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donaldtoo
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They’re not rattlesnakes (they have no rattle), but, they’re similar in that they are also venomous pit vipers, and have the distinctive viper shape to their head, among other similarities.
MySmallWorldof4
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Going to rain here Sunday. Neighbors are having a bbq bday party for two of their kids. Unfortunately it may be rained out.
SteveBrickNJ
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My family of three have plans to have a picnic lunch with friends in a park in Roanoke VA this Sunday.
the forecast for that location on that day is a 50% chance of rain. Maybe the park has a gazebo or covered picnic tables.
SteveBrickNJ
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It does!
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I just looked at the website that lists all the parks features.....and "sheltered picnic tables" is on their list!
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StarWarsGirl
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Ugh. Corona has thrown all these kids off. B has been having more meltdowns too. For him, it's because he's not seeing people like usual. It helps now that he's going to school, but he wants to see all of his friends from outside of school, and he can't, so that throws him. Then before I got to WDW, he was having mini meltdowns over waiting in lines, which never happens. The funny thing about that was that I got there, and they completely stopped.Calgon, take me away!!
We're having a day. A had a major meltdown about school. Usually, most of their work is done during classtime. He never brings home homework other than things like book reports. When he started at the special education school, it was explained to us that they don't give homework because he wouldn't necessarily understand why he had to do something for school when he was home for the day. Schoolwork belongs at school. So he's not used to doing homework at all, but now because of Corona, they only go to school a couple of times a week and the rest is online. (Schools open up completely next week, though) This morning, he was complaining that Math was boring as was English because he already knew how to speak English and the Math was too easy. I also got a message from his teacher that he had the same problems yesterday when he was actually at school, and even the more challenging questions for math that they give him were still too easy. Math is one of his best subjects and he hates the repetition of things he already understands, but they have to do it because the other kids struggle with it, so they started giving him some extra stuff that was harder, but it's not enough. Not sure how they'll handle it, but they'll figure out something.
So then he got to his Dutch homework and he just blew up because he has to rewrite and improve a text, and also write his own text, and it's about something he doesn't care about and isn't interested in, and he thinks 350 words is SOOOOO much! I tried to explain that it seems like a lot because he's not used to doing any homework, but he says it's not fair because the kids who are at school today get to work together and have help from his teacher, but he's all alone and has to do it himself. He's refusing to do it. I told him homework is to give us practice so we get better at things and can do them faster, so while this seems like a LOT to him right now, if he practices, he'll be able to write 350 words a lot faster and it won't seem like so much anymore. He just started screaming at me that he shouldn't have to write texts all the time about things he doesn't care about and he already knows how to write, why does he have to do it again??
I wrote an email to his teacher about it....hopefully she'll have suggestions, because I'm at a loss. I told him to take a break and get something to eat and drink and try again later and he's saying he's not going to do it all!
He's far more social than either me or my father. I'm content texting people, calling my bestie every week, and talking to my mom. Dad is content talking to people at work, my uncle who's not my uncle, and us. Even Mom just has two friends who she talks to regularly. We're not sure where B came from.
Figgy1
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Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!4 day weekend has begun!!!
Goofyernmost
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Here's a thought I have on some technology and statistics! You mentioned that childbirth is massively less dangerous then it was say even 75 years ago. What causes some other thoughts to be looked at differently is the wonderful life expectancy. We look at ages of death in the past and it seems like we as a group live longer and that is true, but what brought the average numbers down year ago was the fact that there were a lot of childbirth related deaths. The Mother may have been counted as dyeing during childbirth and the baby was also along with the fact because of the pre-vaccination days many children died before their 5th birthday. That brought the average life expectancy down to very low number. Now with science we live longer generally, but those that survived into adulthood lived as long as those of us now.
Just in my family My great grandparents on my mothers side... 1 lived to one day short of 100. another died in the Civil War. My mothers father was adopted and no one ever knew or talked about his parents. On my Fathers side my great grandparents made to 97, 98, 100 and 101.
My Grandparents on my Mothers side were 89 and 81. On my Fathers side 88 and 67. My Father and all his siblings died before reaching the age of 74. My mother lived to 87 while her siblings all died younger then her.
Me I hope to make it to 73 in a few weeks. Many of my younger cousins have passed already.
My point is that those that did survive their youth lived what seems to be longer then we currently do. Why? I don't have a clue. Perhaps the hardships and heavy duty work requirement to survive made the ancestors far more hardy then we are today.
In my, admittedly amateur evaluation science has allowed more of us to survive but not as long. Our ancestors ate whatever they wanted. Carbs, calories, glutens, food allergies were never a factor at the time and were very fortunately spared from Kale. Booze, from what my grandfather used to tell me based on his stories of when he and my grandmother had a business making bathtub beer and blacked out windows so gambling could take place, drank stuff that would take the paint off walls. She died of an aneurism at 67 and he died just a couple years short of 90. Moral of the story is the we all live in our own times and what we do will affect how long we live to an extent but a lot of it has to do with activity, strong immune systems and hard work. Add them all up and it's all in the genes.
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The DNR also said there were no cougars or bobcats in Wisconsin...That is a surprise. According the Wisconsin DNR website, there are not copper head snakes unless there is information off there and I checked multiple websites including one that has pictures of Wisconsin snakes. The only poisonous snakes in Wisconsin is the eastern massasauga and the Timber Rattlesnake.
Web Page Redirect - Wisconsin DNR
dnr.wi.gov
I went by those sites since I live in south eastern Wisconsin in my entire life, but I'm not a woods person.
I didn't see snakes in the places I went to in Wisconsin such as the Dells, Door County, Shawano, New London, Oconto County, and Green Bay.
MouseDreaming
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Flashback: My first trip to Disneyland, 1976.
Bell bottom jeans!
MinnieM123
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OMG -- that's so funny! I was just about to make a comment about the bells to MouseDreaming, but you beat me to it!
