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<\/a><\/p>\nThis is Grandma and her descendants, Gabriel and Ruth.\u00a0 Gabe still has to learn to suck and swallow.\u00a0 He also needs to wean himself from the canula that deliver an oxygen stream.\u00a0 Both of these are maturational tasks that would have completed on their own in the womb, so he just needs to grow and get older.\u00a0 Right now everyone wishes he’d do both quicker, unmasking one of the many contradictions in human development.\u00a0 As we age, no one wants to get older and grow bigger.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kate came home last night.\u00a0 She was sad.\u00a0 Ruthie now knows her and runs up with a smile and arms out, “Grandma!”\u00a0 That’s tough to leave.\u00a0 Gabe, too, is in a vulnerable place even though she’s confident he’ll be fine.\u00a0 She also helped out Jon and Jen with domestic matters like cooking, grocery shopping and Ruth care when Ruth was not in daycare.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Having a child in the hospital creates stress just because, but there is stress, too, because work goes on while the daily routine gets disrupted.\u00a0 No one gets enough sleep.\u00a0 A tough time for the Olson family, Denver branch.\u00a0 It will receded into the past, someday, and become the stuff of family legend.\u00a0 When you were a baby, Gabe, you were in the hospital so long and we were so worried.<\/p>\n
A reader from the Webiverse asked to see some photographs of my hydroponic setup.\u00a0 It occurred to me that it might be the feds trying to catch a not too intelligent dope grower.\u00a0 Go, ahead, buddy, show me your pictures.\u00a0 Heh, heh, heh.\u00a0 I hope so, but because boy are they going to be disappointed.<\/p>\n
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From this and the next angle all you can see are lettuce and tomato plants, but there are also morning glories, cucumbers and three varieties of beets.\u00a0 These last are not as far along in the growth process and will go outside as soon as the weather warms up.<\/p>\n
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