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@jjraak I love the pic of Pablo.
I guess parking on double yellow lines is the same there as it is here?
Have you ever seen the movie "Larry Crowne"?

I love the smell of green bell peppers roasting with white corn. And cut pine and grass.

@muddycyclist Those logs look ready for Badminton and Burghley. Tadpole all the way up to 5*****.
 
Whilst Mrs MC visited MIL I walked to lake with reed beads and did a Plein Sir watercolour, bo
Looming cold so a quick 20 minutes and five minutes back home for some detail. Tried to catch the light in the clouds and gold of reeds but so cold it was very rushed. Size A4.



@gennepher hiw did you get on at VETs and Hospital?
 
Hi
Back after a very long day. Drop dead tired here. Been asleep this last hour.
Decided not to do the local vet. Didn't have good feeling about local vet for today. So popped Popeye back in between my blankets. He seems pretty good this morning. Did the hot compress again. He seems lively enough, but knows if I pick up my phone and put it in my bag, then I am going out. And so he just settles in my bed until I get home.

So I decided to do plan B, which was the teaching vet hospital after I came back from my hospital appointment.

I only just made it in time after I found a parking space at the hospital.

A long appointment. I now have a new Cochlear speech processor. I had a yearly review which includes checking how I am hearing etc, and if the current program I had (before it corrupted) was still any good. It wasn't. So I am listening to various testing tones (low and high), while they adjust each of my 18 channels (4 channels don't work) ( I think you have 30,000 plus channels in each of your ears if you have natural hearing). My tinnitus gets in the way of this testing making it difficult for me to know the difference of the audiologist's sounds and my tinnitus which tries to copy the sounds...

More stuff, then she connects me to my speech processor and turns me on. Then speaks...I cannot make out what she says, it is so distorted. She tells me it might be a month or so before my brain adjusts to this new mapping. And it might not adjust, and I might have to go back and be remapped. This is normal, I know this. I have never had normal hearing, I was born profoundly deaf, so my brain doesn't have a baseline to work from to identify sounds, so it is a hard slog, and my brain goes awol at times with all this confusion for all this. But I have to admit that 12 years after the Cochlear operation, and to keep going through this when I am remapped, is not what I was expecting, nor warned would happen. I am getting too old for all these disturbances for my brain and its neural pathways trying to make its own sense of these sounds. Anyway, it is what it is.

So back home. Tired. A cuppa. Popeye on harness and lead and off the other direction to the teaching vet hospital. There is plenty of parking there, Popeye is in the seat of my walker (a new experience for him, he was a little wide eyed). I go to the counter, there are a lot of people with all kinds of small animals and creatures, but I get seen to very quickly. It is a nice place. All are very kind, the receptionists are exceptional and they gave an email to contact them in the future (it gets checked at least 3 times in the day), and a text number that I may use in emergencies. So good provision for a deaf person, they were very accommodating. Antibiotics for him. He is doing fine. I did all the right things yesterday. So came home. Fell asleep on the couch, Popeye is in the kitchen on the shelf over the radiator, I turned it on as soon as I got home. He has eaten. I made miso soup with some tuna fish dried flakes. Then I gave Popeye a couple of the fish flakes...he looked puzzled but ate them.

Going to bed now, yawning my head off. Going to get Popeye so I can shut inner bungalow doors (for fire safety).

Will catch up better tomorrow.

Thank you to @Muddy Cyclist @PenguinMum @HarryBeau @SaskiaKC @ianpspurs @Ryhia @jjraak and anyone else I may have missed who sent me positive messages.

Night night
Sleep tight
Take care
 
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Hi @Muddy Cyclist
I have just posted my day above on Popeye and vet and my hospital appointment!
I love this painting of yours. You are very brave in these icy temperatures painting outdoors. You have captured the icy coldness.
 
@gennepher what a tiring and emotional day you had. My impresssion is that Popeye’s appointment was way less complex as yours. I am sendng you both hugs and purrs and wishing you a decent nights sleep. Best wishes to you and Popeye.
 

