Mitchell Lake

 Hey Brother David.  Remember Mitchell Lake? Not a very long hike.  On this trail. I think it was spring.  The weather was good.  There was snow on the ground but the trail was clear until we got close to the lake.  We wanted to go all the way down to the water, but we didn’t want to get our shoes wet, so we took them off and walked the rest of the way barefoot. Barefoot in the snow…. It must have seemed to make more sense a few decades back when we did it. 

The stitches are out

 Already. I’m so happy with the surgery John did on my nose.  He was able to just cut a divot out of it and not take a big chunk.  He didn’t have to do a skin graft, so there is no secondary wound site (where the skin from the skin graft came from).  He was able to do a partial close on the surgery site and let it just fill back in all by itself. It’s healing so fast it’s almost gone already.