Six Feet Under in Buffalo

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BrownBagger
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Six Feet Under in Buffalo

Postby BrownBagger » Wed Nov 19, 2014 10:55 am

Snow, that is. Our friend Fletch is no doubt digging out from the (ongoing) snowstorm that has dropped more than 6 feet of snow on the region over the past two days.

Couple hundred miles to the east, we're high and dry in central NYS, but there's about a foot of new snow on the ground up north in the mountains, where my office is located. Time to break out the skis.
Eric, 58
Dx: 3/09, Stage 4 RC
Recurrences: (ongoing, lung, bronchial cavity, ribs)
Major Ops: 6/ RFA: 3 /bronchoscopies: 8
Pelvic radiation: 5 wks. Bronchial radiation—brachytheray: 3 treatments
Chemo Rounds (career):136
Current Chemo Cocktail: Xeloda & Erbitux & Irinotecan biweekly
Current Cocktail; On the Wagon (mostly)
Bicycle miles post-dx 10,477
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Re: Six Feet Under in Buffalo

Postby mymom » Wed Nov 19, 2014 2:27 pm

Keep it up there please. It is not welcome here until around Christmas.
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Re: Six Feet Under in Buffalo

Postby Voxx66 » Wed Nov 19, 2014 2:29 pm

We got two inches a few days ago and that is unusual for this time of year. Also temp of 6F. Warmed up into the 40's today however and it has mostly melted.
DX and resect 10/2012 age 46
Stage IIa CRC
liver mets both lobes 8/2013
CEA 28
FOLFOX + Avastin 8/26/13 3 rounds
Folfox only 3 rds + rd 8
platelets low round 7,9,10 5FU only
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5fu
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Re: Six Feet Under in Buffalo

Postby CRguy » Wed Nov 19, 2014 5:16 pm

Jeez !
nice topic title bro'

got my attention :shock:
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Re: Six Feet Under in Buffalo

Postby FatBob2012 » Wed Nov 19, 2014 9:44 pm

Sounds like a good way to take a coffee break, skiing. Enjoy the opportunity BB.
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Re: Six Feet Under in Buffalo

Postby kiwiinoz » Thu Nov 20, 2014 6:03 am

Eric
Good mix for you, exercise and skiing, meaning that it will be cold so you can put to use all the wood you spent the last few months chopping.
Going to be 43 degrees C (109 F) tomorrow in Sydney for the next few days and I have my first 1/2 marathon coming up 30 Nov so I am nervous....can't imagine running in that even if I start at 7 AM....
Keep warm and send some photos of your virgin snow before you plough through it
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Re: Six Feet Under in Buffalo

Postby BrownBagger » Thu Nov 20, 2014 8:19 am

CRGuy: mission accomplished!

Kiwi: OK, you win. Here's what I spent all summer doing in my spare time (after work, mostly), cutting, hauling, splitting (by hand), and stacking 11 cords of wood. There's about 15 in the rows and pile to the left. The garage contains 10 cords cut last summer that we plan to burn this winter. So, I'm not particularly worried about another cold winter, though it's tough on everyone--firewood or no firewood. As a point of interest, we burn wood pellets at work as supplemental office heat. Can't get pellets now--everyone is sold out and the plants that make them are going 24/7 and can't keep up with demand.

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Eric, 58
Dx: 3/09, Stage 4 RC
Recurrences: (ongoing, lung, bronchial cavity, ribs)
Major Ops: 6/ RFA: 3 /bronchoscopies: 8
Pelvic radiation: 5 wks. Bronchial radiation—brachytheray: 3 treatments
Chemo Rounds (career):136
Current Chemo Cocktail: Xeloda & Erbitux & Irinotecan biweekly
Current Cocktail; On the Wagon (mostly)
Bicycle miles post-dx 10,477
Motto: Live your life like it's going to be a long one, because it just might, and then you'll be glad you did.

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Re: Six Feet Under in Buffalo

Postby SkiFletch » Thu Nov 20, 2014 3:02 pm

Bro it's crazy here! My house specifically has escaped most of the pain. I'd say I have somewhere between 1-2 feet. There are a few townships just south and east of the city that set the national (including Alaska) all time record for 24 hour snowfall at 76"! Wrap your head around that for a minute while I engage the abacus: Over 6 feet of snow in 24 hours. We know how to deal with snow around here, but this is insane. And those locales that got the 76" in 24 hours are getting another 2+ FEET today. Regular plows are stuck and even the snow blower style plow trucks they use up in Watertown can't handle it. They've resorted to front loaders. Roofs are collapsing under the crushing weight BEFORE the rain that's headed our way on Sun/Mon. The specific areas that are hardest hit also happen to be the most flood-prone in the region so when that all starts melting... Ouch.

