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  On May 21, I was walking to Walgreens to get pistachios for my lunch salad & tripped on bowed sidewalk & fell on my wrist.  I didn't make it to Walgreens but did manage to make it back home & then drove myself to a neigborhood doc in a box urgent care center.  They took xrays & the doctor came in & said "Yep, it's cracked but it will heal on it's own".   They treated my bloody & skinned knees & gave me the horrible monstrosity above.  And he told me to see a orthopedic guy.  But me, being cheap me, figured if it was supposed to heal on it's own, why spend the money? So about 3 weeks later I had a regular appointment with my regular doctor & I showed her the xray info to see if she could tell me where the break was so I could monitor the pain.  Frankly, she flipped out, said she was not an orthopedic person & sent me for another xray  & sent me to the orthopedic guy in her office.  When I saw him,...

  It been months since we had any significant rain.  Maybe 3 storms in the past 5 months?  It's horribly sad.  I'm not a farmerr but I hope it's not too late to plant.  It's not good, that's for sure.   Today's rain came out of nowhere.  The news guy at lunch said maybe but  yeah, right.  He's said that before.  But til it's falling from the sky I don't believe it. It was delightful. I was thinking as I watched water flow down the street...as it's designed, to go toward the place where it heads to a playa lake.  It's a city thing. I grew up in the country, mostly.  We lived in town for a little while when I was growing up but even there was dirt roads.  I used to love watching the water either sit on top of the ground, waiting to soak in or if there was a lot of rain, it woud flow down as the ground went.  Sometimes it would even bring out little frogs everywhere!  And in the country, the smell was fresh ...

  This book is another recommendation of the book blog on Instagram & another that I read sight unseen...no clue what it was about before I started it.  It got good reviews.  And it's kind of fun to be surprised.  But after  the last 2, I'm thinking I might need to at least read the back of the book.  The book starts with teenagers Covey & Gibbs in an unnamed Carribean island.  There is a lot of focus on swimming & surfing & being teens but as the book goes on it's clear it's filler.  After Gibbs goes to London to college, Covey's no accound dad sells her to marry a gangster to settle debts.  Luckily she escapes after the groom drops dead at the wedding.  She runs to London to find Gibbs.  Somehow they don't reconnect til years later. But they have to live life in secret because someone from their small island might recognize them in London, a city of 7.8 people in 1965 & we know that happens all the time. Later ...

  Yes America, it's true.  I went to a soccer game.  Lubbock has a professional team called the Lubbock Matadors. I don't necessarily understand soccer.  I know the point of the game is to get the ball  into the goal.  There is lots of running.  The clock goes up instead of down.  I've seen parts of World Cup matches where no one tries to score because scoring would put them in a different bracket & that is a mentality I don't get.  Who doesn't try to win?  😱  But it was a beautiful night in Lubbock & I decided to go.  I'd looked before & thought the tickets were really high but now I see that I was looking at the season ticket rate.  The game waas only $10.   I met a person I'd met from Twitter before out there & sat with her & her daughter.  And as a competitive person I always like a good game even if I don't get the rules.  The final score was 1-1. Matadors (picture from team Tw...

I have many, many faults & one of those is I am a talker.  Because I live alone & have no people left, I go days & days without a conversation with anyone, not even strangers. So when I am around people sometimes I have too much to say.  I even know when I'm doing it & sometimes can't stop it but to be fair I try to temper it. Today, I was leaving Costco & a lady had a cute service dog & I commented on how cute he was.  He was a harrier, a dog type I've never heard of.  She was telling me about him & how good he was on the ranch.  Turns out she & husband live down near Spur & we talked about that for a few minutes.  And then we went our separate ways.  And those 10 minutes made me happy. I had also gone today for a haircut & it's always a short time because mostly we just get my bangs cut.  And then I went to the nail shop for an eyebrow wax.  As I was waiting a customer was having a dialogue with the p...

I found this book on an Instagram blog called 'LoneStar Reads'.  You can tell by my book list post that I tend to get in a rut & I'm always looking for new reads.  My friend Linda recommended this blog. The book is called 'This Time Tomorrow' & I did someting I'm not sure I've ever done...I read with no info.  I didn't read the virtual back of the book.  I had not read a review.  I had absolutely no idea what this book was about. This book is about Alice Stern, an about to be 40 school administrator, single,New Yorker who is dealing with her dad's illness. Alice grew up with a single dad who wrote stories in the past about boys who time traveled. For the first half of the book. this was the gentlest read I can remember in a long time, even if I still didn't know where we were heading with this book.  Then we hit Alice's 40th birthday.  She heads to her dad's house after a drunken evening & can't get in the house so she end...