Our house is in Edinburg. We’re in Corpus Christi in a motel room. Tomorrow morning, Judy gets her pre surgery blood work. Tuesday, she actually gets the work done. No pizza for her tonight. We went to the Asian Café for Chinese.
Judy
After her shoulder surgery she won’t be able to lie down flat for weeks. She’ll have to sleep in the recliner chair. Instead of having her at the other end of the house by herself, we rearranged the bedroom to make room for the recliner.
Now we can at least be in the same room. With Judy going in for repairs though, what most of you are probably wondering now is: “What is Steve going to do while Judy has one shoulder out of service? Who is going to fix him dinner?” Well, rest assured, Steve is fully capable of handling this situation. Judy can have frozen pizza from the gas station for dinner every night if she wants. And in the unlikely event she wants something else, we can change it up with a Blizzard from Dairy Queen! I think we can expect a speedy recovery.
Now we can at least be in the same room. With Judy going in for repairs though, what most of you are probably wondering now is: “What is Steve going to do while Judy has one shoulder out of service? Who is going to fix him dinner?” Well, rest assured, Steve is fully capable of handling this situation. Judy can have frozen pizza from the gas station for dinner every night if she wants. And in the unlikely event she wants something else, we can change it up with a Blizzard from Dairy Queen! I think we can expect a speedy recovery. A White-faced Ibis
…doing his best Roadrunner impression.
Parrots
We went on a parrot quest, and I got stung in the face. I wasn’t stung by a parrot. The sting actually came first. Judy left a partially full coke bottle unattended. I discovered it and took a drink. I realized there was a problem when the coke in my mouth started to wiggle. The coke and the bee all ended up on the floor, but not before the bee left a stinger in my lip from the inside. I guess I’m not allergic to bee stings. My throat didn’t swell up. It didn’t get hard to breath or anything. I got the stinger out (shortly after the bee), and the burning did subside after a while. It left my face kind of numb though; kind of like I’ve been to an evil dentist. I think my mustache does a good job of hiding the swollen lip, so maybe no-one will ever even know I got stung in the face. The result of our parroting was more positive. We drove to Brownsville at dusk and watched a few hundred Red-crowned Parrots fly in to their roost.
It was kind of late when they started, so a lot of my pictures were more like silhouettes. We were able to pick out a few White-fronted
Red-lored (you can tell they’re red-lored by the yellow on their faces)
and Yellow-headed as well.
And one Green Parakeet.
You can tell it’s a parakeet by the long tail.
It was kind of late when they started, so a lot of my pictures were more like silhouettes. We were able to pick out a few White-fronted Red-lored (you can tell they’re red-lored by the yellow on their faces) and Yellow-headed as well. And one Green Parakeet.You can tell it’s a parakeet by the long tail. Judy update
Got the call-back from the imaging center. There is a torn tendon in her rotator cuff. The surgeon is in Corpus Christi. We’ll drop the pets off at the doggie spa in McAllen next Monday and drive up to Corpus and stay in a hotel there. We’ll do the preliminary work on Monday afternoon, then surgery on Tuesday. We’ll stay in Corpus another night to make sure everything is okay before we drive home on Wednesday. Judy has already had this surgery twice on her right shoulder so we know what to expect. She’ll be uncomfortable lying down for a while. We have a smaller recliner chair for her. We’ll move that into the bedroom so she won’t have to sleep in the front room by herself. A few weeks of recovery and rehab and she’ll be better than before. Well, her shoulder will be anyway. It has been warm lately. The highs have been in the 80s, and a couple days ago it was 93. I thought that meant winter was over, but noooo…… Tonight it got so cold after dark we had to turn the furnace on.