I bought myself a new BEAST of a snowblower this year. The more snow I toss down it's gullet, the happier it is. Worth every penny. Like I said, my house is just fine and I have nowhere to be, so it's nbd for me. Just a couple times out with the snowblower and I'm all set. Also personally curious if/when they will hold the Bills/Jets game they were supposed to have on Sunday. They had 4' at the stadium yesterday and are projected for another 2+ today. It's almost up to the cross-bar on the field. :shock: With 4' of snow, the estimate was 220,000 TONS of snow weight on the stadium that needs to go away. Gonna be even more now.
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Re: Six Feet Under in Buffalo

Postby Voxx66 » Thu Nov 20, 2014 3:29 pm

Wow - Brownbagger that is an impressive collection of wood. And wow - Skifletch - that is an impressive collection of snow.
DX and resect 10/2012 age 46
Stage IIa CRC
liver mets both lobes 8/2013
CEA 28
FOLFOX + Avastin 8/26/13 3 rounds
Folfox only 3 rds + rd 8
platelets low round 7,9,10 5FU only
1/14 CEA 1.0 y90
5fu
10/14 mets lung and peri
1/15 Folfiri

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Re: Six Feet Under in Buffalo

Postby meatie » Thu Nov 20, 2014 7:21 pm

@BrownBagger

Is that (picture) part of your multi-acre estate? Where in new york state do you live? It must be fun there with so much open space.
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Re: Six Feet Under in Buffalo

Postby kiwiinoz » Fri Nov 21, 2014 7:15 am

Eric,
You know that I am happy to give you any excuse to post a photo that involves exercise, gardens, the outdoors, wood chopping or any combination of them all.
That woodshed is pretty impressive, and it is bigger than my apartment.
Probably full of spiders though and I am very scared of them, or that is how I justify it to myself.
Food, now that is one of my better subjects. I have always wanted to go to upper state New York to avail myself of your garden specifically as I feel you grow too much for you and your wife to have. Thus I feel obligated to do my part to help reduce the amount of fresh vegetables you have. I cooked a beetroot and porcini barley risotto tonight, with a fennel and orange side salad. See how I can change the topic from wood & snow to food? I can carry on in that I bought too much beetroot and had to cook it all before it went off. I still have a fair bit left so I am going to turn the left overs in a beetroot dip (fetta and walnuts inside it) and make my own bread to go with it. I have stopped cooking bread recently as it was always way too heavy (I use 100% rye) so this time I'm going 50% rye and 50% wholemeal flower.
Any more photos Eric? You know that you can get my side tracked anytime with them and I'll happily talk about any subject
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Re: Six Feet Under in Buffalo

Postby BrownBagger » Fri Nov 21, 2014 7:18 am

Kiwi, you're welcome here any time.

meatie wrote:@BrownBagger

Is that (picture) part of your multi-acre estate? Where in new york state do you live? It must be fun there with so much open space.


It's a big yard, but not an acre. Plenty of room for what I want to do. I live in central NYS--at the edge of a small village in the Mohawk Valley. Currently, there's about 4 inches of fresh snow on the ground, with more coming down. It won't last--it's supposed to warm up this weekend and it will all melt. The ground isn't frozen yet, so that needs to happen before we get a decent base for XC skiing.
Eric, 58
Dx: 3/09, Stage 4 RC
Recurrences: (ongoing, lung, bronchial cavity, ribs)
Major Ops: 6/ RFA: 3 /bronchoscopies: 8
Pelvic radiation: 5 wks. Bronchial radiation—brachytheray: 3 treatments
Chemo Rounds (career):136
Current Chemo Cocktail: Xeloda & Erbitux & Irinotecan biweekly
Current Cocktail; On the Wagon (mostly)
Bicycle miles post-dx 10,477
Motto: Live your life like it's going to be a long one, because it just might, and then you'll be glad you did.

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Re: Six Feet Under in Buffalo

Postby BrownBagger » Fri Nov 21, 2014 7:28 am

Here's where the wood comes from. That's a load of whole tree chips from a small timber harvest we had this summer. We built that kiosk a few months ago, because this is a 500-acre demonstration forest that we use to show people what a well managed forest looks like. My wood comes from a combination of dead/dying/lowgrade trees. Makes more space and resources for the better trees that remain.

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Eric, 58
Dx: 3/09, Stage 4 RC
Recurrences: (ongoing, lung, bronchial cavity, ribs)
Major Ops: 6/ RFA: 3 /bronchoscopies: 8
Pelvic radiation: 5 wks. Bronchial radiation—brachytheray: 3 treatments
Chemo Rounds (career):136
Current Chemo Cocktail: Xeloda & Erbitux & Irinotecan biweekly
Current Cocktail; On the Wagon (mostly)
Bicycle miles post-dx 10,477
Motto: Live your life like it's going to be a long one, because it just might, and then you'll be glad you did.

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Re: Six Feet Under in Buffalo

Postby Asterix » Fri Nov 21, 2014 7:42 am

That's a lot of snow. Reminds me of earlier this year when I was holidaying on the West Coast / Colorado and the east had all that cold weather and snow. I still can't comprehend having that much snow around everywhere.

And you can have this heatwave Kiwi, we had ours last weekend, up to 42 C at my place. Glad they let me out of the hospital during the day because I think the air conditioning I put in last year at home works better than the hospital's. Good luck with the marathon.
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Re: Six Feet Under in Buffalo

Postby PGLGreg » Fri Nov 21, 2014 12:15 pm

I had fun staying in Buffalo in the early 60s during a big snowfall, but it was only for a few days. No snow here, yet -- I'm crossing my fingers.
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