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This time I dedicate this post on the travel items to the Parents, In-laws, Elders in every one of our families. Again, I had never got a hint to write the content which I had penned down below until I saw my Mom experienced health issues after one of the short trips.
With a great excitement, my mom with her four friends planned for an interstate trip. For nothing, she had looked for my help as a part of their plan. My mom and her friends had very well planned the trip and they were on top of everything. Be it booking a sleeper bus to and fro, sightseeing, the guide, and everything. Believe me, the elderly women in our families are so powerful by heart and mind except that they don’t display it most of the times.
Everything went on well and the trip was great. A few weeks later, my mom had complained of a pain in her left hand. The pain that radiated from the armpit to hands making her hand very difficult to lift/move. Consulted the doctor and found it to be a disc slip on the neck. The complaint was not wholly due to the short travel, but for sure the travel had also played a role.
Digging further, I came to know that my Mom had fallen down in a subway few months before the travel. Besides, the posture that my mom adapted while returning back from the trip is undoubtedly a culprit. My mom had traveled in a somewhat sitting posture in the sleeper bus while returning back as she had felt uncomfortable sleeping on the sleeper bus during the onward trip. Looks like the posture had given more stress to the muscles and the disc in the neck portion.
A simple air pillow could have a helped my Mom stay away from the disc slip complaint. Though, I am aware that it falls under a must carry travel items I had still failed to convey it to my Mom.
The above incident is one main reason for me writing this post. We all wish that certain things work out well as we wanted, though we know that things do not go always in the way we expect. Not many of us are gifted to stay with our elderly parents in the same house after a certain age. Even if we live in the same city, we reside in a different area due to kids school, commuting distance to the workplace etc. When we have a compelling fact to stay away from our own elders in the family, there are few things through which we can help them stay away from the pain. The pain that arises because of not considering certain things like the travel items.
Here I provide the list of the top must carry travel items which we sons and daughters should never forget to consider when our Parents / Elders travel. With age, it is very common for our mom, dad, and other elders at home to overlook things. Hope, the below points help everyone when there is a need.
This travel item is a must, not only for the traveling Parents but also for anyone who is on travel. This small travel item that inflates with air can be a great support for the head as a headrest. Not just that as it also helps as a back cushion for the lumbar part during bus travel.
A Neck Pillow – A quality cushion that most of us overlook during flight travel. The percentage of traveling parents every month to the USA, UK, and other countries is very high nowadays. In the busy schedule, they spend their time on what to carry for us especially the food items and others things which they knew their kids’ love. If not us, then there won’t be anyone else who can help them with the travel items which are a must during travel.
Remember, nothing can replace a Lumbar Support belt and a Cervical Collar belt. Especially for elders who travel with a history of back pain and neck pain complaint.
First thing, try to get a medical insurance for your parents. This is irrespective of whether they travel or not. It is our duty.
Get to know about the health history of your Parents. It is better to get to know about the health history of your In-laws and other close elders in your family as well. Ensure that they carry their emergency medicines with them all the time. This applies to everyone and a very critical thing for the Elders with certain medication routines. For example, Diabetes, Thyroid, Heart Issues etc. The best would be to have a picture of the medical prescription as well on the phone.
A small booklet with the important mobile phone numbers and a card with ID information are the third must carry travel items. The one that has at least an address, emergency contact information, blood group etc.
As most of the elders who travel own a smartphone nowadays, it is better to take a picture of the filled ID card. This will come as a help if they had lost their handbags. A photo in the smartphone is just a backup but not a reliable one.
There are some of the GPS based mobile applications that can be used to track our elders who travel. This can be done by configuring the mobile app in both your phone and on the phone of the elders who travel. Google play store/app store can help here.
A card with the details of People – Back Home and People – At the Destination. This is in addition to the ID card mentioned in the above point.
To handle things without eyeglasses/contacts for elders is very difficult. Especially the elders and parents with high power glasses without which they cannot see things properly.
There are possibilities for one of their contact lenses or their eyeglasses to fall down leading to a loss. An extra pair of eyeglasses would surely be of help. Do not forget the eye drops and the contact lens solution as well under the travel items category.
Either you get it checked before your Parents travel or you help them keep an extra pair of batteries at home always. Best to have one in the bags of the elders who travel.