Oh, this is such wonderful news about Popeye! Thank you so much for taking the time (and energy!) to post this. I am really relieved, that he is doing well, and also that this vet clinic has provided you with ways to get in touch with them. That's how it ought to be for everyone. And well done, Popeye, in his harness and lead on your walker seat! ^. .^

Now, as to your cochlear implant, that is bad news and I am sorry to hear it. I guess that the need for one's brain to have to adjust to the new transmissions of sounds makes sense. However, it does seem that with all the other technological "marvels" people are inventing, someone ought to make hearing technology a priority, and provide equipment that actually works for people and keeps on working. I mean, good grief, cars can "see" when they're about to ram into something and alert the driver or apply their own brakes, and it is much more important for a human being to be able to communicate properly with other humans than it is for a car to do its own driving!

I hope that when you see this post it will be after a good long refreshing rest. Hugs and purrs.
 

I love this! Thank you for posting it. Looking at it I feel I am out there, feet (in wellies) in the water, drops from the trees' limbs falling onto my raincoat and hood, feeling the mist on my cheeks and nose. I love feeling all that (because I know I can always come inside and get warm and dry). What a lovely scene.
Calls for cocoa and low-carb muffins or cheese-on-toast (@trick60) and a hot toddy.
 
gennepher said:
Going to get Popeye so I can shut inner bungalow doors (for fire safety).
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Thank goodness you got to the vets Popeye has what he needs & you must be so relieved...that sleep should come easy after a day of tribulations...sweet dreams for you & Popeye.
 
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Fritz the guitar reporting in to @Muddy Cyclist -- it is only the 2nd of March today but we are playing "Be Thou My Vision" and St Patrick's Breastplate ...
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Well done Fritz, 15 days early mind, I hope that @SaskiaKC is singing along with you.

I do perform one religious song arranged by one of my favourite guitarists Martin Simpson, I purchased the tabs from him and they arrived hand written. It starts with Kits Tune as an instrumental and then goes into the well known hymn and back to Kits Tune to finish, enjoy


I have no recording of myself playing it so enjoy the man himself.
 
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@SaskiaKC i usually am playing my guitar this time of an evening for a Couple of hours before bed but have not been doing so for a few days. The humidity in our house plummeted to 35% and so my guitars went into their cases with humidity control sacks inside, I could go and get them out but it's an effort and don't bother, that's why I like them always available on a stand and ready to play but they dry out very quickly when humidity is that low. So I am playing my mandolin which I don't worry so much about.
 

Thank you!
 
@Muddy

Thank you. It is beautiful. I have never heard either of these songs before. I found these lyrics:

When a knight won his spurs, in the stories of old,
He was gentle and brave, he was gallant and bold
With a shield on his arm and a lance in his hand,
For God and for valour he rode through the land.

No charger have I, and no sword by my side,
Yet still to adventure and battle I ride,
Though back into storyland giants have fled,
And the knights are no more and the dragons are dead.

Let faith be my shield and let joy be my steed
'Gainst the dragons of anger, the ogres of greed;
And let me set free with the sword of my youth,
From the castle of darkness, the power of the truth.

I love the idea of Joy being my steed.

The lyrics remind me of a hymn that was in one of my childhood Sunday school hymnals, "Follow the Gleam."

1. To the knights in the days of old,
Keeping watch on the mountain height,
Came a vision of Holy Grail
And a voice through the waiting night:
Follow, follow, follow the gleam;
Banners unfurled o’er all the world;
Follow, follow, follow the gleam
Of the chalice that is the Grail.

2. And we who would serve the King,
And loyally Him obey,
In the consecrate silence know
That the challenge still holds today,
Follow, follow, follow the gleam
Standards of worth o’er all the earth;
Follow, follow, follow the gleam
Of the Light that shall bring the dawn.
--Helen Hill Miller

with the music here:
https://hymnary.org/text/to_the_knights_in_the_days_of_old
 
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