Recent content by Don Reid

One of my aunts was born in 1894 and lived until 2002. Thus she did live in three centuries.

I traced my father's lineage back to 1574. Three of my relatives traced my mother's lineage back to the late 1200s or very early 1300s.

Fast Facts: Baby Elephants Gestation period: 18 - 22 months Birth weight: about 250 pounds Height: about 3 feet tall About 99% of calves are born at night Calves are born with curly black or red hair on their foreheads Calves drink about 3 gallons of milk a day

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I didn't get much done today, but I did read this entire thread and very much enjoyed it all. Oh, my fun fact is that the male blue whale's erect p*n*s can be up to twelve feet long.

In my family it is customary and expected for close relatives to sit with the seriously ill and especially the dying. I have done that a number of times. The most heart breaking was my beloved older sister, Audrey. She was in a department store with her husband shopping when she unexpectedly...

I used to wear a wide brimmed hat when outside in the sun, but I quit because UV from the sun is good to help heal the psoriasis lesions on the crown of my head.

I don't have a problem with night noises when trying to sleep because I take my hearing aids out when ready for bed then I only hear really loud noises.

I had six older brothers and two older sisters. Now it is me and one eighty-five year old brother who is in a nursing home. He has been a type 1 diabetic since his twenties, and it is a miracle he's made it to eighty five. We all loved each other, visited often and had wonderful great big...

Why do you have to "put your two cents in" but it's only a "Penny for your thoughts"? Where's that extra penny going to? It is typical in any monetary transaction for the potential seller to quote a higher price than the potential sellers initial offer. This is true whether the item being...

My father owned a half interest in a thriving business and three mortgaged house when the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression hit. He lost them all. For the remainder of his life up until 1973 when he died he thought another depression was going to begin any day.

It is about damned time. Plagiarists are both liars and thieves. It is going to take Harvard a long time if ever they recover their previous very high reputation.

The thing I look forward to on most days is getting in my walk in my woods, finishing all my chores and then listening to good music in my high end stereo. I have designed and built all my stereo speakers for over forty years, and I finally got good enough at it that my present speakers and...

When my wife passed away two and one-half years ago I was absolutely overwhelmed by everything I had to do. My lovely wife of fifty-one years, Mary, had early onset Alzheimers, and sometime before she suddenly and unexpectedly passed away from a heart attack she had done something with all our...

Thanks for all the warm responses of welcome. In response to a question posed in one of the posts, yes, I was a law enforcement officer with the federal Dept. of Labor when the TBI happened.