Eye appointment (Butch)

Butch's eye appointment was yesterday and he got good news. His eyes are perfect. He might want you to think the rest of him is too but perhaps a second opinion should be in place first.

So we made our way to Ames and the Wolfe Eye clinic and followed up his appointment with another visit to Hickory Park. They do the distancing and masks as well as I have seen anywhere. They have the old fashioned high-backed booths that many places had in our youth so you are in your own tiny room once you are seated. Hickory Park is our favorite eating place in Ames and there are oodles and scads of people who feel the same as we do.  We came directly home afterward. We have never been big shoppers anyway but now it is even more so. Also, we live in a tiny house so nowadays we have to discard something before we can buy another thing.

Butch is doing PT (physical therapy) 3 times a week and improving steadily. He is forgetting where he last put his cane more often. I have been calling him Stumpy because I got to the point where I could tell where he was by sound. He thinks he can be back to walking the golf course sans cane in two weeks' time.

I am thinking that is a bit too ambitious but if I say "no" you can bet he will make it happen. Stay tuned.

Still taking photos on occasion...

Funny?

We are staying home mostly yet feeling guilty for not connecting with our friends, yet knowing it is not the best of ideas to connect with our friends at least in person. Got all that?  So we feel somewhat between a rock and a hard spot.

We do not feel bad about being alone with ourselves and our thoughts, in fact, we are quite comfortable with it. Last night we watched "Win the Wilderness" on Netflix. It is about couples competing to win a home in the wilderness from a couple who have lived and built this home in the middle of Alaska and have reached the point where they know they cannot do it anymore. Interesting and thought-provoking on many levels. Our age alone puts us way past going to the wilderness to live and we are more than a little aware of it.

This pandemic and all the tentacles from it have made life far different from what it was a year ago at this time. I do not expect it to go back to what it was for more reasons than we can even list.  I see as much good to come from it as bad. So many people needed to come up short and analyze where they are and where they want to be. It made the whole world slow down and take a closer look. Too fast and too frantic has been one of the biggest stumbling blocks to life for far too long.

So please do not take it personally if you do not see us or hear from us. We are doing our best to stay healthy and we hope you are doing the same. There will be another end to this we just don't know when it will be evident.