Don't they think??

This past weekend at work was a bore.  Only a couple of idiots made it somewhat laughable.

Saturday afternoon a call comes in from this person that is on Suboxone.  Suboxone is used to treat addiction but the sad thing is, the person becomes addicted to Suboxone.  The medication is expensive and if insurance doesn't cover the drug, then the person will usually buy just a couple of days supply.

Well,  this girl had been given a new prescription for the drug on Friday.  Instead of coming to our pharmacy, she went to the local independent pharmacy.  She only got a couple of tablets filled on Friday.  She calls us Saturday afternoon checking to see if we could fill her prescription, which she got filled the previous day at the other pharmacy.  She did not think to get enough to get through the weekend and only purchased one days worth.  I told her that the local pharmacy closed at noon on Saturday and there was no way I could do anything without speaking directly to the other pharmacy. Her only option was to talk to her physician and explain her stupidity.  She evidently called the physician because we got a message from the physician to fill only 2 tablets.  Problem solved for now.

Late Sunday afternoon a couple comes to the consultation window.  The girl starts off by telling me her physician had told her she needed to buy Sudafed generic.  So my question to her was "Who is your doctor?"  She tells me the name of the doctor.  I had to laugh out loud and told her that doctor had left his practice in the town two years ago and moved to Canada. The guy with her walks away and disappears down one of the aisles. "But I need something because I am congested and drainage down my throat."  I suggested the Pseudoephedrine with the antihistamine, chlortrimeton.  I told her the antihistamine would help dry her mucus membranes and the Pseudoephedrine would help the congestion.  "O.K. I will take it."  I scanned her drivers license, she paid and walked away.

Within five minutes she reappears and said she did not get the right thing.  The pharmacy clerk told her we could not take it back, that all Pseudoephedrine sales were final.  "But I was buying this for me and my dad."  

BINGO!!  The guy that walked away wanted only the twelve hour medication and she was left to try to figure things out.  When I called her out on the doctor he got jumpy and left the scene.  Another meth maker thwarted!!  To make meth you have to have single ingredient Sudafed.

There is a saying that goes "DON"T TRY TO Bulls--- a Bullsh--er."

Baptism of Grandson

This past weekend we spent with my daughter and her husband celebrating the baptism of our grandson.  He is such a peaceful child and has very inquisitive eyes.  He is always looking around and usually smiling.

Wide eyed and bushy tail

Just waiting in his white baptism outfit 

Mom, dad, and little one

Ceremony over and just laid back

Sitting with our other daughter who is also pregnant with our granddaughter.

Yes, it was a lot of fun and we enjoyed spending time with family and in-laws.  Just waiting for him to walk because I think he will run instead.

From seeds they grow

Last spring I was given some tomato plants by a woman that had over 500 tomato plants in her greenhouse. Those plants produced some of the best tomatoes I have ever grown.  She told me how to get the mucous-like covering off the seeds and how to save the seeds.  First place the seeds in a small cup and cover the seeds with water.  Each day decant the fluid off until the mucous-like covering is dissolved away.  Once this is done then allow the seeds to dry and then put them in a paper envelope.

Since the tomatoes were so good I decided to try her method of saving the seeds.

Last one of the seeds to sprout

These were just transplanted to a larger pot.

They are growing and finally are looking like tomato plants.  I planted fifty-two seeds and fifty seeds have sprouted.  Now I can give some of the plants to family to grow and enjoy the juicy fruit.  A bunch of the fruit will be given to the local Daily Bread so they can serve with lunch.

Can't wait to put these babies in the ground.  Just have to wait for the weather to warm.  Come on SPRING!!

Is this a dry hole??

The well driller started digging the well on the lot Friday.  I stopped by to check out the progress during the afternoon and results were minimal.

He said the strata that the drill passed through was producing about one gallon per minute.  I thought, that is not that good.  The depth at that point was approximately 225 feet.  He was planning on going down about another 40 feet before he stopped for the day.

Oh let there be more water than the gallon per minute.  So, I met him again this morning when he got started.  He did stop at 265 feet the previous day.  He checked the amount of water in the well shaft by blowing air pressure down the well drilling pipe to the bottom of the shaft, thus the water rushed out the top of the shaft. He said it was probably still a gallon per minute.  He suggested that the well be drilled to at least 400 feet as that would allow more space for the current water flow to be stored.

I stayed as he drilled another sixty feet and then discussed him stopping at 400 feet.  When I left he had drilled to 325 feet.  The video below shows how he adds a twenty foot length of pipe to the drill and connects it to the pipe in the well shaft.

The update is that he drilled to a total depth of 405 feet.  The good news is he hit another water bearing strata at 375 feet.  Now we have a well producing eight gallons per minute.