Steve and Judy's Travels!

Wait until evening.  Find the right hole in the power pole to watch.

Wait until it’s almost too dark to see.  When the black hole turns gray, snap a shot.

That means there is a little owl face in that previously empty space.

Elf owls are tiny little things; the smallest owl in North America; about the size of a sparrow; weighing little more than an ounce.  Here is what they look like in good light.

(Not my photo.)

They don’t go very far north in the U.S.

Last year we never saw a blackpoll warbler.

Not so this year.

First day of Rehab!  Judy is cleared for assisted range of motion.  Now she can start moving her affected arm around, but only with assistance from her good arm or some other means of support.

She can use the pulleys, where she uses the strength in her right arm to raise and lower her left arm.

Or do the wall-crawl, using her hand to pull the arm up and down a wall.

Her range of motion is pretty good to start with.  She’ll do these exercises and others at the physical therapist’s office three days a week.  She’ll do them every day at home.

It’s exciting to get this far; and a great relief for Judy to be able to move her arm around again.  No actual strengthening until three months from surgery though.