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I saw the season's first butterfly today. Actually two of them, a pair of viceroys (a monarch butterfly mimic -- we don't have monarchs here).
Looking back in time, I checked last year's late-April LJ entries to see if it's just my imagination that the snow is melting slower this year, and, well ... see for yourself.
Last year on April 30, this is what the yard (and environs) looked like:
And this year, the same general areas look like:
Sigh ...
I spent all day Saturday in a certification course for CPR, first aid and AED (defibrillators). As well as, obviously, being potentially useful, it was quite interesting and I now have all manner of source material for horrible things to do to my hapless characters.
Looking back in time, I checked last year's late-April LJ entries to see if it's just my imagination that the snow is melting slower this year, and, well ... see for yourself.
Last year on April 30, this is what the yard (and environs) looked like:
And this year, the same general areas look like:
Sigh ...
I spent all day Saturday in a certification course for CPR, first aid and AED (defibrillators). As well as, obviously, being potentially useful, it was quite interesting and I now have all manner of source material for horrible things to do to my hapless characters.
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Good for you for getting the cert! As you might expect, you never know when you'll get to spring into action. I saved my daughter's life (when she was about 20 months old) because I knew what to do when she choked, when everyone else was turning white and pointing.
Do they teach now to Heimlich someone who's been drowning, before blowing air into them, to clear water from their lungs?
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They didn't teach us to do that (the Heimlich on drowning victims). Doesn't mean I might not try it, if I was ever in that situation, because I'd generally thought you were supposed to, but they didn't teach it. Actually quite a lot of things have changed since I learned the basics in high school, such as when and how often to do chest thrusts vs breaths. And I wished they'd had more hands-on and less videos -- we did spend some time down on the floor practicing, but also a lot of time watching videos. The really interesting parts were where the second paramedic would come in and start talking to the one who was teaching the class, and we'd get all kinds of interesting information that wasn't in the official Red Cross training materials.