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[Catrin]

Hope all are ok from the storms and extreme heat in different parts of the country. It was rocking and rolling here early yesterday morning. Hope the garden survives Oakleaf and the rabbits are finally blocked out.

[Crankin]

Hope your garden is OK, Oak. I know how hard you work on it!.
We missed all of the storms, thankfully. It is going to be 90 here this weekend, and thankfully, I am leaving for Portland, Maine in a couple of hours, where it will be in the 70s all weekend.

[Pax]

Heading to Orlando in a few minutes, we are going to the ALA (American Library Association) annual conference. Looking forward to getting away, could definitely use a break.

[Pax]

Our best friend in the whole world (she and her partner bought the condo two doors down) is visiting, it's so fun to be around a long time friend, very relaxing! She is a bit younger and is very fit and athletic still, so she's asking me a lot of questions about my new limitations. It's been interesting, trying to put what has happened into words. Best I can come up with is; after almost a decade of being told a new knee would make everything better, having all that anticipation, all those magical thoughts, and then finding out it's not to be, is that I exist in a "new normal" and I'm making peace with it. The things I've always done but can no longer do, are legion, so my attention is turning elsewhere. I'm exploring my love of art in much more depth, I'm reading even more than I did before and finding my vivid imagination allows me to still go so many places and do so many things, from my comfy chair. Life is different, but still wonderful.

[emily_in_nc]

Great attitude, Pax! Glad you're enjoying time with an old friend, too.

[Pax]

Great attitude, Pax! Glad you're enjoying time with an old friend, too.

As I'm sure you know, Emily, it's one of the strange things about moving away from everyone you know, that comfort in a relaxing conversation with an old friend that's missing much of the time. Really nice to settle in and not have to "introduce" myself to someone.

[emily_in_nc]

As I'm sure you know, Emily, it's one of the strange things about moving away from everyone you know, that comfort in a relaxing conversation with an old friend that's missing much of the time. Really nice to settle in and not have to "introduce" myself to someone.

Oh gosh yes, I surely grok this! Whenever we do meet up with an old friend, it's just so darn comfortable and easy. Instead of being like most people we meet in the RVing world who think we're insane for not having a tow'd vehicle, riding our bikes everywhere, etc. etc. We meet some really nice people, but very few who get us.