But Will I Set off Airport Metal Detectors?

[bec_87rb]

Remember how my sister fell down our front steps and hurt her foot? Turns out the problem, that horrible noise she heard, was not a bone, but a tendon on the top of her foot snapping. When she went in for xrays recently, the little bones at the base of her toes had moved around without that connective tissue to make them behave. Tuesday, she is

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[chhinnamasta]

So sorry to hear about your sister and hubby, but good to hear they both came through their respective operations ok. Hope this is the last foot mishap for your sis. She's done both feet now, so hopefully this is the end of the foot torture for her. Maybe sprinkle some holy water on those demon stairs of yours?

[bec_87rb]

Holy water seems appropriate. I have already called in a crew that denuded them of their villianous tentacle vines. Next step - scrape and repaint. I have the wire brushes and the paint, just need a day or two with no rain.

[chhinnamasta]

Have you performed the exorcism yet?

[bec_87rb]

Nope. I haven't even repainted - for weeks there has been rain nearly every day. We did get a crunchy granola landscape guy to look at the front yesterday. "I just like to see the terrain and let the plants dictate where they want to go." Dood. I have to send him some electronic photos of yards we like so he can get some idea what the plants are telling him, I guess?

Funny there is a volunteer eastern red cedar tree that he was itching to remove, but didn't want to say so, because they are native and favorable to wildlife. He just reminded us several times that they carry some kind of rust fungus that means we can never plant anything in the rose family in the yard, and what a hassle it will be when it comes down with the rust, etc. The last consultant, who was more industrial and less hippy, was just like, oh, yeah, first we take this thing out .... XD

[suegypt]

Thinking good thoughts for you, but disturbed that I no longer see your posts on my friends collection. I only catch up with you when i click your page.

Anyway, glad everyone's OK. How are you?

[bec_87rb]

Defriended me, did you? :) I'm tired and sort of relieved that the yearly physical didn't turn up anything more dire than a severe finger-wagging about my cholesterol, but also thinking, okay, so what is wrong? I'm completely anxious and out of it. Brain cancer. It has to be brain cancer. Or an exotic parasite. But definitely not lupus, according to the House rule, it's never lupus.

I did sign up with a particular company to redo the master bath, since it is leaking into the ground floor, as the other bath was doing several years ago. And we sent the deposit check, so we are on the board.