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My 56th birthday; calloo, callay, o frabjous day. Left arm hurting worse than usual today — silly anti-inflammatories now going on two weeks are doing not a whit of good for it — and my right thigh still somewhat raw, although much better now: walking in the house is no longer painful, and even my longish walks with Luna only occasionally remind me of discomfort.
I thought I'd walk to Burdine, which would have been about 8 miles round-trip: at 10-ish this morning the sky was a beautiful blue, and I was within 3 minutes out the door — but Susan called, wanted to chat; by the time we were off the phone, the weather had soured to overcast then snow: flurries then quite serious, even sticking, if for not very long and not sticking more than maybe an hour and a half. Still, Susan rescued me from a dreary cold walk in the snow to Burdine. On the other hand, staying indoors typing two days in a row is hardly a way to get to know the area. Still, no harm done and one more day to let the thighs heal. I did laundry; I made myself a sort of birthday lunch: baked sweet potato, carrots with mushrooms and onions in cream (looked very nasty, a wretched grey sludge with things floating in it, but tasted good), and two small strips of steak on toast with mustard butter: a fair amount of food, resisted the ice cream in the freezer — still haven't opened it since I've been here — as well as coffee with more cream, enough cream is enough. . . .
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This is a photograph of me making up the bed. |
And spent most of the day inputting The History of Jenkins, Kentucky, which is in many ways an extraordinarily good book for its unvarnished un-self‑conscious matter-of‑factness, giving an excellent window into life in pioneer America. Before I came here, I never thought that as late as 1915 anywhere in the east of this big wonderful country could be considered pioneering — mentally reserving that for the Far West — but in Jenkins at least, it undoubtedly was: this has been a real learning experience.
Yammer with James punctually at 7 (6 his time) and more poking about Susan's books, finding several to keep me entertained either as light reading for bedtime now, or more seriously for the next few days: one of them I'm even considering putting onsite. . . .
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