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Must be mermaids.
The excitement today was Joan and I driving over to Vancouver to attend a class on what to expect and do leading up to your knee replacement. And what a motley crew we were. But the class was good. They explained a lot. One thing is clear is we're going to need help walking Izzy. There are a number of people with dogs on our street.
I'll be flexing my toes, walking, elevating my foot. All sorts of good things for healing and strengthening my knee.
Oh, and it's my birthday.
The rain came down today. It was wet getting up, and after a stretch of sun, we got pounded by thunderstorms. Lots of actual wet rain. Izzy and I took our two walks between downpours. Iz is not a fan of rain. When we walked she assiduously avoided the puddles. Under the fig tree we walk past every day the figs that have fallen are becoming a slippery mess. Later, after we got home, she was trembling during the thunder on my bed, so I lay down beside her and put my arm around her and petted her, and that calmed her down.
In a couple of weeks the lawn will look good again. At least green.
Oh, there was flooding in the streets.
We woke up to wet again. A little after five, soon after I got back from Izzy's afternoon walk, it really poured. Hopefully, our lawn we wake up.
The first picture has all of those beautiful women with their beautiful children. The second is of Kins and a friend.
Up here in Portland there were slight showers overnight, so we woke up to wet concrete. It was nice, actually a little cool.
But after that things slowed down. Tomorrow we may go to Costco. Those samples all over the store, and then maybe a hot dog on the way out.
I thought the birthday was last weekend. Apparently, it was this weekend. Not sure there are more pictures of the party down the line. From the photos Robin shared it looks like Kinsley spent a lot of time trying to reach that cake.
Not much up here. Watched football and walked the Iz. I think all our teams lost today. I even drank my coffee from my lucky 49ers mug. Oh well.
All the kids are back in school. Even martial arts schools.
No big events today. Today was an Oliver day. Picked him up, brought him home for a little while then took him across the bridge to Vancouver. Tomorrow is another Oliver, but we won't have to drive him over to Vancouver. He'll have a little more time to hang out with the kids on the block.
That's about it. First pro football game tonight, but it wasn't a very good game. Too many penalties. Hope the weekend games are better.
It was still pretty hot today but it didn't reach ninety. And it's going down this evening.
I remember when we got our report cards in grammar school afterwards a group of us would go to Conklin's where they gave you a nickel for each "A" we got. I was one of the top earners. From there we'd go to the lunch counter at Newberry's. Along the way I'd get a bag of Spanish peanuts at the snack counter, or whatever they called it. Spanish peanuts were small and they still had their brown skins on them. Then three or five of us would get cokes at counter, munch our snacks and chat about things that smart seventh and eighth graders talk about. It wasn't very busy at that time of the afternoon so they let us nurse our cokes.
Anyway, aside from getting the last quadrant of my mouth cleaned and it being Portland's 31st day of the year with the temperature over 90 degrees nothing much happened. The weather guy on the news practically guaranteed that this was the last day of the year we're going to be over ninety.
That's it.
There were a lot of brain cells used to deal with my medical care this morning. The scheduling for the knee replacement. I've got a total knee joint class on 9/13, on 9/24 I have a pre-operative class, on 10/2 I have a meeting with the doctor, on 10/5 I have a telephone interview with a nurse, and the operation is on the 12th. The post-op is on 10/26. With all these meetings and classes and exams I thought I'd better call the office to find out what this was going to cost me. Fifty bucks.
And a lot of time. But since this really the first major surgery I've had, I guess this is all good, to prepare me. It's gonna be a load on Joan. We pick him up after school on Thursdays and Fridays.
After you have the surgery they send you home with an air conditioning thing you wear around your surgically repaired knee.
I came home with lots of things to read, and a DVD that I'm supposed to watch. I actually did watch it, but it was very dull. I'll try to watch closer to the appointments.
