Fall\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Blood Moon<\/p>\n
Dan the fence guy came out again.\u00a0 This time we’re fencing in the vegetable garden, a five foot high fence and a taut wire to run along the top of the orchard fence.\u00a0 Rigel is an expensive dog.\u00a0 Really expensive.\u00a0 A sweetheart, yes, but a major league nuisance, too.\u00a0 The electric fence, I’m proud to say, has done its job.\u00a0 No more escapes since it went up.<\/p>\n
Kate and I reupholstered the couch this afternoon, the seat cushion.\u00a0 In the process I thought back over growing up and could not remember a single thing Dad ever fixed.\u00a0 I’m sure he must have fixed something, but I don’t recall what it was.\u00a0 Anyhow, fixing stuff ratchets up my annoyed level to unpleasant proportions because I always struggle.\u00a0 The outcome does not match the effort for me.\u00a0 Kate, when able, has a different ratio of effort to outcome and has a much better time.<\/p>\n
A good run with no trips into the city.\u00a0 That makes getting things done here much easier.<\/p>\n
Kate’s in the calm before the storm, but it isn’t very calm, at least from a pain stand point.\u00a0 This kind of pain, constant and intense, exacts a psychological toll as well as a physical one.\u00a0 The pain requires, demands attention.\u00a0 That is, after all, the point of pain.\u00a0 Hey.\u00a0 You.\u00a0 Pay.\u00a0 Attention. Now.\u00a0 That attention adds a level of stress to all daily activities.\u00a0 Also, at 65 any infirmity at all raises questions of mortality, of fitness for life as we’ve known it.<\/p>\n
This is the right decision at the right time after two + years of exhausting less drastic and nominally invasive procedures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fall\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Blood Moon Dan the fence guy came out again.\u00a0 This time we’re fencing in the vegetable garden, a five foot high fence and a taut wire to run along the top of the orchard fence.\u00a0 Rigel is an expensive dog.\u00a0 Really expensive.\u00a0 A sweetheart, yes, but a major league nuisance, too.\u00a0 The electric … Continue reading More Fence.<\/span>