Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs

Subject: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 18 Sep 15 - 01:32 PM

Calling all Mudcatters with links to upbeat, encouraging music and funny-but-not-obscene videos for Mudcat's own Janie. She's managed to fall and badly fracture a femur. She's feeling a bit better than when she first posted about her injury:

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Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Janie - PM
Date: 17 Sep 15 - 07:18 AM

"Fell on a slick floor at work Monday and have badly shattered my left femur. ,still in fog from surgery severe pain and morphine. Hop e this makes sense. Good thoughts please"
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Janie tells me, "I would enjoy folks posting music or funny vids..."
So please, let's put together a fun, cherry thread with links to beautiful tunes, well-crafted songs, and funny vids to get Janie back on two strong legs.

Moderators, please feel free to slide this down below in a few days. Since this is a immediate need for good music links for a steadfast music-loving member, I hope it can remain topside for a bit where 'Catters will quickly see it.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 Sep 15 - 01:38 PM

Keep your lamp trimmed and burning, Janie!

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Cool Beans
Date: 18 Sep 15 - 01:44 PM

How about video of a funny song I wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tzc3w1aRaA

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Sep 15 - 01:45 PM

So very sorry, Janie.
SINS

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 18 Sep 15 - 01:52 PM

Ah shucks! does this mean no Getaway for you? I'll message you!

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: mg
Date: 18 Sep 15 - 02:02 PM

here is a tribute to joni mitchell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL20ICiejI4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL20ICiejI4

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Sep 15 - 02:48 PM

Oh, that's a bummer, Janie. Hope you heal quick.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 18 Sep 15 - 03:40 PM

Hope you heal quickly.Don't let one get under yer plaster

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Will Fly
Date: 18 Sep 15 - 04:22 PM

Oh dear - what a bummer!

Here's my silly contribution - Spaw said he loved this - hope it makes you laugh...

My Blue Heaven

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 18 Sep 15 - 04:46 PM

Great start, folks. Thanks very much.
Maeve

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: ranger1
Date: 18 Sep 15 - 06:44 PM

Because it keeps making me laugh: Rolling Safari.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Sep 15 - 06:58 PM

Gosh Janie... all that might make it hard to get to sleep at night. You need a good book that is conducive to somnolence.

Here is a link to Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West..... sorry... it IS in German, but here is a *cough.. giggle*'brief' explanation which may adequately soporific by itself.

No need to thank me....

(I'll think about some nice music to add to the nice list above.)

(The Getaway IS wheelchair accessible, but I won't even begin hope for that....)
(Durn... I miss you already...) ♥♥♥

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Larry The Radio Guy
Date: 18 Sep 15 - 09:24 PM

Janie, here's a great comic website....with Berk Breathed and Bloom County now out of retirement.



go comics

Get well soon! Happy healing.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 18 Sep 15 - 10:44 PM

Hi, Janie! If I see anything funny, I'll be sure to post it here. It looks like others are way ahead of me!

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Mr Red
Date: 19 Sep 15 - 04:20 AM

Jane should take up amateur dramatics, ................






Because she can now appear in a big cast.





I'll get my lab coat.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Janie
Date: 19 Sep 15 - 10:20 AM

Appreciate it an hope you will keep them coming. And thanks Maeve for starting the thread. My iPad doesn't seem to like to load the big threads-tho could be Mudcat going up and down.

Videos jokes funny stories all appreciated. I'likelikely be reading more than posting for awhile due to pain mess. Have wished for a little "like" button thr past day so you know you are appreciated.   Also please ignore typos unless funny or indecipherable

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: JennieG
Date: 19 Sep 15 - 06:30 PM

Ouch, Janie!!

I suppose you won't be needing to do this for a while.......

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Mr Red
Date: 20 Sep 15 - 05:42 AM

Just thought :

When it says "Wet Floor"


Don't!

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Sep 15 - 10:28 AM

I'll be watching for the cleaner ones I see at Facebook, and share them there since I see that Janie is checking her FB as well.

