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Thanks for asking about Clive. His biopsy showed cancer cells around the urethra again. He has had 2 freezing procedures, since 03, but Dr said its hard to get every cell and not cause incontinence. We have an appt at Mayo in Rochester June 14th. I’ve read of a new procedure for even reoccurring cancer in their newsletter.

Also, I’m praying for your surgery June 6th, Candace. Clive’s cousin just had a knee and hip replaced and is doing well. They weren’t done at the same time, but his pain is gone, and the therepy wasn’t too bad.

I’m still reading my Lynn Austin book, Though Water’s Road, about prohibition and woman’s vote in the USA. We also watched a documentary called Waste Land that I found very interesting. An NYC artist, Vik Muniz, born in Bazil, decided to photograph the “pickers” in the huge Rio de Jenaro landfill. He gets to personally know many of the men and women, and the story is about 6 of them along with the photo’s, which were sold at an aution for 250,000.00 and given to the Recyling assocociation, run by a young man, Tios. My daughter just wrote me of a something like it in EYGPT. I can’t remember the name of it but was on PBS, I think.

We are rainy, and very little planting has been done in our section of the Red River Valley. The land hasn’t had a chance to dry from the flood.

The weatherman, our middle son in law, says it will be sunny tomorrow, but he’s not always right. jacky

I walked uptown this morning and watched the Memorial parade. I think I enjoy watching all the happy people as much as the parade. It was the University’s P-rade later so there were many alumni in their orange and black attire, many with a tiger print. The P-rade is fun to watch but I didn’t want to wait around for it. The oldest alumni in the parade graduated in 1934. The golf carts with the class signs were lined up, (for the older grads).

I am reading Amsterdam, A Novel by Ian Mcewan on my ipad. It has taken me a while to get interested but it is now. It is my book group pick and I will write about it when I finish.

I don’t want to lose this contact either, Georgianna. I find myself thinking so often “It’s already Saturday again!” The days race by. I, too, move more slowly and when someone asks “What did you do today?” I can’t come up many huge achievements even though I was generally busy, taking care of the pets and plants. I saved rain water from the only two rains earlier in the month but the intense heat has required using most of it already to keep my tomatoes and flowers alive. We’ve already had two days of 100 degrees! Can’t complain about heat when you see the unprecedented weather and destruction all around and more to come as the show melt in Canada comes.

Your book sounds interesting. I’m going to see if it is available on Kindle. I’m in countdown for my new knee. Have my pre-op appt with the surgeon Tuesday and if all goes well, June 6 will be the start of new mobility.

Candace

I don’t want this site too go away. Candace I hope your knee surgery goes well and I think with your positive attitude it will.

check goes well for Clive? I think that was the name.

I don’t see posts from Jo any more but I do get e-mails from time to time.

I just read a book! ! Yeah. It isn’t fiction. It is a book by Rabbi Kushner called “How Good Do We Have To Be?” It is an excellent book.

i do think time seems to fly because we don’t move as fast as we did in years past. I also know we got up at 5 am and our day started then. Not so any more. I do have alarm set for 6:15 because I like the mornings and seem to accomplish more things in the am.

It is so good to check in here and see all of you . Georgianna

Is a “goose drownder” similar to a “frog strangler”? LOL

In a word…rotten! We’ve had a goose drownder of a rain here all day and more expected for tomorrow!!
Huggz all,
Jerry

Candace and I were the only ones posting. I thought others had lost interest.

Hope all our ggobit-ers are safe and sound from all these horrible storms, tornadoes and flooding.

No one has been posting much, and so I commenced to worry! Check in, please!

Jerry, thank you for posting a few years ago what to do if our Kindle suddenly went dead. This morning I had looked up a book, downloaded a sample and tried to return to Home but suddenly there was no cursor. It took me a few tries to accept nothing was working. Then I remembered “Jerry said, take the back off and something about a paper clip.” There it was–a tiny little hole marked “reset” that would take the end of a paperclip–voila! Thanks, Jerry!

Candace

At least your taste buds have the memories……I may have to get that rhubarb/strawberry pie at Whole Foods and try to satisfy the craving, if they still have it.

Candace

Is gone. No more rhubarb pie for lunch. Sigh!

The rhubarb here isn’t as good as MN rhubarb but it is better than nothing. I make it with Splenda and it isn’t as juicy as with sugar but I can eat it. I may make one more with sugar just to see if I still have the touch. THE Pillsbury crusts you just unroll are so much easier than the lard crusts I used to make. Probably not as good but I am more prone to make pies with them.

Darlyne, you made my mouth water. I love rhubarb pie. Fresh rhubarb is not easy to find in Texas and on the rare times you find it in a pie it is combined with strawberries. I haven’t tasted a real, honest-to-goodness rhubarb pie in decades. A few years ago in Houston a woman who had a booth at my Farmers Market had a relative in Colorado who grew it and sent it to her to make a sauce. I got all she had–didn’t bother to put in a pie shell, just ate it out of the jar.

I get my new knee Monday, June 6,

Candace

I hope the outcome for Clive’s biopsy is good tomorrow Jackie, and it all goes well for you Candice. When is your knee surgery?
Sunny day here. I have a Dr. appointment and after that will make a sugar free rhubarb pie. I baked one and it was so good I am doing another. Then I will get down and dirty and plant flowers.

Contemplating my upcoming surgery, I frequently remind myself of one of the old comedians’ lines: “Don’t tell me it it doesn’t help to worry–most things I worry about don’t happen!” You can’t help worrying about your husband, so this makes it positive.

Candace

So hope your knee procedure works, Candace. My husband is having another prostate biopsy Thur. He’s had two freezing procedures, but his psa is up a bit again. He says he is not a bit worried, I try not to. Jacky

Thanks for encouragement, Jacky. I really am looking forward to this second round with the end result of two good knees. The Lynn Austin book I enjoyed is A Proper Pursuit. It takes place in the age where a proper marriage was the primary goal for a girl.

Candace

I surely wish you well, Candace. I had knee work done many years ago and so far, so good. I couldn’t step on that foot for 6 weeks, but it did work, I could hardly walk, even with cortisone. We are in Iowa on our way to oldest daughter and family in Warrensburg, MO. We haven’t seen them since Christmas. I’m reading another Lynn Austin book, this one is about prohibition. And weaves back into slavery days. i have been having trouble finding anything that holds my interest. Malcom Muggeridge’s Chronicles of Wasted Time, was hard work, he was very wordy, and I got tired of looking the unknown ones up, I could kind of tell what he was driving at, I think. I may have given up reading it, but, I bought it, I’d read some interesting quotes by him.

Jacky

The cortisone didn’t work for me, but the Synivist injections did for a time. I got the fourth round in April and they help but they are beginning to be less effective already. I’m losing range of motion so there is nothing to be gained by waiting. Had I had the right one done sooner rehab would have been faster. I’m keeping your experience uppermost in my mind.

Candace

Both of my knees were pretty bad so when the Dr. did the first one he injected cortisone into the second one. That really kept it pain free for the three months I waited to get it fixed. My husband noticed that I had one bowed leg though until I had the second surgery. It was shorts season. It was really wonderful to be able to walk without pain.