Hi Dave,

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conservation projects and their winter holidays root beer making and bottling.

Sounds like he's doing right well. My younger brother was active in
scouting until a couple of years ago; he never married or had kids. I
think it was when they changed the program to let girls participate that
he decided to get out; he doesn't like women in charge of anything.

Root beer making--takes me back years. My folks did it from time to
time; I think the last time they did it was in 1967. Got harder to find
the caps and root beer extract in their small town and they didn't do a
lot of shopping in the bigger "cities" then. Usually went a couple times
a year for non grocery stuff; groceries were all bought local. Then too,
there was no internet to use to track down obscure stuff.

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Dennis has severe asthma. His twice daily inhaler helps with everyting
so he can take his instant coffee with. That he uses. Bv)=

I have both albuterol and Trelegy--doctor started me on that last
summer after about 23 years of Advair. Latter was my miracle drug; that and a good pulmonology doctor in Hawaii really got my asthma under control. Last few years tho, I've been having more and more
problems--bad lungs from years of bronchitis and pneumonia so the
Trelegy adds a 3rd medication to the 2 that the Advair has and it
seems to be starting to help.

I'm doing two puff twice a day of the advair and the albuterol is an
"if, as and when" rescue inhaler. All down to 45 years of smoking 2
packs a day unfiltered Camel cigarettes.

Would that I had never picked up the first one.

I never even lit up a cigarette to try, the smell of the burning
tobacco (and chemicals) was enough to turn me off. For a time I was on both an inhaled steroid and another, inhaled anti-inflammitory, with
the albuterol as needed, then the doctor in HI put me on the Advair. It helped me big time, until the last couple of years. Nice thing about
the Trelegy is that it's a once a day but it tastes nasty--good
incentive to remember to rinse my mouth. (G)

My grandfater smoked a pipe and the tobacco/smoke was quite aromatic.
Very much more so than cigarettes. Still, I was a hard-head. Couldn't
tell me anything because I already knew it all.

Fresh, curing tobacco tobacco smells really good; when we lived in
Swansboro (mid 70s to early 80s), NC was still growing a lot of it. We
could smell it in the curing barns in late summer. It's when they add
stuff to it--went thru Winston-Salem in 1977, whole city stunk like a
burnt cigarette--that it stinks so bad. Pipe tobacco isn't usually as
bad as cigarettes for the smell but given a choice, I'll avoid all of
the above.

Dennis has a round, fat inhaler he hits twice a day then gargles. I
can always tell when he's dne his inhaler. Him gargling sounds like
an Opera singer warming up to warble. Bv)=

Ever ask him when his debut at the Met is scheduled for?

He wouldn't "get" it. Some days he can be pretty thick. Bv)=

Sigh!

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Ruth
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