Chin up Janie! Every day gets better!

~Susan

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 20 Sep 15 - 01:15 PM

https://soundcloud.com/denise_whittle/big-red-sausage

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 20 Sep 15 - 03:00 PM

I have started picking on my Christmas mad friend be looking for the daftest Christmas songsLike this choir

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Sep 15 - 03:48 PM

Hope someone as nice as this guy (who happens to be from down your way, methinks) helps you in your recovery

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 21 Sep 15 - 02:51 PM

Elisabeth Cotten would like to visit with you, Janie.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Mr Red
Date: 21 Sep 15 - 02:56 PM

not hilarious, but amusing.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 21 Sep 15 - 03:27 PM

Here's some medicine: Funny Talking Animals

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: bubblyrat
Date: 21 Sep 15 - 05:42 PM

Were you about to be in the cast of a Shakepeare play, Janie ? Especially Mac....er...I mean "The Scottish Play " ?? if so, many people would have said " break a leg !" ......and you did !

Meanwhile ,Nicola is MUCH better after her polyp-removal operation and says "Thankyou " !!

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 21 Sep 15 - 05:43 PM

That's lovely news to post here, bubblyrat!

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 21 Sep 15 - 10:00 PM

The news about Nicola brings a smile to my face and perhaps to Janie's, too.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Bert
Date: 21 Sep 15 - 11:28 PM

There is some funny stuff on my website, bertsongs.com. You are gonna have to pick through it though 'cos some of it is naughty.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 22 Sep 15 - 06:47 AM

Bert's website link:

Good morning, Janie. How are things rolling along for you?

Maeve

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Sep 15 - 01:20 PM

Just checking in.
I'll find something to make you smile.
SINS

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: OldPossum
Date: 22 Sep 15 - 01:49 PM

A bit of Laurel and Hardy might cheer you up:
Bonnie Scotland - and it's folk music!

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 22 Sep 15 - 04:36 PM

Wake up, little Janie, wake up!

:)

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughsq
From: Janie
Date: 22 Sep 15 - 05:28 PM

See my post yesterday did not take. All God things posted thus far and continue to cheer me along. Glad last one didn't post cuz it included a grumpy factor about hospital staff not telling me anything. Mostly my fault for not assertively asking.

PT started today and it was good to not be flat on my back all day. Sore but feel overall much better in mind and body for being able to moon orderlies occasionally hoping down the hall with a walker. Then a more experienced therapist came along and suggested a 2nd gown worn like a jacket over the first☺️




(Actually quite happy with the additional cover)

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Janie
Date: 22 Sep 15 - 05:37 PM

My iPad and mud aren't playing nice. Most times post won,t send. But I'm here and reading and smiling!

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Bert
Date: 22 Sep 15 - 07:34 PM

Thanks Maeve, I should have posted the link but I was in a hurry.

Janie, a 2nd gown worn like a jacket over the first.

There should be a song there somewhere. We need a song challenge thread for that.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 22 Sep 15 - 10:45 PM

Janie, I'm just sending love because I still haven't found a link worth sending!

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 23 Sep 15 - 05:28 AM

did they put a Band-aid on your femur?

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 23 Sep 15 - 10:12 AM

Well lass just because you can't get out doesn't mean you can't enjoy a relaxing walk in the countrysideWalk in Banff Canada

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 23 Sep 15 - 02:05 PM

Good to read of your progress, Janie. Here's a
mutual friend
:

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 23 Sep 15 - 02:33 PM

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 24 Sep 15 - 06:05 AM

Good morning Janie. Hello there, Meg.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 24 Sep 15 - 06:29 AM

drat see my fingers had a senior moment yesterday that dratted phone has the submit and home button to close together for my poor stubby little fingers. Good morning Janie, Maeve and everyone

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 24 Sep 15 - 06:30 AM

Maeve is it just her broken leg that needs music and laughs or can we send them to the other leg too so it doesn't feel left out

