Definitely time for an update. Although it's later than back in Ohio, spring finally feels like it's come to upstate New York. It's still chilly at night and I still bundle up on our walks but we've had some really nice days and this weekend has been so pretty.
I've posted some pictures previously of the big ice chunks breaking loose and coming down the Hudson River. All of those ice chunks make for a high water level and lots of water crashing over the dam area near us. The lady at the post office said that not too far upriver, it's still solid ice from bank to bank so there will definitely be more to come.
I've posted some pictures previously of the big ice chunks breaking loose and coming down the Hudson River. All of those ice chunks make for a high water level and lots of water crashing over the dam area near us. The lady at the post office said that not too far upriver, it's still solid ice from bank to bank so there will definitely be more to come.
As the old saying goes...Man makes plans; God laughs. Now that the spring weather seems to be settling in and Jim is so anxious to get things started...he has to have a procedure done on his knee. He started having some pain with certain movements but didn't know of anything he did to injure it, so he blamed it on getting back to running a little too quickly this winter. But the normal cure of resting it didn't seem to help. And we've been walking 5 miles a day with really no issues so he didn't think anything too bad could be wrong. I finally got him to an orthopedic doctor who did an MRI and found torn cartilage. So this week he'll have it scoped and cleaned out. The doctor said the recovery is pretty quick - he has to stay off it the first 24 hours but the doctor said he should be on the elliptical in a week and could run in 2 weeks. So as much as the timing could have been better, it's good to get it taken care of and we're so happy that it's a relatively easy fix. He's going to be very physical as soon as building really starts so he needs to be in tip top shape! The doctor said that everything else looked great - no signs of arthritis, so that was great news.
Plus we got some bad news from back home - Jim's uncle passed away suddenly on Thursday. His aunt and uncle were extremely close with his family so this is a big blow. Jerry had worked in the construction field operating the big machinery, so Jim always enjoyed sharing plans and picking his brain on all things machines. Our thoughts and prayers are with Aunt Sandy.
Meanwhile, with the arrival of nice weather Jim has headed up to the lot the last few days. He's gotten all that brush and huge piles of sticks and branches that we pulled out of the woods in the fall all chipped up. He's moved some big trunks over to where we are piling them and just generally getting the site cleaned up.
We had rain overnight but you would have hardly known it today. Back in Ohio, we had so much clay in the soil - here it's sand. So things dry up pretty quickly. Today was my first day to visit the lot and I was amazed. To think that just a couple of weeks ago there was a foot of snow on the land and today we could walk around without even leaving a footprint! Jim doesn't want to create big ruts in the land so he doesn't want to get too much machinery out but it won't be long.
We had planned to do a little more cleanup work today. But as we just pulled into the driveway, our next door neighbors were out for a walk with their dogs. We had met her last year but had never met him. They are so nice and really make us feel good that we are going to have such wonderful neighbors. They told us that they've been keeping an eye on things just to make sure no one was there who shouldn't be. We had a great conversation and I'm sure it was the first of many!
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