Our Church's Community Garden

We have about 1/4 acre next to the parking lot where we grow tomatoes, squash, some fruit, and anything else that requires little maintenence for distribution to those in need (in some cases, in our church).  

The time came for fall maintenence: pulling all the dead vines in preparation for spring planting.  I assumed that these elderly ladies in their 80s would be a bit overstretched by this.  While gal was regretting not bringing oxygen, some of them are active farmers, used to lifting hay bales and herding cattle.

Anyway, many hands makes light work.  We were done in an hour.   The wheelbarrow muscles will tell me about it tomorrow!

Reversing Alzheimer's

10/28/25 SciTechDaily:

"Scientists Reverse Alzheimer’s Disease in Mice With Impressive New Treatment...

"The new treatment approach targets restoring normal blood vessel function instead of focusing on neurons or other brain cells, which has been the common strategy until now.

"A team of scientists co-led by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and West China Hospital Sichuan University (WCHSU), in collaboration with UK researchers, has developed a nanotechnology-based treatment that successfully reverses Alzheimer’s disease in mice. Unlike conventional nanomedicine, which typically uses nanoparticles to deliver drugs, this new strategy relies on nanoparticles that are therapeutic themselves, described as “supramolecular drugs.”"

Apparently, permeability of the blood-brain barrier is a factor in removal of amyloid-β which is part of Alzheimer’s.  They saw dramatic improvements in mice one hour after injection.

This is the sort of research that is worth every penny spent unlike research that tries to catrgorize math as systemic racism.