I’ve had your success in mind all along, Darlyne. I’ve tried to put out of my mind stories of second ones being less satisfactory and concentrate on the good results. The second recovery should go faster since the other knee is working beautifully. Last time during rehab I had to adapt some exercises to avoid stressing the one that was just less bad then. Sounds like you had a great outing.
Candace
Good luck on your knee surgery. I know that I have mentioned this before but I had both of mine done 13 years ago and they still work like a charm. Working knees are a handy thing to have. Mine were done three months apart. I just walked uptown for Communaversity day. The university and town put on a day of fun and festivities. As I said on FB, many food stands, a lot of people, good entertainment and a beautiful day. I bought a crab cake sandwich and new earrings. My daughter is there working at a tree stand for the Borough. They are giving away free trees and have a master gardenner there to answer questions.
I thought I had picked up the Anne Proux cd the last time I was at the library but must have changed my mind and got a new Ken Follett one. Fall of Giants. It is starting out with a 13 year old boy starting his first job in the iron mines in Ireland. I think it will be interesting.
How true! No doubt some of it is because it takes longer to do a lot of things than it did when I/we were younger. Sometimes I think back and marvel at what I once considered a normal day’s work. Listening to C-Span 3 again this morning, I have made more notes of authors and books to look into, even though I have at least a dozen on Kindle not completed. I’m preparing for another knee replacement. Hard as I tried to convince myself I didn’t need it, to get full benefit of the new right knee I have to get the left one done. If everything goes as well as the first I look forward to being finished with rehab and walking without pain or a limp by my 88th birthday.
Candace
Honestly, where does the time go? Seems like the days just fly by.
I love checking in to see what you are doing and reading. I read a lot but not so much fiction and I don’t read the books the way I have in years past and I am not sure why. I know I have to use my time for responsibilities. I am grateful I can do them.
The weather is more extreme–it’s clearly documented. Higher highs, lower lows, more extreme storms.
But on another subject–I’m re-reading an old favorite, Coming into the Country by John McPhee. It’s from the late seventies, and is awfully interesting to read thirty years later, not least because he talks about the damage an oil tanker spill would do in Prince William Sound. It wasn’t long after that the Exxon Valdez did just that. McPhee, my literary hero, did a stupendous job with this look at Alaska.
This has been months of extremes all over the country. Floods following record snows north of us while Texas has had record fires because of extreme dry conditions and now tornadoes north and east of us. It’s enough to make one want to pull the covers over our head! I’ve been re-reading The Wild Trees by Richard Preston. It’s about the redwoods and other huge old trees and the living plants and animals that live in the tops of those trees, amazing window into a different world. I have The Googlization of Everything and David Brooks’ The Social Animal–both of which I’ve read parts and enjoy. Sadly, some books I’ve been interested in downloading actually cost more than the hard cover and some are close. If I’m going to pay that much I want to feel the whole book. I do miss the feel of the real book but that doesn’t work if I can’t read the fine print so I’m glad to have Kindle. Stay safe, everyone–I won’t complain about everything being so dry, given the many undesirable alternatives many of you or your family are facing.
Candace
I wonder if the weather all over is unusual or are we just hearing about it more because of the media. Just a thought! I haven’t been reading much lately and am not sure why. It may be Face Book and the computer. I will get back to it. One problem, I just don’t have anything that interests me much. I have a new Anne Proux CD to listen to but it isn’t fiction and I haven’t much hope for it. She is one of my favorite authors so I will start it later and let you know.
Might be that a lot of people, in all different areas of the country, are busy watching the weather forecasts, as there is such awful stuff going on. Here in Texas we have Wildfires; Tornadoes; severe thunderstorms with high winds and hail. Arkansas, tornadoes. Whole towns destroyed. Missouri flooding (the dam in Popular Bluff gave out). I guess snowstorms and violent weather in the East. With all else going on in our country, the bad weather is just worsening it.
I think of all of you, from various areas, everytime a new weather forecast shows something bad happening.
Take care, and know that you are loved and thought of with concern.
We can drive out of Oslo from daylight to 8 pm, the water is off the road into ND, but we are still “walking the dike”. Where is everyone? Jacky
Your flood sounds like more fun, Darlyne. Rafting and skating! It snowed all day today, our world is a gleaming white again, but the experts say it won’t make much difference in our flood situation. I walked the half mile or so to the post office and startled a flock of robins pecking in the snow. Later three deer ran behind our house, there is a wooded area north of us where they have taken refuge from the high water. People tell me they’ve heard our wild turkeys gobbling too, but I haven’t seen them yet. There are about 20 kids in town who are being helped with their e mailed lessons by a retired teacher at our American Legion Club. Not Joanne, Darlyne, a more recent retiree. Its been four days now, and I hope the “snow” experts are right! About this not lasting longer, our son in law was very correct about the weather, I’m so glad we weren’t on that open air boat this morning! Jacky
I never went through the floods as an adult and when I knew it was a hard ship for many, as a kid we had fun. Our house happened to be in an area that was dry but I know our basement flooded one time. There is a picture of my Mother washing clothes in the wringer type washing machine outside. As teen-agers we had access to a rubber raft and used it to float around town at night singing. We thought we were great but probably the only ones who thought so. One year the flood water froze and we could skate all over town. There was no dike in those days. My Dad did some of his mail route by boat.
