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09/10/2011 16:56 #55131
Harold's on Allen - Going out if business?Category: allentown
09/10/2011 16:29 #55130
DJs from OuterspaceCategory: dancing
I am so exited to go dancing close to home in a large space tonight 
tinypliny - 09/10/11 16:44
Have fun. :) Chant some regression and statistical analyses formulas at the stage for me!
Have fun. :) Chant some regression and statistical analyses formulas at the stage for me!
09/09/2011 17:28 #55123
$200 LaterCategory: pets
The vet spent an hour picking wood chips out of the tortoises butt. An xray made apparent the woodchips ate impacted throughout the entire intestines.
Now we just have to wait and see if the cavity created by the removal if some chips will let the other chips out. If not they are going to have to try tubes which sounds very expensive. Poor Guy.
Now we just have to wait and see if the cavity created by the removal if some chips will let the other chips out. If not they are going to have to try tubes which sounds very expensive. Poor Guy.
tinypliny - 09/10/11 17:51
Fascinating, I never knew the shell was part of their spinal column.
Fascinating, I never knew the shell was part of their spinal column.
09/09/2011 16:04 #55122
Even through a beach blanketCategory: yuk
The reading selection at the vet has a
lot of info about worms.
For hookworms it says,
For tapeworms of type Echinococcus multilocularos
Call me cruel, but if my pet had those I would definately consider wrapping it in a plastic bag and throwing it out.
lot of info about worms.
For hookworms it says,
People most often get infected when they are lying on the ground at the beach and the larvae penetrate the skin. Yes, the larvae can penetrate through a beach blanket
For tapeworms of type Echinococcus multilocularos
Treat these tapeworm infections aggressively in pets, because if humans get infected, approximately half die.
Call me cruel, but if my pet had those I would definately consider wrapping it in a plastic bag and throwing it out.
tinypliny - 09/10/11 17:54
I shudder at the thought of people using ringworms for crohns alternative treatment. Somehow the thought of something alive literally sucking my blood out and suppressing my local immune system seems really scary to me. I realize it seems like a good idea to quell the local hyperactive inflammatory state in autoimmune intestinal disease but I question if anyone has looked at the tradeoff of having an active parasitic infestation on the general health of these "ringworm recipients".
I shudder at the thought of people using ringworms for crohns alternative treatment. Somehow the thought of something alive literally sucking my blood out and suppressing my local immune system seems really scary to me. I realize it seems like a good idea to quell the local hyperactive inflammatory state in autoimmune intestinal disease but I question if anyone has looked at the tradeoff of having an active parasitic infestation on the general health of these "ringworm recipients".
09/09/2011 15:47 #55121
At the vet with tortoise bCategory: pets
So the new tortoise has been straining to poop for three days. It's so sad to see it trying so hard. Today I tried to give it a mini tortoise enema with a pop bottle and was able to fish out a bunch of wood chips and a plastic plant material but I could tell he was totally impacted.
The poor guy must have had nothing to eat but the wood chips that lined the cage.
The vet just brought out an entire bowl if wood chips. She is going to xray and see what's left. Luckily he isn't bleeding at all.
The poor guy must have had nothing to eat but the wood chips that lined the cage.
The vet just brought out an entire bowl if wood chips. She is going to xray and see what's left. Luckily he isn't bleeding at all.
Maybe you should do a photographic series on the peculiarities of period furniture in erstwhile Buffalo.
This makes me sad. I bought a lot of stuff from Harold. Unlike most antique stores in allentown, his stuff was actually affordable to most people who live in the city. I went to an antique dealer on Elmwood and Allen and there was nothing in the shop that cost less than $2,000. I asked him how he managed to stay open, he replied that 90% of his business is from selling pieces online. Local business? Harold curiosities shopped was one of the old style antique shops before the age of antique roadshow and eBay. You could go there and find actual antique pieces of furniture that were made and/or owned originally in Buffalo. Ask all the new antique shops on Hertle Ave where their stuff comes from, the answer is all over the county , from eBay. Harold could actually tell you where every piece he sold came from. Not just whether it was from Buffalo or East Aurora, he could tell you what family commissioned the piece to be made and who owned it up to the year it was sold off. You cant get that info from online shopping. I have a 1922 Mersman table that I bought from Harold for $175. he told me it was originally a piece from the Williams and Pratt Mansion (now know as the Butler Mansion at Delaware & North ( I didn't believe him until he showed me a photograph.)) and it means more to me than other piece of furniture I own. Good luck, Harold.
Or is that Cafe 56? I forgot. I also forgot the name of the mediterranean place. Fickle is my memory. Hummus plate? Pita pit? what was it... it has a branch elsewhere on elmwood too. Damn it. I just can't remember!!!
Oh lol, no wonder there are chairs in the window. I thought they had stacked their restaurant chairs there for sale. Speaking of restaurants on Allen, has anyone tried the new place that replace the disastrous Mediterranean place next to Cafe 65?
It was an antique shop. Yeah, more restaurants! :-)
Where was this place? I don't even remember seeing it. What did it serve?