What a Funny Summer

Good morning my friends.  


Here we are still in Concord.  Ben is healing. Today he goes for a bandage change and more PT.  Friday he goes to the surgeon to have the stitches removed. Still has to wear the (hot, hot) splint for some weeks more.  After the doctor has made a pronouncement, we'll see about going home.  But we have already stayed until another holiday's due to come up.  We hung around Texas through the Memorial Day holiday.  Now we are hanging around Northern CA through the Fourth of July. Maybe.


When we go home, we'll try driving east by Tahoe and going south on the 15.  It will be more interesting than the 5 and Central Los Angeles again.


Yesterday we went to Kaiser North and received satisfaction. We met with a young doctor, a beautiful petite young woman from...who knows? Some place where dark young women who are supposed to be more oppressed than Americans somehow manage to study and become physicians.  She was most intelligent and alert, a good thinker.  You could see her visibly sorting out the conflicting and confusing array of facts shot her way by Theodore and me simultaneously.  But she got us down to the lab and to the right tests. Now we just have to wait for some kind of message from Above (don't know whether Above is north or south) and see what's going on with him.


We have found a good thrift shop, Annie's Attic, which is an offshoot of Hospice of Contra Costa County.  Lots of nice stuffe at bargain prices.  Yesterday Theodore got a machine, one of those green metal things that you roll around on the ground to spread seeds or fertilzer.  He definitely thought it was worth cramming into the car.  I bought a bunch of books, good paperbacks that will keep me busy till we go. Poor Anna Karenina.  She just can't compete with the thriller mentality.


I also bought 2 lamps, one to partially lighten Benjamin's gloomy domain, and one to take home for the piano. I always need more light at the piano.  Benjamin does not need light, because if it's nice he is outside and if it is stormy he is looking at the television.  I asked him today for an envelope because I need to send Daniel's orthodontia payment to Cedar Rapids, but no envelope appeared. I think the younger generation do not need envelopes because they do all their financial stuff online and all their personal correspondence as well.  Ben also has Skype, which is wonderful because he talks to his friend Shashi in Orange County and there is Shashi's adorable little daughter Keily talking to him too, and singing her little nursery songs and just being cute. Right there in the window in front of you.  Lovely.


Today Benjamin has our car because he has to go to the PT again this morning for a long session. So we are taking the day to wash his sheets and towels and personal clothing....Then, tonight, perhaps that means we'll eat out.  Maybe Thai, again. I really like it because it tastes so pleasant and is about 90% fruits and vegetables disguised as a main dish.  So healthful.....Hasta manyana, my dears. YAZZYBEL