Good Morning All. Cloudy and a quite warm 84°. Raindrops on the back porch and radar indicating a heavier shower less than 2 miles SE. Unfortunately that's moving away. But possibilities exist that it might expand out to here. Expecting 106° today with heat warnings.
Sorting through my extensive list of things to do after my scary five day ordeal. I had to first clear out some rotten tomatoes that unfortunately went past their prime; into the compost pile they went. There's a bunch that will have to be processed in the next 2-3 days. I'll take the easy way out and just make tomato sauce and convert to salsa and spaghetti sauce when needed. Saves time right now. I still have the downed pool shade umbrellas out there and the damn stove that we have to light manually, but it's all just time-consuming stuff. Postponing the weekly grocery trek until tomorrow while we sort out what's still needed and what's still left.
Pre-measurement for cataract surgery is next Tuesday. Missed a doctor's appointment this week with my primary care guy. but that's been rescheduled for next Wednesday. I will spend a lot of time re-synching prescription requirements and catching him up to date. There's some conflicting advice and I trust him best.
Speaking of the ordeal, my trust in the hospital system was further eroded this week by the "catheter episodes". At an early point, we discussed putting a catheter in place to eliminate the constant need to unhook/hook back all of the various IV's, oxygen, heart and other monitors, etc; every time I needed to pee. OK I thought, it would also be convienient for me not to have to deal with it. The female nurse installed it; soon afterward it started leaking, soaking the sheet and pad beneath me. A male nurse chided her and apparently reminded her that he had told her in the past that she had to shave males first. So off it came and she shaved, cleaned everything up and put a new one on. OK, no leaks. About an hour later, I asked her why this one didn't "gurgle" like the first one did. She then realized that she failed to turn the vacuum on, which promptly filled the jar, which had to be replaced. Meanwhile, she, the male nurse and my wife (the instigator) were laughing and joking about the whole process (including my goods) at my expense. No problem because it was effective from then on. However it is quite unnerving right now to reach down and handle a bald member, that will soon turn to stubble !@#$%&*
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Didn't go out to the train shed yesterday, as that will wait for me. A real shower and my own bed took priority. I went to sleep around 7:30 and finally got up at 5:30, albeit with three bathroom/hydration breaks. Slept like a log.
Comments from many posts that I missed.
Patrick - I am jealous of you're being able to leave tomatoes on the vine until full ripeness, I tend to pick when almost fully red but still firm before insects.birds can pierce the skin.
Karl - Neat picture of the fruit stand last Sunday.
Mac - Loving all of your pictures, too many to single out any one in particular.
I haven't gotten all that far in catching up here in the Coffee Shop, and definitely not the forum in general, but I still have some recovery to do health wise; so I will leave you for now. Pictures will resume in a couple of days along with additional postings and comments.
Everybody have a great day.
. In the greatest city in the World again
