D&J

Yes it's getting time to leave SC Nebraska. It was 39' here this morning and only getting to 46' today with off and on rain. 

Denny 

20 minutes ago, richfaa said:

For what purpose and who is doing that.

Just watch or read the news and there's always someone promoting doom and gloom for what reason who knows. 

32 minutes ago, Barbaraok said:

Yes, it is a 90 day average the glucose -bound red blood cells survive, but if you make a change it will start showing up about 6 weeks out.   Which is why people who try the week before to lower it are unhappy with the results.    Glad to hear you’re doing well.
 

Het, Denny, in addition to carb levels we also have to read labels for sodium and potassium levels, plus onions since Dave’s lower gastrointestinal tract can not handle any unless they have been in contact it’s vinegar!

 

You can't cheat the test 😄

I used to take a Rolaids all the time and raw onions were my enemy but now that I have myself regulated I can eat them or about anything else but I prefer not to eat raw onions because I don't like then unless they are cooked, no more Rolaids unless I eat hot peppers. 

Denny 

56 minutes ago, sandsys said:

I thought it was a 12 week look? When adjusting my meds my doctor ordered an A1c every 3 months. My reading is now down to 5.9 so we are happy with a once a week injection of Ozympic.

Linda

Yes it's a 90 day average or look back, I investigated it get a better understanding on what's going on. When your body has excess glucose in the blood stream it binds to the red blood cells and and stops there ability to transfer glucose to the body. Red blood cell are replaced every 90 days with new ones so the whole cycle starts over again. So if you control your glucose level your average will come down over a 90 day period or stay constant if you have it under control. I have to stay away from or consume in moderation simple carbs like rice, potatoes and processed wheat and replace them with complex carbs or foods with high dietary fiber to offset the carbs, we've become label readers. 

Denny

1 hour ago, Barbaraok said:

Denny,

You are going to do the things that are being asked of people, stay away from crowds, practice good hygiene, I assume wear a mask when going into areas where it's required, etc.   And as you have noticed, it doesn't really inflict a great deal of hardship on you.    So .......?   

I'm not sure what 'taking heads' you are watching.   I'll listen to Dr. Fauci and to Dr. Peter Hotez (Baylor College of Medicine, he was involved in the initial vaccine for SARS) as to what what to do.   Our only problem this summer has been the HEAT here in Arizona (set record for hottest month in July only to be broken in August) so getting outside to do things has been almost impossible and all large air conditioned malls, etc., were closed so no walking there.)

As an aside, good for you for looking up the side effects of diabetes drugs.   Dave was diagnosed with Type 2 after his stroke 20 years ago, and put on Metformin.  We didn't pick up on the kidney side effects in the warnings at that time - - Dave is now well controlled on insulin (A1C is 5.9) but his kidneys are at 27%!    Interestingly, one of his physicians said most Type 2 diabetics who couldn't control with diet did better on small amounts of insulin (Dave takes 14 units of Lantus at night), with less problems to other systems, but won't take it because of their fear of needles so most  just start with prescribing pills.

Yes we wear masks where required.

My A1C stays between 6 and 5.9 with diet alone and I'm still able to have a few beers when desired 😃 My biggest tool I used to figure out what I can eat is a cheap meter I bought at Walmart.

I  really wish more effort would be put toward risk factors instead of body count not that people would do anything different but you could only hope.

Denny 

I don't think that someone already going to die of other causes should be included in the numbers. I would like to see the smoker numbers and related heath problems published so maybe it would convince some people to change their ways but I don't think it would do any good.

I was a volunteer Firefighter & EMT for 26 years and my wife was a EMT so we've been practicing good hygiene for years and for years we have been carrying hand sanitizer in our vehicles and used it after being in ESPECIALLY big box stores because even though people may look clean and well keep you just don't know how they live. After riding a rescue unit and being in peoples homes I can tell you some live like pigs and you wouldn't know it from their appearance and they are usually constantly sick from something, we called them frequent flyers and they tend to spread it around to everyone else.