A small pouch or a zip lock cover with Pills for Antacid, Gas Relief, Fever, Pain, Anti-diarrhea etc besides band-aids.
A Mobile Phone Charger also falls under the Must carry travel items for the elders who travel. If both your Parents are traveling and if they both use the phone with the same kind of charging port, it is best to buy adapters with two charging ports. That would not only save their time but help them keep both their mobile phones with enough charge. A small search on Amazon can help you with options.
If your parents do not have one already, please ensure that you buy it for them. Compression Socks falls under the list of a must carry travel items as they help to maintain blood flow and reduce discomfort and swelling by applying pressure to the lower legs.
This is mandatory during long-distance travel either by Air or by Land. Though the risk of developing blood clots during air travel is low, it spikes up when the travel time increases.
Either you buy a small flashlight for the elders who travel or teach them how to use the flashlight in their phones. The former is better as it does not depend on the cell phone battery.
There are a lot more things that fall under the must carry travel items which I am yet to share. Specifically, the ones that are more inclined to air travel.
Stay tuned for the Part – 2 blog post with an information about some more travel items that are good to carry.
Good to know, I carry other items too like tent, barbecue grill, ice box, cool drinks, portable heater, charcoal, lighter, marinated chicken, cool drinks, swing, rope, tarp, teabags, tissue, knife set, Advil, children’s Tylenol and finally Office laptop
It’s really important to have that checklist whenever you travel. I do believe it’s essential to let them have a check-up before traveling especially if they have maintenance and a list of medicines that they need. Anyways, awesome post. Cheers!
On sunny days after a rain, you may see butterflies gathering around the edges of mud puddles. What could they be doing?
Butterflies get most of their nutrition from flower nectar. Though rich in sugar, nectar lacks some important nutrients the butterflies need for reproduction. For those, butterflies visit puddles.
By sipping moisture from mud puddles, butterflies take in salts and minerals from the soil. This behavior is called puddling, and is mostly seen in male butterflies. That's because males incorporate those extra salts and minerals into their sperm.
When butterflies mate, the nutrients are transferred to the female through the spermatophore. These extra salts and minerals improve the viability of the female's eggs, increasing the couple's chances of passing on their genes to another generation.
Mud puddling by butterflies catches our attention because they often form large aggregations, with dozens of brilliantly colored butterflies gathered in one location. Puddling aggregations occur frequently among swallowtails and pierids.
Herbivorous insects like butterflies and moths don't get enough dietary sodium from plants alone, so they actively seek other sources of sodium and other minerals. While mineral-rich mud is a common source for sodium-seeking butterflies, they can also procure salt from animal dung, urine, and sweat, as well as from carcasses. Butterflies and other insects that get nutrients from dung tend to prefer the dung of carnivores, which contains more sodium than that of herbivores.
Sodium is important for both male and female butterflies. Females lose sodium when they lay eggs, and males lose sodium in the spermatophore, which they transfer to the female during mating. Sodium loss is much more severe, it seems, for the males than for the females. The first time it mates, a male butterfly may give away a third of its sodium to its reproductive partner. Since the females receive sodium from their male partners during mating, their sodium procurement needs aren't as great.
Because males need sodium, but give so much of it away during mating, puddling behavior is much more common in males than in females. In one 1982 study of cabbage white butterflies (Pieris rapae), researchers counted only two females among the 983 cabbage whites observed puddling. A 1987 study of European skipper butterflies (Thymelicus lineola) found no females puddling at all, although 143 males were observed at the mud puddle site. The researchers studying European skippers also reported the area population consisted of 20-25% females, so their absence from the mud puddles didn't mean females weren't in the vicinity. They simply didn't engage in puddling behavior the way the males did.
Butterflies aren't the only insects you'll find gathering in mud puddles. Many moths use mud to make up their sodium deficits, too. Mud puddling behavior is common among leafhoppers, too. Moths and leafhoppers tend to visit mud puddles at night, when we are less likely to observe their behavior.
"Puddling Behavior by Lepidoptera," by Peter H. Adler, Clemson University. Encyclopedia of Entomology, 2nd edition, edited by John L. Capinera.
"Mud puddling by butterflies is not a simple matter," by Carol L. Boggs and Lee Ann Jackson, Ecological Entomology, 1991. Accessed online February 3, 2017.
