Young Buck Deer - AutumnOff to town in about an hour, me dentist, Joe haircut, grocery shopping, lunch, getting the chemo pump taken off. It looks like it will be a busy time for the next few weeks with appointments and going to town. Trying to get them all organized will be interesting. At least today won't have to hear the convention stuff all day. Slept pretty good, despite many trips to the bathroom in the night. Up early, same reason.
Some friends have mentioned that their eye doctors had suggested washing their eyelashes with Johnson's baby shampoo to help with irritated eyes. Bonnie confirmed that she has tried it too, so I started doing that. Although just doing it a couple of times so far, I think it might help. Eyes are still very irritated, I'm sure mainly from the chemo.
It's VERY smoky this morning, from the New Fork fire which has flared up again, otherwise its a nice day. By the time we got home the smoke is much less, but you sure could see the great pall over the mountains when we were in town.
From http://www.pinedaleonline.com/ (see more pictures) : New Fork Fire flares up -The New Fork Fire reached Pine Mountain and made a dramatic show as it consumed trees on the west face of the mountain. Firefighters are monitoring the blaze, which is burning in the wilderness area. This is the view looking across the valley from Mt. Airy on Wednesday afternoon. Fire danger has been elevated to Very High. Click on this link for more photos of the fire on Wednesday, August 27: New Fork Fire revives . They are calling the size about 14,000 acres. It looks many miles wide north to south and is spreading east to the continental divide, reaching way back from the foothills where it started. It is only 19 miles from Pinedale.
It's very big and burned a lot of country
AFTERNOON UPDATE: Got all the town chores done. I couldn't believe the dentist wouldn't let me pay for my filling. What a special gift. I was just bowled over. Maybe I can give him a small painting in appreciation. Over to the grocery store, and saw Joe's niece Joslyn. She was sitting with Joe having coffee and suggested we go to lunch together. Got the groceries and the checkout was just a circus. I came home with 28 paper bags for a weeks groceries, and about 10 pounds of dry ice to keep the cold things cold!!! I tried to check through the bags for just such a thing, but they still didn't get ice on all the cold things, one whole bag of meat without any ice at all, and milk and cream in with the can goods. I was very close to loosing my patience with it all.
Joslyn and Howie came to the Patio to have lunch with us and that was nice to visit with them. Then to the clinic and got the chemo pump off. We went and had a milk shake after that and it was just too much. Neither one of us wanted dinner tonight but Joe finally ate some leftovers. I guess we got back home about 3:30 or so. Sweet Amy at the clinic called as I walked in the kitchen and said Jackson wanted me to leave the pump at Pinedale so they could get it back up there to use for someone else. She hadn't checked her messages or we would have known when I was there. Amy always calls me "honey" and I just sort of melt while she's taking care of me. I called Carol at the hospital and she said it was o.k., that they didn't need it after all..... thank goodness. But she still wants me to take it to Pinedale Clinic if I go to town and they can mail it. I guess I can mail it, I don't know.
It's the birthday of one of the greatest German writers ever, born in Frankfurt in 1749. He worked on his greatest drama, Faust (1832), for about 50 years. When Goethe was 74, he fell in love with a 19-year-old woman, whom he chased but never succeed in winning. He wrote a long, sad poem about his failed attempt, and died soon after, in 1832. He said, "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
