I walked into that room with the piped in music and the big gun hanging over the gurney where they put my personal form-fitted cage over my face and clamped me down one last time. The staff calibrated the big gun from behind the thick walls and a bank-vault door, taking some X-rays first to […]
Yearly Archives: 2016
Gnarly Apple Trees
Sat, 6 Feb 2016, 03:23 PM (-06:00)
Do you remember those apple trees? Those gnarly apple trees? There was the easy one. Just around the corner from the clubhouse. The room we called the clubhouse that was attached to the back corner of the barn. The room with the dirt floor and the door that you had to push hard to open. […]
Looking Back up the Mountain
Sat, 6 Feb 2016, 12:48 PM (-06:00)
We came to a stopping point on our descent from Sardonahütte, where the old path to the hut joined the new path. And we stopped for a moment to look back, tracing our steps back to where we had spent the night. Except that it was a little more distant than that photo suggests: Having […]
Falling Behind
Sun, 31 Jan 2016, 08:01 PM (-06:00)
So yes, I was the pokey little puppy on that hike down the mountain. And yes, Jerry and Gabrielle and Trudy had to repeatedly wait for me, which admittedly they did with sincere smiles on their faces. Yet every time they waited, I would fall behind again, because, well… because.
One More Week
Sat, 30 Jan 2016, 07:26 PM (-06:00)
Five-sixths of the way thru radiation therapy. I don’t have the vocabulary to describe what’s going on in my mouth and down my throat. It hurts… kind of. But it’s not ouchy. It’s sore… kind of. But it doesn’t ache. Mainly I don’t want to talk much. And I don’t have the vocabulary to describe […]
Starting the Descent
Sun, 24 Jan 2016, 03:43 PM (-06:00)
Epic, you say? There should have been bread pudding, you say? I agree. There should’ve been. For all we know, there probably was bread pudding the next night. They know comfort food at Sardonahütte. But there was no bread pudding the night we were there, which was no real loss, because we made prompt bee […]
Bread Pudding?
Sun, 24 Jan 2016, 12:10 PM (-06:00)
That was a good one, she said, but bread pudding? I thought you reminded me we had bread pudding. I don’t remember that. I don’t think we had bread pudding. Oh. I think you better say something about that. — So I say it here. There was no bread pudding. I suppose I should say […]
Alpine Harmony
Sun, 24 Jan 2016, 10:36 AM (-06:00)
After the hike up to Sardonahütte from Vättis, we were a little bit cold, a little bit wet (and I was massively sweaty). I suppose if it had been earlier in the summer rather than September, it might have been warmer, and we might have found it pleasant to relax outside taking in the view, […]
For A Short Time
Sat, 23 Jan 2016, 10:27 AM (-06:00)
Now there came a day amid the lengthening days of that winter when he gathered a scant few of his belongings and his faithful dog Miss Izzy and waved farewell for a time to his loving Chachi Bette who had been as his caretaker and companion and ventured forth. Across the plains did he fare, […]
Their Bells
Mon, 18 Jan 2016, 09:25 PM (-06:00)
Moooooooaaaaaaa, my brother texted me. Now to understand this, you must understand my brother… or rather you must understand us, which you probably don’t. At least my guess is that you don’t know what he meant. So I will translate. He was making cow sounds in response to that story that involved cows. But I […]