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     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: what I did today 657
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to All on 07-12-14  02:55 <=-

 ML> Annie hasn't been feeling completely prime. She self-diagnosed
 ML> with a hernia in May and arranged with an old buddy of hers to
 ML> fix it before he retired in June, which he did, only it turns
 ML> out she had three hernias, each with its own separate repair
 ML> (one foot-long incision). It's been nearly a month, and she
 ML> gave herself only about this long to recover, and she's not
 ML> conformed to her self-imposed schedule, so she's complaining
 ML> that she's gotten old; no amount of reassurance consoles.

Well.... there is some of that getting old stuff... along with having
probably ignored ongoing "injury" for too long, and the usual insult to
ones body that surgery (especially extensive surgery) is to the body...
just a bit of fantastical thinking there on her part, I'd say...  ;) 

 ML> [Caroline]'s between projects and by her own testimony is bored
 ML> out of her gourd. Friday, she wanted Annie to go with her on an
 ML> outing to the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania (a sort of misnomer,
 ML> rather like the state dentist job), but as we were supposed to
 ML> feed Jim and Franny the neighbors this evening, and as Annie
 ML> has decided she can do only one social thing a day until she
 ML> heals, I was deputed to go on this adventure. It was arranged
 ML> for me to be picked up at 10.

Been there a time or two (and more of my family has hiked it on a more
regular basis), as it is just down the highway from where the family
camped for over 20 years...  Impressive in a somewhat subdued way... :) 
The campground actually is situated on the river that formed the canyon,
but a bit upstream....

 ML> have a flightseeing tour of the canyon in a Cessna. Her husband,
 ML> whose idea it was, because he has a business relationship with
 ML> the airport operator/guide/pilot, drove up and joined us, and
 ML> we filled up the plane (I got the copilot seat) and took off
 ML> into mostly sunny, scattered clouds, winds calm, according to
 ML> the automated weather bulletin on the radio. Gorgeous day for
 ML> flying, and we did the length of the canyon, which extends all
 ML> the way up to the New York border, and then buzzed a few gas
 ML> wells to take a look and perhaps make the trip deductible.

That sounds like a nice trip... at least the canyon part...  :)

ttyl      neb

... Chocolate chip cookies: hazardous waist products!

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