Easter

We had a great Easter! It started with me getting the best nights sleep I have had since my knee surgery. I did all my exercises and then iced my knee before getting ready for the Easter Party. Barry stopped by about 11 and we had a nice visit for an hour. At 2 we headed for the party. There was an egg roll for adults followed by one for the kids. James launched his egg a little high as everyone is looking up at it. I ended up getting third in the adult egg roll.

After that there was an Easter Egg hunt for the kids.

James has just picked up a money egg and zeroed in on another.

After a raw egg toss over pavement(no second chances there) and we had dinner there was a surprise 70th. Birthday Party for my sister Cathy.

After presents, cake and ice cream, we had to take a look at the Scrapbook of pictures and family member memories of Cathy through the years. After that, I was getting little tired so we headed home for a quiet evening of watching TV.

Strange noises

The other day I heard this noise in the shop. When I went to the motor home, I saw the cause. This Red headed Woodpecker on the mast for my antenna. Every year he is up there calling for a mate.

Today we ran up to see Marie again. The two units of blood really perked her up. She is doing well enough that they transferred her from the surgical unit to the transitional care unit. We were both tired when we got home so it has been a do nothing day.

Video and an afternoon update

Here is a short video of Harper from yesterday. She is such the busy bee! After my exercises we are off to see Vera's sister. I have already been on the exercise bike a little without any mishaps. The deck stairs are next. Have a good day!

Marie was really tired today, she slept most of the time we were there. They were prepping her for 2 more units of blood when we left as her blood count is real low.

Afterwards we stopped and visited our friends Bob and Nancy. We had a nice time there. Then it was home for a nap. I puttered in the shop for awhile after I woke up. Then cooked dinner, well I put meat pies in the microwave. Hope your day went OK!

More Equipment

I spent an hour or so today putting together the latest torture device for the knee. I hopped on it after I was done and started pedaling. I didn't even make one revolution. I had the seat too low and my knee wouldn't bend enough to go over the top of the stroke. It hurt like heck and I darn near fell off. After adjusting the seat I did a little pedaling on it, but my knee was tired from a bigger than normal workout this morning. I went over to check on the twins today and got a great video of Harper that I may have edit down in size and put on here, she is really cute! Quite the day, we had wind, rain and a good hail storm. Glad I was inside.

Busy Day

Well this day did not go exactly as planned, but turned out OK!

I started the day by doing my exercises, climbing the deck steps, working out on the weight machine and hitting the tread mill a little. After cleaning up we decided to go check on Vera's sister and see how the surgery had gone. She was sleeping when we got there and getting a transfusion because of a low blood count. She woke up and talked to us a little but was really tired and kept falling asleep so we did not stay long.

After having a bite to eat we headed home. Not long afterwards I got a call from Mik, his Mom's car had broken down in Castle Rock and would I check on her. When I got there the wrecker was just hooking it up. We followed the wrecker down the West Side Hwy and at one point ran into hail on the road a half to one inch deep. After we got to the Little Car Hospital and she had taken care of everything I ran her home to Kalama. Big surprise, the night chain was on the door as she had came out through the garage and used the remote to close that door. Back to Lexington to get the remote out of the car. We had a nice visit and the traffic was not too bad so it was not a big problem.

A friend had been wanting to come up and get some advice on his plane, as I was going right by his place I called him and stopped by and took care of it. He gave me 6 or 8 pounds of Elk and Salmon as I was leaving that I am really looking forward to.

I started to go out to the shop this evening, but decided to walk over to Steve and Dianne's and see what was going on. I got there just in time for Steve's serenade of the twins. I was waving at them and it looked like Harper (I think?) was waving back. I ended up staying quite a while and had a great time visiting and playing with the kids .

Why is my slipper wet?

I slept good last night, after about 6 hours I had a cramp in my leg. No pain in the knee, now most of the issues are with muscles and tendons being tight. I went in to put a heat pad on my leg at 5 AM and while I was sitting at the table I noticed my slipper was wet. I walked around bare footed for a couple of minutes and narrowed the wet area down to in front of the french doors. This area has been wet before when the water heater leaked, so I headed in to check on it as we had the trouble with the thermostats last week. There was no water there, so I checked the guest bathroom and found the supply line to the toilet leaking. Because I could not bend down very good last week I had not gotten it screwed together right. Much easier to get down there this week as the knee keeps improving every day. After fixing that I got out the wet/dry vac and started vacuuming up water. When I got all I could, I lifted up the rug and pad and started drying them with a heater. After all that, I was ready for a nap about 8 AM. Things are looking good this evening and I will put the rug down tomorrow.

I hope your day started out better.

Flying then a big surprise!

This what I flew today. It was a really nice day for flying and we had a lot of fun. The knee held up pretty well, but after 3 hours it was getting pretty stiff. We loaded up, I put an ice pack on my knee and we headed to Centralia to see Vera's sister. We had a big surprise when we got to her room at the hospital. She was in bed on oxygen, turns out they had sent her home Friday after her skin graft seemed to be healing OK. She fell this morning, broke the hip implant that was installed in January and laid on the floor for 3 hours until the neighbor found her. We happened to be there when all the doctors showed up and checked her. They are going to replace the implant with a longer one in the morning and get her back on her feet. She is seriously talking about a Life Alert system.