Life

Earlier today, my wife and her parents noticed a raccoon walking through our back yard.  Later, the ‘coon came back, this time poking around under our deck.  This time, I got a look at her (I’ll explain the gender assumption in a moment): she is huge, easily twice the size of our largest cat.  I’d speculate that she’s 30 pounds, give or take.  And she seemed to have absolutely no fear: I stepped out into the back yard, and she turned around as she walked towards our gate and looked at me before walking off.  Our cat Rommel was out in the cat run, and fluffed up/hissed at the raccoon at this point, who completely ignored him. 

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Today was a good day.  Irene and I met my Mom and sister Judy at the Casino for a bit- that’s always fun.  We don’t really gamble much- it’s basically more of a chance to sit down and have a coffee with just the four of us.  I put $5 in a slot machine, and came home empty handed: perfectly normal 🙂

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Irene went in to the hospital today for her second hip replacement surgery (left hip this time).  Everything seems to have gone well: she was in pre-op at 8:00 am, entered the surgical ward around 9:30, surgery around 10:00 am done by about noon, out of post op by around 2:00 pm. 

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