Getting my eyes done

Melanie took this of me on Thursday

I kind of like this picture Melanie took of me last week. It shows me in full rain regalia. It was necessary then, and will be necessary today. We are expecting an atmospheric river of rain, which will also reach down to California, which should help with the firefighting.

This morning more than a dozen of us ladies (and that one man) met in light rain to walk twice around Lake Padden, one of our regular walks. On the second time around, we saw these mushrooms, missed the first time. If I'm not mistaken, these are a strain of amanita, which are supposedly psychedelic. If so, I think there's a stoned critter (probably a squirrel) walking around, as I look at the bites taken out of them.

Mushrooms

I remember seeing these often in Colorado, although they were brilliant red with white dots just like these. Anyway, the rain pretty much stayed away for the second trip around, and then Lily and I headed over to the Farmers' Market to wander around and get a bite to eat. The vendors are fewer with each weekend, but the market will stay open until the last Saturday before Christmas, with lots of opportunities to buy presents toward the end of the season.

It will be more than a month before the first of my eyes will be operated on, replacing the cloudy lens with a synthetic one. Times have changed so much in the last few decades; now it's a commonplace surgery. On our hike last Thursday, someone asked when my surgeries are scheduled. "I get the first one done on November 28th," I said, "and the third eye in December." Everybody laughed before I realized my mistake. Well, I mused afterwards, that third eye I guess will be my own responsibility to get all cleared up. I'll work on that.
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