I hope you are all having a good one. I have my flag up and may walk uptown to watch the Memorial parade. It is alumni days for the U and they have a P-rade too and it is usually a lot of fun. Each class wears a different design Tiger blazer so they can tell which class they belong to. There is usually a Mummer band in the parade and I love banjo music.
http://www.care2.com/click-to-donate/primates/thank-you
This is it.
Candace
http://www.care2.com/click-to-donate/primates/thank-y
I hope this copied right. I just found this location where you can click for four sites working to save chimps, Jane Goodall’s gorillas, global warming, etc. It is another way to help without writing a check–just a few minutes. I’ll double-check the site–I copied it and don’t remember it ending with “-y” unless I missed some of it.
Candace
I forgot to mention that I also clicked on that site.
I have been reading Noah’s Compass and listening to The Help. Both are good but The Help is very good and hard to put down. I am listening to it on a CD and the readers are tremendous.
I have bookmarked theanimalrescuesite.com and click on it every day. I also click on all six sites. Takes five minutes (if that) and you’ve done your good deed for the day. Very VERY worthwhile, IMNSHO.
Where is everybody?
I have noticed the terrible drop off in clicks to this site. I try to click on it frequently. I have an icon on my AOL carousel, so it’s easy to get to. From there I usually click on The Literacy site. Sometimes I click on Animals, and Hunger site.
There has been a sudden drop-off in clicking on the charity sites we’ve noted here before. In all the years they’ve been there, I’ve never seen anything like this and it is across the board–all the charities are showing a few hundred instead of thousands. This shows the animal site but they’re all there, in case you want to check them out. It costs nothing and benefits several different causes.
http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3
Candace
That does sound interesting. I may just have to check on that!
You’re most welcome about the Bacitracin plug - I personally think it is a miracle and wish I could use it for all my aches and pains, esp the ones ibuprofen doesn’t take for a long walk off that short pier!
We had snow twice since May arrived. I thought spring had sprung. Seems it only oozed a bit. >:-[
I have her latest book, Noah’s Compass and have just read a few pages but I think I will like it. It starts out with a 60 yr old school teacher who has been fired so he retired and moved to a small apartment. The first night there an intruder broke in and beat him up. He awakened in the hospital not remembering a thing. I am at the point where he is home again with his daughter’s and ex wife checking in on him now and then. I am not sure where this is going but anxious to find out. I like Tyler’s style. Her characters are so real. I am taking a break from Stiff and will finish that later.
Got a phone call this A.M. from my friend with the mauled shins. She thanked me so many times for recommending the Bacitracin for her, and I told her the credit belongs to one of my on-line friends, that’s you, PAJo.
So, thanks again for your recommendation.
I don’t know, and frankly don’t care (!), what’s in that stuff but it works like a miracle and probably saves many a trip to a doctor for some otherwise minor thing.
As for cadavers, thanks to those people who never knew how important they were, the study of medicine made great strides. How else could the medical field ever have found what they needed to know.
It’s chilly here today, rain is likely and it may even get to be snow. Isn’t it spring? And May flowers???????
Jo
I recommended the bacitracin to a good friend who has seriously mauled her shins while cleaning out the garage! She really needs it, they look awful.
We have had the same kind of weather. I had to use my bedroom AC one night and now could probably have the furnace on but I will wear a sweater instead. I will be going to a movie and dinner this evening with my daughter to celebrate Mother’s day. The others usually call.
I am reading Stiff by Roach. I forget her first name. It is a rather unusual book on how cadavers are used in medicine, and many other ways like testing how bullets work etc. The author treats the cadavers with respect as do the people using them and it really points out how important a roll they play in research. If you can believe it, the author is very funny. It kinda reads like a text book and is taking me a while to read but I am finding it very interesting.
By the way, I found a little packet of bacitracin in my cupboard and will use it on my next injury. It is one given to me by a Dr. after one of my skin removal things.
I guess everyone is enjoying Spring–except for those who may be dealing with the floods in Tennessee and the serious problems in the Gulf Coast. We’ve gone from mid 90’s in the afternoons to 40’s and 50’s–could be worse but the sudden heat is as hard on the flowers as the sudden early freezes were last fall. I was sitting outside reading a few minutes ago and realized I was shivering since the sun went down.
Candace
I haven’t seen any new messages in several days. I had to come back in and re-log in. Is this site still working?
I usually can ignore most of the things that happen to me but if the skin is broken, more than a scrape that is, I haul out the Bacitracin and the good bandaids (Nexcare doesn’t seem to make me itch after a day or two) and I’m good to go. I seem to heal quickly unless there is a deeper break - like when my daughter’s one dog in particular is so happy to see me! The skin was broken for sure and it hurt like blazes when I washed it off - the hot water did, I mean. Once I had washed it, Bacitracin’d it and then bandaid’d it, the next wash time didn’t hurt. Bet you all didn’t know all those words were verbs, did you? ROFLOL
Anyhow, I swear by that stuff.
Plug over and no reward from them either. 
Jo
I usually just kinda ignore mine and they go away, unless there is a lot of blood. I then just use a band aid. Maybe I have been lucky.