Scattered Thoughts . . .

I've really been slacking on sharing photos from the lake. I'm even further behind in editing and sharing video but that is a whole other story. Since I have hundreds of photos from this year alone, there are always new lake photos to share. Recently, I pulled out a few interesting photos. In this first shot, this loon was way out there on the lake. The lake is almost a half mile across to the opposite shore and this loon was much closer to the other side of the lake than our side of the lake.  I was on our dock at the shore... it was early morning and the bugs were feasting on me... you can faintly see the remnants of morning fog closer to the shore across the lake. The lake was flat, calm and quiet... I steadied myself against a post like a village drunkard leaning on a lamp post... slowed my breathing, focused... then I saw this distant scene more clearly in my viewfinder.  A boat had just passed this loon and the wake created by the boat was reflecting the

Once or twice each year, I totally screw-up my medications by forgetting to order a prescription. As I was sorting out medications for our upcoming weekend excursion, I realized that I screwed up again.  One of my medications was almost empty when I pulled out the capsules needed for the weekend. This is not good.  This particular medication is a combination of mast cell stabilizer and an H1 blocker. It is actually something I need to get compounded by a pharmacist in Washington state because it is not an FDA-approved medication... nor is it covered by insurance... so I have it made just for me. I immediately called my doctor's office to inform them that I screwed up and I need them to call out to the pharmacist to order a new prescription. I probably won't see this new prescription for almost two weeks which means I will be without this particular medication for 7-10 days before the new prescription arrives.  This also means that the quality of my health will plumme

After writing about outdoors in a previous blog entry, now, we'll visit indoors at the Montshire Museum of Science. Sheila had been to the Montshire many times before with her own children when they were young children so there were no surprises for her nor was there much discovering for her to do. I, however, had never visited this museum before so it was all new to me... same for Lukey and Kenzie. It was a time to discover new territory! The entrance of the museum is very nice... clean, very well organized, and the task lighting throughout the museum is very effective and it creates a nice mood. We quickly and easily paid our admission at the front desk and moved into all the science exhibits and interactive stations. Once we showed Lukey and Kenzie what to do at these mirrors (the lead photo here), they had a lot of fun trying different things! At first, when I pointed out this mirror, I think they were saying to themselves, "so what?... it's a mirror, Papa..

Since I have so many photos of our time at the Montshire Museum of Science, I decided it would be best to break this topic into two parts.  First, let's talk about outdoors at the museum and share a few of those photos. We accessed the outdoor part of this science museum by way of one of the upper floors of the museum from quite a dizzying height! (I used to scale buildings and dizzying rock faces when my health was better but, since procuring Systemic Mastocytosis, I now find myself dizzy when just standing on my own two feet... and a step stool might as well be a tower. I have to say that the top floor balcony at the museum made me a little queasy!) Exiting the museum from the second floor brought us out onto a deck and wood bridge. This long wooden bridge crosses over the driveway to the museum so we had already seen this bridge from our car when we were arriving at the museum. It is an impressive structure. It is hard to see here because it is such a long distance bu