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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

RANDOM HAPPENINGS IN CHARLOTTE

Spring is in full bloom here and i'm still overcome with all these flowers and scents and colors. The latest to show off are the azaleas; white and several shades of pink and purple and lilac and red/orange. Oh, and then there are the sky high wisteria trees; really almost as tall as pine trees; heavily laden with drooping purple flowers. Amazing.

Weather has been delightful. We did have a rain storm yesterday (shortlived; not like Portland which heralds the rain in and it stays and stays and stays) but Toto's insides stayed dry.

We've seen Alicia most days - either she stops off on her way to work or we have lunch together and this past weekend, we had "the kids" over for brunch and Alicia made grits and I made waffle sandwiches (frozen waffles with a filling of jam and a small amt. of powdered sugar, cottage cheese and cream cheese and then grilled in butter in a frying pan) and Bill made bacon. we also had strawberries and grapes and orange juice. After visiting post meal, we all retreated to our special nap areas.

I saw the ortho yesterday and all x-rays of my hip area (groin pain is usually always from something going on with the hip joint) were normal. So his conclusion was that it was a result of the fall (i do still have an enormous bruise over my hip) and some tiny torn muscle fibers/capillaries with accompanied swelling. Treatment: time!!!

I am already out of time; a real struggle with impatience to restart my morning walks, to get out on the trail, to walk without limping in a grotesque crab-like shuffle.

There are so many restaurants close to where we are staying. No exaggeration; there must be 20 to 25 within a mile and 14 of those are within walking distance; well if one was walking that is!!!!!!

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