Bill is headed for Coeur d'Alene this morning for surgery.
He's quite pleased that he did not have to prepare with a bath using antibiotic soap. He was especially happy that he didn't have to start fasting from midnight on.
Plus, he can drive home by himself when it's all over.
The surgery is common for folks who have had their cataracts removed.
Apparently, there's a little build-up a year or two later, which causes some mild blurry vision.
From the Cleveland Clinic:
Posterior capsular opacification (secondary cataract) is a clouding of
the thin membrane (lens capsule) that surrounds your newly implanted
IOL.
It’s a common complication of cataract surgery that can occur
months or years afterward, causing fuzzy vision.
Your provider can
easily treat a secondary cataract through a quick laser procedure.
Bill says the entire surgery lasts about a minute, and then he'll be on his way home.
So, that's the big news around here.
Otherwise, we've been enjoying the beautiful weather and putzing away at spring projects.
Bill attached the battery charger to one of my lawnmowers yesterday, and a couple of hours later, I took a spin with the mower.
No real lawn to mow; just a lot of debris for the blades to chew up and spit out.
I'll probably do some more today, and when the grass does grow, it will not be hampered by the debris.
Plus, the yard looks a lot nicer out there.
I also took some time yesterday afternoon to snap a few springy photos, mostly in the Colburn area.
The coffee shop with the cowboy reminds me of the Green family who lived in Colburn.
Ruth Green helped out with our Mountain View ABC's home economics 4-H club.
I think we even attended a few meetings at her house, and with that association, I learned that Ruth and her husband Bob liked to square dance.
I think the cowboy may have a connection to that history, and, though Colburn has changed a lot, I also think the roadside coffee shop off from HWY 95 may be located on the property where the Green's lived.
Anyway, it's a colorful little shop which seems to be busy these days.
The old Colburn Elementary School, which has been restored over the years.
Lots of great childhood memories in that building for my neighbor Gary Finney and his classmates.
The same is true for my alma mater Lincoln School aka Lake Pend Oreille Alternative School, which I think is one of the prettiest buildings in Sandpoint.
Hope it survives as an educational facility and as a charming vestige of Sandpoint's history.
Anyway, my afternoon drive definitely gave me a sense of spring, especially with the growing numbers of geese, which are starting to populate many of the ponds and waterways around the area.
We are definitely approaching that "Walden" time of year where the landscape says good bye to winter dormancy and gradually comes alive and beautiful with the promise of universal renewal.
It's happening this spring, and maybe this neat project would go really crazy in the winter time when we do more sitting.
Still, it's a pretty neat idea coordinated by the Literacy Project of North Idaho.
By the time you've read the whole story, you might even be able to count the article as one page in the million-page overall goal.
Schweitzer was rather stunning this morning with its pink backdrop, as was the painting below, which I saw on Facebook.
That's all for this first Tuesday of the crazy and busy month of March.
Have a great day.
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