Visitors from Atlanta

My son and daughter-in-law just arrived yesterday from Atlanta. She had eye surgery this morning and is doing well. They were fortunate to get out of Atlanta. Their apartment there was flooded and they lost a few things. They were in the process of moving out to a house and had most of their possessions already moved.

I haven't been able to work on the tower any. I'm hopeful that I can get started back on that next week. I went to court last night because of the ticket I had received but the judge took mercy on me and let me off with a tongue-lashing (very mild).

Concussions and Other Injuries

I took the little D3 over to a friend's house today and was pushing some trees down in his pasture when a limb reached inside the operator's compartment and "whacked" me. I was bleeding like a "stuck hog" (sorry, thats an old Oklahoma phrase) and I asked the friend who was standing there if I needed an ambulance. He replied that, no, I didn't need an ambulance, but I did need some stitches.

I got Louise to take me to the minor emergency place in Sand Springs and the doctor (who went to school with my daughter) took a look at it. He said that no, I did not need stitches, since there was some material missing from my forehead which would have made it easier to stitch up had it been there. I learned two important lessons from this:

1) Don't get whacked in the head.

2) I'm getting older when I find that the doctor went to school with my daughter.

Since my camera broke on the cruise, I won't be able to post pictures of my wound. Oh, well, it's probably just as well.

Caribbean Cruise

Well, we just returned from our cruise to the Caribbean and enjoyed it thoroughly. Louise and I and Mike and Rachel and their two children went. We hit Jamaica, Grand Cayman, and Cozumel, three places I had never been.

Impressions? Jamaica is a sad place; we were warned to not go downtown so we didn't. Grand Cayman is a nice clean place but very touristy. The Mexican jungle is very, very hot and humid. All in all, though, it was a great cruise. Now its back to eating like a normal person.

Projects this week? Getting the tower in the air is Number One on the list. Unless it rains a great deal, I should be able to get this done. I'm also going to start studying for my extra license.