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Post by walkswithblackflies on May 8, 2020 5:01:45 GMT -8
Wednesday evening I got a splinter (more like a chunk of wood) in the bottom of my foot. Deep. I decided to wait overnight to see if it would work itself out. Nope. I called my doc in the morning and she said she could fit me in after her office hours. I tried in vain to get it out during the day, to no avail. She basically had to do minor surgery to get it out. It was 1/2" long and 1/8" wide, embedded between the first knuckles of my 3rd and 4th toes. I got a tetanus shot and antibiotics as a bonus. My foot is sore today, but at least it doesn't feel like there's a marble between my toe knuckles. Hopefully I'll be walking normal this weekend.
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Post by rebeccad on May 8, 2020 7:19:53 GMT -8
Egads, walkswithblackflies! That's nasty. Makes me kind of glad I can't go barefoot anymore Heal well! My blisters will take a few more days. One did right and is healing well. The other I didn't realize had actually blistered and the top got ripped off, so it will need a little longer.
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Post by echo on May 9, 2020 11:01:05 GMT -8
It feels wrong to say good morning today. I’m sorry, rebeccad. I wish blisters were still your worst pain. The world turns on a dime again.
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Post by zeke on May 10, 2020 5:30:04 GMT -8
Well, I made it thru the night. Woke up at 3, but managed to get back to bed around 5. Today looks like wind and rain for the vast majority of the day. Might have to take a day off from riding the bike or walking. Doesn't seem like a good day at all. I woke up. I am healthy. That'll have to do.
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Post by rebeccad on May 11, 2020 7:08:29 GMT -8
Morning. I slept, so that is good. Waking not so much. Reading condolences makes me cry, but it helps to know so many people care. Comments from people who worked with him or were taught by him are especially powerful. Dave was a teacher every day of his life, regardless of whether he was actually at work.
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Post by echo on May 11, 2020 13:30:35 GMT -8
It’s good to see that you are surrounded by friends, even in this time of social distancing. rebeccadI hadn’t seen my grandkids from the son who doesn’t live with us for a couple months, but the boy turned 4 on Saturday and Sunday for that and Mother’s Day they brought them over to let them run around outside. It didn’t seem like a huge risk, because we’ve had no cases in our county since about three weeks ago and the three we had are all recovered, plus the kids and their mom and Have all been very much homebodies since mid March.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on May 12, 2020 6:46:12 GMT -8
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Post by rebeccad on May 17, 2020 8:57:27 GMT -8
Come on, people. Keep posting those morning greetings! I may not be having very good mornings but I like to know you are seeing and doing things, even in this bizarre world with all it's limitations.
At the moment, my best offering is that it's gone back to raining. Keeps fire danger down, keeps it from being so hot here, and I keep having something that ought to be a country music song running through my head, "when you walk in the rain no one can tell those are tears on your cheeks."
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Post by echo on May 17, 2020 10:20:31 GMT -8
Ok then, Good morning. I’m sipping coffee, my woodstove is gently warming the room, mourning doves are hooting outside. I finally have a rescheduled, 7 hour assessment appointment with a movement disorder neurologist/psychologist. It isn’t until July 7th, and it is a couple hours drive from home, but it’s in the calendar. I tried to start using a cane, but stopped in five steps because pain shot upfront my wrist and elbow. Daisy has started helping me to my feet and taking me on a walk every day to watch the sunset. Our house used to have a great sunset view but the neighbor planted trees that are now a forest of deer and a bear and block the view, but my yard no longer floods on rainy
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Post by autumnmist on May 17, 2020 11:30:10 GMT -8
walkswithblackflies , I like the contrast in your photos: steep yet almost gentle falls, more vigorous falls not with a sense of peace but of power, and a multicolored flat stream with different flow patterns. I looked at the cliff and thought "fossils!", thinking that would be an interesting section to explore. I like the contrast between the different sections of the last photos, the softly flowing vs. the energetic and frothy area. Glad your foot is healing. echo , you paint a nice, quiet, comfy and homey image when you write that your wood stove is warming the room. I can easily visualize the scene. Wood stoves have a special image of their own, one that creates a sense of peace, quiet, relaxation, comfort, and generally just letting relaxation be the guideline. Watching a deer feed on a tree seems to me to be such a peaceful pastime. Are those your canna lilies in bloom? I notice some lovely hanging stained glass objects; they don't seem to be wind chimes. Are they there to reflect sunlight at different times of the day? Did you make them? The lighthouse and the seaside scene are magnificent. Lighthouses seem so naturally suited to the somewhat overcast skies and mood of an ocean, or one of the large lakes. They stand as stalwart guardians, braving wind and weather, desolate but welcoming to ships. (I like to personify them!).
