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In the home stretch for 65-if it shows up the avatar is 2 years old. I'm a retired nurse practitioner (geriatrics). Most recently did home hospice work here in the California Motherlode. I like kayaking, fishing, woodworking (wearing a dust mask for all that sanding got me ready for a CPAP mask), do spirit arts/crafts, love to cook (went to chef school for a year). Had to make a four hour drive every week for chef school and found out I couldn't drive for more than 45 minutes at a time-learned all the safe stopping spots along the route I took. Put up a sleeping cottage on our 10 acres and was pretty useless after a couple hours work-work that should have taken a month went on for 10. It took at least three years to figure out why I was so tired. Had my first sleep study Jan 12 and kept my bags packed and cell phone on so the sleep center could call me for any cancellations. By Jan 30 I was done. Called my local DME from the parking lot and they ordered a CPAP for me. I've been using my CPAP every night since Feb 2-when I also found this site. I'm now ready to build a deck for my tipi-guess I'll have to run electricity to it now. Evenings I'll sit in my tipi and tell the Grandkids stories about coyote, rabbit, and deer. Then we'll sleep looking up through the smoke hole at the stars and listening to the crickets, frogs, and whoosh of the CPAP.

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krousseau, great story. You sound like my kinda woman, wish I was there with you. But I kinda am. We are so rural - 2 miles from our nearest neighbor, on a dead-end logging road, that we never see other people (unless they are lost). No lights, no cars, no noise (from man), we love it.

Just the fireflys, crickets, cicadas, owls, bullfrogs, - great stuff. And it's so dark out here that Hale/Bopp's comet was so visible in 1997, and meteor showers are like fireworks.

It's the little things in life that makes it all worthwhile.

Here's a Forum Questionaire:

Who has fireflys in your part of the country?

I never saw a firefly (also called lightning bugs), until I was an adult and lived in the south.

But I keep reading books that mention fire flies in New England, etc and I can't believe they are that far north. When we lived in Massachusetts, I never saw any. And my whole first 21 in Oregon, I never saw any.

So, who has fireflies where they live?

wading thru the muck! wrote:

Sleepless on LI wrote: ...before the invention of VHS tapes/players...

VHS tapes? are those the things the old folks used years ago before DVDs? LOL!

Old folks used Betamax tapes, Iv'e got 1000 hours od useless VHS, amd 1200 hours of cd'r and dvd video.

wading thru the muck! wrote:

Sleepless on LI wrote: ...before the invention of VHS tapes/players...

VHS tapes? are those the things the old folks used years ago before DVDs? LOL!

Since Corey (Swordz) hasn't been posting as much, are you trying to step in where he left off? You don't want to go there, W...it's not a pretty place .

Haven't seen fireflies since I left Western Pennsylvania. One nigt here in the Motherlode I saw a tiny string of light on the floor????? Turned out to be a tiny worm-and I thought they were a mythical creature in a song..Kay.

kewl topic guys

krousseau wrote:Haven't seen fireflies since I left Western Pennsylvania. One nigt here in the Motherlode I saw a tiny string of light on the floor????? Turned out to be a tiny worm-and I thought they were a mythical creature in a song..Kay.

Krousseau,

Don't know if you like Faith Hill, but her song Fireflies is beautiful. It was written by this woman, a stay-at-home mother, who would write songs and never had them published, but she sent this one to Faith and she fell in love with it, recorded it and made it the title track on her CD (speaking of fireflies-can I go off-topic or what?).

We call them lighting bugs here, and they are everywhere in the summer time. I can remember as a kid catching them in a jar and selling them for like .25 cents per 100. Apparantly they used them for research or something, but I used to think that they could be used to recharge batteries. I think my grandfather must have told me that. What a kid will believe if an adult tells them it's true. That's one of the best things in the world (the wonderment of a child).

t.

We used to see the occasional firefly on the ranch in central B.C.

Wow. Fireflys in BC. Now I'm impressed with those little buggers. I figured anywhere it's hot and humid, like maybe as far north as Chicago, but never even imagined Canada.

I know when we get just the slightest cooler nights here in Arkansas, they are gone for the year. We usually have them from May/June until Sept.

Believe it or not, it can get pretty durn hot in our summers. It's the winters ya gotta look out for.

Sleepless on LI wrote:

wading thru the muck! wrote:

Sleepless on LI wrote: ...before the invention of VHS tapes/players...

VHS tapes? are those the things the old folks used years ago before DVDs? LOL!

Since Corey (Swordz) hasn't been posting as much, are you trying to step in where he left off? You don't want to go there, W...it's not a pretty place .

Hey, I'm one of those "old folks" too. It just caught me as funny... another revolutionary invention of "our" day that is now obsolete. Sort of our very own "buggy whip"

Fireflies are alive and well in St. Paul, Minnesota every summer.

Wow, I took a week off the cpap forum and found this great thread when I returned! How fun it is. What a great group of amazing people. I only discovered the forum about 6 weeks ago (right after I started CPAP) and it has helped me so much. Thank you all. OK, I am 49, just under 5'10" tall, plus size (but proportional, thank goodness!--I wear it well and being tall helps!) I have been married 30 years, 2 children ages 21 and 16, which we were blessed to adopt as infants. I think I developed OSA within the last few years. I started snoring and my husband was concerned with the noises I was making at night. I have remicade infusions for my arthritis every 6 weeks at the hospital and I kept setting off the oxygen alarm when I would doze off so decided I'd better get checked out. I've been a stay-at-home mom almost all my marriage. I have severe rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis (severe inflammatory back pain for those who aren't familiar with it) and have been battling those for almost 20 years. I started out as a sketch artist and have channeled my artistic leanings to my textile arts as I've gotten older. I used to quilt but have switched my allegience to wool. I spin wool and knit. I have finally mastered the sock after making more than a dozen sweaters and am still impressed at this little feat (feet?) of engineering. So, when my hands and shoulders allow I knit socks like a madwoman. My husband is an engineer/scientist with major computer company for last 30 years. Our son is serving a church mission in Texas and will return in Sept. after 2 years service then will return to university. Our daughter had surgery for thyroid cancer in Dec. 05 along with I-131 radiation in Feb. and is doing well. We are very active in our Church. We have lived in Idaho for almost 26 years and just love it. We have 2 dogs, 2 cats, and 2 birds on the ark here. Thank you all again for your help and for sharing about yourselves--it is really fun to get to know you all.