It has been a long time coming March, 14,

But I’m starting to like fish.

Judy has been cooking tilapia.  The other night she made this baked cod, sautéed shrimp, Judy’s rice (with tomato and green onion), and homemade tartar sauce.

Yum.

Bo and Colleen fed us grilled salmon and we liked it so much we got the recipe.  It has been a long time coming, but now I look forward to our fish food.

A search and destroy mission March, 12,

That’s how the surgeon described it.

Judy’s left shoulder really hurts so the doctor had her do an MRI so he could see what’s going on.  He knows he needs to go in and repair rotator cuff tendons.  He may have a bursectomy to do.  He might do a debridement to clean up some arthritis.  There is a lump on top of her shoulder we thought was a lipoma, but it didn’t register that way on the MRI.  His theory is that there may be some detachment at the top of the deltoid muscle that has bunched up a little bit there.  It might also just be extra subcutaneous adipose tissue.  He won’t know until he sees it from the inside.

We’re scheduled for surgery next Wednesday morning.  A search and destroy mission.  Once he gets in, he’ll do whatever needs to be done, and it will all be done arthroscopically.  Six weeks in a sling; she’ll be out of it in time for us to leave on schedule for Alaska.

In preparation for our Alaska trip March, 11,

We’ve been watching Alaska State Troopers on television.  So far, we’ve learned to drink a lot, sell a few drugs, be so uncooperative that we get tased or pepper sprayed, burgle a few unoccupied houses, and run from the police at every opportunity.  We might throw a gas can in the campfire once.

We’ll be prepared.  We should fit right in.