Memnison Journal

The wound.  There’s nothing but a scar there, according to Susan and Mere. Thank you, God. “Just a little bit of adhesive gunk, and not even a scab,” said Mere last night.
 
I’ll be able to wash my foot properly for the first time in a year. You can’t believe how wonderful [...]

From Susan’s photoblog (Sunday)  (picture links here):
Earlier tonight we picked Meredith Ellen up from the airport.  Sissy is here for the next 6 days.  We’ve got manicures and pedicures, American Girl Place tea parties, New Years Eve Parties to cram into the next 6 days.
Meredith Grace was barely able to contain her excitement in waiting [...]

The carpet fan is whirring away in the background, and I think we dodged the bullet on this one, at least as far as  It Could Have Been Worse.  The major damage that isn’t replaceable is a small stack of papers I’d set aside for scanning, which were on the floor in my office.  I’m [...]

The complete set is here at Flickr.  A sample after the cut:

Went out and got prescription reading glasses today; my prescription is +1.75, and they work very nicely.  Worst part was slipping and falling HARD on the slick tile floor just inside the Vision Works store; as I’ve said before, with my cruddy balance, I learned long ago to fall down the best way I can [...]

The snow wasn’t as bad as advertised; we ended up with maybe 4-5 inches, but really sloppy wet stuff that was a pain to shovel, according to the shovellers.   Kurt and John are here, but Kurt is *really* tied from a very long week at work.    Mere had a snow day, and did Mere [...]

Joe Cool and his faithful Scandinavian sidekick, Woodchuck, at a Kennedy Space Center photo thingy.   Memorial Day weekend, 2007.

I have been having a LOT of problems with my eyes recently in regard to reading things, and set up an appointment a while back with the eye doc that the rest of the family sees.  (I’m the only one who didn’t need glasses to function; Susan had LASIK surgery a while back, and does [...]

I’ll sit down and go over the Presidents Thang in a day or so.  Right now, I’m busy fishing the big Digital Organization, to be followed up with more organizing tricks tomorrow.  So I’m Really Busy As Heck with that stuff. 
Meredith had a good deal from Sinterklaas, with lots of pepernoten / kruidnootjes and [...]

Silly daddy collects all sorts of pictures of Meredith’s past birthdays.  Meredith - happy ninth birthday, sweetie!
And for Meredith Ellen - just wait till we can all celebrate together later this month:

(the twins celebrating their 4 1/2 birthday together)

Probably of utterly no interest to most of you, but there’s been a recent series in Daytonology on the development of the east side of Dayton, which is my home town.  I spent - well, from 3rd grade till I graduated from college on that side of town, and it’s the Olde Home for me, [...]

Lord God, I thank you for letting me live in this time, in this place, in these circumstances, among these good people, and within this beautiful and extravagant creation!
- jeff Duntemann

I’ve been in a couple of accidents, none damaging to me or the car in any significant way, and one damaging to the other person’s car.  A Live-Journal friend recently had a bad accident, which mashed up their car, but didn’t injure them aside of scaring the bejaizus out of them as the car rolled [...]

A slight correction - Susan is making Pumpkin Pie, the Squash Casserole mentioned in an earlier post, and the Paula Deen version of Oyster Dressing.   Meredith and Connie are helping, and I’m in the basement, making CDs for Marlyce and Connie of some Christmas music Oprah Winfrey had on her show.
As to Pumpkin Pie, Susan [...]

I’m noticing that a lot of my friends-list and others online - and the few I talk to on the phone (man, I am so housebound) - are going to take the holidays easy, cheap and local this year.  Our household will, as usual, trot out to Susan’s aunt Marlyce’s house and do the holiday [...]