Saturday, June 30, 2018

The anemia may well have something to do with your healing. Continued mysteries being solved--a good thing.

One more thing - there must be a relationship.

Pretty day (that is looking from the air-cooled inside). Our weather people are bonkers...calling today a cool-down...maybe in Dante's Inferno! Supposed to go well into the 90's before returning to the even higher 90's Monday. Whew, what a summer.

151.0 Nothing much of note---all quiet on the Kansas front.. Next week will be a more active time- filled with drs. and dentists and the such. Busy work. All things good to go, am perhaps off on a road trip for a bit.

Appreciate and Enjoy what you have today - contentment = a satisfying Saturday.

Greetings Faithful Ones

All quiet on the Saturday front here. Weight 150. Not thrilled with that. Seemed like I got a lot done and I didn't eat badly but there it is. The scale doesn't lie. (or does it - like Bonnie says it is a sentient being capable of plotting against me).

Whoa Peps, great service from a government office?!?! You should take a moment to write your county supervisor or city council person or whomever to complement the people. Hope your project goes well.

OMG Cecily, now possible anemia and clotting test? Perhaps the nasty chair is actually infested with some negative energy making you sick. Need to wrap it in tin foil. But seriously, we are all wishing you a less eventful and speedy recovery. What a lot you have been through. Interesting to read Shel's and your remarks about those blood thinner drugs and how you can't ride a motorcycle. I know I must be getting old because I like to read about medications and diseases. Like paying attention to laxative commercials.

Liz hope your son figures out the car thing. I too think leasing is for the birds unless its a car for business. Cars last so much longer now. The new car we just got cost almost as much as my first house!

Lots to do but none of it on a schedule. We are supposed to switch the gallery point of sale system to the Square tomorrow and it looks like its falling on me. Wish me luck. Its all set up but the physical components need to be move around and I have a serious propensity for fouling up electronics. Maybe I will go look at it today.

My sinuses cannot decide if I am getting a cold or not. Scratchy throat for 3 mornings now. DH is still growling around like a bear. Must get more zinc lozenges.

Shel find a good hike but be careful! The REI small group guided hike sounds like a good idea. How much stuff do you carry with you on these day hikes? Did the emergency signal device arrive? The coast guard helicopters were really active yesterday and I kept expecting to see a news item about some rescue but didn't. I did see a fire airplane the other day which must have been headed toward the fires in Lake county. Thats a beautiful area and I hate to think of it burning.

Have a great trip Ann. Can't wait to hear about it.

Well thats about it. Great weekend to all. Diane S

I canceled my REI order for the emergency device because shipping date was pushed back again. I ordered directly from Garmin, paid for fast shipping, and will arrive on Monday. July will be "learn my Garmin" month.

I carry most (all?) of the 10 essentials in my pack. But, things go wrong...for example, somehow I lost my main paper map last week (probably in the bathroom) even before I stepped on the trail.

I carry a fair amount of navigation redundancy, too, both in paper and in electronics. I have an extra power pack for the ones that require power. I likely had cell service on that particular mtn.

So why hadn't I consulted my tools? Partially because I was busy running around like a chicken with head cut off. But also, it wasn't really all that long --- just several minutes. I had no idea that anxiety was going to be triggered in the way it was.....it is the anti-naviagtor. In hindsight, parts of my rational mind shut off.

So my new best practices includes sitting down and use my tools before stepping off trail, even if I think I see my destination "just over there." It does me zero good to activate headless chicken anxiety, that's for sure!

Half the year gone. 2018 where have you gone?

Cecily, glad you were discharged home. I was on xarelto after WLS because of a-fib. I am off of it now but I gave up motorcycle riding before my boys started learning to drive. My DS#2 has a Harley now but he would have never made it through his teen years on a bike.

We just had a tiny shower of rain. We need more. 97 today but the humidity must be high. The grass seed that I am helping to plant is very expensive. Funny how you put money in the ground and start thinking like a farmer. DS#1 said it will be 2 years before he can bale any of it.

I have been enlarging the outside dog run. I fixed my tractor so while everything is dry I am doing dirt work around the shop. They stay in the AC in the shop most of the time but if we are gone for the day they can go out and not feel so cramped.

Miss150, happy belated birthday. More later, David