Stuff Is Going On - I'm Just Not Telling You About It

So......What's happened in the week since my last post? We suffered through two days of heat and humidity over the weekend and were treated to a lightning show on Sunday afternoon the likes of which I haven't seen in a long time. It just so happened that TOYH took the girls out to Shady Oak Beach in Hopkins to go swimming. Before they left at 2:30, it was looking a little dark to the west, so I checked the Weather Service site and there were no storms heading our direction. Everything was to the north. They leave and I go upstairs to read and nap. At 2:45 I look at the weather radar on the teevee. All clear. I doze off and at about 3:20 I woke up with the sky looking a bit ominous. Flip on the teevee. Huge thunderstorm right over Hopkins, heading my way. I call TOYH and find out that they were kicked out of the lake at the first sight of lighting. They were on their way to their cousins place in St Louis Park. I decided to go out on the porch to enjoy the storm heading my way. After a couple of minutes, I'm back in the house. There were lightning strikes all around, a couple of which were close enough set off the neighbor's car alarm. The lightning had subsided enough for me to take the bus church, though it was still raining and my feet got wet. Interestingly enough, the Gospel text was from Luke where Jesus speaks of seeing Satan fall from the sky like lightning. A very appropriate text for this particular day I thought. The cold front that came through offered sweet relief from that awfull heat and stickiness.

The toilet was fixed on Saturday in a record two trips to the hardware store. Not really. I suppose it isn't a record since I bought something that I didn't need to fix the problem and it needs to be returned. 3 trips.

Yesterday I visited my poor little deef sister in the hospital. Last month she went into the U of M Hospital to get a cochlear implant to finally do something about this deefness thing. While on vacation in South Dakota, she developed an infection at the surgical site which turned into cellulitis. She spent 2 days in the hospital in Custer SD after finally seeing a doctor who knew this was serious and should not be treated with oral antibiotics. They get back from vacation and the infection is still there, so it's off to the U of M so the surgeon who worked on her the first time can take care of her. She's fine, but bored out of her skull. She gets massive doses of IV antibiotics every twelve hours. It's strong enough to make her scalp itch when she gets it. In my compassion I told her that the only reason I visited was because I biked to work. With gas at $3.35 a gallon and having to pay for parking, it just wouldn't be worth it if I drove. She appreciated that. She was kind enough to tell me the reason no one comments on my blog is because I don't whine enough. Whining=entertainment=comments. OK, here's my whine. "Nobody comments on my blog anymore."