Our middle son in law is a meteorologist, they phoned early this am and said that there will be snow, rain and wind tomorrow, so we postponed Clive’s appt until May. And the “dike walking volunteer list is full so I won’t be walking. The mail is boated in and the newspaper, and we are thankful, and Oslo’s one cafe is open, the owner/cook is staying in town, she lives in a neighboring town.
I walked the dike this afternoon with two of Phyllis Farder’s children this afternoon. They are younger than me, and it was pleasant visiting with them, sharing common area history, their mom was a classmate of Darlyne’s sister, my cousins. I have books to read, and 5 or 6 oil paintings to finish our basement. Apparently I don’t have too strong an artistic bend, as normally I find other things to do. Clive likes TV, but I can’t handle too much of it. Oslo was on Good Morning America this am, our tiny claim to fame is water. There certainly is worse weather, ect in the world. Jacky
I can’t even imagine how difficult it is to cope with everything in your area, Jacky–you are tough!! Hope you get through this to a nice summer.
Candace
Clive and I checked on the east and west roads out of Oslo, both under water, this am. But we have national guard fellows here walking the dike at night, and some of us citizens able to walk do the 2 hour walk during the day. Its about 2 1/2 miles around and is very secure. Clive has a VA check up on Fri and we will be airboated west to I 29 where our son lives and borrow a vehicle from them to drive the 100 miles to Fargo. I 29 is under water here and there too, so we’ll be making detours.
It’s amazing how wide our narrow river grows with all the snow melt south of us. The river flows north into Manitoba, Canada. I have many books to read, and jean patching from daughter and dil, who don’t sew, so life goes on peacefully. I hope and pray we don’t get any more snow or rain, when I was a freshman in 1950, we missed 6 weeks of school due to a double flood. I think I stayed with your folks to take finals that spring, Darlyne.
The sun is shining but its only 31 degrees. Kind of cold walking. Jacky
I hope you are keeping dry. Is Oslo an island?
I got a lovely little note from her family:
(top of the card in script):
“I just hope I’ve made enough of an impact that people think of me fondly when I’m gone.” -Phyllis Greene
“Phyllis’s family thanks you for your friendship and kindness.”
Handwritten: Jo: Please extend our love and thanks to the book club – she loved it so much.”
And she will be and is missed so much.
I will also send this via email.
i love the ipad I received for my 80th, It does almost everything a desk top does.It has the Kindle on it. I can’t play scrabble on it and I can’t reply to posts but I can on Face Book. It was especially nice when traveling. The key pad isn’t that handy but doable for me with the hunt and peck method. It is bigger than on cell phones. It was nice to receive up-dates by e-mail on my flight status while waiting at the gate in the air port.
My son and daughter-in-law both have I-Pads and love them. They both read more on that than on their Kindles now. A friend’s family went together to get their dad one for Christmas. He said it’s the best gift ever and goes on and on about all the features–more than I can recall.
Candace
Dear Jo, Sounds like you have had a bad time but sure glad to hear you are back and feeling better.
Do any of you have an iPad and if so what do you think about it? thanks. Georgianna
That noise is the wind. You can probably turn your speaker down. I hear other birds in the tree and I have heard the Eagle call its mate. Sometimes I hear noises from people on the ground from that farm that shows sometimes.
I got the eagle cut with a horrible loud hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm and the picture didn’t move. I’ll check it again later; right now i’m off to bed.
Amazon and Kindle could very easily send me to the poor house! Boy – so many books, so little time. 
Thanks for the URL Darlyne – that should get it for sure.
I’m gonna glance at the eagles and then hit the hay.
Love all y’all,
Jo
Jo, I just checked my site again– here it is: ttp://www.raptorresource.org/falcon_cams/index.html
You have to let the ad play out but there were two there a minute ago.
Sorry you’ve had such a rough time–glad you’re back. C-Span 3 and Kindle is a combination that threatens to break my bank. Heard Jeff Greenfield discussing his book “Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate History.” The Preface is entitled “Simple Twists of Fate” begins with February 13, 1933 when a man with a gun went to an event in Miami Beach’s Bayfront Park intent on killing FDR. He arrived later than he’d planned and access was blocked by the crowd “So he climbed on a chair and pulled out his weapon, catching the attention of a spectator, who jostled him as he prepared to fire.” How would the Depression, WWII gone had he succeeded in killing FDR? Another little known story was December 11, 1960, in Florida when a man sat in his car with a switch attached to 7 sticks of dynamite. He’d tracked JFK across the country and now waited for him to leave for church–JFk came out but turned around…….. those are samples.
Candace
Candace
Darlyne, I went to the site you gave and it had nothing to do with eagle on a nest. Would you go back to it and highlight the URL, copy it and post it again? Please? PRETTY Please…..with sugar on it!
My favorite pair was made by ReSound. I absolutely loved them and had them for 13 years when they finally gave up the ghost.
remember to keep them balanced. I discovered that was part of the problem when I first got mine and was unhappy. One ear or the other was ‘plugged.’
What you need to do when that happens is to turn the other aid either up a bit or down a bit. And I mean just a bit. You need to have sound in BOTH aids and it takes turned the sound up/down to get it that way. Play around a bit and you’ll figure it out.
I haven’t been a fan of any of the succeeding brands.