mix male puppy that we got from the shelter in Sierra Vista, Arizona, back in about 1989. She had yellow eyes, and light orange fur with a small mane and what looked like pantaloons on her legs. One of the most beautiful dogs we have owned. We were concerned when our daughter was born 2 years later, but Brandy (the chow/coy mix) treated our daughter like her puppy. Our daughter could crawl all over Brandy, tug on her lips or eyelashes, and do pretty much anything. Brandy just loved the little hairless "puppy". Odd thing was, when we first got Brandy, we took her to the vet to be spayed, but when the vet opened her up, she didn't have any female parts to remove. The vet said he also couldn't see any scar tissue from previous surgery, so she apparently wasn't equipped for it. Every dog is different though, so your mileage may vary. We were fully prepared to give up the dog at the first sign of trouble, but happily it was the opposite.
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I would suspect that she was a sterile hybrid, as opposed (duh) to a fertile one. Did a google search to determine if coyote-dog hybrids are always infertile like mules are. Found out - no, the hybrids are very fertile (red wolves are believed to be coyote/gray wolf hybrids).

Also learned the terms coydog and dogote. The first half refers to the father and the second half to the mother. Usually determined by where the litter was birthed - in the wild (mother was feral) or domestic (mother was a pet).
 
Darksidedenny said:
My dog does....benadryll is the answer...(at least to her)
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I understand this. My ego may not be ready to accept that I am developing an allergy, after so many years of not having any whatsoever.

Chameleonbear said:
When I was younger I had that. It was even worse than that though. I had to go to the hospital a couple times when I was younger cause the whites of my eyes would swell up over the colored parts of my eyes. Had to get steroid injections around the orbital socket.
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This sounds horrific. I cannot imagine the discomfort. I am picturing Marty Feldman from Young Frankenstein right this very minute.
 
Tdhurl1103 said:
This sounds horrific. I cannot imagine the discomfort. I am picturing Marty Feldman from Young Frankenstein right this very minute.
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It was incredibly horrific. I remember HATING being a kid cause I couldn't play outside for 9 months out of the year... Ok It was Chicago area so it was like 7 months but still it SUCKED. I think that is part of why I love the winter so much. That said in the last... 8 years the allergies just went away. I didn't do anything they just went away. I still get a little congestion and if I am outside a LOT I might get a scratchy throat.

Something that might help you is get some local honey and eat a tablespoon of it every day. It allows your system to build up a protection to local pollens.
 
bigghoss said:
Instructions for cooking: 1. Start fire. 2. Hold over fire until slightly brown outside but still pink inside.
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See, I do it completely different.
Step 1) marinade steak at room temperature for 2 hours(if lesser cut than rib-eye), marinade will usually be worchestershire, olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic, ground horseradish
Step 2) use charcoal chimney and start fire
step 3) pour white charcoals into grill
step 4) arrange charcoals for center to be "blazing hot" section
step 5) sear steak for 1 minute per side on middle of grill
step 6) move steak to outside of grill let grill 4 minutes on first side rotating it 90° at the 2 minute mark
step 7) flip steak over and put on other side of grill for 3 minutes rotating it 90° at the 1 minute 45 second mark
step 8) remove steak from heat top with maitre D butter (butter mixed with garlic and herbs) and cover with foil
step 9) top steak with carmelized onions and bacon
step 10) eat it like a boss

There you go, steak in 10 easy steps!
 
Chameleonbear said:
It was incredibly horrific. I remember HATING being a kid cause I couldn't play outside for 9 months out of the year... Ok It was Chicago area so it was like 7 months but still it SUCKED. I think that is part of why I love the winter so much. That said in the last... 8 years the allergies just went away. I didn't do anything they just went away. I still get a little congestion and if I am outside a LOT I might get a scratchy throat.