Another thing we learned from being EMTs is take control of your own heathcare and be caucuses of what drugs you are taking. More than ounce we have picked people up that were in severe distress and we weren't sure if we would get them to the ER soon enough but it saved their lives because we always collected all their meds and the ER doctor was a fresh set of eyes and any times their problem was the drugs they were taking and nothing else. Anything that beats your system down opens you up for other health problems especially viruses. 

Here's a example of controlling your own healthcare, last year I had my A1C checked for the first time (I didn't even know what A1C was) and it was very high. The first thing they did was drugs to control it but before I started taking them we looked up the side affects (the internet can be useful) and what it did to the kidneys was not a good thing so we completely changed our diet and in 3 months it was normal and still is with no drugs and the only side affect is I lost 20lbs and my blood pressure is a little lower but it wasn't a problem before that. 

We are going to travel this fall leaving in October and will be with two other couples that we trust until November but because of this virus we changed our plans to stay away from crowded areas and mostly stay to ourselves then we will head to Yuma and social distant ourselves there. We will only have to change a few things from our normal activities in years past but very doable. 

Staying locked up and not being active is not good for anyone and can lead to many other problems so be safe but don't go into painic mode because that's what your supposed to do according to all the taking heads and people trying to get their 15 minutes of fame, I just don't fall for all that crap. And yes I know it's a serious virus but I'm not letting it contol my life. 

Denny

1 hour ago, Barbaraok said:

What difference does it make?  They are still gone and the families would still suffer.  Yes, we will all die at some point, but that doesn’t mean we just do nothing and let people die.  Plus, we don’t know all of the long term effects for a lot of younger people who have the disease.  IT IS NOT A SIMPLE COLD.  Some long term effects are just starting to be recognized. 

I know it's not a simple cold but I beleave the numbers are being skewed to cause more panic than is warrantied.

Denny

What I would like to see in the death toll is how many were in nursing homes, how many were smokers, how many had COPD, how many were so old and frail that a good cold would have finished them off and how many were false positives. 

Denny

I guess the one thing that stands out from our 14 years of retired traveling is we kept our payed for house but was always thinking we would find that special place that where would settle when our traveling days are done. But after 49 states, 9 Canadian province's and two month long ventures into Mexico we haven't found it and now started slowly upgraded things at our house so it will be ready when we stop traveling but we have no plays to stop wondering around in the near future. 

Denny

1 hour ago, sandsys said:

How easy it is to take a nap after lunch before traveling on.

Linda

👍

Denny

Most parks that have cable TV will have ability to get internet from the cable company supplying the cable but there maybe length of stay restrictions.

Denny 

I have 2 Optima Blue top batteries that are 150 AH combined they replaced 2 Optima Blue tops 110 AH that were 13.5 years old that I put in the trailer when new. In 17 years I have never had to clean or replace a battery cable or clean anything because of battery acid. Basically I petty much forget they are even there because of the 0 maintenance. We don't do as much dry camping as we did in the past but enough to know that if we are careful we can get by without running the generator all that much. If you put extra AGMs in because they are sealed they don't need a vented battery box just protection for the terminals. The biggest drawback is the price but if they last longer it's a wash in my mind. 

Denny 

I replaced the carpet in our 5th wheel last year with laminate and to make sure the slides won't contact it we just put down a couple of strips of carpet before the slides are pulled in.

Denny 

18 hours ago, fpmtngal said:

I'm confused about what Dish channels my antenna will receive - I've seen comments about western arc and eastern arc satellites and what antennas can see which sats.

Background: I've been with DirecTV for 20 years and was grandfathered in to the DNS at the house  I'm now full-time and when I disconnected the house, I continued to receive the east and west coast feeds until June 1st, yes I got the email so was expecting it. My current set-up is a Winegard G2+ antenna with an H23 receiver.  I'm a full-time RVer and was thinking that I might as well switch to Dish, since the main reason I was staying with Direct was the east/west coast networks.  I know I would need a Wally receiver (don't care about DVR - I don't watch much TV to begin with and have never bothered with DVRs in the past).

