Day: March 30, 2018

ONE ANT, TWO ANTS, THREE ANTS, TEN MILLION ANTS

ONE ANT, TWO ANTS, THREE ANTS, MORE ... Yesterday, I saw an ant. Just one ant. He climbed onto my computer screen. Yuck. I said  to Garry"I guess it really IS spring. There's an ant on my computer." Mental marker. Call D&T Pest Control. They fixed us last year. They will fix us this year. … Continue reading ONE ANT, TWO ANTS, THREE ANTS, TEN MILLION ANTS

Cochlear Implant Update – By Jan Wilberg

One of the most thoughtful pieces of writing on this subject and particularly relevant in this household. Few people really understand how much lack of hearing removes you from “real life.” Garry once commented that even if you are blind, you can still communicate, but when you are deaf — you lose the ability to communicate and that’s a massive personal loss.

Red's Wrap

I wear this thing on my head. Looking at it now in the photo, it strikes me as enormous, a contraption. I wonder why people don’t just stop in their tracks and ask me what it is. But they never do. It’s like seeing someone with an artificial leg and wanting to inquire about how it works but being compelled to ignore it. What artificial leg? I didn’t see an artificial leg, did you?

This is the receiver (behind my ear) that captures sound that travels through the wire to the round thing (which is actually a magnet) and transmits the signals through my skull to a twin round thing inside my head which then sends the signals along several wires to 22 electrodes hanging out in my cochlea. The electrodes recreate the function of the nerves in my cochlea, sending the sound signals to my brain to be made…

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THE BARRYMORES: AMERICA’S ROYAL FAMILY OF ACTORS

This week, we tuned into Drew Barrymore's latest show on Netflix. It's called "The Santa Clarita Diet." She has, in this story, become a zombie. It's funny because she's a very suburban and rather bouncy zombie. She certainly dresses a lot better than any other zombie I've seen on the screen. If you are a … Continue reading THE BARRYMORES: AMERICA’S ROYAL FAMILY OF ACTORS

SQUARING THE SQUARE WITH WHEELS

Circles and squares in squares. What could be simpler? Seeking squares and circles -- inside squares, of course! From BeckyB! Squaring the Square WITH WHEELs

STOREFRONTS AND BUILDING SIGNS IN BLACK & WHITE!

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Store Front & Building Signs