*I'll get ma hat

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Janie
Date: 24 Sep 15 - 10:50 AM

At rehab facility now. Very poor wifi reception but not hopeless.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 24 Sep 15 - 10:57 AM

Just remember Janie If you want to kick the physio terrorist use your uninjured leg :)

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 24 Sep 15 - 04:44 PM

Good ideas, Meg... both the music for uninjured leg and same leg for kicking. Always thinking, is oor Meg. :) (Hey Megan- Shall I send colour-coded wee stickers for your phone? :D )

Janie, that's good. Rehab is where they offer tedious but helpful tasks for your recovery. We like the idea of recovery. I'll send you an email.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 24 Sep 15 - 07:41 PM

Well, folks, I can report that she's as healthy and happy as you can be while you're still jacked up and pinned down. It's very nice where she is, but it ain't home, and it's crowded and noisy. What's probably needed is a damn good song circle, so I'm arranging to fly in a couple of world-renowned experts in that department.

She's way more gracious and patient than I could ever hope to be in her position, that's for sure : )

She needs laughter, music, and still good wishes for healing.

Dani

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 24 Sep 15 - 07:41 PM

Well, folks, I can report that she's as healthy and happy as you can be while you're still jacked up and pinned down. It's very nice where she is, but it ain't home, and it's crowded and noisy. What's probably needed is a damn good song circle, so I'm arranging to fly in a couple of world-renowned experts in that department.

She's way more gracious and patient than I could ever hope to be in her position, that's for sure : )

She needs laughter, music, and still good wishes for healing.

Dani

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Bert
Date: 24 Sep 15 - 11:19 PM

Love and good wishes on their way.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: GUEST,threelegsoman
Date: 25 Sep 15 - 02:41 AM

Hello Janie, and best wishes for a swift recovery from Tony in the Isle of Man.
Perhaps you might find something to make you laugh in my playlist of humorous songs which can be found by following this link:
Playlist of humorous songs performed by threelesoman

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 25 Sep 15 - 03:42 AM

Today's Walk the Caledonian Canal

Hope you keep improving and get back to normal soon.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 26 Sep 15 - 12:59 PM

Hello, Janie. Sunshine and cool air blowing your way from the apple orchard.

Maeve

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: wysiwyg
Date: 26 Sep 15 - 01:24 PM

Tony, thanks!!! I'm hosting a song circle Sunday and I was short on funny songs for the kiddoes. Can't see chords-- are they only viewable on computer?

~Susan

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: GUEST,threelegsoman
Date: 27 Sep 15 - 02:35 AM

Susan, if you look at the bottom right hand side of the video screen you will see some icons. Click on the cogwheel then click the appropriate box to "turn on annotations".
If that does not work, then perhaps you do need to use a PC.

Tony

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 27 Sep 15 - 03:23 AM

A soon to be former friend sent me this, the evil woman knows every time I hear it my head starts bobbing and I can't get rid of the daft thing for ages
Drated Christmas earworm

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Larry The Radio Guy
Date: 27 Sep 15 - 03:27 AM

Here's music, laughs, and trombones.



https://www.facebook.com/1440405576181969/videos/vb.1440405576181969/1453832438172616/?type=2&theater

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: skarpi
Date: 27 Sep 15 - 12:35 PM

Janie ...good well and you will be running along the street like the newsboy Jimmy Brown before you know it , get well thoughts over the ocean ...
Skarpi Iceland ...

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 28 Sep 15 - 07:48 AM

Good morning, Janie. Hauling firewood today, so:
Robin Williamson "The Woodcutter's Song"

Regina Spektor- Firewood w/ Lyrics

"More Wood" by Dillan Bustin: Malcolm Dalglish, Claudia Schmidt, Grey Larsen

"Birches" Bill Morrissey

Kate Wolf's "Leggett Serenade"

Love,
Maeve

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 28 Sep 15 - 09:13 AM

Now Maeve since you are in a wooden frame of mind will you be driving those logs home :)
Log drivers waltz

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 29 Sep 15 - 04:53 AM

Hope things are improving today's offering some nice scenes and lovely clarsach tuneThe chanters song

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 29 Sep 15 - 04:15 PM

Megan, twice now I did answer you but it wouldn't take. Here it is again: Yes to the logdriver's waltz. Our woods and orchard are so uneven we may as well be dancing a logdrive!

