Musings

I combined leftover ropa vieja and new veggies and the last of T-giving—some broth, although you can’t see the broth.

I’m calling it ropa sopa—sopa meaning soup. I’m congratulating myself on my alliteration. 😎

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I had an idea for an artsy visual…and I ended up with a lot of keystoning.

Using my phone’s app, I could de-keystone the image. Yay. I lost a lot of important framing pixels, however, and there’re new distortions.

Metaphor for me these days? My wonky knee is analogous to a keystoned photo?

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Recovery is slow. Yet, better is great. And today, yup, better than yesterday. Can almost hobble without bobbling without a stick-assist.

With an abstemious portion of rye to celebrate.

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I have convinced myself that the after-dark view from the living room definitely looks like winter light. Yet, perhaps there are too many leaves for it to be wintery.

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I’m distracting you with a photo of the cable clamp on the footbridge across the mouth of the Two-Hearted River, from last July.

That’s because otherwise it’d me moaning about my patellofemoral pain and a “simple” hamstring stretch exercise, which is the extent of my permitted flailing at this early stage of my recovery. However, I’ve moved from two-stick walking to the one-stick level of assistance. Slow, yet true progress.

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Sexy shorts supplied to me for my medical visit. Ortho recommended cortisone shot, which I got but did not watch. Xray showed tiny spurs behind patella and arthritis (duh on latter). Now, over ten hours later, hobbling is “better,” but not “fine.” She said give it two days…

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Oh, do I hope I can get out and take new photos tomorrow, perhaps find another insect-on-a-bloom.

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My knee went super-wonky yesterday, an escalation from previous wonkiness levels (which already had me hobbling), and today I braved phone-holds and now have an appointment with an ortho for early on Wednesday. Fingers crossed that the outcome is…straightforward.

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I took this three years ago. The leaf situation is about the same this year, however the ginkgo tree is gone from the neighbors’ yard, so no ginkgo leaves on the Prime. It was a female tree, and produced stinky fruit; they kept it for years, until it was too much work keeping the stink removed to keep it around.

Title refers to college football game underway as I type.

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Spent the afternoon coming down from our feasting high (like pie and ice cream with morning coffee). Guests gone. Leftovers seriously raided. A happy state.

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