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I hunt with my G40 10mm and have had a lot of success (for me). I second Buffalo Bore and have also had great results with Underwood Ammo (for hunting / not being hunted).
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Fascinating period when those came out. Different worlds were still colliding out west. Went to presentation some time back by the Cody Firearms Museum covering the guns of the west and it was amazing that they had pictures of cowboys with their 1873s, 1876s, Thompsons and even some Spanish Mausers - in the same picture.
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Things got away from me and I've been on a bit of a bender. Need to recoup and recover but am not mad at what has hitchhiked home with me this month. FPC in 9mm (FDE), FPC in 10MM (Black), MAC 9 DS Comp, SPEC V 9 Metal, and a CMP 1911 Colt over Colt (1945).
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Senior Citizen Issues - Assisting Your Parents
Reagan1k replied to ROFL BOX's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
Cosigning all of this that Hospice is not just for final days - make them comfortable stage - which is the overriding societal idea. It is much more than that and they will assist with and provide things like beds, chairs, etc. along with the care they provide. For cognitive issues, there is a "test" and a standard that involves daily activities of life, but those can be discussed with the signing doc ahead of time so that when the threshold is crossed, you're ready to act. I suggest getting hospice involved early....normally the right time is before it is already obvious that it is needed. They're typically great and they understand what's going on so much better than the family or a layperson. They can work wonders getting patient compliance when no one else can. -
Swap out the Cream Of.......with french onion soup and it works very well as a change of pace.
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Just got my 2nd 1911 from the cmp sales. Colt slide / Colt frame - Very pleased. I'll get some photos later. Nice gun - dates to production at the end of the war.
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Senior Citizen Issues - Assisting Your Parents
Reagan1k replied to ROFL BOX's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
Sounds just like early dementia to me based on my experiences with several family members and friends. Short term is often 1st to go. They can still tell you their 1st grade teacher's name but not who they had dinner with last night. Long term declines later and more slowly. The longer the relationship, the longer they hold on to the memory. Forget grandkids before kids, and kids before spouse kind of deal. -
Is Dequincy, La far enough east? Yeah, there and out in what's become Deweyville / Mauriceville area.
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None at all as long as the pear/peach syrup doesn't run over into my rice.
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This brings back some good and bad memories. Bad -Canned pear half and mayo or canned peach half and cottage cheese was a staple "salad" of most southern baptist Wednesday night fellowship dinners. Add in some beef tips and rice or baked chicken and rice with a side of green beans and that's what was served in the 50's - 80's. Probably a product of some of the more "interesting" culinary trends that came out post war, and it was a cheap, easy side to serve a lot of people. The 50's produced some odd combinations. Good - Weekend meals for my grandparents normally were "dinner" at 1 or 2pm and "supper" at 8pm. Dinner was their big meal and supper was usually small and haphazard. Leftover cornbread and buttermilk as mentioned above was a staple for supper and my father would still make cornbread about once a month for no other reason that to put in buttermilk. I don't recall ever doing saltines, but I'm sure it would do the trick. Good - In spring and summer, slice tomatoes, sliced raw onions, cucumbers in vinegar, and white bread/butter was on the table for every dinner. I'm an onion guy raw or sliced, probably because of that. Bad - Warm Dr. Pepper and lemon was a big thing. The company promoted it in advertisements and on the backs of the old steel cans. Warm carbonation is no bueno.
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Tax Question Forgiveness of Debt Income
Reagan1k replied to TwiceHorn's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
As with most things IRS, I would suppose the easiest thing to do would be to file and pay whatever minimal tax there is even out of your own pocket. In fact, if she hasn't been required to file there may be a credit or deduction somewhere out there you could claim to wash it. Medical expense threshold if her income is low and it can exceed the standard deduction by $5k would be an offset??? Keeping that slate clean and them out of her hair would probably be worth an hour of time to file and a few hundred dollars out of pocket for a SIL caregiver. I'd consider the cost in your time and having an anxious MIL if she got a letter after not filing. Might be an easy trade. -
Senior Citizen Issues - Assisting Your Parents
Reagan1k replied to ROFL BOX's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
This is a tough deal and a bit of a wild card caregivers have to watch very closely. Surgery and especially anestesia are HARD on the elderly (no shit) but the problems can manifest in weird places. The anestesia can be especially hard and unpredictable. If there are any underlying neurological problems like dementia, Alzheimer's, or Parkinson's, it often "kicks the ant bed" and can lead to a downward spiral. I experienced this with a parent where some very mild symptoms (pre-anesthesia) went to 11 on a scale of 1-10 immediately after. Doesn't always happen but happens enough. Whether or not it is temporary or a new normal is patient specific. A couple of buddies who are an anesthesiologist and surgeon respectively helped me process this regarding my parents. Anesthesiologist said they do their best but it is a crapshoot how the elderly respond, and surgeon said any procedure is trauma to the body (body doesn't know the difference between a stabbing and a procedure - it's still cut) and trauma elicits all kinds of physiological responses which can have a cascading effect. Damned if you do and damned if you don't in many cases where the procedure is required, but tread carefully on elective procedures for those who might be compromised already. It's a balancing act or risk/reward. -
Senior Citizen Issues - Assisting Your Parents
Reagan1k replied to ROFL BOX's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
Same thing happened to my father years ago. My mother was out of town and I get a call that he's too weak to get off the shitter. EMS went in and got him up and noticed the bloody stool. Ulcer was bleeding, stomach full of blood, and the result was a heart attack from the blood loss and all that entails. No telling how long he'd been ignoring it. It didn't just happen that day for sure. On the bright side, it probably gave him some extra years because in all of the work-up, they found some blockages that would have killed him sooner rather than later and he ended up with some bypasses.
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