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Are These Compass Flowers?
I have misidentified plenty of plants and the compass flower is one of them. We were walking the Clear Creek trail the other day and saw what I thought was a patch of compass flowers. See what you think, judging from the featured image. Anyway, I thought the flower itself pointed in a particular direction,…
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U-Haul is Laying Down the Lavatory Law!
Ok, the other day, we were out to U-Haul, not to get more boxes, thank goodness, but so I could use the bathroom. There was this new sign on the door laying down the law about how construction workers should keep it clean-or else. You should know that the Iowa City U-Haul is building a…
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Making Life in the Hotel Livable
We’ve been in the hotel a couple of weeks now. We’ll probably be here 2 months until our house is built. Making it livable is about keeping it simple. While we were busy packing and moving out of our old house, we got away from regular habits that helped keep us happier and at least…
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Where is the Weather Channel Going?
Have you noticed where the Weather Channel is going lately with its commercials? We’ve been staying in a hotel while our house is being built and the TV defaults to the Weather Channel-no matter which channel it’s on when you turn it off. OK, what’s up with the Blue Chew commercials? I honestly thought it…
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Big Mo Pod Show- “Goodness is a Practice”
I’m out of sync with the Big Mo Blues Show and his podcast, mostly because we’re in the middle of this big move and we’re staying in a hotel waiting for this house to be built. I missed his most recent show, but caught the one before that. The podcast title was “Goodness is a…
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Back to the Clear Creek Trail
We’re moving back a little closer to Coralville although technically we’ll still be in Iowa City. We always used to walk the Clear Creek Trail. It’ll be good to be back.
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Rounding at Iowa: New Treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease
This is one of the latest Rounding@Iowa podcasts and it’s about new treatments for Azheimer’s Disease, with one specific agent called Lecanemab. I’m an old psychiatrist, and I remember my clinical impresson of the previous medications for Alzheimer’s Disease, one of which was Donepezil. The scientific literature seemed to suggest that patients and families were…
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The Haunted Bellman’s Luggage Carts
When we moved into the hotel we’re camping in to wait for our house to be built, I rediscovered the joy of driving the bellman’s luggage cart. Does anyone besides me find this a major challenge? I always get the cart with the crazy, wobbly wheel. Worse yet, they are impossible to steer and the…
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Mall Walker
Our hotel is about a 20 minute walk from the shopping mall. Both ways it’s about a 2.5 mile walk. I’ve been over there a few times and I think I’m becoming a mall walker. The other day at the mall, an older lady approached me and asked me if I’d help open her water…
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What’s the Skinny on Indoor Saline Pools and Vitamin D?
We saw a sign in the hotel elevator that made us curious. Part of it said: “There are also lots of ways to get out and soak up some good ‘ol vitamin D from our saline pool to our grill and patio area.” Not to quibble or get too sciency (“sciency” turns out to be…
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