Summer Waning Strawberry Moon I went into see Kate this evening. The first day post surgery can be brutal and it is this time. A lot of pain. She’s a stoic and the pain went well beyond her threshold . It was hard to see, but I talked to the nurse and they adjusted her […]
Read the rest of this entry »Archive for June, 2010
Good Medical Care
Summer Waning Strawberry Moon Ah. Some sleep. As we age, Minnesota becomes a better and better place to live. In spite of the rigors of the winter months, the high quality medical care creates a sense of safety and security that I’m not sure I could find in other states. With Kate I’ve been through […]
Read the rest of this entry »Kate’s Out of Surgery
Summer Waning Strawberry Moon Kate’s out of surgery and in recovery. Dr. Heller said the procedure went well, “Perfect. Just what we like!” He’s an upbeat guy with a bald head, lots of confidence. Better than a melancholy doc filled with self doubt. I wouldn’t make much of a surgeon. Fairview hospitals seem interchangeable with […]
Read the rest of this entry »Quiet Here Again
Summer Waning Strawberry Moon Kate’s surgery is in the morning and can’t come fast enough for her. Her hip makes walking painful, painful enough that she uses a cane and on occasion, a walker. What was it like when this type of pain had to be endured? Otherwise healthy and mentally acute people must have […]
Read the rest of this entry »Here Comes The Sun
Summer Waning Strawberry Moon After weeding Kate and I took off for lunch–at Benihanas, not nearly as good as our own, much closer, Osaka–and a visit to Lights on Broadway. A bit of dithering about where the order was, where the paperwork was, who was on third and who was on second I picked up […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Day Before
Summer Waning Strawberry Moon A beautiful day. 64 degrees with a dew point of 41. Got more weeding done. Finished the second tier, went after some returnees on the first tier and got through much of the third tier. While doing this it occurred to me that gardening is the process of removing plants willing […]
Read the rest of this entry »Night Time, Summer in the Exurbs
Summer Waning Strawberry Moon Night. A couple of nights ago I went down the driveway to the mailbox. As I came back up, I looked up as I often do and saw an object scooting from SSE to NNW. At first I thought it was a plane. Without my glasses distance observing for me turns […]
Read the rest of this entry »Pictures
Summer Waning Strawberry Moon The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. – Mark Russell You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun. – Al Capone I didn’t know there was […]
Read the rest of this entry »Weed
Summer Waning Strawberry Moon Nice weather for weeding so I took the opportunity and finally got into the second and third tiers of our back perennial garden. Out go the raspberry canes. Out go the stinging nettles. Out go the dogwood suckers. Out go the switch grass and and other weedy plants. In stays the […]
Read the rest of this entry »A Way of Keeping Aging in Perspective
Summer Waning Strawberry Moon A week ago last Thursday I got my ticket in Roseville. I want to pay it, but the damn thing still hasn’t shown up on line. This is past ten days (usual maximum time for a ticket to get into the system). Is this another revenue builder? I get frustrated, forget […]
Read the rest of this entry »