Guest Post: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mom's Midnight Musings

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Once yous run across something, yous tin never unsee it, thence endure real careful amongst your take away heed as well as those inwards your care.

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Always continue a book, unopen to newspaper as well as a pen inwards your purse, backpack or car. You never know when yous volition endure stuck waiting somewhere as well as if yous tin set that fourth dimension to skillful role yous won't endure thence aggravated.

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Love has a lot to produce amongst perspective. Does honey hateful gifts, candy, flowers? Actually, I did have flowers once... 27 years ago... It was a miniature rose bush which my hubby planted exterior as well as and thence promptly ran over amongst a tractor, because he forgot it was there. But my hubby does larn upward every twenty-four hours at 4:30 a.m. to larn develop for operate to back upward our family. He checks my car's tires as well as adds oil, to brand for sure I'm safe. He fifty-fifty allow my mom displace inwards amongst us (his suggestion). And every bit Phil from Duck Dynasty said (and I paraphrase), You know your adult woman loves yous when she cooks the squirrels yous convey home. I accept cooked squirrel, deer, frog, turtle, as well as groundhog (twice!). There is a whole lot of honey inwards this house!

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If yous desire to read a mass that volition brand yous think, as well as touching on your deepest emotions (and campaign yous to post service copies to your friends), read anything yesteryear Michael O'Brien. Check out his website here.

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Mary's favorite Michael O'brien oeuvre

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Some of yous may know my oldest daughter, Mary Boctor, or my youngest, Virginia Ertel, or both. They produce non accept the same parents. It isn't because of death, divorce, or remarriage. Its simply that no siblings accept the same parent (except for twins... maybe) My deoxyribonucleic acid stayed the same, but everything else changed inwards that x yr bridge betwixt their births. I used to wonder how kids from the same solid unit of measurement could endure thence different, as well as at i time I know - dissimilar parents!

Meet Virginia. You already know what Mary looks like.

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Everyone needs a become to repast - something they tin whip upward inwards a minimum total of fourth dimension using items unremarkably industrial plant life inwards their pantry. It is for those days when a doctor's view ends upward involving a side trip to the infirmary for x-rays, or yous popular inwards to run across a friend as well as lose rail of time, or college kids demo upward unexpectedly (and famished). Here is my become to meal:

1 1/2 - 1 3/4 C instant rice (cooked, leftovers are fifty-fifty better)

1 scandalise salsa

1 tin dark beans (drained as well as rinsed)

1 tin corn (drained)

Mix all the higher upward ingredients. Put inwards a baking dish as well as embrace amongst your favorite grated cheese. Bake at 350* for 20 minutes. Serve amongst soft flour tortilla shells or corn chips amongst additional salsa as well as sour cream on the side.

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Every kitchen needs a rocking chair. It is skillful for the individual as well as whatever else ails you.

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Similar to the quondam fashioned rocker that has been inwards the kitchen for years.

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Never, ever, e'er pour cool liquid into a hot drinking glass dish. It is amazing into how many pieces i dish tin shatter, as well as how far those missiles tin shoot. Not to elevate that for sure flooring coverings volition melt! Don't enquire me how I know.

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My mom, Andrea Ertel, writes from southeastern Indiana. Her educational background is inwards exceptional education, but she gets her street cred from successfully rearing vii amazing children (okay, I'm a piffling biased...). She has influenced me to a greater extent than than whatever other woman, both yesteryear her words as well as her actions. Love you, Mom!