Shakesthegrounds Rumblings

[CellarDweller]

thanks for the update!   Hope Weston continues to improve!

[Jeff Wrangler]

Spoke with my friend Marty just now. Weston contiues to improve, he met with the therapists today and though still in a fog he got up on his feet for the first time in a week and lifted his legs for them. His is still fighting pneumonia but that seems to be going okay.

Marty will probably stay until next week and then return to Hawai'i for a couple of weeks and come back to Virginia. Hopefully Weston will be at a rehab facility by then.

If they can get him up on his feet and keep him moving around, that should help with the pneumonia. Pneumonia is the greatest danger for people who are flat on their backs for an extended period.

[ifyoucantfixit]

          Two pieces of great health news today...Wonderful and Amazing........!!!!

                     Thanks for keeping us up to date on this wondrous news.

        Rodney pmd me and said his doctors say that his tumor is shrunken to half its previous size.
      He goes back in the first week of December, to have another CT scan........

[Lynne]

Hey there, friends,

Just catching up here - I'm very glad to hear that Weston chances for a recovery are good - that looked to be some fall!  I remember Elle's drive from Richmond to Lynchburg to meet Truman and me - she had further to go than us.  Our part from Fieldale to Lynchburg was easy - filled with good conversation and easy silences and the short story on audio for the return trip.  Fond solstice memories, there.

Janice - what's this about a roadtrip to the southeast?? Details, girlfriend!  I need to go home and see my folks sometime, though holiday prices seem ridiculous, so I hope you're thinking of different dates.

I accidentally checked on prices from San Jose, Costa Rica to Nashville first (instead of Cali) and it turns out that it's less $$$ to come home for the holiday if I were in Costa Rica - noted for future reference 

TTYS,
Lynne

[ifyoucantfixit]

           I was mostly wishing out loud...i would love to go thats for sure....

[Lynne]

           I was mostly wishing out loud...i would love to go thats for sure....

I do that too!  I'm always planning 'the next' thing, having no idea if I can make it happen, but it helps me get through!! 

[Shakesthecoffecan]

Today will be a busy day, I am carrying my friend to the airpost in Charlotte so she can fly across the big pond to see the boyfriend, for a long weekend.  That will be an all day thing.

Then tonight I am going to the Lyric Theater in Blacksburg to see the documentary "For the Bible Tells Me So", which I have been looking forward to seeing.

And with me all day, will be the memory and knowledge of something that occurred 10 years ago this very day.  My sister and her flying partner flew a Cessna 172 from Langeley Air Force Base to Martinsville, had lunch with me and our mother and Aent, and then my sister took me and our mother up in the plane, into the steely grey sky, the same sky that hangs over the land today.

I had never seen the place I have live most my life from the air, and it took a while to get my bearings, was not until I saw the lake, that insane volume of water sitting so much higher than the surrounding land that I knew what was what. Recognized my high school from the map they gave out the first day it opened, followed the river to Fieldale and made out the brick red foundation of my house thru the trees. Down the river to the speedway, over the old fields where tobacco had once grown, the subdivisions, the factories and mills, now silent.

I will most likely never have that opportunity again. Three months later on an even more steely grey and windy day the two of them took off on a short hop and met with disaster. Since then I cannot bring myself to get in one of them little planes. If it don;t have a jet on it, I can't handle it. 

[Scott6373]

Today will be a busy day, I am carrying my friend to the airpost in Charlotte so she can fly across the big pond to see the boyfriend, for a long weekend.  That will be an all day thing.

Then tonight I am going to the Lyric Theater in Blacksburg to see the documentary "For the Bible Tells Me So", which I have been looking forward to seeing.

And with me all day, will be the memory and knowledge of something that occurred 10 years ago this very day.  My sister and her flying partner flew a Cessna 172 from Langeley Air Force Base to Martinsville, had lunch with me and our mother and Aent, and then my sister took me and our mother up in the plane, into the steely grey sky, the same sky that hangs over the land today.

I had never seen the place I have live most my life from the air, and it took a while to get my bearings, was not until I saw the lake, that insane volume of water sitting so much higher than the surrounding land that I knew what was what. Recognized my high school from the map they gave out the first day it opened, followed the river to Fieldale and made out the brick red foundation of my house thru the trees. Down the river to the speedway, over the old fields where tobacco had once grown, the subdivisions, the factories and mills, now silent.

I will most likely never have that opportunity again. Three months later on an even more steely grey and windy day the two of them took off on a short hop and met with disaster. Since then I cannot bring myself to get in one of them little planes. If it don;t have a jet on it, I can't handle it. 

I'll be thinking of you today my dear friend.

[CellarDweller]

I will most likely never have that opportunity again. Three months later on an even more steely grey and windy day the two of them took off on a short hop and met with disaster. Since then I cannot bring myself to get in one of them little planes. If it don;t have a jet on it, I can't handle it. 

[loneleeb3]

My nativity occured on Saturday, the 3rd of August, A.D. 1963 @ 6:55 A.M..  Ten days later, it snowed on Brokeback Mountain.

Wow! When somthing is put in a chronological context it really makes you think.
I was born during the four year void.