Likfe on the Range

I was sleeping quietly and soundly with my CPAP in my nice warm bed. While out on the Range Matt, the ranger's friend, was quietly sitting in his deer stand waiting to kill a deer. My eyes slowly open and the Ranger has fixed me breakfast but then he announces he needs to help Matt drag the deer out of the woods.

I eat the breakfast, so lovingly prepared for me, and watch out the window as the Ranger and Matt drive away on Big Blue (the tractor) into the woods. When I next look out the window Ranger and Matt have the deer strung up from the barn.

How can I miss this moment! I put on my new range boots (crocs--- LOVE them) and tredge on down. They are in the middle of skinning the deer. It was so awesome to see how a deer is skinned and gutted. The care you have to take to just cut the hide away from the body without cutting into the fascia. Cutting the head off of the deer and then its legs off.

It was pretty awesome to see where the bullet went in, the trajectory of it through the body and then the exit. Emptying out the guts was just fascinating. I would have loved to have been able to take each organ apart and look more closely at it. The poor deer is now on its way to the butcher where it will be ground into hamburger and placed in Matt's freezer.

The ranger has bagged it all, tossed it in the back of Lizzy ( the lesbian subaru) and taken it to the dump . Now he has just walked in for his breakfast.

Just life on the Range!!!!!

CPAP not CCRAP

I thought CPAP's were a bunch of crap. I was wrong. The test showed I had an oxygen saturation levels of 86-87 during sleep. Not good. Basically not enough oxygen going to the brain. (see there is a specific reason why I am so scattered brain)

CPAPS are wonderful, awesome advances in technology. First time in 55 years I have slept with my mouth closed. Why? because it feels like a huge wind tunnel from your nose to your mouth if you don't close your mouth. It is wonderful to wake up feeling like I have actually gotten some rest. Not sluggish and exhausted. It is wonderful to get to mid day and not be totally exhausted. It is wonderful to not spend the entire day yawning. I don't toss and turn all night long and wake up at least 6-7 times. It is AWESOME to only be breathing warm humidified air.

But most important is that the Ranger is now getting good sleep. No more rhino sounds, no more tossing and turning because the person next to you is so restless.

Oh, the little pillow nose thing was slightly annoying at first but now it is fine, except when your nose is runny. Then it is gross.

I will have to think about a design for when people have colds.