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- Sept. 18, 2020, 3:34 p.m.
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Not a bad one. Edgy maybe. My life feels full right now. I have things to say and I think I might be able to sit still long enough to say at least some of them.
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Thank you for reading about my brother and noting back. I like the ideas we have about the military. There is much to think about.
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It’s a beautiful sunny day today. Cool. Fall is here. Trees are coloring up.
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I went to my writing group on Tuesday. There were six of us and all wore masks and sanitized our hands on entry and distanced ourselves quite well. The subject was Crossing the Bridge and all six had written something. I wrote about the three bridges across the Mississippi when I was a child. One at Prairie du Chein that had a 50 cent toll. One at Lansing that was damaged and out of order. One at LaCrescent that was the only pathway to the city of LaCrosse.
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Today I emailed a woman in the writing group who wants to hear from me. I’ve never really had an email friend but I’m hoping she and I might have some things to say to one another.
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On Wednesday I went with Jim to a fancy dentist appointment in Rochester and we stopped on the way home to see my brother. The dentist appointment seems optimistic. It’s hard to know how much money to spend on teeth. I wish good teeth could be salvaged from dead people and put in live people. Is any branch of science or medicine working on that? I just read a long article on removing breast implants. You have to pay to have them put in and then if you decide they are making you sick you have to pay to have them removed. They say numbers are up though. I forget the numbers but they are up. Perky in fact.
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I had a call from an old friend I hadn’t heard from in years. She and I used to go walking together. Her husband wanted to talk to Jim about farming. He called and they talked in the evening. The subject was land rents. The hint was maybe Jim could rent their land. I would sure rather he didn’t. I don’t think he will but I dislike the uncertainty. Reminds me of my dad’s story about his mother. During WWII my father’s brothers were all in the Army and my dad was home with his mother farming. An adjacent 80 came up for sale and my father wanted to buy it with one of his Army brothers. Their mother was against the idea because she didn’t think my dad would have enough time to farm both places and she didn’t want her farm to suffer. They did buy the neighbor farm and I guess my grandmother adjusted.
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Itty bits -
a. I’m still sleeping with Freud.
b. Buick’s seat belt is fixed and it’s WONDERFUL.
c. Plants are still on the deck, looking really good. If you come by I’ll give you one and tell you how to take care of it.
Bye for now. Have a lovely weekend everyone. Be good and have fun and come back please.
Last updated September 18, 2020
noko ⋅ September 18, 2020
Yay about the seatbelt! This is sort of related, I had a bone graft in my jaw under a living tooth a few years ago and they used a mix of human and primate bone. It weirded me out at the time but it worked well.
woman in the moon noko ⋅ September 18, 2020
I remember when you were having that complex dentistry. He has been wearing down his teeth to the point where there is not enough surface to put crowns on. The fancy dentist wants to remove bone from the back of his jaw to make room and then also remove gum tissue on other teeth. Took a while to realize after years of being told to floss and keep your gums, they want to remove them. I think he'd going to do it. You gotta keep your teeth if you can.
He's been asked if he's retired yet, told his temperature is perfect and has the blood pressure of a teen ager (121/83 or close) so he's kind of reeling.
woman in the moon noko ⋅ September 18, 2020
Oh about the bone - I had a tumor/cyst removed from my jaw in 1967!!!. It was like a golfball? They filled the hole with cow bones - some pieces worked their way out - but most stayed in and I've still got them.
woman in the moon noko ⋅ September 18, 2020
Oh about the bone - I had a tumor/cyst removed from my jaw in 1967!!!. It was like a golfball? They filled the hole with cow bones - some pieces worked their way out - but most stayed in and I've still got them.
noko woman in the moon ⋅ September 18, 2020
Oh wow, that sounds like the whole thing was painful but kind of interesting.
Purple Dawn ⋅ September 18, 2020
Have a wonderful weekend! I'm still camped in the hayfield :)
woman in the moon Purple Dawn ⋅ September 18, 2020
Really!!! Good for you.
Wildlife coming to visit?
Purple Dawn woman in the moon ⋅ September 20, 2020
Just a blackbear around the field, grouse and a few whitetail deer :)
Just Annie ⋅ September 18, 2020
I hope your weekend is wonderful, too.
It's cool, but sunny here. Breezy, too, which blew away all the smoke from the fires out west and the sky is such a lovely shade of blue.
woman in the moon Just Annie ⋅ September 18, 2020
Our sky was beautiful today too.
thesunnyabyss ⋅ September 18, 2020
Rochester Minnesota? I've actually stayed the night in a lonely little motel there, many, many years,
have a good weekend!
ConnieK ⋅ September 18, 2020
Jinn ⋅ September 19, 2020
I wish someone would come get some plants from me too :-) I have plenty to spare And too many of them are still outside getting cold :-(
Farming is a lot of hard work. This time of year is busy, isn’t it ? I see the farmers harvesting here . I can not imagine how many crops were destroyed in the fires out west . I read the apple crop took a major hit .
My neighbor has breast implants and feels sick all the time. I suspect implant illness but she is also Bipolar , so maybe it’s just that . 🤦♀️.
