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I'm so sorry your knee is acting up, especially right before your trip. Good luck with getting it under control soon. Whew, glad Shutterfly saved your work for you. I'm so sorry your Dad is experiencing health issues and hope they can be resolved. I think of him often whenever I read your posts. It's less than a week now which is a really exciting time in the planning.
Love the shed! I can’t believe how cool it’s been there (and so warm here)! Sorry your knee is acting up! Thank goodness you were able to retrieve the calendar! Not much longer!!
Hope your knee is better soon - hopefully without need for a steroid shot! Hoping it works out for us to meet up next week!!!
I woke up around 5:00, needing to go to the bathroom. I hopped out of bed as I usually do, and half way there I realized my right leg was working smoothly. I bent down and the knee was only barely swollen. Hallelujah! I'll send you and Tara a text as soon as we board DME.
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I hope your knee is feeling better without having to get the steroid shot. that your Daddy is feeling better soon too! It's so exciting when it gets down to the last week and you get to start seriously thinking about the clothes that you need to pack for your trip!
My knee is better and has been at this point is back to its normal self. I am so thankful! I think I've gotten the clothes sorted out. I may be a little over-prepared as a few of the nights look chilly for me.
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I love your new storage building. They are so handy.
Thanks! The pixies and prayers have definitely worked. As I tell Luke, my knee is cute again.
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Sending pixies for you and your dad for speedy recoveries. Glad you made the dead line for your 2018 calendar. I love making new calendars from past trip photos. It won't be long NOW!!!!!!!
Thank you so much! Dad said he doesn't know that he'll feel like getting out much this week with the pain. But I hope he at least gets his hearing aids checked again. I use a lot of family photos for our calendar as I give several for Christmas gifts, but there are always quite a few Disney PhotoPass photos in it, too.
Less than a week to go...so excited for you two! Hope your knee doesn't require a shot. Not fun...but they usually help a lot!
No shot today! I know it will help, but my doctor and I are waiting for that time when the swelling lasts past a couple of days.
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Working backwards, Wow! I didn’t realize that the ride engines were 7 feet tall!
I hope both you and your Dad are feeling better! I have discovered that I am not fond of aging! : what a relief that your project was saved! I have done things like that and had them not be saved.
I sure hope all works out so that we can meet up as much as possible!!
Thanks for the pixies, at least for me, they are working. I'm not fond of aging either and Daddy has mentioned the same thing, especially since this last surgery. He just hasn't bounced back like it did from his heart attack and the broken femur.
I was positive that I hadn't saved the calendar, but thankfully, the autosave had kept it for me. Big relief!
I keep telling Luke for so many of our days, "Now this day we'll probably see Tara and Muffin." Can't wait!
I'm so sorry your knee is acting up, especially right before your trip. Good luck with getting it under control soon. Whew, glad Shutterfly saved your work for you. I'm so sorry your Dad is experiencing health issues and hope they can be resolved. I think of him often whenever I read your posts. It's less than a week now which is a really exciting time in the planning.
My knee decided to deflate during the night, and I am so thankful. I was so relieved when I opened Shutterfly back up and there was the calendar in my projects file. He had had some pain about a month ago, but the last several weeks when I called he was feeling well. So I was a bit sad when I got off the phone with him yesterday.
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Love the shed! I can’t believe how cool it’s been there (and so warm here)! Sorry your knee is acting up! Thank goodness you were able to retrieve the calendar! Not much longer!!
Thanks! According to our local meteorologist, we are getting Canadian air and that has caused the cold high temperatures. It should be in the upper 60s by the end of the week, but we've still got a few more cold days before that. In fact, he said tonight we might have some "cosmetic flurries" on Wednesday morning. Funny terminology!
I woke up around 5:00 AM and realized that my knee wasn’t hurting. Hallelujah! When I finally got up this morning, the swelling was nearly gone. No shot for me today! After breakfast I tackled a Monday morning task that this week also includes trip preparation. I put our vitamins, supplements, and prescriptions in the weekly case for now and the two-week case for the trip. This is usually a fairly quick task, but sorting out three weeks’ worth of medicines takes a wee bit longer. I’ve put the cases for the trip in a gallon Hefty bag and placed them in our Vera Bradley travel bag. So I have officially started packing.
We eventually made it out for a 5K walk. At least today it was 55 degrees and sunny for most of the walk. That is 14 degrees warmer than Saturday’s walk. Yeah! After lunch, Luke headed to his new utility shed to lay the vinyl flooring while I worked out what I’ll be wearing on the trip. I only had to iron four pairs of shorts and that took hardly any time at all. I haven’t pulled everything out that will be going, but the packing list is beginning to fill in. Everything I did pull out today has been neatly folded and placed on a chair in the master bedroom. I didn’t have Luke deal with the suitcases today because flooring the shed took the entire afternoon for him. 004 Flooring-1 (640x427) by Cam Matthews, on Flickr
I’m very proud of him as he has never laid vinyl flooring before. He did all the work with just a smidge of assistance from me, but I was mainly inside working on the trip wardrobe and doing laundry.
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The shed floor is beautiful! Luke did an awesome job!! I’m so happy to hear that your knee is feeling better today!! . Congrats on the the packing progress and I love your daily fact today!!
Love that vinyl flooring for the shed and hope it's fine considering the abuse the shed may take over the years and what it will be used for!
So happy your knee is feeling better today as from so much pain to nothing in almost no time! With your trip approaching, it sounds like divine intervention to me!
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It is so great that the knee is behaving. The packing sounds like it is coming along. The shed is looking awesome!!!!!! Continued pixies for your dad!!!!!
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I'll send you and Tara a text as soon as we board DME. 
: what a relief that your project was saved! I have done things like that and had them not be saved. 
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