Two oak trees? Hey, that's practically an acorn farm! And here's a couple web sites that tell you how to harvest 'em and cook 'em up...
www.grandpappy.info/racorns.htmwww.sanaturalareas.org/acorns.htmlIf I get in the right mood, maybe I'll stroll over to Facebook and open an account just so I can "friend" you and sarry. I don't think you're technophobic, furrymom -- you're here, aren't you? ;D A lot of people our age (50+) won't use computers unless they're forced to, screaming and biting as they're being dragged towards the keyboard.
I suspect that the reason you (and me, lately) don't spend hours on such sites is that we've outgrown the need to talk for hours without saying much. Which doesn't mean I don't still do that, if the other people are interesting and fun -- I loved being in the old chat room, and we weren't discussing rocket science or solving world peace.
And I don't regret a minute of the time I spent there, those convos were great! But I can be content without it, and most Young Persons are more social than our generation, I think. They're normal, you're normal, I'm....they're normal. Let's leave it at that.
Heck, I might even sign up for Twitter now that I've been told I can do that from my computer! (I thought I had to have a cell phone with Internet access. Silly me.) I wonder if that's where most of our members are hanging out these days?
Oh, foot report. No surgery required!
At least not until we've tried other things first, which is a huge relief. I do have to buy more expensive objects to put in my shoe, and add another half hour of nice cheap physical therapy exercises to my daily routine, and do them 7 days a week instead of just five.
And my foot will never recover enough to let me run a 26+ mile marathon, but that's a life limitation I can live with.
But the podiatrist seemed optimistic about me eventually being able to go grocery shopping without being half-crippled for two days, which is my current goal, so I'm pleased.
He also seems to have accidentally spilled the beans about some stuff the other 3 GPs, other podiatrist, and physical therapist never mentioned. He kept pointing to a spot just below my 4th and little toe, and I kept pointing to a spot on the inner side of my arch, so I finally reminded him that I'd chipped a knob off a bone *here* and asked why was he talking about *there*? He looked startled and looked at the X-rays and said, "oh yeah, you did that too. I was talking about the major fractures."
I don't know whether the other folks were incompetent or keeping info from me "for your own good" or what, but his version of the facts matches my symptoms and recovery a lot better than theirs. Plus he showed me on the X-rays where the breaks were, and once he pointed out the right places to look (dang, foots have a lot of bones!), even I could see it. The treatment would have been the same either way, but it does make me wonder what else I might not be told....
And it's the difference between "this is pretty minor, in a year you'll hardly remember it happened" and "your foot will never be the same."
The podiatrist also said I have an extra bone in my foot, which is rubbing things and causing the big sore bump I've been complaining about for months -- the one that the others told me was "nothing, everyone has bumps, no need to do anything about it." And he gave me things to do about it.
Sorry if that's Too Much Information -- it's such a relief to finally find a doctor whose reality seems to match mine, and doesn't seem to think I'm being a whiny hypochondriac when I complain about not being able to do my chores!
I could natter at you about other stuff, but this is already novel length. I'll save it for another post.....