Janie- We understand you may not be able to access all of this music and laughter where you are, never mind reply, but we will wait semi-patiently and the links will wait more patiently until you walk out of there.
Love,
Maeve

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Severn
Date: 29 Sep 15 - 04:47 PM

My best wishes for a speedy and thorough recovery. If you need some good music sent your way, The Library Of Digress here, going through some renovation, could probably supply some of your needs if you can tell me what sorts of books and recordings you like and in what formats,,,,,,

Rooting for you until then,
Severn

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Mr Red
Date: 30 Sep 15 - 03:25 AM

a few weird images in the town where I live

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Janie
Date: 30 Sep 15 - 08:34 PM

Now able to get out to lobby with wheelchair and much enjoying the links. Thanks, y'all!

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 30 Sep 15 - 08:46 PM

Hurrah, Janie!

It's windy here after 5.7 inches of rain today. Thank you for touching base!

Love,
Maeve

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 30 Sep 15 - 09:24 PM

Janie, I'm glad you are able to exchange one set of walls for another! I hope you are also able to enjoy another view of the great outdoors. Today the lobby, tomorrow, who knows!

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 30 Sep 15 - 09:32 PM

most excellent news, Janie & most excellent set of images, Mr Red. I sent the cycle path pic to a few cycling friends

sandra

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: GUEST,Nigel Paterson
Date: 01 Oct 15 - 10:44 AM

Janie...very pleased to read that you are able to get about a bit. Just want you to know that you are in our thoughts, each & every day.
                               Much Love,
                                                 Nigel & Ann xxxxx

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 01 Oct 15 - 11:10 AM

If you want to make the great escape on four wheels make sure old dude isn't around he has a way of catching runaway wheelchairs.

Today's daft song Parody on loch Lomond
Parody on loch Lomond

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 02 Oct 15 - 05:52 AM

I wondered what to send this morning. Perhaps a song but mechty the wind is howling so much ye'd never hear it. So I thocht on a peedie walk but we'd be blawn clear aff oor feet so we kin forget about that.

So I thought I'd make us a nice hot drink and some shortbread while I shared wie ye the culture o ma beautiful islands. Orkney culture


Hope you are bright and positive this morning.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Oct 15 - 06:16 AM

Lovely, Meg. Love the notion of little'uns plowing the beach sands.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Janie
Date: 02 Oct 15 - 12:03 PM

Lovely, Megan. You all can not know how much I appreciate the links, and well-wishes.

I,m lobbying hard to get them to send me home. I,be done.all the rehab that can be done re the leg until I can put weight on it and have developed enough upper body strength to get around well enough with wheelchair and short hops with a walker. Just need to get a fire lit under worker comp case manager to approve a temporary ramp so I can get in and out of house.

I'm really amazed by the kindness and helpfulness of neighbors and friends, both while I am here, and what they have offered to do once I'm home to make it possible to be home.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: GUEST,maeve who must take time to restore her cook
Date: 02 Oct 15 - 12:14 PM

"little'uns plowing the beach sands. "
'Twas I.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 02 Oct 15 - 12:44 PM

:) Maeve I missed the boys ploughing match this year but love to go down and see the it is so funny to watch dads and grandads shouting advice and measuring like their life depended on it.

Let's hope they organise the escape committee quickly. You could always follow the example of the brother of my big brothers German friend. He had been taken prisoner by the Russians. He noticed them trying to figure out how to make a bicycle work. He offered to show them how to ride it. Back and forward he rode then let them try again but they had never seen one before so were still very wobbly so he offered to show them again, jumped on the bike and peddled furiously down the road.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Oct 15 - 04:41 PM

Janie, a word from experience-- you can request a home evaluating ofcsafety issues for getting around during the balance of rehab, if it's covered. The PT/OT folks do it, or home health agency. (They might spot something you're not planning for already.)

