Posted by Tim Martinson (69): Anchorage, AK
Routine Periodic Fasting Is Good for Your Health, and Your Heart, Study Suggests
ScienceDaily (May 20, 2011) — Fasting has long been associated with religious rituals, diets, and political protests. Now new evidence from cardiac researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute demonstrates that routine periodic fasting is also good for your health, and your heart.
Note: Please see the complete article attached. I have only included the articles caption above.
Tim, with all the postings a while back with fasting, this is an interesting article. As you well know I was on a juice fast for 12 days about a month ago. It is interesting to note that with our physical exams several weeks ago my total cholesterol count, from last year, went down from 172 to 100. This goes along with what is mentioned in the article.
Tim, We were beginning to wonder about you. We miss those wonderful stories.
Herman Martinson
Reply to the 50’s car test posted yesterday
From Allen Richard (50): Midland, MI
I got 96% of the car questions right. I’m ashamed of myself — Can’t wait to see how DickJohnson and Dave Wurgler do—-
Johnny Crawford’s Snowmobile
Story from Dick Johnson (68): Dunseith, ND
Gary and Friends,
In one of the last few days, Jerry Olson mentioned going to Lake
Metigoshe in the 60s and seeing homemade snowmobiles that mainly were
driven by Canadians and were even made by using feeder chains from
combines for tracks. In the mid 70s I bought an old Model T Ford from
Johnnie Crawford who lived on the northwest corner of Long Lake. While
I was there getting the old car, I noticed he had a tarp covering
something right next to his old log house. I asked him what was under
the tarp and he said it was his snowmobile. He proudly took the cover
off and there sat the oldest snowmobile I had ever seen. It had a
steering wheel on the front and single cylinder 8 HP Kohler engine on
the rear. It was a 1959 Polaris ‘Autoboggan’. I asked him if he wanted
to sell it and the answer was no. I then asked him if he would trade
for another snowmobile of newer vintage? He thought for a while and
then said he might if it had electric start. I found a Massey Ferguson
sled with a single cylinder engine and electric start and tuned it up
real good and took it over to Johnnie’s and he tried it out and said it
was a trade. I still have the old sled and another one that wasn’t in
very good shape that can be used for parts. When I got home with the
thing, I just had to see if I could get it going as Johnnie hadn’t had
it going for a long time. I got it to run and headed out for a short
trial run across the yard. My dad was watching from near the shop as I
rode away and as the thing started to slow down and I couldn’t find the
reason, he started to laugh so I turned around and the entire track was
laid out like a train track behind me. Two rusty links of chain (much
like that of a combine feeder chain, had broken and just let the track
roll out behind. I loaded the track on the machine and parked it in an
old granary and now it’s in my quonset waiting for restoration some
day. The pictures are of the snowmobile and the track which resembles a
feeder chain with canvas between the treads—-very primitive to say the
least. Thanks Gary!
Dick
Dick, How well so many of us remember Johnny Crawford. He used to go
door to door thoughout the hills selling garden seeds, etc. As long as I knew
him, he lived in his little cabin on the west side of Long Lake next door
to Leonard Lund.
Joke of the day
Posted by Clarice Hackman (67): Fargo, ND
This makes a lot of sense…
Posted by Neola Kofoid Garbe: Minot & Bottineau, ND