Ordinary wooden coasters can be turned into something decorative with some paint and stencils. This guide is about making hand painted coasters.
By using the colors found on Delft glassware, and a stencil with a nautical theme, one can change ordinary wooden coasters into something quite extraordinary.
Paint all four the coasters with a coat of cloud grey. Make sure that all the edges are well covered with paint. Allow the paint to dry thoroughly before continuing with the next step of the project.
Now use the phthalo blue paint and the stencil. Place the stencil on the appropriate place on one of the coasters and hold it down with one hand while painting, so that it will not move while applying the paint.
Dip the sponge into the phthalo blue paint and remove excess paint from the sponge by dabbing it on the sheet of newspaper. Then paint the stencil design onto the coaster by repeatedly dabbing all over the design. Carefully, lift the stencil and repeat this step on all the coasters. Leave to dry thoroughly.
Now, use the fan-shaped paintbrush and the phthalo blue paint. Add some bushes and grass to the design. Also add a few birds in the sky. Repeat this step on all the coasters. Again, leave to dry thoroughly.
Using the lamp black and burnt umber paints, add some shadows to the design. Again, leave to dry thoroughly.
Lastly, cut the felt to the correct size and glue to the back of each coaster, so that the project will have a neat finish.
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Chris bought his 2012 Harley-Davidson Forty-Eight completely stock and with barely any Kilometre’s on it, but it didn’t take long for him to start ripping parts off it as soon as he got his new steed home. From there the bike would take on a new look, with its crowning jewel paintwork.
Chris has been riding for years, but mainly on dirt with motocross bikes. If he wasn’t bashing through the dirt and mud, he was on his street registered trail bike zipping through the back streets, hitting speed bumps, and as he says “other stupid shit”. Chris wanted something more however, and so was on the search for some proper road wheels. “I could have gotten a supermotard (and kept my licence for a fortnight at the longest) but I’ve always had an interest in stripped down custom motorcycles, and the ones that always peaked my interest were Harley Davidsons. Not the leather pant, bandana-wearing types, rather the minimalist bobbers with nothing more than a huge engine, no suspension and a set of handlebars with wheels. Ever since I bought one I haven’t looked back. I’ll always have a customised Harley of some sorts for a long time, I think.”
After grabbing his Forty-Eight still in it’s stock form, Chris got to work transforming it into the low down, loud machine he was after. “At first it was the usual simple stuff everyone does to a Harley – handlebars, pegs, intake and then make it antisocially loud. The bike had no direction and started looking like every other Forty-Eight around. Around that time my appreciation for old bobbers and choppers started to grow, the certain sub styles within the “cult” that is bobbers. I decided to take a modern twist on the traditional American Bobber and build something that would look cool sitting still, but still be 100% rideable, reliable, and maintain the good attributes that modern HD’s come with but combine it with an old school flavour.”
Jumping from dirt bikes to Harleys is quite a contrast in machines, but Chris gets to enjoy the best with both worlds as you find his Harley sitting next to his dirt bike in his garage space. “As far as differences in riding style, well they are chalk and cheese. For one, you barely sit down on a motocross bike; it’s a balance between being fluid on the bike and manhandling it to where you want it to go. Swap that with a bike that is 3 times as heavy and an engine the size of a small car and there isn’t a whole lot to carry over between the two, but when the rear wheel starts to come loose on the Harley the instincts kick in and it’s no problem.”
The first thing you’ll notice about this bike is the tank. Painted by Kyle Smith over at Smith Concepts, it’s an incredible work of art and truly the crowning feature of this machine. “Every time I go for a ride someone asks about the paint, in person it is a sight to behold.” It’s not just a visual treat, as Chris had some Bassani Pro Streets exhaust attached which create the best kind of audible V-Twin punch to the face.
You’ll always find this style of bike nice and low to the ground, though Chris was not a fan of the stiff coil suspension. “It would beat me up badly when riding any sort of distance, and it handled shithouse. I added airbag suspension, this allows the bike to be raised up for hitting the corners, or dumped to have the tyre actually sitting on the guard with a few additional modifications.”
“I think the most work went into the parts you can’t see, stuff like hidden wiring looms, completely re-wiring the security module to work with the airbag compressor and making a 170mm rear tyre fit where it clearly shouldn’t.”