About a week ago, Joan and Heather had the treat of watching and hearing 4 moose for half an hour – in and right near the garden.\u00a0 Within minutes after the last cabbages were harvested, a cow, two calves, and a young bull discussed their bad luck in missing the choicest meals but worked away at the stalks of broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, and a few bites of other vegetables and wild rose bushes.\u00a0 “Better than a movie,” Joan said.\u00a0 Although she has been enjoying the garden and\u00a0bringing in the\u00a0harvest, she does not begrudge the moose some treats.<\/p>\n
One hard frost so far, and much gorgeous clear weather; Niilo has spent time outdoors some days.\u00a0 Dane’s dog, Shijaa, probably 15 years old and mostly deaf and of poor eyesight, got herself under a car wheel, so there are now no family domesticated animals.<\/p>\n
Niilo and Joan\u00a0had 3 visitors from Finland: Olavi, Eva, and Markus.\u00a0 Although he didn’t talk much Finnish with them at the time,\u00a0Niilo enjoyed telling Nancy D. in the evening\u00a0about their visit.<\/p>\n
Niilo is doing pretty well this week, talking a bit sometimes and sleeping less than some periods in the past 2 months; however, his body often doesn’t cooperate for transfers and it’s been weeks since he walked with the walker.\u00a0 Sometimes he needs more than one person to help him transfer from bed to chair, et al, so a hoyer (mechanical) lift has been ordered to help.\u00a0 Despite cranberry pills and lots of fluids, he has another urinary tract infection, so we’re offering more yogurt to off-set the potential side effects of the antibiotic.<\/p>\n
Ben Newman is in Ohio for a semester at Kent State; his brother Max is back in Fairbanks through the November election, working on a campaign more than full-time, so family don’t see as much of him as they would like.\u00a0 Dane has been back from wildland firefighting for a few weeks.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Heather<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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