Do I need to replace my Winegard G2+ antenna if I change to Dish Network?  I travel quite a bit so would be changing my local channels a lot, and would need to be able to receive eastern and western channels depending on where I happen to be.  I've gotten the impression reading various threads here that I might need to get an X1 antenna, but since I don't understand half of what I read in the various other threads, I don't know why.

Can someone explain about why I might need an X1 antenna over the G2+?  Also, since I rarely stay in any one place longer than 2 months, can I change the local channels every month or perhaps twice a month?

 

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First if you want a automatic that will do both east and west coast feeds get a Winegard X2 portable, it's just way to easy to set up. You can change locals as many times as you want I've even done it twice in one day buy using chat or the app. We prefer the portable so we can get away from obstructions. As far as addresses we just use one that's in the general area, it's easy to choose one once you get the hang of spot beams, they have no way of knowing where the antenna is they just want a address for billing and local taxes,  we use paperless billing so we don't care what the billing address is. For a example when we are in Yuma for 4 months because we don't like the Yuma locals we use a address that will get the Phoenix locals that are HD not SD, they also work all the way down into Rocky Point Mexico. If you want access to locals all across the country you will want both east and west feeds.

Denny 

We've been using a Swagman XC2 rack for years without any problems. 

Denny

Apparently didn't have a working detector.

Denny 

We both dropped are FB accounts a couple of years ago mostly because of privacy and lets be serious here it's mostly a lot of useless information, I could care less what someone had for lunch LOL.

Denny

4 minutes ago, Rick i Carter said:

Thanks for the input I will get a hold of xantrex an see if my inverter/charger is a pure sinewave .Rick

I've been running our chest freezer and dorm refrigerator on a Xantrex modifided sinewave inverter for years without any problems, not all modifided inverters are created the same. The cheap ones are a square wave and the higher end ones like Xantrex a step wave. I also run out TV, sat dish and reciever off the same inverter.

Denny

We are planning to start traveling the 1st of October like we planned but if some of the places are still limited east of us we will just head straight to Yuma.

Denny 

I always leave the grey trank open when staying for any length of time I also don't dump the black tank unless it's full to stop any unwanted buildup plus we use a lot of water when flushing the toilet. I also form a trap in the sewer hose to stop any unwanted wildlife.

Denny 

On 4/9/2020 at 12:54 PM, DRMartin said:

Just bought a used 5th wheel with the Dometic RM2862 fridge. The lights were not working so i reset the heat stack circuit fuse and they came on. Then it would only run on gas and still not cool. I replaced the 5 amp 120v fuse as it was blown and it showed to be on AC but not cooling and eventually blew that fuse again and all lights are out again.... Any ideas? I greatly appreciate any help.

I read your post again and you state that even on gas it doesn't cool and the stack fuse was tripped. The stack thermal fuse trips with high heat exchanger temps to stop fires not over current. I'm thinking your cooling unit is bad, probably a plugged heat exchanger.

Denny 

Don't go with a 1/2  ton truck you won't be happy in the long run. I'm pulling a 16K 5th wheel with a gas F350 Ford 6.2 with 4.30 gears and 6 speed transmission, if I was buying a new one it would be a gas F350 with Fords new 7.3 gas motor with 4.30 gears and the 10 speed transmission. You want the heavier truck for instability and increased braking power.

Denny 

I'm running a 20K hitch for a 16K trailer.

Denny 

3 hours ago, Randyretired said:

Liquid Roof is what I used.  Our roof was about 75% black.  As I posted above that was 10 years ago and we are happy with it.  I think preparation is the key.  Hope it also meets your expectations.

I was up on mine today giving it it's spring cleaning before we put it away for the summer and I was planning on doing it next year but the way it looks it may be this summer.

Denny

All supplement plan except a Advantage plan are required to have national coverage, all the plans weather they G, F or any of the lettered plans have the same coverage with the only difference being the price. I just went to a independent agent to find a plan. Just use your domicile for a address. 

Denny