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Remember

 Remember when the kids were little, and you could sit in one place and track them through the house just by listening.  Every time they picked up something they weren’t supposed to, they’d say “No.” out loud.  It’s kind of like that with Judy, except she’s saying “Ow.” out loud. We drove to Corpus and got her cast off today.  She says it hurts a lot less already without the cast pressing against the wounds.  She’s saying “Ow.” less, so she’s a little harder to track now. First thing she wanted to do at the doctor’s office was get her left hand under water and wash it.It hasn’t been wet for weeks. Next thing when we got home was to take a shower without one arm in a plastic bag! 
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Man with a camera

 I sent my camera in for service so I’ve been without it for a couple weeks.  It was good to get it back and shoot some random pictures. We’ve got neotropic cormorant. A couple egrets, great and snowy. And a loggerhead shrike.  
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I listened to an interview

 It was with a 47 year-old man.  He said “I couldn’t join the military and fight for my country when I was 15.  I wasn’t mature enough.  I couldn’t vote.  They said my brain wasn’t fully formed.  I couldn’t buy a drink or even a pack of cigarettes yet.  I wasn’t old enough to be responsible. But when I was 15 I made a terrible decision and killed another person.  I was tried as an adult and sentenced to spend the rest of my life in prison.  I understand that taking a person’s life is a horrible thing to do, but how is it that for every other thing I might have done when I was 15 I was not old enough to be responsible, but for that one thing, I am held responsible for the rest of my life?” End quote.  This is me talking again.  I’m not in favor of the death penalty; I just have a logic problem with it.  “It’s so wrong to kill someone that we’re going to kill you if you do it.”  That doesn’t resonate for me.  I prefer something along the lines of putting the killer in jail for as long as the victim remains dead. This however, is a different spin.  The thought of putting a person in prison for life for a decision they made when they were 15?  That’s tough.  
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Judy negotiated an early out

 We all know how it works.  You break something.  You get a cast.  You leave the cast on for as long as the doctor says.  Then you get it off.  That’s how it works.  You just do what the doctor says. So is that how Judy does it?  Not exactly.  I came home and she announced that the appointment to get her cast off had been moved up a week.  She called the doctor and negotiated an early release.  We drive back to Corpus on Wednesday to get the cast cut off.  She’ll spend less time in the cast, and more time in the removable splint. Who knew?  
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We had an appointment today

 With the grocery store. Really. They have a new online order/pickup service.  We shopped on their website the day before, paid for our purchase, selected a time today to pick up our order (a half-hour window), pulled up to the parking area marked for this purpose, and texted them the spot we were in.  The attendant came right out, confirmed who we were, and handed us two complimentary bottles of cold water and two cookies.  She returned inside and was back out in just a few minutes with all our groceries and put them in the back of the car.  Fruits and vegetables, dairy, bagels, meat, bottled water, a bottle of wine, even cut flowers.  We tried it all.  We checked our order when we got home and it was just right; it worked perfectly. A five minute stop and we never even had to get out of the car.  That was the easiest trip to the grocery store ever. It wasn’t free.  Well, it was and it wasn’t.  The cost for this convenience is $4.95, but the charge is waived during this introductory period (until the end of the year).