The latest news..........

So the pretty blue eggs hatched sometime in the past week. Have you ever seen what comes out of those pretty blue eggs? Wow…imagine a bald, baby mouse that got rolled in the lint tray of your dryer. Oh yeah, and they have hideously oversized black eyes buried into their pink skin. Anyway, we’ve been keeping an eye on them as they hatched one by one. Sherry enjoyed teasing them by chirping at the nest and watching them blindly reaching to the sky with open mouths hoping for some grub (literally) from momma. Then we got home from work last night…boom…all gone. They didn’t fall out on the ground that we can tell. But, they’re not in the nest. The best we’ve come up with is that some other critter had them for lunch. I just hope they tasted better than they looked…such is the circle of life I guess.


Sherry said I should probably give an update on my knee. The doctor removed the broken bone and bad cartilage, and I now have what he called a pothole in the bottom of the femur. He also harvested some good cartilage and sent it to a lab out east. If insurance will cover it, the lab will grow it into a piece that can later be grafted into the hole that is left from last week’s surgery. If insurance doesn’t cover it, I just have to learn to live with it as it is I suppose. Bummer…guess the mini-marathon records are safe for a while. Anywho, time will tell how the surgery turns out. For the time being, my whole leg is pretty swollen…in part because sitting around waiting for it to heal is not in my nature. Otherwise, it’s not been too painful.

By the way, whatever happened to good old fashioned Tylenol with codeine? I remember that being the pain killer of choice when I was growing up. Now they give two prescriptions…the first one for pain and the second one for the side effects of the first prescription. Seems like some sort of racket to me?!?!? By the time we got through reading about and hearing about the side effects of the pain killer, I opted for the pain. It’s just not worth it.

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