All the blood tests and the
CAT scan came back negative for residual infection, so I’m good for the knee
replacement – but I don’t want to undergo the surgery until I can’t bear the
pain and complications to my life anymore.
So on Friday I’m going to a clinic to be fitted for a brace to see if
that makes life more bearable for a while longer.
Friday evening we drove up to
Remer, a little town about a hundred and eighty miles north of the Cities. It rained a little and then it didn’t rain
and then it rained some more, and the trip was further complicated by our
attempts to avoid road repairs, so we left here around four-thirty and got
there around ten. The trip was to help
Remer celebrate books. Their little
library – made from the old railroad depot, marked by a caboose (those suckers
were big!) – was a beautifully remodeled and very pleasant hundred-year-old
place with lots of volunteers. I bought
twenty dollars worth of tickets to a drawing for a queen-size quilt featuring
bears, plus one book from each of the other four authors and we still made a
profit.
Oddly, Remer also celebrates
Bigfoot, the legendary hairy creature whose presence is claimed in various
states of the U.S. I say “oddly,” because I thought the hairy
creature who haunts the northwoods of Minnesota
is the Wendigo, a pale hairy creature told of by our Native American (Anishinaabe
- Chippewa and Ojibwe) tribes up there.
It has a light shining in its forehead and anyone who sees it is shortly
to die. Funny how almost every culture
in the world tells of a large hairy creature roaming its wild places. Lots of sightings over hundreds of years, but as far as I know no
one has ever found the bones of even one.
Anyway, I bought a book from
John Schreiber, C.S. Yelle, Margo Hansen, and Terry Oliver Mejdrich, each
wildly different in theme from the others (seek their web sites) and had some
extremely pleasant fellow authors to
talk with between customers.
And my own book, Tying the Knot, progresses slowly – but it
progresses.
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