https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/I'm doubtful the events of my life will be of great general interest, but I'd like to share a little more of me to the several of you on Blogit I've come to feel are real friends, and the many I imagine are potentially real friends. We'll see how it works out. ______________________ all my words and images posted on Blogit are copyright 2005-present, all rights reserved.hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/997909Our young Charles is 41 today! I am giving him a bag of half a dozen corn on the cobs in order to give him the real present, ideal for a lad of his age: dinosaur corn-holders! And a 'perpetual pencil' with a graphene point instead of graphite. And a couple of shirts ordered online--whenever they finally arrive. We're having crepes for breakfast, and dinner will be with friends at a place called CHEDDARS that he and his housemate discovered on a recent road trip. Meanwhile, hot air balloons...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/997896Not surprisingly, I have more energy in the morning before the heat outside gets over mid-80s, and start feeling a bit wobbly around noon and later. So this morning we got out by 11 and I got to the credit union and got my rent paid. Near those places there's a Safeway which last time had a good sale on soups, and Charlie needed groceries so we rambled around there for a while. But the soups were no longer on sale and there were few other things I wanted there. So off to the Kroger store we...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/997851It's good to be home again, but it was good to have that one day in hospital where there was so much support and people who knew what had to happen next and could feed me meds on time, in proper order. Now I'm home with a long list of things to attend to and feeling overwhelmed with all the stuff! We went out for lunch today. One of our favorite places is closing next week and we wanted to make sure to give them our business one more time. Then I wanted to stop at Costco for a fairly silly...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/997599It's raining with some flashes and booms this afternoon. We got home from a grocery run with light rain in this neighborhood, enough that only the freezer stuff and the sushi snack came into the house. Cans of soup--finally a good sale on the Campbell's Chunky!--and a few other odds and ends bound for the pantry can wait for the weather to clear. We went to a movie today: The End of Oak Street. It's a bit of silly action/horror and was fun enough and not to be taken too seriously. Imagine a...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/997492I had one errand to do--pick up a book that they've been holding for over a week at bookstore while I've been not ready for driving out and about. Charlie came along and it turned into lunch at Burger King, then after the bookshop a stop for groceries he needed. As I had parked in a handicapped-reserved spot, legally I had to get out--says it on the hang-tag (We call it Jean-Luc Placard)--so I look ed at the plants on offer outside the sto re. As it happened they had a couple of 10-inch pots...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/997176It's just after 5 in the morning. I woke at 4 in the lovely cool before dawn and I was thinking of the birds and bees and butterflies, all thirsty in this heat and drought. Yesterday we saw several ravens on the ground, beaks a-gape, and though we stopped and put out some water for them, they flew off. We left the water cups tucked into the roots of a tree so they or someone else could drink after we left. This morning I put out several flattish bowls with water on the back porch. There is an...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/997144Hospital released me just before noon, sparing me another hospital meal. I miss the a/c in this still 90s heat, but so glad to be back in my downstairs cozy cool place! The adventure continues: antibiotics for the next 12 days, then a return to the doc who will aim sound waves to break up the stone so it can pass more easily. And then there is the stone in the other kidney that they saw on the x-ray... One step at a time! On the whole it's good to be home where I can get back on my diabetic...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/997123At least I'm sitting/lying down/living in a place of reliable a/c. Monday I had some undesirable health indicators which led to Tuesday at my doctor's with tests. Wednesday morning I spent 4 hours shivering under the covers in my bed until Charlie came by and called the Kaiser nurse consultant who sent me to the ER. Rob drove us there, but after 9 hours, he drove Charlie home again, and I was admitted to Upstairs. It's a kidney stones thing. Lots of tests, interesting medications, multiple...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/997057It's a lovely, lovely day here in Colorado as a cool wave sweeps through! Some of it's the smoke in the air, keeping the predicted 82F about 10 degrees cooler! We expect the heat again tomorrow, so this is a particularly sweet day! I've found something to recommend: letters being read by celebrities of stage and screen. It's called Letters Live and takes place at such venues as Albert Hall, so there is an element of prestige. If I manage to make a trip to visit the Bell family, now living in...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/997014Here it is, somehow Sunday... temps near 100 predicted today and tomorrow, maybe some relief by Tuesday. No storms expected until Tuesday, either. My strategy for keeping reasonable comfortable is to stay downstairs with the fan blowing on me, and watching the ALONE episode taking place 125 miles above the Arctic Circle. I'll have a shower this afternoon and see how long a wet head will last in the current weather conditions. Sometime late Tuesday Charlie and Rob will probably be home again....