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|  This picture was a gift form Layne, the bride, when Natalie was her Maid of Honor last year. It was a beautiful gift of a beautiful girl! | | |
|  These are some fabulous pics of Nick and
Natalie at their flat. They are both doing fine and working hard at school stuff. Their Spring Break ends this week and they will have papers due and exams to prepare for.  their flat in Glasgow. They are doing great.  Here is a picture of Nat's friend Emma from New Zealand. ...and her boyfriend Sam. He was very fun and a great guy.
 Here we are: Nat and me on the streets of Glasgow. She stops real quick and says, here is a picture of us on the street. Whoa !!! it was right outside of a fabulous shop that sells wine and cheese. I bought Natalie her favorite cheese and she wanted to snap this picture on the street as we were leaving the shop. Doesn't Natalie look great !!
I am really happy to be posting these pics at Uncle Stu and Aunt Cathy's house, with Chris's help. So he may post more as we look at the pics I have of my trip to Glasgow. Chris is making me more tea and I just returned from a great crawfish eating party. We will look at more pics and maybe post more. Chris is a great help in this endenvour. He will help post the rest of the pictures from my Glasgow visit to see Nick and Natalie. SO ....more to come | | |
| OK, here is the skinny on the now very skinny left knee that was injuried on the ski slopes of Vail, CO. The ortho-knee doc said I injured it in three places: the ACL (main ligament that stablizes the knee) is torn - we knew that. He said I also tore the MCL. the inside-the-knee ligament. Its tender and sore, but will heal itself. YEA! Also the cardilidge is torn.
SO the plan is to look (MRI) at the cartilidge (Thur AM) to see the extent of that injury and then he will "scope it out". (scrape & clean it out) Its no big deal the Doc said. Then we will make a determination on the ACL repair. I also will be starting physical therapy next week to strenghthen the knee for whatever happens to it. I am ready !! lets get this bad boy strong again.
OK, heres my personal views today on the huge ice storm. I drove to Pineville this late afternoon/evening. In AR, ice covered the trees and most of it was beautiful - eerie, but beautiful. As I drove further north into MO the ice made an unbelievable scene. As far as I could see, everything was white - a sort of grayish white. A couple things I noticed; there was a real absence of color. The gray-white trees and landscape just ran into the gray highway. weird. Then I noticed, except for the huge WalMart busines area just inside the state-line, ...there was NO power. The entire town of Pineville was without power. just nothing ! The high temp today was in the teens. The temperture was dropping when I was driving through - I can't imagine what those people are doing to stay warm. | | |
|  Happy New Year !! I am on the last hour and a half of a long drive back from Colorado. (finally !) This "4-day" ski trip has been an interesting 7 day adventure with my friends Julia and Scott. They invited me a week before Christmas because they had an extra paid room. It was supposed to be a "run-out-and-ski-2-days-run-back" trip. We skied Wed at Vail and it was a beautiful morning. After lunch, I was on the "Lost Boy" run. It was a bit steeper than I am used to. I was doing OK until my left ski caught some snow. It was not bad or ugly fall. Just a fall - with two clear sounding "pop pops" in my left knee. I got up and ski down quite a ways - slowly. My knee would not work. After inching down another very steep spot, leading with the right and dragging the left leg I stopped. A volunteer stopped to assist and I had already called my friends. ANYWAY, I was taken down by toboggan and then taken to be ex-rayed. I tore my ACL and it is in a brace with crutches. No more skiing for a while. But while my friends skiied Saturday, I sat in the "Mountain House" drinking coffee and Bailey's and got aquainted with some people from the "Tulsa Ski Club". I've been invited to check out their website to see all the fun things they do and join them if I want. fabulous!
Then we tried to get out Thursday morning to escape the 2nd huge storm. We got about a hour out of Vail, going 5 MPH, and passed a 13 car wreck. There was very little visability and Scott's laptop said the highways were being closed. He got us a small condo back in Dillon, so we turned around and stayed 3 more days waiting for I70 to open. We stayed in Denver last night when we saw the roads were opening. At 4:30 AM we started for home. More later on what the doc will say about my knee. But 2007 has started with an adventure and I look forward to a good year with two working knees and maybe more adventures. | | |
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