~Susan

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 03 Oct 15 - 05:50 AM

A day early with this oneSunday driver

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 03 Oct 15 - 07:10 PM

Say, "Goodnight, Janie." (Goodnight, Janie. :) )

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 04 Oct 15 - 07:47 AM

Now lass you may or may not like a dram, it is not to my taste but living in a country that is proud of its many distilleries, indeed my own beloved island had at one time three though only two are still on the go. So today I thought I would take you on a wee tour round the process of making of uisge beatha the water of life.

Many years ago I did the children's talk at church based on the making of our national drink from the cutting down of the grain onwards. I am not sure what shocked some of the congregation more that I brought a bottle of Highland park into church or that I didn't open it and give them a dram. How whisky is made

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Oct 15 - 08:32 PM

Janie, here's one dear friend sent to another:

FOREVER CAME TO CALL by Ann Mayo Muir

Goodnight,
Maeve

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 04 Oct 15 - 08:36 PM

'Twas I just then with Annie.
Here's another favorite from Anne Mayo Muir:

"Snow Gull" sung by Anne Mayo Muir

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Oct 15 - 09:32 PM

Silly me!

See the old MudDorm (and a funny video within the video in the first minute), and a parade of Mudcatters from various MudGathers and extra Gather MudMeets.

https://youtu.be/ocjMckTtZ1Y

~Susan

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Mr Red
Date: 05 Oct 15 - 06:57 AM

Knittershanty first one on the list. If you are not mobile maybe knitting is possible.

Or maybe "My Love is Like a Chocolate Box" will make you smile. It was first performed at the Somers Folk Club holding a box of "Black Magic". When finished it was handed to the object of my desire who thought I was just handing her a box of candy! the second rendition she twigged the full import. The assembled audience got it immediately! Oh the memories.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 05 Oct 15 - 09:40 AM

Kendall and Jacqui are busy making music at the Getaway, but here they are in your home as well:
Interview with Kendall and Jacqui

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 06 Oct 15 - 10:36 AM

Janie today I thought I would try to mesh our cultures (he he )Portree Kid

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 07 Oct 15 - 09:55 AM

Good morning, Janie. Have I sent you this yet? Kallet & Larsen "Courage"
Maeve

(Meg, you are wicked! Love that one, thanks for the reminder!)

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 07 Oct 15 - 10:12 AM

My Mum and Dad went to America once to visit his cousin in Utah, coming down in the lift he said good morning to the only other occupant only to be asked in an Ayrshire accent what part of Scotland he came from. enjoy the MacCallmans The Scots abroad

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 07 Oct 15 - 10:20 AM

heres two for the price today They sent a woman

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Oct 15 - 12:25 PM

Dani and Amos and I made a pilgrimage to the nursing home - bearing gifts from several donors. Janie was in great spirits and was looking great. We're taking her home Friday, and Amos and I have volunteered to do grunt work to make room for her walker and wheelchair. Amos is doing grunt work here at Dani's house this morning. Dani and I are watching from a safe distance....
The man is wicked with a sledge hammer.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 07 Oct 15 - 01:06 PM

thanks Joe just remind Amos that the phrase "When I nod my head hit it" Is not an instruction. well done Jane that's some escape committee

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 07 Oct 15 - 02:52 PM

Thank you all, Joe, Dani and Amos.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 08 Oct 15 - 08:04 AM

The time might seem like eleven more months

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Janie
Date: 08 Oct 15 - 09:53 AM

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 08 Oct 15 - 08:11 PM

Uh, Janie? You okay? Or at least as okay as you can be with a badly broken leg?

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Oct 15 - 08:59 PM

Awww... Amos & Joe & Dani to make things good? What a team! They will even sing for you!

