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Finally saw my doc today. MRI scheduled for tomorrow morning and seeing the surgeon on Tuesday. She thinks I have torn my meniscus and tried to give me an Rx for a scooter so I would stay off of it. I told her thanks but no thanks. The only good thing about this is that I've learned to spell meniscus.

I gathered the kids around me last night at the dinner table. I'd splurged and bought some fresh strawberries, some delicious clementines and some green grapes to make a fruit salad to go with the pasta and broccoli. After Stephanie said the blessing on the food, I told them how glad I was that we were all together. "Thanks for sitting down tonight all together, I just wanted to..." I was interrupted by Ashley Rose. "Dad lost his job again, didn't he?" "What? No! He's fine. He's still got his job" "You always sit us down like this and start talking like that when he's gotten laid off" "I do?" "You do" "Well, Daddy's job is fine---and even if it weren't fine, WE'D be fine. Ok?" They all shrugged and continued eating. Of course this morning Boeing announced another ten thousand layoffs coming. I might have to sit them down in the near future and give them that talk, but I surely hop...

It's Hope Day Five! Now that I've got that out of the way, it's also Saturday. I've not accomplished much today except showering, coloring my hair and leaving a voice mail for my renters that haven't paid their rent this month. Ugh. I dread driving down there and talking to them about it. I truly do. So instead, for now, I'll share this youtube vid of a remarkable experience that some London rail travelers experienced last week. It's an advert, but it's so cool I had to share it. If you look closely, you can see Vicus and Tom doing the boogie-woogie there.

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I won't be posting any more nice stories about my father. He was shown last night's post by my sister on her big screen and was upset with me. So, that's it.

My father lived alone for six years after my mother passed on. He had his two dogs and his two cats, but essentially lived alone without another human being to have meals with every day. There was no one here to say goodnight to him in the evening and good morning when the day began. My sister and I did our best to say goodnight and good morning to him via telephone---but it's not the same. We moved here in August when Lance got a job transfer. It's been an adjustment for all of us and hopefully the good of the situation outweighs the bad. Since our oldest daughter returned from college, we've been a little stretched for room so our youngest sleeps in our room on the floor next to our bed. Each evening as Papa is getting ready for bed, and if Ashley is still awake on the floor, he gives her the nightly tickle. It can be short, it can be long but it's always full of giggles and laughter and joy. I'm grateful that my baby girl will take this sweet memory with h...

The day was glorious. That big yellow orb that emits warmth was actually visible so my girls and I went down to the waterfront and had some fun, topping it off with some seafood at Ivars. It was a lovely day....