Thursday February 28 2008

Mt. Airy

The hill in the background is where the tower sits for our through-the-air telephone, and where the repairmen go to work on it when our phone goes out - as well as our equipment in the shop. It is on the western edge of Pinedale and about 45 miles from the house to the tower approximately. If you click on the photo you can see the towers. I think the other towers are for TV and KPIN radio station, perhaps cell phones. Thought you might be interested to see how far away our phone signal comes from. Took this at Gina's house.

Not much news. We both had a relaxing day. It was sunny and warm again, maybe up to about 34 in the shade and no wind. The snow depth is going down, and there is more bare ground showing, not a lot, but its happening. The dogs want to be out most of the day now, and stay out longer at night too. They are enjoying the milder weather. When they are in, they are staying right beside me and especially Raven wants attention.

Joe's hearing aides are working good. He keeps asking me "what's that noise" when appliances are running or something.

Last night I had that pain in my neck and shoulder from the chemo again. Had not had it for some time. So I'm still suspecting that the dose may have been changed. I'm glad to feel it because apparently means the Gemcitabine is working on killing the cancer cells.

Did some housework and laundry and had a short nap this afternoon, also read for a while. The book is "Pushing My Shadow" by Betty Trout, a diary of a young woman who hitchiked and biked around Europe at beginning of WWII, staying in hostels and sleeping in barns. Betty Trout later was a teacher at Gina's one room log cabin school in the '40's. I took a short walk with the dogs down the road and was able to walk on dirt for about 3/4 of the way I suppose. Made hot potato salad for Joe for dinner, its one of his favorites.

Debbie called so got to talk to her for a while.

My email hasn't been working so well again lately. But after fooling with it for a while I was finally able to download the last few pictures I'd taken into the PC. That hasn't been working for a while and not sure it will next time either.