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 09 Oct 15 - 07:09 AM

you might need earplugs before watching this one Welcome home

Hope the transfer went well

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 09 Oct 15 - 12:35 PM

A little Friday morning nonsense...W.S. Gilbert of Gilbert & Sullivan fame, so the story goes, hated the Limerick verse form & wrote the following in protest:

"There was a young man from St. Bees
Who was stung on the arm by a wasp.
When asked: "Does it hurt?"
He replied: "No it doesn't'
I'm so glad that it wasn't a hornet".

Love & Laughter, Janie. Wishing you a safe return home,
                            Yours Most Affectionately,
                                                                     Nigel & Ann xxxxx

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 10 Oct 15 - 12:38 PM

Hope you got home ok and are settling in

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 10 Oct 15 - 05:46 PM

Short and sweet, "Welcome Home, My Dearie"
Maeve

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Janie
Date: 10 Oct 15 - 10:35 PM

Yes, grateful to say, Home! And sorry not to have posted earlier. The transition has been wonderful but exhausting, and I have had to spend most of the afternoon and evening resting and napping.

Joe, Amos and Tony rescued me about lunch time yesterday. They are my knights in shining armor. We had a wonderful and leisurely lunch at a sidewalk table at a local pub under beautiful skies, a gentle breeze and perfect temperatures. It was sooo good to be outside and free. They lugged me to the pharmacy and waited patiently with me while prescriptions got filled and billing got straightened out, then took me home.

I confess I was so relieved when I got in the door that I cried.

After unloading the car, moving furniture around to make room for the wheelchair to maneuver and making sure I could transfer from wheelchair to other seating arrangements and back again, they left me to have a bit of a nap while they went to fetch Dani from work.

Early evening they arrive again, Dani and supper in tow, my sister arrives and we have a lovely coming home gathering, complete with a bit of song.

More settling in this morning - I didn't really think I needed my sister Annie to come down, but I was wrong and so glad she insisted.

Some issues with the ramp - the wheelchair wants to rear up on the back wheels when the front wheels hit the start of the ramp, where there is a bit of a bump. If that can't be addressed somehow doesn't look like I will be going outside to sit while home alone. The durable equipment that was supposed to be delivered today did not come either. But at least I have the wheelchair and the nursing home lent me a walker until one is delivered - the only way I have access to the 'necessary room.'

Your posts here continue to cheer and encourage me. Need to go back to bed and rest some more now.

Thank you, all you angels.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 11 Oct 15 - 02:37 AM

thank you for the update lass. Be very careful with the wheelchair its point of balance is wrong the wheelchair nurse set Davit's new chair up with the POB so far back that the char tipped when we stopped for lunch on our way to Inverness once and he ended up in A&E. if the chair has a seatbelt put it on and lean slightly forward when you hit the ramp.

I'm sure now you are home you will come on in leaps and bounds (But no to much o either)

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Oct 15 - 03:06 AM

Megan, can the point of balance of a wheelchair be adjusted? I hadn't thought of that. There's a problem with one foot rest that I want Janie to have the durable equipment people look at.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 11 Oct 15 - 03:43 AM

Joe not on all of them but the more modern ones can they usually have those push knobs you see on adjustable walking sticks simply press it in and move it one hole towards the back of the chair (if possible get two people to do it get Janie out of the chair to do the adjustment. Then while Janie is in the chair on a flat surface with someone standing in front of her and the brakes on gently tilt back the person at the front can act as counter weight by pressing on the arms to right it if it is still a bit to vigorous) The person at the front isn't always necessary but if the user has had a fright with the tip their presence is reassuring.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Oct 15 - 09:04 AM

The easiest way to adjust the center if gravity of the chair is to sling a couple of gallons of water under it on a rope, at the forward point where the weight is needed. A heavily loaded purse will do in a pinch. (THEN lean forward.)

