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Can We Talk 2

by Pumpkin Ready for Spring

Rated: 13+ · Book · Family · #2058371

Musings on anything.

My blog was filled up. I'm too lazy to clean it out. So I started a new one.

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

Kåre เลียม Enga

Feb 6, 2025 at 5:30am
In response to "Absence"

Yep. The recuperation period is essential. The do's like walking, the don'ts like no driving. You seem prepared. I have 42 steps so I'd be bound to pacing this floor.

I tend to write when I'm bored and not traveling. I could catch up on that (which is what I've been doing this past week).

You don't mention the procedure but we have a wonderful place in town that puts in stents. I may need to have that done.

Kåre เลียม Enga

Feb 6, 2025 at 5:23am
In response to "January and Decisions "

My neighbor, Jay, has had a pacemaker for years. He's young and has no choice so off to Seattle (11 hour drive) to get a new battery or something. He also got new teeth (full mouth replacement) and that has improved his quality of life. He's lived with the prospect of a short life for many years. He's a leather-worker. I wrote this for him:

STATIC

Leather [148]

(ASR)
First chapter: Jay dies often. But this death came early and unexpected.
#2253270 by Kåre เลียม Enga

Kåre เลียม Enga

Feb 6, 2025 at 5:16am
In response to "Who Lives A Boring Life?"

My sister was playing two doors down and a hammock came down on her head and put a hole in it. Blood gushing everywhere. Our next door neighbor was fortunately visiting my mother (my mother never let anyone in!) and they took her to the doctor who lived at the corner of the main road and the street. He shaved off some hair and took care of it.

In between the adventures...

Seabreeze

Nov 26, 2024 at 7:42am
In response to "Geraniums and Bees"

Nice post. I love geraniums but kill them as I water too much, I believe. They need a dryer pot and I also watch that my husband does water them when they look a little dryer than other plants. I am also guilty leaving the removals in the pot. So, learn something here. With yellow jackets, if they remain, go back to YOu Tube as they have several videos regarding that pest.

Seabreeze
11.26.24

foxtale

Oct 14, 2024 at 12:20pm
In response to "Handbell Reunion"

Nice! Now my head is ringing -

...From the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells...
(Phil Ochs)

...Ding, dong, ding, dong
That is their song
With joyful ring
All caroling...
(Mykola Leontovych)

tracker

Sep 4, 2024 at 2:10am
In response to "Celebrating the National Holiday"

I love personal experience stories. I feel like I was in that smelly train car trying to keep things together. You write really well.

tracker

Sep 4, 2024 at 2:06am
In response to "Low Country Shrimp Boil"

My inquiring mind is itching to know how the family meal went. I have a nephew who traditional does this broil on New Year’s Day. I was there once. No sides. I loved the potatoes and corn. I don’t like fish. I did eat lobster once in Mexico after drinking enough wine to give it no identifiable taste other than the taste of the dripping butter I dipped it in.

tracker

Sep 4, 2024 at 1:59am
In response to "Bugs and Bees"

Hi! I am tracker. have been reading your blog tonight. I am to send you a badge in the birthday badge exchange. I don’t believe I have seen you around so came over to see what’s cookin’

Wordsmitty ✍️

Aug 15, 2024 at 8:51pm
In response to "Bugs and Bees"

Squirrels don't like daffodils either. We used to plant them next to the tulips to keep the furry tails from digging them up. We also had wisteria that would spread everywhere and it would send roots underground and quickly pop up nearby if we didn't pay attention.

It's amazing how many little flyers there are to come by for a visit and maybe a snack, but they leave the plants intact.

Kåre เลียม Enga

Aug 13, 2024 at 2:41am
In response to "Working In the Yard"

I remember having a garden.

These days I just have houseplants and one lonely portulaca that came up by seed and has bloomed this past week. I've been "home" for three months and the plants have responded well. But, I long for Thailand.

I water often. Montana is mostly hot and dry in the Summer.

March 12, 2025 at 4:47pm

#1085284

Moving Forward

I am getting a little stronger each day. A friend reminded me on the phone that I shouldn't expect too much too soon. it's only been two weeks today since I was under heavy anesthesia and had a plastic valve installed in my heart. So I need to go for my afternoon walk now. I can't wait until I am allowed to go down my own stairs in my house. I get to take off the heart monitor Friday and mail it in, so I am looking forward to not having that contraption taped to my chest. And I will be able to take a shower and wash my hair when it's off.

I have to change my attitude about so many things. I will become one of the fussy people who makes my own salad dressing to avoid sodium overkill. You can buy tomatoes in cans with no salt added, but not tomato sauce or paste. Fast food is pretty much a thing of the past, darn it. I may not be able to go back to my volunteer activities. I may have to hang out with old people more, and realize I'm not doing them a favor: I'm one of them.

I will have to learn to talk about other people and their concerns, maybe even the news, rather than assume I am an acceptable topic of conversation. My period of self-indulgence, along with my recovery, is coming to an end. I need to prepare myself mentally for my next chapters (notice the plural). This doesn't end any time soon.

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