Subj : Bits & Bobs                                              [2]
To   : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Tue Jan 14 2025 15:07:00

Hi Dave,

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 DD> conservation projects and their winter holidays root beer making and
 DD> bottling.

Sounds like he's doing right well. My younger brother was active in
scouting until a couple of years ago; he never married or had kids. I
think it was when they changed the program to let girls participate that
he decided to get out; he doesn't like women in charge of anything.

Root beer making--takes me back years. My folks did it from time to
time; I think the last time they did it was in 1967. Got harder to find
the caps and root beer extract in their small town and they didn't do a
lot of shopping in the bigger "cities" then. Usually went a couple times
a year for non grocery stuff; groceries were all bought local. Then too,
there was no internet to use to track down obscure stuff.

 DD>      8<----- SHIFT ----->8

 DD> Dennis has severe asthma. His twice daily inhaler helps with everyting
 DD> so he can take his instant coffee with. That he uses.  Bv)=

 RH> I have both albuterol and Trelegy--doctor started me on that last
 RH> summer after about 23 years of Advair. Latter was my miracle drug; that
 RH> and a good pulmonology doctor in Hawaii really got my asthma under
 RH> control. Last few years tho, I've been having more and more
 RH> problems--bad lungs from years of bronchitis and pneumonia so the
 RH> Trelegy adds a 3rd medication to the 2 that the Advair has and it
 RH> seems to be starting to help.

 DD> I'm doing two puff twice a day of the advair and the albuterol is an
 DD> "if, as and when" rescue inhaler. All down to 45 years of smoking 2
 DD> packs a day unfiltered Camel cigarettes.

 DD> Would that I had never picked up the first one.

 RH> I never even lit up a cigarette to try, the smell of the burning
 RH> tobacco (and chemicals) was enough to turn me off. For a time I was on
 RH> both an inhaled steroid and another, inhaled anti-inflammitory, with
 RH> the albuterol as needed, then the doctor in HI put me on the Advair. It
 RH> helped me big time, until the last couple of years. Nice thing about
 RH> the Trelegy is that it's a once a day but it tastes nasty--good
 RH> incentive to remember to rinse my mouth. (G)

 DD> My grandfater smoked a pipe and the tobacco/smoke was quite aromatic.
 DD> Very much more so than cigarettes. Still, I was a hard-head. Couldn't
 DD> tell me anything because I already knew it all.

Fresh, curing tobacco tobacco smells really good; when we lived in
Swansboro (mid 70s to early 80s), NC was still growing a lot of it. We
could smell it in the curing barns in late summer. It's when they add
stuff to it--went thru Winston-Salem in 1977, whole city stunk like a
burnt cigarette--that it stinks so bad. Pipe tobacco isn't usually as
bad as cigarettes for the smell but given a choice, I'll avoid all of
the above.

 DD> Dennis has a round, fat inhaler he hits twice a day then gargles. I
 DD> can always tell when he's dne his inhaler. Him gargling sounds like
 DD> an Opera singer warming up to warble.  Bv)=

 RH> Ever ask him when his debut at the Met is scheduled for?

 DD> He wouldn't "get" it. Some days he can be pretty thick.  Bv)=

Sigh!

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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