We Like Earl

Hola!

HURRICANE EARL. The title of this blog is to show gratitude for the change in weather. Last week was so hot and humid (95 degrees with 85% humidity=YUK), I was going to just melt. But "Hurricane Earl" came through, and for all the hype (you should have heard the drama, for Pete's sake), we only got a few hours of rain on Friday night. This is a cool Internet satellite image I found. It does look pretty intimidating. The coast and Cape Cod received more, but our storm was pretty mild.

What it did, however, was reduce the humidity and decrease our temps back down into the 70's. Whew! Thank you, Earl.

DAVID's BACK. Well! Cause for celebration at our house: David had his 6-month check with the orthopaedic surgeon, who did the spinal fusion last March. The biggest questions concerned what activities he could participate in: for the last 6 months, David has been limited on activities. And...

He is good to go! He wanted to participate in Cross-Country again this fall, and...he can!
He asked about rock-climbing and rapelling. Lifting weights as part of his sports workout. Climbing, jumping, etc., etc. It's all good.

The doctor DID recommend waiting a little on one request: the trampoline. Maybe he should take it slow on that, since he hasn't done any real exercise for 6 months. But his back looks great.

KARA's LEG. Kara also had her follow-up appointment, and her leg is healing very well. She is still going to physical therapy but can resume "normal activity" as she feels like she can. She is not quite back to "normal," of course. She limps some, and puts ice on her leg after she's been out playing for awhile, or walking a lot. She has been on her bicycle, inline skates, and she wants to be in soccer again...we'll see.

TUTORING. I started tutoring again, same Elementary Schools as last year. It will be 3 days a week, with the English Language Learners (ELL, an interchangable phrase with ESL, English as a Second Language).

BASEMENT. We are almost to the point of feeling like we have our house back. Just moving a few more things out to the garage, and of course labeling all those bins, so Mom is not the only one who knows where things are. Maybe I'll post some basement photos next time or so--then you can see results of a few of these looooooooooong projects we've plodded through.

Have a great week! Kari