Lots of little joys

Bluebirds are nesting in the box out in front of the house

ALL the blossoms in the world are blooming right now, wild plum, and the pear and apples

The view down our ridge is gold with lush green stripes

The "billiards parlor" is painted a limestone gold and the carpet charcoal grey, with a lovely hanging fixture centered exactly over the teal green felt and his new 3 balls (billiard balls that is)

We've eaten well this last week, the best steak in Madison and the meat heaven called Samba for our 24th anniversary last Tuesday

I was blessed with three full out smiles (for real, this was no gas) by a 2 and 1/2 week old Sydney; God that girl has got me in her pocket now!

We took a brief road trip to Ohio to see David and it was wonderful, he's so, so ....centered, accepting, open and so loving with my guy, it was a delight to watch them together.

Watched "The Hunger Games" and had Shrimp Scampi.

And when we got Back from Ohio, Chris and Miya and Salla (C&M's beloved golden retriever) are here! for the week!

But

As we pulled into the farm last night it became apparent that Gil's knee was getting infected, pain, swelling, low grade fever

a late night run to the ER and he was admitted

the talk by the ortho team is of surgery.

It's our mid January issue of how do you handle a knee infection which if it's on the metal knee replacement, would require surgery.

And we're not going to do that.

We'll try antibiotics and see what happens with fresh blood.

His #s this morn an appalling red 7.1, white .6, platelets 3! arg

So we're back to harvesting as many little joys as possible

which will be a hell of lot easier if we can get

out of the hospital!!

to be continued, as they say, after more info from Docs. Dr Callander is on vacation for the week. But she will be very much involved by phone.