Grotesque

Grotesque is probably how someone would describe how I look going up and down stairs. There are parts in the endowment session of the temple that require participants to go up and down stairs. I am avoiding those particular assignments for the time being as I would be more of a distraction than I would be an instructor or teacher. However, on the positive side, I am now able to go up and down the stairs alternating which foot goes first. It just isn't very smooth yet. Yesterday, there was a first as in the evening, I decided to ride my bike around my usual route - about a mile and one half. Getting on and off the bike was worrying me so I stayed on the side of the road where there was a curb ready to put my right foot on in case I had to stop. I didn't have to stop until I got home. Then I pulled up to a "right-foot-curb" and dismounted, wheeled my bike across the street and stashed it in the garage. So that is progress. It is slow. It will be 2 months since I fell on the 17th of April. I am beginning to feel now that I will recover fully in time without any more invasive procedures. (I wondered a little for a while.)

Here is some breaking news. We have known for a while, but just hadn't chosen to say anything about it. On the 30th of August we are going to fly to Anchorage, Alaska, stay a a couple of nights there, drive to Mt. McKinley, return to Anchorage, and on 1 September, we will board a cruise ship in Seward, Alaska, and go to Vancouver, Canada with several intervening stops - Hubbard Glacier, Juneau, Skagway, Icy Straight Point, and Ketchikan. At our age, this may be our last cruise. Yet again, who knows? It is getting to be a very busy summer. At the end of May we will spend a week at Bear Lake. July 3, 4 we are going to attend a reunion for my father's off spring in Pasco, Washigton. We no sooner return from that and we fly to Rochester, New York to spend some time in the Hill Cumorah area with my daughter, Amy, and her husband, Tom Russell, who live in Canandaigua, New York. While there we plan to see the Hill Cumorah Pageant. After that, I guess we will build up our stamina to get ready for the cruise. Love, Dad/Grandpa/George