How is Gracie ?
woman in the moon Jinn ⋅ September 19, 2020
Gracie is doing well. She was at the vet a few weeks ago to have her ears cleaned. I'm not sure what is wrong but they get kind of infected. She shakes them and digs with her foot - and then licks her foot - doc says it's yeast and it tastes sweet. We have a fabulous vet - good with all species. Sometimes I wish humans had vets who would provide basic care and honest feedback. I love and respect human docs too but everything just gets so complicated. Maybe there should be a medical specialty called THE BIG PICTURE. Instead of funneling you to a million specialists there should be someone to put it all together and say if it's worth living or not. I suppose that would have a spiritual element ... and I sure don't want to have to go back to church.
okk now I'm going because I can't seem to stop. Bye - good day to us and our cold plants.
Jinn woman in the moon ⋅ September 19, 2020
I agree . We have a great vet but he is getting old. I suspect he is in his seventies but he said as long as he can get out of bed in the mornings he will keep working. He is busy every day except Sunday and I know he is busy at his clinic doing surgeries etc that day too :-( He is a short little guy . Last time I was there he picked up the crate holding my 20 pound puppy and he could barely carry it . He does big animals like cows and horses so I wonder how he manages. I know it takes a lot of strength to deal with them. His personality is brusque and straight to the point. Sometimes it hurts , especially when your pet is ready to leave the Earth, but I know it bothers him. When we had to put Muffin , our shihtzu to sleep a couple years ago , he got tearful too . She was 15 and had a bad spine injury that he could not fix ( but he tried ). We just lost a puppy to illness last month and he was upset that nothing worked ( he tried IVs , antibiotics and kept her in his intensive care with someone with her 24/7 for a week . He talked to us a long time about it . He felt very bad and charged us almost nothing for all the treatment . We only paid for her cremation. These days that is unusual . When I found a litter of feral kittens he vaccinated them for free if I agreed to find them homes. I did :-) and when I have found stray dogs he would check them over for free . With the leash law here that does not happen anymore . Thank goodness. I have seen people take wild animals to him too that have been hurt. He treats them all . :-)
ODSago ⋅ September 19, 2020
I continue to enjoy to the max your diary entries. I think Jung would be more creative to sleep with, myself, but....
Loved the "perky" word choice....
Seriously, I simply dump my mind on the page and never think of creatively writing ...but if I considered it a diary for a writer, I'd do that...I'd try to be creative or capture starts of something useful. Much later I've sometimes use flights of creative commentary for poems...roses fat as babies at the doors...that came to me when we drove through France. But it wasn't intended as fodder at the moment.
ODSago ⋅ September 19, 2020
I continue to enjoy to the max your diary entries. I think Jung would be more creative to sleep with, myself, but....
Loved the "perky" word choice....
Seriously, I simply dump my mind on the page and never think of creatively writing ...but if I considered it a diary for a writer, I'd do that...I'd try to be creative or capture starts of something useful. Much later I've sometimes use flights of creative commentary for poems...roses fat as babies at the doors...that came to me when we drove through France. But it wasn't intended as fodder at the moment.
Serin ⋅ September 19, 2020
Does it add difficulty to your group to talk across the bigger spaces?
I think you're in the minority of people who would accept second hand teeth. My main objection is just knowing that they're really good. I'd be doubly upset by a lemon in this context.
You also have to pay to resize breast implants, so they can get people in the middle too.
woman in the moon Serin ⋅ September 19, 2020
It was a medium sized room - six tables - two at one table - a couple - the rest of us had our own spaces. Most, maybe all, took down their masks to read, and there was no trouble hearing anyone. The man who had complained before has new hearing aids and he said they were TOO loud.
The teeth thing has some drawbacks, just wondered if anyone thought about it.
It's like dying young with advanced or even regular degrees. Too bad someone can't get some use out of them.
Big breasts? Same thing, I guess.
Other features as well.
btw we are thinking of kidnapping Trudeau. We want a nice good looking leader for a while.
Serin woman in the moon ⋅ September 19, 2020
Well, he may have extra free time by spring at the rate he's going.
NorthernSeeker ⋅ September 20, 2020
I think I'm creative (photography, art) but I have no urge to be creative with my writing. I admire you and the people in your writer's group.
woman in the moon NorthernSeeker ⋅ September 22, 2020
Itt's funny what we think we can do, what we want to do. I remember when flash fiction was going around here and you wrote just a little bit about a subject and it was really wonderful. I think we all have talent under the surface for a lot of things. And of course we get to choose how we want to display it. Or not for that matter.
Beret ⋅ September 22, 2020
Wish I could come by!
woman in the moon Beret ⋅ September 22, 2020
Yes, I'd dig up some of the solomon's seal for you.
Beret woman in the moon ⋅ September 22, 2020
OMG, I was just saying to NG that the only thing that seems to thrive in my problem area is Solomon's seal. I need more. It's so darn expensive when buying at the plant nursery.
woman in the moon Beret ⋅ September 22, 2020
Doesn't it spread? Can't you dig it up and split it and replant it? I'm thinking of mailing you some in the spring but I somehow doubt it would be legal.
Beret woman in the moon ⋅ September 22, 2020
It does spread but I think this is such a tough area (dry shade) that it takes longer.