My wife had it done 10 years ago, all good. It's not indestructible, it's possible to wreck it. The range of bending has some loss. Doing PT for a couple months at least while healing can help that range increase.
Less than 48 hours to my mom's knee replacement surgery. Its her 5th try in 5 years. She slipped and fell on stairs last day of vacation and a week before try 1, then Covid hit and cancelled all non life saving surgery. Then, she got Covid. Then , after a year of one medical crisis after another, she was too sick of hospitals and too anxious to try. So far so good for this try. Yesterday's Covid tests were negative.
But if any motherfucker does anything to stop this, (unless my mom calls it off) I might go a little crazy on them, and let 5 years of pent up emotions out on their ass.
And if anyone in this house gets Covid and I track down the source of the infection...............
I had 13 knee surgeries until the last one finally worked. I have so much empathy for what your mum is going through and I wish her all the best. Make sure she gets regular pain meds for as long as possible. I didnt ..and that is a story for another day
My wife had it done 10 years ago, all good. It's not indestructible, it's possible to wreck it. The range of bending has some loss. Doing PT for a couple months at least while healing can help that range increase.
“A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.”
Robert Heinlein
Weather turned cold.
Birbs grown bold.
Three cats entranced
As seed-suet enchants,
Their day grown sweeter
By dinner theater.
https://substack.com/profile/1687878-1d57a1d5931d/note/c-46753730?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=106di
Who's a GOOD doggo?
such a sweet pretty dogg
MacBeth refusing to die at the end sounds a lot like Trump trying to stay in the White House.
How hard would it have been to change the second line here:
“ Had they been supported on each side with buttresses,
At least many sensible men confesses,”
To: “At least many a sensible man confesses.”
New bean achievement unlocked: 1 lb leftover smoked pork butt, 1 lb lima beans, water to cover, salt and pepper
Best lima beans ever, also easiest, and I am not exaggerating!
How long to cook?
2 hours, if that, no soaking. Limas are fast. Stirred a lot, so super creamy. Smoked bbq pork = best beans I ever had, limas or otherwise
Art, art, makes me smart. The more I think, the more I fart. The more I fart, the more I stink, and when I stink it makes me think about how
Art, art, makes me smart. The more I think, the more I fart. The more I fart, the more I stink, and when I stink it makes me think about how....
Endless smart art fart poem, inspired by Beans Beans the Musical Fruit, written while bored in a 6th grade art class.
My sister has multiple variations of this. She keeps teaching them to her 5 yr old grand daughters, much to their mum's dismay
Less than 48 hours to my mom's knee replacement surgery. Its her 5th try in 5 years. She slipped and fell on stairs last day of vacation and a week before try 1, then Covid hit and cancelled all non life saving surgery. Then, she got Covid. Then , after a year of one medical crisis after another, she was too sick of hospitals and too anxious to try. So far so good for this try. Yesterday's Covid tests were negative.
But if any motherfucker does anything to stop this, (unless my mom calls it off) I might go a little crazy on them, and let 5 years of pent up emotions out on their ass.
And if anyone in this house gets Covid and I track down the source of the infection...............
I had 13 knee surgeries until the last one finally worked. I have so much empathy for what your mum is going through and I wish her all the best. Make sure she gets regular pain meds for as long as possible. I didnt ..and that is a story for another day
My wife had a full replacement on one knee. Ended years of knee misery. Hope it all goes well.
Are you taking questions about that? Because my aunt - granted she had hers a long time ago, but she talks about it much less ... positively
My Mom's knee replacements made an entire world of difference in her life. Best of luck to her and you. It was life-changing in only the best ways...
Here's one I wrote on a Montana trail ride.
git along little dogies
git along little dogies
the trail is a-risin'
the sun's goin' down
git along little dogies
git along little dogies
the beans are a-cookin'
the coffee is ground
git along little dogies
git along little dogies
the bedroll's a-waitin'
the fire is high
git along little dogies
git along little dogies
the wind is a-whistlin'
up in the sky
Haiku for the Dark Days, from Janet McLaren (hope you enjoy it)
In superficial
Encounters you can't tell the
Dark Soul from the rest.
A Dark Truth must hide.
The Heart can't abide the black,
In Fear it chooses.
Nobody can name
The shocking source of the Rage
Nor pacify it.
Red bricks in the wall,
Blood from deaths of the Spirit
As Violence wounds,
Smoldering Furies
Rage at the impossible,
Retreat, diminish.
One by one candles
Of the Spirit extinguish
And leave only Dark.
Hope for afterlife
Is fear of real life being
Stolen from the Now.
It's his favorite time of day!
The unofficial awarding of the title World's Worst Poet went to Paul Neil Milne Johnstone
(AKA Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings), at least according to Douglas Adams.
A sample:
The dead swans lay in the stagnant pool.
They lay. They rotted. They turned
Around occasionally.
Bits of flesh dropped off them from
Time to time.
And sank into the pool's mire.
They also smelt a great deal.
You're joking, right?
https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Paul_Neil_Milne_Johnstone
*sniff*
So beautiful...
it's almost Vogon in its sublimity
Here"s my substack for today - all about giving a soft white damn.
That sounds interesting, doesn't it? There's flowers, too, and a Mule on the Hill !
https://open.substack.com/pub/brawlatthepoetscafe/p/the-snow-doesnt-give-a-soft-white?r=insr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcome=true
Does the Mule on the Hill see the sun going down?
I like me some e.e. cummings, this one especially: https://poets.org/poem/somewhere-i-have-never-travelledgladly-beyond.
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)
fun fact:
in Cambridge, ee cummings house was pretty much across the street from Julia Child's house
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That would be block party I would definitely go to.
I'll be damn I just posted an EE Cummings quote titled substack.
Hard to go wrong with Double E!
What if a much of a which of a wind,
gave truth to the summer's lie?
Little birdie, feather and bill,
Perched upon my window sill.
I coaxed in with crumbs of bread…
I remember marching to that in basic.
It's a shame about its little head.
How do you like your blue-eyed boy now, Mr. Death?
Our version started “I found a birdie in the snow.”