2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

[heirloomgal]

Well @Blue-Jay the comedic postal sagas continue. I went to the post office today with the idea of mailing your 2nd box and, low and behold, the federal computer program they use for creating the stickers for packages & tracking is down and out. Apparently this began yesterday morning, and thus far, has resulted in some near brawls at the postal counter. I'm quite friendly with this postal lady as she's worked there for as long as I've been mailing stuff and she shared the scoop that I'm fortunate to have avoided the various colourful spectacles of impatience among upset customers (I was alone when I went this afternoon). So, I will go back tomorrow and see if the program is working again yet, and I think I might put on a helmet just in case. What a year so far of mailing beans and it's only January!!! Strikes, increases, brawls...what next?

On the positive side of today, I was elated to find a mailer full of beans from Spain in my mailbox! I did a trade with a really nice grower there, she's a real bean afficionado too, and looky looky at the goodies she sent! I'm especially interested in the Blue Sword pole beans! Kinda thrilling!

 

[Blue-Jay]

Well @Blue-Jay the comedic postal sagas continue. I went to the post office today with the idea of mailing your 2nd box and, low and behold, the federal computer program they use for creating the stickers for packages & tracking is down and out. Apparently this began yesterday morning, and thus far, has resulted in some near brawls at the postal counter.

Eventually all this crazy stuff with machines being down and people being impatient will settle down and go away eventually. It's too bad it's been so crazy with the mail strike and all. It's unpleasant to have to put up with it but the winds of change will blow it all away.

I'm not leaving for Florida this winter. Bean sales are just too good to shut off and take a vacation. I'll go visit my long time friend in November when things are rather slow anyway. If I don't get the bean shelling done by November I'll have that to do after the middle of December when I return.

 

[heirloomgal]

Eventually all this crazy stuff with machines being down and people being impatient will settle down and go away eventually. It's too bad it's been so crazy with the mail strike and all. It's unpleasant to have to put up with it but the winds of change will blow it all away.

I'm not leaving for Florida this winter. Bean sales are just too good to shut off and take a vacation. I'll go visit my long time friend in November when things are rather slow anyway. If I don't get the bean shelling done by November I'll have that to do after the middle of December when I return.

How are you feeling these days? You surgery was not even a year ago, and that was a major operation?

 

[Blue-Jay]

How are you feeling these days? You surgery was not even a year ago, and that was a major operation?

I think I'm quite good. In May, June, July, August I did a lot of walking a mile a day. I started back driving my mini van about the third week of June. Since then I've done all my own grocery shopping. I do my normal house cleaning myself.

August through the end of October. I attended Cardiac Rehab for 3 times a week for 12 weeks. We worked on excecise machines for 40 minutes each time. My favorite was the recumbant bycle. I would get my heart rate reved up to 120 beats a minute at the 13 minute mark. I worked on the bike for 15 minutes. The 15 minutes of a step machine and 10 minutes on a machine that worked your arms. I was in a sweat by the time I was done.

I'm up and down my basement stairs filling bean orders almost every day.

December 30th I joined Planet Fitness here in our town. What do you suppose I work on. Yes the recumbant bike. This time for 45 minutes I run my heart up to an average of 105 beats a minute for 45 minutes.

The only thing I don't like about my current condition is I have a lot of Premature Ventricular Contracts. It feels like skiped heart beats. I've had that condition slightly since the mid 1990's. They had me on a drug after surgery called Amiodarone because I was having AFib for several weeks. It supresses abnormal heart contractions. I was on a 200 mg a day dose until about the middle of July and I felt great. Normal Sinus Rhythm all the time. Then they took me off it to see if I could get along without it and once it wore out of my system here came the PVC's again. They told me to cut the pills in half so I was taking a 100 mg a day but I don't think it's enough of a dose.

Oh and I had another surgery November 20th. I had an Umbilical Hernia repaired but that took about 3 to 4 weeks to feel normal again.

Generaly speaking life is pretty normal except I see cardiologists from time to time through out the year.

I drive on long distant trips. I did a seed swap this past weekend in Goshen, Indiana which was 180 miles one way. I came back home from this trip the same day. Tomorrow I'm leaving for the Indianapolis, Indiana area for the Central Indiana Seed Swap. The trip is 245 miles one way and I'll stay there until late Sunday morning then drive back home it's about a 4 hour drive.

I have roto tilled two 960 square foot garden beds in September. I took back the lawn mowing of my lawn in late September.

Oh and I had another surgery Novmeber 20th. I had an Umbilical Hernia repair but that took about 3 to 4 weeks to feel normal again.

 

[ruralmamma]

Oh my @Blue-Jay! My husband has had issues with AFib and PVCs for the last few years. A second heart attack in 2022 led to a pacemaker. AFib last year led to a plethora of new drugs to control it. It took him a while to bounce back but pretty much able to do just about everything he did before.