Something that might help you is get some local honey and eat a tablespoon of it every day. It allows your system to build up a protection to local pollens.
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Interesting fix indeed. I've heard some cool things about honey. This wasn't one them until now. Thanks Cbear
 
Chameleonbear said:
See, I do it completely different.
Step 1) marinade steak at room temperature for 2 hours(if lesser cut than rib-eye), marinade will usually be worchestershire, olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic, ground horseradish
Step 2) use charcoal chimney and start fire
step 3) pour white charcoals into grill
step 4) arrange charcoals for center to be "blazing hot" section
step 5) sear steak for 1 minute per side on middle of grill
step 6) move steak to outside of grill let grill 4 minutes on first side rotating it 90° at the 2 minute mark
step 7) flip steak over and put on other side of grill for 3 minutes rotating it 90° at the 1 minute 45 second mark
step 8) remove steak from heat top with maitre D butter (butter mixed with garlic and herbs) and cover with foil
step 9) top steak with carmelized onions and bacon
step 10) eat it like a boss

There you go, steak in 10 easy steps!
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1. "Babe, how about a steak." (It wasn't a question, it was punctuated appropriately)
2. Eat steak.
 
Chameleonbear said:
See, I do it completely different.
Step 1) marinade steak at room temperature for 2 hours(if lesser cut than rib-eye), marinade will usually be worchestershire, olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic, ground horseradish
Step 2) use charcoal chimney and start fire
step 3) pour white charcoals into grill
step 4) arrange charcoals for center to be "blazing hot" section
step 5) sear steak for 1 minute per side on middle of grill
step 6) move steak to outside of grill let grill 4 minutes on first side rotating it 90° at the 2 minute mark
step 7) flip steak over and put on other side of grill for 3 minutes rotating it 90° at the 1 minute 45 second mark
step 8) remove steak from heat top with maitre D butter (butter mixed with garlic and herbs) and cover with foil
step 9) top steak with carmelized onions and bacon
step 10) eat it like a boss

There you go, steak in 10 easy steps!
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Sounds complicated...




Murphnuge said:
1. "Babe, how about a steak." (It wasn't a question, it was punctuated appropriately)
2. Eat steak.
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You call you mom "babe"? :D
 
To "qualify" as "local" honey, the hive it came from needs to be less than 50 miles from where you consume it. The closer the better. That's so the pollen "contaminating" the honey has a greater likelihood of having the pollen(s) you are sensitive to in it. I get people from Austin all the time wanting my homey because it's "local" and they know me, but they live 60 to 100 miles from me.

One thing I do is mix local honey (from my hives 1/8 mile away) 50/50 w/ Bragg's vinegar and drink 3 Tablespoons worth 2x per day. Doing so is supposed to prevent colds and such. Don't know if it's true or not, but annecdotally, I have only had 1 cold and 1 sinus infection in the last 3 years since starting this self-medicating regimen. I used to have a sinus infection 3-4x/year and multiple summer/winter colds.

Store bought honey has almost zero pollens in it because the major bottlers heat it up so it runs faster when they bottle it. They also filter it with extremely small filters that remove as much "contamination" as possible. The heating causes major flavor and aroma loss due the volatile nectar fragrances to "oil off". You have probably seen honey that has crystalized, aka sugared up. The sugar crystals start forming around pollen and other items suspended in the honey. The fewer the items, the longer it takes to sugar up. Called "shelf life", baby. The honey vendors don't want complaints about it sugaring on the store shelves, much less at the consumers' homes. If the pollens are removed, they are not there to "help" with your allergies. I'd rather have pollen in my better tasting and smelling honey, than not having sugared honey. Sugaring is easily corrected.
 
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I never did learn to skate worth a damn. I'm just not that coordinated :(

1066vik said:
about 75#, about a year or so old, and no idea what the mix is.
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If you show that rascal to Miss Angie, I will kick you right square in the shin. She would want to adopt it immediately and I would be "the bad guy" saying, "but honey we have enough critters already".

granitestateofmind said:
You know people that actually answer their phones?
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I know one guy that answers his phone the third or fourth time, and then gives completely terrible/almost-worse-than-useless "directions" to the greatest party of the year... and then doesn't show up even when you finally wander your confused self there. . So, umm,,, thanks for that, guy. :rolleyes: :D

As for me, yeah my number is available if you poke around a bit. Leave a message. I answer roughly 1% of the calls that come in, and that's assuming I even hear the dang thing ring... so, y'know, good luck with that.
 
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