Another poss fix is adding the Harbor Freight folding ramp to decrease angle, under $150.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 11 Oct 15 - 09:05 PM

I'm delighted that you are home and hope the wheelchair problem is fixed soon.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 12 Oct 15 - 07:12 PM

Sleep sweetly in your own bed, Janie.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 13 Oct 15 - 01:27 AM

Don't know if you still need cheer so I'll send this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EiVa2ewXzM

---

from Joe Offer: http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?ThreadID=158328

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 14 Oct 15 - 05:46 AM

Hope you are managing ok at home lass thought we could do a bit site seeing today. A wee bit sight seeing

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Oct 15 - 12:58 PM

For your amusement:
Do you know what happens when you put eggs on to boil and forget them? I heard an explosion in the kitchen and ran to see what was going on. Arrived just in time for the second missile to launch. Exploding molten hot eggs all over the place. A mess. A smelly mess. But at least I wasn't wounded. Kitchen looks like a Rorschach Test gone wrong.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Oct 15 - 01:28 PM

And then there's this from today's news. The first sentence is classic:

LONDON — A former meerkat expert at London Zoo has been ordered to pay compensation to a monkey handler she attacked with a wine glass in a love spat over a llama-keeper.

A judge at Westminster Magistrates' Court said Wednesday that Caroline Westlake must pay 800 pounds ($1,235) to Kate Sanders for assaulting her in a dispute over colleague Adam Davies, who had dated both women.

Judge Jeremy Colman also sentenced 30-year-old Westlake to 12 months community service for assault.

The judge said Sanders had suffered a "nasty" face injury in the fracas at a zoo Christmas party on Dec. 8.

Westlake had claimed that Sanders punched her first, and said she did not remember hitting her colleague with the glass.


She was fired by the zoo after the incident.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 14 Oct 15 - 01:46 PM

Goodness, Sins! Glad you are OK!

And that zoo-related case- fair game for a song challenge, wouldn't you say?

Hey there, Janie. How goes the battle?

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 14 Oct 15 - 08:49 PM

Certainly, a song challenge.

OK, what rhymes with 'fracas'?!

Dani

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 15 Oct 15 - 10:22 AM

Now Dani the one thing that would match would not be a nice thing to call Janie besides her name isn't Jack :) mind you perhaps we should post A warning to go slow

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Janie
Date: 15 Oct 15 - 11:14 AM

Y'all are toooo funny!   

I agree with Dani. That article Sins posted is definitely song challenge material. (So is the exploding eggs episode!) How many times have I told you, Sins, you have to stop living so dangerously?!

Weight lifting and long naps appear to agree with me. Stronger every day so able to do more in the house and make more trips around the house with the walker. Hope to start bearing some weight on the broken leg after I see the surgeon again next week. Can't bend it to a right angle yet, but a little more bend seems to be happening. Hope this is temporary and that legs will be more equal once more strengthening and stretching of the thigh muscle commences in earnest, but at present the injured thigh looks to be a good 1 1/2 inches shorter than the other thigh. The left foot doesn't quite touch the ground when I stand straight within the walker.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: frogprince
Date: 15 Oct 15 - 10:26 PM

Finally got around to running down this thread. Good to hear things have come as far as they have, Janie. If I could sing worth anything, I'd sing that one by Bobby McFerrin. Hows that go now...

Here's a little song I wrote,
Gonna sing it to a goat;
Don't worry, be happy...

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Bert
Date: 16 Oct 15 - 03:58 AM

I was thinking of you the other day Janie.

I was walking around the yard looking for a lost chicken and I fell down this hole. I got a few nasty bruises and it took me quite a few minutes to be able to crawl out of the hole which was nearly 3 feet deep.

So I had to laugh at myself because I knew that the hole was there, I just wasn't paying attention.

I thought of you when I got to thinking "I was lucky I didn't break anything".

So now you can laugh at ME.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Janie
Date: 16 Oct 15 - 06:17 AM

Oh my goodness, Bert. That sounds like a nasty and jarring fall, and you are indeed lucky to have not broken anything - and I am glad of that!

