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Evening

Last night CDF went to a party at a friends house. MDF asked me, “are you going keep an eye on me.” She used to say she would stay home with me.

After supper we went outside and stomped around in puddles — actually just the ditch, since there hadn’t been enough rain for water to accumulate anywhere else.

I took a couple of pictures while were were out.

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Contemplating the rose bush

I did some pruning while we were out. We have four small rose bushes. Two which were there when we moved in, but didn’t bloom last year. They’ve grown a lot, and I’ve managed to prune them enough to keep them blooming. The one in front of the porch has another bud. Then CDF bought one that has finished blooming for the year and was given another, which hasn’t done much of anything.

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Summer Storms

The cloud cover was pretty constant, but it didn’t start raining until after I put MDF to bed.

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Late Night Ear Ache

Two nights ago MDF woke up in the middle of the night crying. At first she just went with me to get water, but when she got back in bed, she pulled her sheet over her ear. I asked if it hurt, and she started crying and said yes. We tried to get medicine, but she started coughing and got so worked up that she threw it up. After that she just wanted to go to bed. CDF lay with her for a while and eventually she went to sleep around 1:00.

Then yesterday CDF took her to the Doctor and they confirmed that she had an ear infection and gave her antibiotics. Interestingly they said she probably couldn’t hear out of that ear (I think it’s the right one), and we had started noticing on Saturday that she was saying “what” a lot. But I don’t know if it really related or not.

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Of Storms

Last night we had a big thunderstorm. It actually started around 5 o’clock in Wilmington. I left work with a good view of the lightning working it’s way inland from the ocean. I left just in time too. As I headed up Castle Hayne Rd. the storm was reaching downtown.

It disrupted power in Wilmington, the phones were out at work this morning and my server logs showed the power going on and off repeatedly. Eventually it made it’s way to Burgaw, but it has spent much of it’s fury by then, and we only had heavy rain and some lightning.