Sorry for my silence. I suffered through a medical procedure
on Wednesday, some minor outpatient surgery. It wasn’t until the afternoon, so
I couldn’t eat or drink anything all day. Travalon took me on a boat ride, and
out in the sunshine I didn’t feel any hunger or thirst. Then I had to sit in
this boring little room with just a TV to keep me company, and I found a
channel that played horrid New Agey piano music with beautiful visuals of
mountain lakes. I thought, “I would love to canoe there! And there too!” Then
they took me to the operating room and put me under, and the next thing I knew,
I was waking up from the most beautiful dream of canoeing on one of those
mountain lakes. I wanted to go back! They made me drink a ton of water and eat
some delicious wheat toast slathered in butter, then eventually they let
Travalon take me home, and we had a quiet evening.
Thursday I wasn’t allowed to drive, work, or make any
important decisions. At first I felt fine, but as the day wore on, some
painkiller must have worn off, because by the time Travalon came home I felt a
lot more tired and achy. We went for a walk and then went to a cottage party at
the East Side Club, where we sat with a family that had an adorable
nine-month-old baby girl, so that was fun.
Friday I felt even worse, so Travalon stayed home with me in
the afternoon and took me on a therapeutic boat ride. I was way too tired to go to the Dane Dance, even if it was one
of my favorite salsa bands. Instead we went to the movie Megan Leavey, the true story of a Marine in Iraq and her
bomb-sniffing dog, and how she tries to get reunited with him after the war. It
was really good.
Saturday I started to feel more human, so Travalon and I
went to visit his mother, then we took a free pontoon boat shuttle across the
lake to an art fair. We looked at art and listened to some African drumming,
then we took the boat back across the lake and headed home. We met some friends
for a quiet dinner, then we went for a walk around Tiedemann Pond, and I got my
usual 10,000 steps for the day for the first time in days. That felt good!
Yesterday we had a busier day. We went with Hockey Girl to
Wollersheim, since she had never been there, and she took the winery tour while
Travalon and I took a tour of the new distillery. We had the most amazing
cocktail there of their apple brandy, cherry syrup, and cream soda. So good!
Then Hockey Girl and I went to a sunflower maze and just wandered around in the
cheery flowers while Travalon went to a little zoo in Baraboo. He really liked
it and took us to it once we made our way out of the sunflowers. Then we went
to Devil’s Lake. We also took the Merrimac Ferry there and back, since Hockey Girl
had never been on it. It was such a beautiful day, and on the way over we had
ice cream on the ferry – Zanzibar chocolate is the best!
Today I felt a little sad that I had no plans to go see the
eclipse someplace where you could see the totality, and we couldn’t even find
eclipse glasses, although we had been looking for three weeks. However, at work
tons of people had glasses, and so we all stood around and looked at it. The
sun looked like a very thin crescent moon. It was kind of like an eclipse
party! I hope my readers got to enjoy the eclipse as well. Nature is so
amazing!
Famous Hat
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