Save The Naugas!

The tourism business should start picking up soon, with Spring just around the corner and the economy looking better each week. It will be good to have some more paying guests around this place.

We had an interesting visitor last week, a professional genealogist. She said that the lost-relative business has been strong, probably because all the unemployed persons sitting at home have time to research their family roots online. When they reach a “dead”-end, they call her for help.

She mentioned that many clients have some old photographs of great-great-grandma and grandpa. Some of the old photos are faded, some are torn, marked-up or creased. Many color photos have shifted to reddish or yellow. Some photos were behind glass and stuck to it. They ask her if there is a company that can restore those old photographs. She said that she recommends American Photo Retouching for photo restoration.

She herself is often surprised at how much better the damaged old photos can be made to look in the hands (and computers running Photoshop) of photo restoration experts.

I asked her about the idea that scientists have recently found a lemur that may be an ancestor of the human race. She laughed, and said that she doesn’t research back that far.

We have a lady staying with us for a couple of nights. She had to leave her house due to septic tank problems, which she said (prayed?) will be fixed soon. She said that the rainy weather had caused her sewer to back up into her bathroom, and the smell was terrible inside her house. So she called some septic companies before settling on American Septic Tank company. She came to stay here until the problem is fixed.

Anyway, the lady is a scientist working on a method to predict when a woman will enter menopause…the time left on her biological clock. She said that the ratios of 3 hormones could give a good idea, within 6 months, of when a woman’s uterus would release its last egg. This would tell the fertility years remaining on her biological clock. She said her research team hopes to commercialize the test, but that getting it through the FDA is time-consuming and expensive. Some biological markers must be monitored every month for a year. Fortunately, this test does not detect disease (menopause is not a disease) so the regulatory requirements are not so strict.