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Post by autumnmist on May 17, 2020 11:59:12 GMT -8
My mornings yesterday and today weren't the best. Yesterday my geriatric frig went on strike and stopped cooling, allowing the accumulated ice buildup (yes, I know I should have cleaned it before now) to melt and create the equivalent of a domestic ice shelf. It only took about a hour to chop it up though, and donate it to the lawn for absorption. Fortunately not everything had melted, and clean up wasn't that hard, but it means that now when I really don't want to go shopping, I'll have to get a new frig.
The frightening part though was that I had to remove a cover over the off/on knob to get at all the ice, apparently dislodged something, and the knob wouldn't re-engage. So I couldn't turn the freezer back on. After about a half hour of fiddling around with it, trying to figure out how to reattach it, a little push solved the problem, and the freezer turned back on. Joy, what joy!
Moved the perishables from the frig to the freezer, laid down rags to soak up the water (shop vac doesn't work), and hoped for the best. This morning the floor was wet; water was draining down from the frig, but I'm not sure from where. Got it cleaned up, floor dried, now it's wet again. I don't know where the leak is coming from. I guess I'll have to empty the frig and check the tubes, but I'll give it a chance to resolve itself before I tackle that.
On a better note, the violet lunaria (money plants) are plentiful and blooming; the white variety is even more plentiful, and has spread all the way across the yard. Yellow flowers on what I think is a wild mustard plant highlight the lilac and white, and provide a bright splash of color.
The peonies are growing so fast, and branching out so vigorously. Their foliage is a deep burgundy; I've never seen that brilliant or intense foliage on them before. The trilliums are still plentiful, about 70 blooms at last count, but they're battling ground with the white lunarias and aren't growing as vigorously as they usually do. So far the rabbits haven't been munching on the burgundy trillium, but it too isn't growing as tall and vigorously as it has in the past.
A sweet little plant with tiny pink flowers is also busy decorating the yard. It looks like a ground cover, but only blooms in the spring. Not sure what it is, but it does like to spread itself all around the yard.
Lilacs began releasing their lovely fragrance yesterday; I kept walking over to the bushes, holding a branch and inhaling the fresh scent. I think I'll cut some and bring them inside to freshen the house.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on May 18, 2020 6:16:53 GMT -8
I don't know where the leak is coming from. Do you have an ice-maker? If so, check the connection at the rear of the fridge first. The tube can become dislodged when you move the fridge.
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Post by zeke on May 18, 2020 7:15:52 GMT -8
Last night, our male cat went out after dinner. I bring them in about 7:30 now, when the light is beginning to wane. He was a no show. I continued to occasionally go out and call for him, and took his treat can to shake. At 10;30, I went to bed. When I got up in the middle of the night, I took the treat can outside and shook it. I heard the fence rattle, and knew he had just jumped back into the back yard. He came in all meek, expecting he was in big trouble. Today, he is sleeping in.
Good thing my wife is out of town until Sat. She would've been too distraught to sleep until he came home. I figured he was OK, and just let him in when I got up.
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Post by autumnmist on May 18, 2020 7:39:59 GMT -8
walkswithblackflies , no, I don't have an icemaker. I'm the old fashioned kind of frig afficionado. This reminds me of a day last year when the cleanup/removal crew was taking down my mother's dilapidated gardening shed. As we were sorting out things I wanted to save (pots, trays, etc.), we found some items that the younger workers didn't recognize. One was an ice tray, complete with the handle pulled to release the ice cubes. It was kind of a generation gap moment; I hadn't even thought of how much refrigerator life and function had changed over the years. They also didn't recognize a pickle crock, or a mangle, old 1950's style frig, hand crank ice cream maker, or a juke box (which Dad had in his basement). I think I mentally aged a few decades while we planned how to remove all that stuff. Thanks for the helpful suggestion. It reaffirms my desire NOT to get an icemaker with my next frig. Walking back and forth to the kitchen sink helps keep the old joints from stiffening up. But the leaks have stopped now. I think the melting water was draining somewhere inside the refrigerator, puddling at the bottom, and spilling over onto the floor. It occurred to me later that the drain pan was full as well. I've found a new frig that I'm fairly comfortable with, online viewing only, and probably will buy this week.
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Post by autumnmist on May 18, 2020 7:48:27 GMT -8
zeke, maybe your male cat has a female friend he was visiting?
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