On October 28th 2017
The Raccoon Editor returned to the Odd Fellows Hall
to recommence operations after a layover of about one
month of ill health.
He is back from a knock-out series of punches. Close.
He is shown here after entering his premises to find
welcome apple products from his wife partner; a Macoun apple pie
she made from Ela Orchard, Rochester WI; unpasteurized apple
cider grown and pressed at the orchard and a large Macoun apple
(more in a bag) set before him in a loving way.
Ela is a third generation business tended by son-in-law
Ben Willard's family. Dee drove the half-hour south drive to Rochester
to secure these great finds.
For more info, see http://raccoonnews.blogspot.com/2016/11/today-we-take-you-to-fr-ed-farming-hot.html
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After
a hospitalization in Waukesha for failing heart and kidneys
in October I spent 6 days there until being transferred to
Angels Grace hospice year Oconomowoc.
That was most likely to be his final act, and what lovely
place to set out from.
He inagined hacking fruitlessly through thick jungle
until
He inagined hacking fruitlessly through thick jungle
until
Instead, after his meds were cut off nearly entirely he began
a 13 day recovery in the hidden paradise where he at first imagined
he was in a farmhouse where he could hear cows being milked
in the morning and the freshest cold water being drawn from
a well outside his bedsite range.
Where was he?
After a couple days of coming to, he was given a wheelchaired
tour of the actual site and saw it is built in the shape of a hexagon
with a hub shaped central lounge area; the complex is on a hilled
peninsula surrounded on three sides by a small lake they call
The Pond.
This pond is restorative it itself.
Migratory Sandhill Cranes settle in this little lake for the summer.They stroll the grounds
of Angels Grace until flocking up for their winter months spent way south of here.
It is common to have them peering through the hospice rooms' patio doors and they average
5 feet 6 and1/2 inches tall. They walk regally in pairs, male and female. One guards
as they they dig for grubs in the landscaping mulch. They take turns most graciously.
Changes of scene
changes of form...
Then,
after a week and a
half of muscle toning
he again retook his position at the Odd Fellows,
back from Linden Grove, Mukwonago
Old friendships were renewed there
and some new ones were made.
Paul Kortes, Corpus Christi, Texas
Our paths briefly crossed at Linden Grove Mukwonago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCM8sI1RRDI
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All for now.
Much more later...
