KoKo again 11-28-20

One of KoKo's bad habits is eating paper.  Specifically napkins, tissues, paper towels - preferable used!  I try to keep them out of his reach, but he does manage to find something and then he eats it.  Here he has found a napkin, I know not where, and ate about half of it before I could collect the pieces.  He has never thrown up any paper, so I suppose it just wipes up his insides as it works its way through.  He will also eat soft plastic like the ends off of my individual eye drop containers.  I have to keep a special sealable container to drop them in immediately upon use.   I can't imagine what they would do to his innards.   Otherwise he is quite a good dog. 

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The Friday after Thanksgiving

Just a picture of the neighborhood showing the blue sky.  I took another one with palm trees, but it disappeared.   It was a lovely Thanksgiving dinner yesterday with friends Carol and Dick Bednar. We ordered a traditional meal from Cedar Creek Inn in Brea.  It was quite tasty and we had lots of leftovers so we could have turkey sandwiches today.  The wind was blowing up a storm yesterday afternoon and when I went to get in the car to drive home it took off my hat and rolled it down the street.  Carol got in the back seat and we drove down to where the hat was fortunately laying in the street.  Carol got out and retrieved the hat.  Thank You, Carol.  It is the orange straw that I have worn for probably 25 years; orange hats are hard to find.

I am improving very slowly.  Doing the PTherapy exercises and except for this evening, walking around the neighborhood twice a day.  I just couldn't get up the energy this afternoon/evening.  KoKo went out back while I watched for coyotes and I told him I would do better tomorrow.  

Hope your Thanksgiving Day was happy and safe.  

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Wordless Wednesday 11-25-20

 

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Pushing for Christmas 11-24-20

Christmas lights and decorations all over the place!  I am surprised there are so many as usually people wait until after Thanksgiving.   I know several families whose tradition is to gather the weekend after Thanksgiving to share the work of  doing the outside decorating.  I don't remember seeing a lot of palms decorated this way, but there is an entire neighborhood that has already put up their palm tree lights.  Some are more successful than others. 

They look a bit like fireworks, don't they?

I suppose someone must have a "cherry picker" to get to the tips of the fronds. 

Wednesday is trash day and the cropped image was terrible, so here are the palm trees and the trash.  The basketball hoop and background are not lighted, it just reflects the light.  Now, if I had Picasa I could take that out.  Oh, how I miss the great easy-to-use program. 

By the way, I started  PTherapy again today.  Hope it helps. 

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Still healing, walking 11-23-20

KoKo needs his walks every day and it helps me get stronger, so we haven't missed a walk since he came home last Tuesday.  I need to use either the cane or the walker because I am pretty wobbly on my feet and sometimes need to sit down when there is not a low wall handy.  We haven't gone all the way around the loop, which would be a mile, bit I suppose we walk something like 2/3rd of a mile.  The weather has been on the cool side - sixties and low seventies with night time into the mid forties.  So, we do see some autumn color, but the temp hasn't gotten down far enough to have the cold snap that causes riotous leaves.  This is the liquidamber/sweet gum in my neighbor's yard.  The previous owners trimmed it just before they moved and for some unimaginable reason cut the top of it off.  It should have a pear shape - narrower at the top.  Sad.  Anyway, I love the star shaped leaves.  They don't hold a candle to those where some of you live, but we take what we can get!!

The moon is visible at the top of the picture.  

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We did both our morning and evening walks today.  We are going about 4:15pm just before it gets dark.  We don't mind walking after dark there are plenty of street lights and porch lights on.  But since I am still using the walker I am afraid I couldn't get out of the way if some bozo came screeching down the street.  We don't have much through traffic, but these days there are food delivery cars that are in a hurry and just drive as fast as they can.  They are also distracted by looking for addresses.  Better to be careful, eh?

Lots of succulents in our neighborhood.  This is what I see along the way. 

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Reading 11-19-20

Reading has been a huge part of my life for at least 77 Years, but somehow this illness interrupted that. I have had a hard time concentrating on anything, much less following a story in a book. I suppose sever pain can do that.  Finally I tried re-reading the Anne Perry books about Thomas and Charlotte Pitt. Success!  Maybe because the characters are familiar to me and I didn't have to concentrate on keeping them separate.  I read through #6 in the series.  Then I tried " Wolf Hall" by Hilary Mantell, the first of a trilogy about Thomas Cromwell.  That proved to be too heavy.  So, I pulled out "Euphoria" by Lilly King.  It is fiction based on the early explorations of anthropologist Margaret Mead and her fellow workers Reo Fortune and Gregory Bateson, In real life she was marred to each of them.  The book was a best seller in 2015 and won a number of prestigious awards.  I am enjoying it.  I also started reading Mary Trump's "Too Much and Never Enough" about her uncle Donald Trump and her disfunctional family that created him.  I had to remove the cover since I can't bear to look at his picture. I think I will need to take it in small sections. I'm sure it will raise my blood pressure, but I am curious what made such a vile creature and how he gets away with his tricks.

I am feeling better, but am very weak from spending so much time off my feet for the last month and a half.  KoKo and I are walking twice a day as we did in the past.  Not as far and I use a walker because my legs sort of give out on me periodically and I have to sit down for a few minutes.  But we both need the exercise, so we try to add a few "house lengths" each time.  Tonight it was down six house, cross the street, bac toward home and around the cul de sac, cross the street and home.  For a little rest before dinner time.  So far, so good.  

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