Broke Down 69...The Adventure Continues

What? That was a badge of honor for ole Willy.

 

This is part of what I got to do today. Man, it's been a wet winter. I had to go over the front & back yard twice, good thing I have a nice John Deere riding motor. Here's a couple of pics of the backyard.

 

Looks like a nice place Scooter!

 

Thanks, it is. Really nice place on 2 acres I bought in 2005 when I was a construction contractor. Gutted the house, added on to it, remodeled and built the 3 car free standing garage. I'll get a couple of pics of the front tomorrow and add 'em here.

 

Maybe a food born problem. symptoms can go from very mild to an extreme of needing antibiotics and hydrating IV.
If you should ever suspect exposure to some form of food born illness, slam as much liquids as possible as soon as possible. even more important if your running a bit of a fever.

 

I'm in the end stages of that right now. Had to drive up to ocala to puck up a bumper from raneys for the freightliner and stopped at the flying j to gas up the pick up, grab a coffee and my stomach override my brain and i got a slice of that pizza. Bad mistake. That was Thursday about 1 pm. About 4 pm my belly was making some very bad noises. 3 pit stops in that last 90 miles home and i knew it was not gonna be a pleasant night. Here it is sunday, 3 entire bottles of Imodium A.D. later and i still don't trust my guts to get farther than 30 feet from my bathroom. But at least the fever broke and I'm no longer seeing things that aren't there. thank God i was near home and not out on the road in the big truck. As it is I've made my wife several loads of extra laundry.

Lesson learned. Never eat or drink at the flying j at exit 285 in san antonio fl. Don't know if it was the pizza or the coffee but I'm not risking it again.

 

Looks very nice

 

You were very lucky to be near home

 

Ya no kidding man. Day 4 now and settled down to only several times a day. Still very dehydrated and energy level is very low. Hoping by morning I'll be in good enough shape to make up some brackets and get that bumper on so i can get the truck back to work.

 

Food born illneses are a real problem. They are difficult to trace and track. As the FDA and several restaruants have discovered. The time from an outbreak, to actually finding the root cause can be very long, and in some cases the actual item that caused thr problem is long gone.

Take the fact that produce is shipped from one end of the country to the other, both ways depending on the time of year. One farm has an E. Coli problem with parsley and it on its way across the country.

One thing that often gets over looked is what is done at home. More often than not, the point of infection is in the home. Sure food service gets the brunt of the publicity, mostly due to the number of people that are involved.
But more often it is the home preperation that will expose you to the various food born pathogens. Did the home cook do anything wrong? Maybe. Like baked potatoes?
like to wrap them in foil before cooking? Do you put any left after the meal into the refrigerator? Did you leave them in the foil? A major chain did exactly that. The potatoes did get washed by brush, not the best job, but was done. Wrapped in foil, baked. Guess what, that was the perfect environment for E.Coli to grow. who knew, seems nobody did, took a while to figure that one out. So now back to your refrigerator, have any potatoes in it?

A link to some info about food born illnesses.