Rain

It’s Sunday and it’s been raining for hours.  Lucky: I’d forgotten to water the mums on the front steps.

Watching the trees whip around outside, am feeling very lucky to be in a warm, dry house.

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Ron grabbed the Times for us, has laundry going and brought Robert to work.

Made of 185 parts, your feet and ankles are extremely complex. There are 26 bones, 33 joints, and 107 ligaments, and 19 muscles in your feet, to be exact. The ankle provides the foundation for the foot and acts as a shock absorber, as well as a mechanism for propulsion. Each year about two million Americans visit the doctor for ankle pain from arthritis or fracture. An estimated 50,000 people a year experience end-stage ankle arthritis, in which the ankle cartilage has worn away completely, causing painful bone-on-bone rubbing and some level of disability.”

img_0407Smokey has been here sleeping in my living room chair since about 1:30 this afternoon. I had a nap myself before he arrived. He decided to check out the bed before he took off.