I'm pretty sure it was over the 2019-20 holidays, and it was symptomatic. It had been smoldering for several years but he hadn't told any of us. He got excellent care at a hospital in NYC whose name I cannot now recall, and he's currently in a state known as "we don't use the word remission in this kind of cancer but if we did we would be using it for you."

Thank you! (Smoldering is such a weird term for a cancer stage. I mean, I get why they call it that, but it just makes me think of purple prose romance, not something that will eat holes in your bones.)

Hello from the beach.

JZ I'm sorry you had to deal with such an awful person.

We got woken up this morning by the stupid emergency alert.

The vacation has been good so far. I haven't done much . Well we went fishing yesterday, M fell and hurt his knee, wrist and back (more than it is) but nothing is broken or sprained. He is just banged up. The muddy grass around the river was super slick and he lost his footing and barely missed going down on a bunch of oyster shells.

Today Dad and i went back but fishing wasn't so great.

This morning dad and I were taking a walk down the beach to see what the water and wind was like and we started talking about the emergency alert system thing....and dad says

"While DeSantis is fixing all these other things maybe he can fix this".

I know Dad is super conservative about a lot of things and we don't usually talk politics or current events but I didn't think Dad would think DeSantis was doing a good job at anything. He has been negative about DeSantis in the past.

(Dad believes there should be universal health care and living wage...or at least higher minimum wage ...but those 2 things are about the only issues we align on).

So having conversations about things can be hard. He doesn't watch a lot of TV shows and while we have some overlap in books it's not a lot.

He is going back on Saturday to town. He preaches on Sunday (his church doesn't have a pastor so certain men take turns, no women though) and he might come back before we go back but it's up to us.

I'm torn between I want to see Dad and it's hard to be around him because we are so different and having 2 extra nights just me and M would be awesome

We are both much happier, less anxious people when she isn't around.

Although yesterday M had a panicky moment. He was laying in bed resting from falling etx snd I was in the shower. The shower has glass doors and somehow one came off the track and I didn't realize until I went to open it and it came totally off the track in my hand. I was made some noise and was trying to get it back in when M came in and saw and panicked a bit.

We finally got it back but he was way more upset and scared than I was. I was annoyed by the situation and figured at worst I'd have to prop it against the far wall and the other shower door and get out and dressed and deal with it.

But M had been thinking about the glass door and had been , I guess, having anxious thoughts that I could slip and break the glass and be seriously injured and then he comes in and I'm holding the door and he panicked.

Wishing you peace and calm for the rest of your holiday, skye. That sounds scary with the door--fwiw, I would've been right there with M, panicking about possible door breakage and what it might do to you (there are many reasons why we have shower curtains instead of doors, and that's definitely one of them).

Oh, goodness, poor M. Glad the door thing was resolved without incident, but, yeah.

It's going up to 90° here today, apparently. Toasty.

I seem to not have anything of interest to share, but, you know, "Hi."

We had hail so loud last night that I (mostly jokingly) asked Husband if the world was ending. They were reportedly quarter-sized. I was worried about our windows, because it was also fucken wimdy, so it was like being inside a gumball machine being violently shaken.

Yikes. Hail is scary. I hope your vehicles are in a garage.

I went for a walk in the park a couple blocks away from home. We purchased a family membership to get a fob to enter via the north gate which is next to us, rather than the main gate a mile or so away. Anyway, ended up walking 2 miles and having Brendon pick me up because I was too drenched to walk another 1 mile home. Next time, tie up hair and wear a headband. Also, I am out of shape. Pretty park though. Still a bit flooded in places.

Very glad we have a garage.

Timelies all!

It's Friday. That's all I got.

It's Friday. That's all I got.

All day long I thought it was Thursday. Earlier Brendon said not to make dinner because he wanted to go out. So on the way home from the dog park we are discussing potential restaurants. I say X shouldn't be too bad on a Thursday. Then he tells me it is Friday!!! It was like a gift basket!!

We decided to go to our favorite beachside place. Then during dinner 2 coast guard fast boats come racing along with lights flashing. It is near dusk so all patrons are concerned. If someone is in peril there should be helicopters. Then they bullhorn congratulations and we see a wedding on the beach. Must have been one of their own. Anyway, it was a delightful surprise after the worry.

Yay Coasties!

I follow one of my old coworkers on Instagram, and it's so fun to see her posts: she's the commander of an ice-breaker in the Great Lakes, so she posts all sorts of wonderful video clips of the Mackinaw going in and out of port.

I have three (!) dogs in my house tonight. J is annoyed at the disruption because F has taken her regular spot on the couch. And I'm taking R to a dog even in the central valley tomorrow. They were very barky earlier, but right now they're all peaceful and chill.