Yikers! The fire I showed never got as close as the one in your picture. But the fire in the summer of 2020 - our first year in this house - was close enough that the planes flying over us were so low that I could just about read the stenciling on the underside of the wing and the helicopter pilots actually waved at us once - all the neighbors were standing in their front yards worrying.The Thomas Fire was the the one that worried me the most. We were living in town at the time. Would have been closer to the origin where we live now, but the winds were the main factor. Dodged a bullet.
Pic from my street the night it started:
That Cypress is actually in the neighbor's yard behind our pool but right up against the block wall. We call it the "Raccoon Condo". There's a family of raccoons that live in it. A couple times while we were soaking in the hot tub in the summer one of them has come out on a bent limb to watch us below. It seemed he was as curious about us as we are about them! There are also opossums that live in it and we've seen a coyote on the wall below waiting to grab one! Either that or he was hunting for our now-departed lifetime best friend, "Joey" my black miniature poodle. I really miss Little Joe.
As far as we know we've never lost anything to them. I keep a bowl of fresh water next to the sidewalk for neighborhood dog walkers - Maybe the prefer that over chlorinated pool water? I put out raw peanuts for the crows and they're usually gone in 5-10 minutes but maybe the raccoons get a few. I don't leave dog food outside. Our BBQ area has a small fridge but there's no food left out there. They seem pretty "neighborly"....so far.
Right in front of where he but not visible is in this picture is where I put out peanuts for the crows. When we took this picture one was cross the street on the lawn and another on a light pole above it.
A crow will kill a hawk if it's in the mood. They're intelligent and adaptable. Much more so than a hawk. Two crows will beat up that hawk and take it's lunch money, or life, depending on the day.
Was yours total shoulder replacement? I’ve read different things about how much range of motion can be recovered with reverse vs. normal replacement.
Earlier in the post I noted that the two tendons "on top" of the rotator cuff (don't know their correct names) are torn off the bone and have retracted out of sight on the MRI. The orthopedist said he couldn't know if re-attching them would be viable or not until he "... got in there". The third and larger tendon on the front side of the shoulder was, "hanging by a thread" - his words. Since his opinion was the life of that repair would be only "3 to 5" years I figured it's not worth it to me to subject myself to that much trauma for that short a period of relief.
Ah well.....my mental health left a long time ago!
We're working with an Attorney setting up a Trust,..he asked if we had a Medical Power of Attorney. I told him I had asked my younger brother if he would do it. His response was " I am willing to unplug you but I'm not wiping your ***"
Retiring and living for 31 years is my idea of success after decades in harness. Though just surviving that train accident achieved it for certain! If I can live to age 89 I'll have equaled the same 26 years I worked for Metro. But that's unlikely:
We JUST signed our Trusts about a week ago. The totally unexpected death of my dear sister in July and the sudden illness & death of Lourdes' oldest brother (THE most fit & active of her 5 brothers) from cancer less than a month ago motivated us to stop procrastinating. I briefly considered having my daughter do it - She's now the VP of Legal Affairs for her company after almost 20 years @ Disney - how the HELL did my little girl become a lawyer 20 years ago? - but she said wills, trusts etc are not her forte and had hired an attorney for her own. I used the same guy.
Well, at least you had fun flat siding some tires. Mine was just being clueless and there's no one to blame but myself.
I've heard the same.
Total reverse shoulder replacement. 2 of the tendons are torn off the bone and fully retracted. A 3rd one is, "hanging by a thread" according to the surgeon. I'm 71 so surgeon said the likelihood of a tendon repair being possible or suceeding is not good but wouldn't know until he was "in there." SO I asked if that was the case could he then just change up and do the replacement? He said no. He'd have to close me up, wait a few months andTHEN do the replacement. Sheesh.
Nope. Nothing like that mentioned.
Hi Don,
