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16 www.DesertMessenger.com November 18, 2020 Desert Messenger offers FREE Classified Ads! Here's the small print: Items for sale under $1000. Private Party Only. 1 per month. Yard/Garage/Craft Sales, Wanted, Give-a-ways, Free, Lost & Found, etc. (non-commercial) For more information, contact Rain at 928-916-4235 or Email: Editor@DesertMessenger.com Potty training my telephone Herbmama - Thyme essential oil.. who knew? I have been seeing a lot of info on this awesome essential oil, so I thought I would put everything I have read together in one post for people to read and digest!!! Thyme essential oil is produced with the leaves & flowers of the plant. It is a member of the mint family and has been used as a medicinal herb since ancient times. It's one of the strongest antioxidants known and there are more than 300 different varieties!! One of the most popular varieties is Thymus vulgaris. Re- member to check the Latin to make sure you get the one you want. Do NOT use if you are pregnant or are allergic to thyme. Thyme essential oil can increase cir- culation, boosts the immune system, protect heart health & so helps in regulating blood pressure; it's also helpful in removing toxins from the body as it increases urination. It's an anti-spasmodic, so it can help with coughs, cramps and aches due to spasms. Thyme is an anti-rheu- matic, antiseptic, vermifuge, stim- ulant, expectorant, carminative, stimulant and an all over tonic. It's also a bechic, which is a new one for me so of course I checked it out and it actually means: pertaining to or relieving a cough. So it can help to cure infections in the chest, lungs and bronchi. It's become one of the best essential oils to help balance hormones as it increases progesterone levels in the body. It can delay menopause. It can be beneficial for irregular peri- ods. Also helps with mood swings. Thyme is good as a bug repellent and treats bites and stings. It helps with stress, anxiety, anemia, low energy, arthritis, gout, headaches, viral and fungal infections and more. Disclaimer: This is not meant to treat, cure, heal or diagnose any type of illness or disease as it is for informational purposes only. For more information, contact Herbmama at 580-490-1770 or go to www.herbs-4-health.com. Be sure to 'like' us on FB! by Jackie Deal Remember when you potty trained your children? There were two things they had to learn: Where and When. And wasn't it great when they finally learned? It's time to potty train my tele- phone. You see, every time I go into the bathroom, my telephone rings. Now it's possible that either my bathroom or the telephone is bugged. (The Russians did it!) I generally carry my phone around with me, either in my pocket or in my hot little hand. There's a coffee cup holder on the wall in that little private room that all RVs seem to have. The holder is black and so is my phone. If I'm in a hurry I plop the phone down on the coffee cup holder and then frequently forget it. You know, black on black. Then comes the search for the phone. Did I leave it in the car? Run out in the cold. Nope. In some long forgotten jacket pocket? No. Awe, it's ringing. Now the surest way to locate a phone is in calling a friend to have them call you. (Yah, sure.) And after a frantic search to lo- cate the ringing phone, nine times out of ten it's going to be a scam call. OOOH, I hate those robo calls. Have you had the one about your grandson who needs $10,000 to get out of jail in some foreign country? Only prob- lem is your grandson is only 5 years old. And if you ask "Which grand- son?" They say, "Your favorite one!" Then there's the one: "We've been trying to reach you, the warranty on your car has expired." Well Dah! My car is older than Methuselah. It hasn't had a warranty since the Civil War. (Talk about mixed meta- phors.) The real corker is "Quick! The Sheriff is coming to your house. Quick! Call this number before he gets there. We can stop him!" Oh sure! How dumb do they think we are? Actually, the one that really gets the blue ribbon was a lengthy mes- sage from an old high school ac- quaintance. She was having the "vacation from hell"; her purse had been stolen: all her money, credit cards, etc. etc. Could I please send $10,000 to this foreign country (which I'd never heard of). There were several problems with it. First she was just an acquaintance, not a close friend. Second, she was a prissy little missy who would never have said "hell." And the rest of the slang was unnatural, sounding like a foreigner trying to be hip. I got her phone number and called her: she was cozily encouched before her fireplace in Northern Minne- sota and had never been out of the states. Someone somewhere is still waiting for that $10,000. Awe, telephones: can't live with them and can't live without them. But maybe, just maybe, a little potty training might help. A schedule: time, place, function. And flush them away when they get too annoying! SKYHAWK Due to Covid and the USA/CAN- ADA border closing, SKYHAWK will not be holding our Friday night dances at the Quartzsite Senior Center this snowbird season. SEE YOU ALL AGAIN FOR OUR DANCES NOVEMBER 2021.

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