So glad to hear the knee is feeling so much better and hoping you get all the way through Spain with the full benefit. Don't overdo it at first though, let the cortisone effect get really established before you enjoy feeling 15 years younger. Have fun!

Yes, that does seem like the most natural explanation.

If knees could talk, this could be a patella a capella haiku.

Cartilage Envy ...
Something Scott's Left Knee could feel
Nope! Cortisone Hope!

I was wondering how I lived in Lake O without knowing about this park.

I left in 2001 and it was completed in 2005.

Looks like it's worth a visit!

Comfort Cone!

It has a nice ring to it, ¿No?

When I'm on tour I can't seem to find the time to read other people's journals. I'm home now, trying to catch up on that reading, and found this page. Thank you so much for that awesome tribute to Diggity.

Oh! It might work out. Send me an email at scoandpdx at gmail.

Well that’s an encouraging word. Thanks! I’ll be pretty happy if I can push this out another seven years. Surely by then I won’t mind settling down somewhere, sitting around in rehab for a few months, and petting a cat or dog.

And hi to Levi too!

Your left knee looks like my right knee! Hope the injections work out for you. I’ve been getting injections (Hyaluronic acid with a touch of cortisone) for about seven year now and it’s still working. Running is out of the question, as is aggressive mogul skiing, but I’m still able to hike, skate, ski (DH and XC) and bike of course. Eventually a knee replacement will happen, but hopefully many more years down the line. Hope you have this level of success with the injections too. Levi says Hi too!

Drop me a line when you’re in Minneapolis. If our schedules coincide, it’d be fun to say hello.

Thanks, Marilyn. It was a pretty satisfying day to be out.

Nice collection of birds, Scott!

Yup, like the fuzzy tailed rats in our trees that snatch tomatoes from the vine when they get an orange spot, run up the utility pole, eat a quarter sized hole in it, drop it to stink and rot with the other dozen or so that they previously stole...

A neighbor feeds them peanuts and has had a hole in his garage that he doesn't fix because they use it to raise brood after brood in it... Another neighbor who moved a few years back trapped two a day for over a week, and I could not tell any were gone... like deceased gone. But these are not invasive... here... They just don't have any more native predators to keep them from being invasive on home turf. I could go on and on about invasive species.

I was glad I got such a good photo so I could identify it with conviction. They’re quite similar to their cousins the greater yellowlegs.