Something Like a Rash...

Well now, I suppose that I have been pestered by Kristin enough to actually write a blog yet again.  I suppose in my mental flossing and meanderings I should describe one day in my somewhat remote normal life.  So my job is in a meat locker... I mean a hospital.  There is a usual amount of people coming and going, being looked after by very young nurses that I could only describe as being of another era... maybe World War 2 nurses?  Every now and then we get the occasional 'big deal', which usually includes up to Sting Ray stings, Rattlesnake bites, Scorpion stings (by the way my tally thus far has been 2 scorpions and one 7 inch Centipede).  Today I got to see the result of a Sting Ray sting... well... there is a lot of abcess and chunks of flesh missing.... we'll just say that.  I felt terrible for the poor guy and he was in a load of pain... and thats when I just about lost my breakfast.  

Then the pregnant mothers came today.  We herd them not unlike cattle and then walk around the room and fall silent.  To me this means that we are just building up the tension, but I also suppose that it serves to get some time to talk about something to these mothers (some of whom have already 'dropped' 8 or 9 children).  Then we preceed to talk at them about hygiene or coming in to the hospital to give birth to their babies rather than at home.  After we prod and examine and weigh and do every other form of reduction of privacy and personal decency... its really not that bad.  We do a lot of good.

But really my day starts when I leave from work and go home.  There is garden materials, which I have been working on now for... three weeks?  I guess, I don't know.  The garden is about a 20 foot by 30 foot dream at this moment... there is also a possible peace garden is the brain racking around.... maybe.  There are a lot of maybes right now and a lot of time to do it all in.... I'm sure that something will get finished.... something.

The chickens are pretty great thus far.  They have been supplying some protein for myself (one egg a day!) and there is an idea about a cat and dog, or combination there of; a cog??

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