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To: Paul R.

Please keep an eye on that bruise. Sometimes those things create serious problems. Yours sounds bad.

What a wretched weather day to have to move! I’m glad that part of it is over until May!

One of my containers that I had planted potatoes in look like it was ready to harvest. I planted 5, and got 15. Some of them only doubled, but several gave me 5 potatoes! Last year I had so much fun with my first try, that I gave it a whirl again this year. I have 4 more containers to harvest, but they haven’t gone limp yet. Maybe next week.


532 posted on 08/16/2025 7:53:44 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: FamiliarFace

Yes, thanks — my biggest worry would be some sort of internal infection or internal bleeding or (especially!) clotting. A clot headed to my brain is not the way I want to go out - at least not yet! And definitely I don’t want to die from an internal infection either, quite just yet - I know of a couple pretty horrific instances of such taking down seemingly very healthy, strong young people.

(I tried to find a link to the article from several years back about the son-in-law of a former basketball coach @ Southern IL University’s son-in-law suddenly dying completely unexpectedly from such an infection, the story as told by the coach, but I couldn’t turn it up. Seems to have been scrubbed from the Internet...)

So far, though, so good. (See post above - I seem to be doing ok.)

I do realize recovery will not be so quick as in my younger, more frequently “rough and tumble” days. If the ol’ leg is 80% come Monday, I’ll be happy. My biggest worry is that if I “favor” it oddly, that may aggravate my (so far modest) arthritis problems. So, I need to be a bit careful in that regard too.

Thanks again!


534 posted on 08/16/2025 10:00:42 PM PDT by Paul R. (Old Viking saying: "Never be more than 3 steps away from your weapon ... or a Uriah Heep song!" ;-))
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