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Here’s a dragon statue from one of the treehouses at Longwood Gardens.  Very intimidating.  Great Art courtesy of the exclusive iPhone-cam, taken last June, and part of my famous Statue and Garden series.

Another quiet day.  It looks like my package from Amazon arrived at my cousin’s house today.  That’s a great thing because I have a certain use for it the day after tomorrow.  I believe there may be another package coming from somewhere in Virginia in the near future too.  My kind cousin Betsy is planning to bring anything that shows up with her when she, her husband Bob, and a very special treat or two make their appearance.  Act surprised, LRN4!

LRN5 and family are coming in two days!  I can’t wait.  Don’t yet know what time to expect them, but I don’t think it will be before mid-afternoon at the earliest.  They’re driving down from the Bay Area and they’re not normally too keen on pre-dawn departures.  We’ll see.

I’m enjoying being in the hotel.  Very relaxing.  Very refreshing.  Very expensive.  But I don’t care.  I like the Residence Inn.

And I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking food violence news: schnitzel smuggler!

See you tomorrow.

Here’s some actual Great Art, painted here in the hospital by LRN4 during last week’s art class.  It reminds me a bit of a Van Gogh. Although she still has both of her ears.  Great Art courtesy of both LRN4 and the exclusive iPhone-cam and part of my famous Garden series.

Yeah, that’s a bit of a stretch, but flowers grow in a garden, right?  That’s what I thought.

Fine day today.  I moved out of Betsy and Bob’s house with deep gratitude and moved in to the Residence Inn.  Well, sort of, anyway.  My luggage is supposed to be in my room now and I expect to be there in a little bit more than an hour.  I’m really pleased to have a place of my own again, while I’m sure I’ll miss my kind relatives’ company.

LRN4 is feeling and appearing better on pretty much all fronts today.  There’s a little bit of new discomfort in her mouth, but her hands and feet are almost completely better.  Only a little sensitivity to heat remains.  That’s great!

The wait for recovery continues.  Things continue to look up.

And I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking food violence news: hot dog cart assault!

See you tomorrow.

Here’s a sculpture here at the City of Hope. It’s . . . umm . . . interesting. I’ll leave its interpretation to my Loyal Readers. Looks kind of like a bunch of gigantic bottle openers to me. Great Art courtesy of the exclusive iPhone-cam and part of my famous Statue series.

Fine weekend. It was sunny and very hot all weekend here in Los Angeles. I wouldn’t know, though, because I was inside the air conditioned hospital all weekend. Not that I’m complaining about that, of course. Fortunately, it cools off enough at night for Betsy and Bob’s non-air conditioned house to cool off comfortably.

LRN4 is doing pretty well. We’re just sitting around the hospital waiting for her to get well enough to get out of here. Kind of slow going today. I decided today that I really need to leave Betsy and Bob’s house, both for their own good and for mine. It’s been nearly two months already, and we all need our privacy back. I’m moving to the Residence Inn tomorrow. Staying there until Sunday and then going to the (much less expensive) Hampton Inn. Judging by their addresses, they appear to be next door to each other, so the move on Sunday will be easy.

LRN5 and her family will be here on Friday. I can’t wait to see them. It’s pretty clear she needs the break from work and I really like hanging out with them all. Should be a great weekend. They’ll be back the following weekend, which should also be great.

And that’s about it for today. I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this exciting Morrowlife Employment Agency job opportunity: stolen penguin!

See you tomorrow.

Here’s the teahouse in the hospital’s Japanese garden, featured in Tuesday’s post.  Now doesn’t that look like a great place to relax on a beautiful Los Angeles summer afternoon?  Or morning?  Early evening would be even better, but they close the garden too early, alas.  It’s also closed on weekends.  Sigh.  Great Art courtesy of the exclusive iPhone-cam, taken at the City of Hope, and part of my famous Garden series.

LRN4 had her transplant today!  It went perfectly and she’s feeling fine.  Now the healing begins.  Her doctor told us things have been going so well that it’s not impossible to think we’ll be out of the hospital three weeks from now.  As opposed to his previous prediction of four weeks.  We’ll take every week we can get.  We’re natural-born Village People!

In a freak occurrence, it rained pretty hard this afternoon.  Very dark clouds suddenly appeared and it started pouring with fairly frequent lightning strikes.  Kind of strange for around here, although it was nothing like we used to see in Pennsylvania.  For one thing, the hospital didn’t catch on fire.  No complaints there.

Got a flat tire on the way home last night – picked up a nail or something right before I got to Betsy & Bob’s house (hereafter referred to as Betsy & Bob’s Bed & Breakfast, or B&B’s B&B).  The tire went down overnight.  I tried to get Bob’s (very good) compressor hooked up to a (non-functional) tire inflator.  After that failed, I called Ford’s emergency road service number.  They got somebody out in about half an hour.  He re-inflated the tire for me, after which I immediately went to the tire store Betsy had recommended.  They got me right in, fixed and balanced the tire, and had me out of there with another half an hour.  Sweet!  Everything seems fine now.

And that’s it for today – one of the best days of my life!  I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking (and possibly related to Tuesday’s news) food violence news: sucker-punching Cheez-It thief!

See you tomorrow.

Here’s the Japanese garden here at the City of Hope.  Looks like a great place to sit, relax, and heal.  We’ll be there in a month or so.  They have huge koi in that pond, and they give away fish food.  I like it.  Great Art courtesy of the exclusive iPhone-cam and part of my famous Garden series.

Rough day for LRN4 today until about 5:00 or so.  She slept for most of the day until then, which was a very good thing.  On our “hit by a truck” continuum (Smart Car, minivan, or Mack truck), she was at the minivan level in the early afternoon.  By this evening, she’s back to Smart Car.  That’s a good thing too.

LRN4’s sisters Melanie and LRN29 (why isn’t Melanie a Loyal Reader?!) were here this morning.  LRN4 simply couldn’t stay awake to visit with them, so they left a bit early.  Sorry about that, sisters!  LRN4 will be entertaining for visitors again very soon.  We were kind of expecting a visit from our niece Marcie this evening, but that doesn’t appear to be happening.  Maybe she heard from her mom that we were a bit boring today.

So LRN4’s day T-2 is over!  She’s doing great.  I can’t wait to get the transplant done on Thursday and get LRN4 healing up.  There’s a bit more hell to go through before we get to heaven.  She can do it.

And I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking food violence news: Cheez-It assault!

See you tomorrow.