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Today we finished larvciding and return to our regular posts. Here is a picture of one of my team-mates, taking a load off his feet, having a well deserved rest.

Public health services do not discriminate. They provide services to all members of the public regardless of socioeconomic status or position. This open air car-parts emporium in a slightly less well-heeled section of town was blissfully treated for the prevention of the West Nile Virus by our team today.

My hubby the computer wiz can get this program to do all sorts of fun things. One of the things he has been showing me is the fact I have been spreading American popular culture throughout the world. Here are my top 14 readers by country for the month of June (a low volume and diversity month so its easy to fit the chart in a short post)! Greetings to you all!

In the past, so much of what I have planted has been beautiful, deer-proof, but lacking in scent. Now that we put up our fence, I have just planted 12 Mr. Lincoln red rose bushes and 6 Double Delight rose bushes. The Double Delight are red and white together and have won awards for their scent. Once I add a little lavender and a few miniture rose bushes the bed will be done. For the arbor I planted a coral colored climbing rose combined with a vividly deep pink clematis. I love spring! I’ll post some pictures when I have a garden of blooms, instead of the bare canes and sprouts I have now. But the end result should produce a lovely fragrant bed.

I think this has been just about a perfect weekend. When my husband wanted to get a hot tub, I thought we’d get it and it would be one of those things that would make him happy, but not do much for me. I did change my mind quickly. Sunday morning, it was a brisk 45 degrees, the temperature of the inside of a properly chilled refrigerator. We dashed out onto the deck and jumped into the hot tub. The contrast of the chill of the air and the silken heated bubbles of the hot tub was simply delicious.

Our delightful doggie decided to snooze on the deck when hark an evil cat crept into the yard. The cat was intent on catching one of the birds munching on the food from one of the two bird feeders and two suet holders. Naturally there were quite a number of them and the cat licked his whiskers.

Pssssst doggie, pssssssssst doggie my husband prompted. The dog opened one eye and looked up at the crazy humans in all that WET STUFF. Finally I prompted, hey Vee -Cat! And he was off the deck in a flash! The cat forgot how he found his way into the yard and raced a circuit about the yard. Vee, in his gentlemanly fashion, loped just quickly enough to keep the cat moving quickly but not too fast. The cat found his way out and Vee loped proudly back around the yard, having protected his fine feathered friends.

Hot tubs are fine places to watch the world from.

Kid Break Your Brain was not recieved neutrally. It was loved. It was hated. People laughed belly laughs and people rolled their eyes.

So as a public service www.kidsbreakyourbrain.com was launched.

Visit us soon for an important public service announcement and items to help spread the word that KIDS BREAK YOUR BRAIN!!!!

This is a picture of my favorite dress. A dress I never expected to wear, but at the same time my mother became ill I met a wonderful man, who supported me throughout every crisis. When other men would have run, he stayed. When I cried, he hugged me and when things seemed to be at their worse, he asked me to marry him. Of course I did!!!

I was thinking today on how much of our life is created by choices. And how those choices create our reality. Day to day we have the ability to change the course of our existance step by step through small actions. Watch out healthcare. Here I come!!!

Well it seems to work. Good news. Let’s start with the diet industry. The latest research (and book of course) is on volumetrics. According to this theory, we eat the same volume of food a day, and if we consume lower caloric density food of a high volume (read blueberries instead of Brie) we will loose weight. Sounds good, also sounds like what was said years ago, drop the bread and the dessert and eat more salads. Actually of all the diets out there, this one actually seems to be based on some common sense and fits in with our current ideas of what foods have benefits for you health wise (high fiber, high antioxident levels and so forth). It also does not violate the laws of thermodynamics where the number of calories in must be less than the number of calories out to actually cause weight loss. But will it make me magically thin? Probably not. There have been hundreds of diets out there, and the insurance industry has statistics as to what weight provides maximum life span, that few seem to be able to attain. But how much does culture slant our interpretation of the data? Recently there was a study that actually demonstrated that elderly people convalescing from surgery that were above the optimum weight level survived longer and healed faster than those who were at or under the optimum weight level (this was done at Columbia and I’m sure their webpage will avail you of some details). This flies in the face of the expected results. While I am not advocating that people should weigh in at 300 lbs, I do wonder if some of these optimums that we strive for and most miss, are not necessarily the be all and end all of what can be healthy. Perhaps our study design is overly influenced by our culture.

Just setting up for my first whine. Its so hard to decide where to start, the diet industry, the war in Irag, the status of health care in America, whether the news media is biased, but I’m sure I’ll find the right one. But before I start, let’s make sure that this program actually works..