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[shootingstar]

I worked in a hospital for spinal cord injured adults for awhile.

Some of them were permanently paralyzed after falling off a roof/heights.

A very popular hardworking local, cycling advocate became a quadriplegic, paralyzed from neck down. He was paragliding and crashed on a rock...

[OakLeaf]

Today on my run I encountered a roadie whom I'd seen from a distance several times before.

He's maybe a little older than I, always riding alone, has the look of someone who knows what he's doing on a road bike (decent cadence, sensible lane position and road choice, reasonably fitting bike and clothes), but he has a pretty big belly, like he'd maybe been off the bike for a while for whatever reason, and is getting back into it now.

Today it's very hot and windy, and I saw him up close at an intersection.

He had a cannula in his nose and a little portable oxygen concentrator in his jersey pocket.

If that guy isn't tough, I don't know who is.

[Crankin]

Yeah, that's tough. I won't complain on my next ride.

[Catrin]

Oh my Oak, THAT is desire to ride!

[skhill]

You know it's spring when you vacuum in the evening, only to find a mist of freshly-shed dog hair covering the carpet the next morning...

[indysteel]

You know it's spring when you vacuum in the evening, only to find a mist of freshly-shed dog hair covering the carpet the next morning...

I was just expressing the same sentiment in our house. We have hardwoods and when the late afternoon sunlight hit the floors on Monday, I just about died. The carpet of cat fur is just awful. Time to vacuum and brush. And then vacuum and brush again.

[marni]

You know it's spring when you vacuum in the evening, only to find a mist of freshly-shed dog hair covering the carpet the next morning...

and if you own a corgie, it takes less than a week to grow a carpet. Honestly, between the projectile shedding maine coon with hairy armpits and the corgie who walks around in her own personal cloud of loose hair, I do dust bunny patrol with the vacume daily and still can't keep ahead.

Ahh spring. Dog and cat hair inside, tree pollen outside, allegra with an occasional side shot of benedryl inbetween.

[snapdragen]

marni! I did not know you were Of the Corgi too! I have small "puppies" gathering in the corners, it's time to vacuum...again..

[marni]

our dear little roweena is a rescue dog with the memory of a goldfish and very many issues so she is constantly alert, barking at something and afraid of everything. She also is blind in one eye and has a shattered pelvis so her gait is funny. Never the less, she is slowly (four years later) willing to trust me when I tell her there is nothing to bark at, and learn to accept that petting is different from being hit. She has obviously been blind in the one eye for years before we adopted her as she functions so well but I tend to think that is part of her barking issue. nevermind, she is a love and gets along well with the cats and the other dog which I inherited from my father in law when he died.