More vacation photos!

Thought you'd all enjoy some of the photos more than my words so here ya go . . . . we stayed in San Carlos, MX a couple of nights on the way home.

THE WALKING BOOT IS HISTORY . . . .

Hopefully, the ugly, clunky walking boot will never be on my foot again. Per my doctor, the bones and muscles in the lower leg and foot are deteriorating rapidly from lack of use. He told me to 'transition' (love that word) into a good shoe with plenty of support as soon as I could. With that in mind, I went home, took off the walking boot, put on my most comfortable tenny type shoe (old aerobics high tops) and haven’t looked back. I did some walking over the weekend and it wasn’t very comfortable but the sight of my x-rays with a lot of bone loss is burned in my mind. That thought helps me get thru the pains of walking. In 10 days, we leave for our annual trek to Mazatlan , and I plan on walking on the sandy beaches!

The Year - 1967

Found this old class photo of me from high school in Pierre, SD in 1967. What a dorky hairdo!

Flying Control Line Model Airplanes

Since becoming involved with Burt, I have come to share a hobby that he has a real passion for . . . control line model airplanes, not to be confused with remote control model planes. These are an older form of model planes that are controlled with long lines and fly in a big circle. I started learning to fly a couple of years ago and darn, it's not as easy as it looks. I've crashed a new of trainers, as much as I hate to admit. Here is a photo of our Tucson group of fliers. I'm in the middle, just underneath the guy holding the orange and white plane. I'm holding the little trainer plane I built - building them is harder than it looks too.

Tim's lake cabin

Since I mentioned that I hurt my foot while visiting my Brother Tim and his wife, Karen at their lake cabin in South Dakota, I thought I'd share a couple fo photos of the lake and their cabin. I try to get there once a year (in the summer, of course) as it's such a beautiful relaxing sport and the hospitality is tops! The first photo is the view of the lake from their front deck and the next photo is of the cabin itself.

Friend's empathy . . . .

I received an email replyto my blog from Rebecca Paul-Fields (Becky), a friend of mine from many years ago. We were close friends in my Woming era and shared many wild times back then. Anyway, I wanted to share Becky's experience:



"Last April I had surgery on my big toe (they fused the joint & put a screw in) and I was on a little scooter for 5 weeks. I know what you mean about putting your foot down for the first time.....wow does that hurt. When I came home still groggy from surgery that day on my crutches (which I had not practiced on) I had to go to the bathroom. Somehow, the crutches went out from under me and I fell hitting my head on the toilet bowl, bouncing off of it and hitting the wall with my head. I didn't hurt my foot, but I did get a headache."



I had a similar experience before I got a scooter but when I fell I only hit the floor with my butt, and since there's plenty of padding on my butt, nothing got hurt. I had to laugh thinking of Becky falling and hitting her head on the toilet, as there were nights she would do that type of thing when we were doing the bar scene in WY . . . but the reason wasn't cuz of crutches . . . .

For a laugh, read fellow blogger . . .

'Random thought not by Jack Handy'. Colleen is pregnant with twins but manages to keep her keen sense of humor and it always lightens my day to read her comments.