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[arrete]

So I've spent a very busy summer rehabbing songbirds - meaning I have to get up early every day and that I have to feed them every 1 1/2 hours. I could only get away for 2 hours once a day, and that was difficult. I am definitely cutting back next year (volunteer activities can overwhelm you, but that's another story). But as of yesterday, I only have birds that can feed themselves - Hallelujah!

My husband and I had been planning a getaway for today through Friday. Visit a few local historic sites, visit the local arboretum and stay at a couple of really nice inns and eat good food and snarf a nice wine. Note the tie-in with FIRE - we're doing this in the middle of the week.

Well, about 2 weeks ago, my hip-leg-knee started hurting. By last week it was so bad I couldn't walk up stairs normally, or walk very far without a lot of pain. This would definitely affect our getaway. I went to my doc with a proposal for getting rid of the pain (we had gone through this last year with my back surgery). I asked him for something people usually don't ask for - oxycontin. But because we had a good relationship and he knew I had no trouble getting off before, he agreed to give me 2 weeks worth. Partly because he knew we were getting away for the first time in 6 months, and he wanted it to be a success. Having a good relationship with your doc is a very good thing.

I don't know where I'm going with this except that working through hard times is a whole lot easier in retirement when you have lots of time than trying to cram it into a 40 or 60-hour work week.

arrete

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I'm on an outing this week too. DW and I drove to Portland, OR from Phoenix. We spent 3 days visiting places in N. California and Oregon and another 3 days in Portland. We are on our way back now. Fall colors are beautiful. We've managed to visit a lot of places we wanted to see along the way. But today it started raining -- hard and consistently. We may not get to see as much as we originally planned. But, retirement means we may go home a little earlier and come back again another day.
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[unclemick]

Growing up - another name for rain was 'Seattle sunshine' - an opportunity to display the cool and stylish raingear that you owned. Uniform of the day Tan(not Plaid or Black) London Fog Trenchcoat(Like Bogey) and a full length(not folding) black umbrella. Of course in later decades - everybody went crazy - style wise.

heh heh heh - as children we were sent out to play in the rain. Hmmm??? Anywise enjoy - rain included!

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The rain let up as we climbed into the mountains. We were lucky. Misty rain came in short spurts but mostly only when we were driving from one place to the next. Very little rain fell when we were actually out hiking. We spent a couple days in Alturas, CA (near the boarder of CA, OR, and NV). There was snow on the ground in a few places and at higher elevations. It looked like it might snow at any minute. But we managed to track down all the archaeology sites we hoped to find. The scenery was fantastic as we drove south through the mountains from Alturas to Reno to Bishop all the was to San Bernadino and from 9000 feet to 1000 feet. We also spent some time around Mono Lake -- very strange scenery.

Next week we're off to Cibola National Forest near Albuquerque to record prehistoric rock art.
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