Grandies Stamp of Approval

It was a very rainy day, it was also school holidays so what better time to try a stamp session with grandies.  I got two albums out that I had previously cleared and were in very good condition. I also got a tub of stamps together maybe 500 or so which got dumped on the table and spreadout. My first suggestion was look for animals and you look for birds.  This worked very well as we have now had two sessions and as well as animals and birds, there is a page for plants and flowers and also fish.  I think interest was waining for the five yar old but the seven yar old is still keen.  I will be keeping the albums here with the other books in the nook.

Flip Out

 These all running, all climbing and all bouncing places are springing up like mushrooms in Winter. No matter which one you go to they are always packed. This is a new venue for us and whoever built this string of warehouses must love these guys as they have bought out the whole row.  This place is huge and the whole thing was covered in kids. You used to just bounce around. There is more neon here than Times Square.  Asher and Estelle were all over it for two hours. There was a section that required helmets but these two need to grow some more. A good place on a wet school holiday.

Finger Mold

 Session one today was the cutting off of the cast around the finger. Now this surgeon did not want that thing to move. The finger man filled his waste bin with all the offcuts, layer after layer of padding. We got down to the actual finger which looked messy but alcohol swipes soon cleaned it up and some movement is already possible without pain.  A splint was molded out of a synthetic board that melts and reforms around any shape that you want. So instantly there is a hard shell that fits the finger perfectly which can be slipped on and off.  There are a lot of stitches still in there.

I count eight stitches

Navel Gazing

The second session today was more accurately described as "through the navel gazing". Some yar ago I was offered a film to take home as a souvenir of the extraction of my prostate. I said I did not need to see that.  So now there has been a revisited edition of that film. You could call it "prostate that was" with an appendix called "appendix that was' . So the doc is happily taking me on a tour of my insides. Here is where your prostate used to live. Look at all that scar tissue. Now I am moving your colon (:) out of the way so I can lasso what's left of the appendix.  There is a river of green muck here that is flowing down, see that.  Now watch this as I bag up the severed appendage and slip out this little hole.  He described it as acute and very fast spreading. 

The Sun has set on this saga

Deer Park Club

 This is a sprawling venue that we have used for birthdays previously. It is an effort to keep up with these 91 year olds and this time we had the conference room booked out for exclusive use. The whole place was going off and I don't think there was a free table. Huge screens were showing the World Cup and for the kiddies there are two play grounds, as well as face painting and balloon puppets.  I recommend the spare ribs. I had a half rack pork pack slowed cooked for eight hours or so.  We finished with birthday cake and a reminder about putting the date aside for a 100th in nine years time.

we are lumberjacks and that's ok
eat the food and run away

The Fickle Finger

 Yes the Fateful Finger has been pointing at us lately and for quite some time. How to get that finger pointing somewhere else?  Hospitals always take longer. It will be late in the afternoon they say, sure.  We got back around 8:00pm last night. As usual the surgeons change their story once they have had a look inside.  Last week it was unexpected puss and degradation, coating otherwise healthy organs which needed a good flushing. This week it is more damage than was originally thought.  I had to chase deeper he says, repairs were more complicated he says.  Good thing these guys know their stuff.  The whole arm has been immobilised. The affected finger is still comfortably numb.

She wanted to spruce the garden beforehand

how do you sleep with this thing?

the race is on

Finger Pointing

 Deja Vu was in full swing back at the hospital again.  I got as far as the preliminary interview room before going home to sit it out. Same pack drill, same questions, same answers except it wasn't for me. Debbie is having a finger gouged, straightened and plugged.  Now we were supposed to be on a boat right now but because we weren't this procedure was brought forward.  I was told to wait it out for at least 4 to 5 hours then do the pickup.  My fingers have plenty of buckle in the knuckle and are worse than hers but mine are not leaking.