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 17 Oct 15 - 11:46 AM

I thought we could have a wee barbeque today lass The Scottish Barbeque

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Amos
Date: 17 Oct 15 - 12:50 PM

Here's a sweet number for you, darlin' girl: Arms of an Angel.

Just to warm up yore heart! :D

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 18 Oct 15 - 01:10 PM

Janie, you'll get physical therapy, won't you? It's a big help but never enough in my experience. Of course you can continue to exercise on your own after insurance stops covering therapy. Joining the Y and using equipment and taking yoga classes there has been a good for me.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Janie
Date: 18 Oct 15 - 02:04 PM

Yes, Chantylass. Right now they are sending both an OT and a PT out to the house a couple of times a week and I have about an hour's worth of exercises to do twice a day. PT for the leg is somewhat limited in scope until I can start putting some weight on it - hopefully next week.

Here is the motivational video I'm focusing on now:>) When the leg is better than new!

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 19 Oct 15 - 02:05 PM

Good motivation, Janie! :)

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 22 Oct 15 - 02:42 AM

Hi Janie hope the weather is being nice where you are today. I wont be outside today the winds are around 70mph part of the reason very few trees in Orkney grow above the level of the nearest house and our few woods rather resemble giant green mushrooms in shape as each tree dares to grow a few inches higher from the edge to the centre of the wood.

Today I found this video A walk up the Sma Glen I love his voice.

Hope you are improving have you been able to put weight on the injured leg yet or is that still a while away?

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Janie
Date: 22 Oct 15 - 03:03 PM

Oh my, Megan. That is nearly a hurricane force 'breeze!' It definitely seems you live in a wild, severe, and beautiful place where one is ever reminded that we are but part of powerful nature, and not the rulers of nature.

I have enjoyed and appreciate all the links so many have shared, but especially enjoy all your videos that provide these lovely walking tours. In this most recent, what happened to all the trees? He mentions the wild hyacinths are evidence that the glen was once quite forested. Where I am from, in West Virginia, much of the place has been clear cut at one time or another, but most of those clear cut slopes somehow reforest themselves within 50-75 years.

Re: wt. on the leg, starting this past Monday, 25% of my weight, and doing laps in the house with the walker to promote healing and bone strengthening. Still using the wheelchair for two-handed tasks, or for lengthy distances. Have also been released to drive locally, as long as I use good sense about my endurance with the walker, or have access to an electric cart in stores.

Not celebrating yet because it has not been that long - but no cigarettes since 9/15 when I fell. Longest period of time in 45 years I have managed without a cigarette. Gonna get fat again if I keep it up - but maybe my bones won't break so easily next fall.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 22 Oct 15 - 03:25 PM

Not entirely sure Janie sheep get blamed for a lot as areas were cleared for livestock.

Glad to hear you are starting to rebuild strength When my Dauvit and I were courting he was running me to the airport when I told him I didn't like to kiss an ashtray, he opened the window of the car and threw the packet he had just bought out of it he never smoked again from that day.

Now as long as you don't do what several of the old lads did when we moved in here you will be alright, they got their hands on three mobility scooters and were racing them up and down the road like boy racers.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 23 Oct 15 - 07:42 PM

I love reading that you are making progress, Janie!

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 25 Oct 15 - 12:00 PM

Janie I came across this today Tom Wier was a great outdoors man and a friend of my dad. Both loving to head out of the city like a lot of Springburn folk who worked in the railway yards during the week at the weekend they would catch a bus or cycle up to the Trossachs and walk most often stopping for the night in a quiet spot where they would pitch their tent.

My dads first tents were home made with tiking(a tightly woven cotton used for mattresses) which was dipped in alum to make it waterproof. Even when I was young it was a job for the first warmer dry day of spring to dip the tents and spread them over the washing lines to dry ready for the camping season.

Tom was a quietly spoken friendly man with a great love of his country and its beauty. His Sister Molly Weir was a well known brittish actress and writer of cookery books.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Janie
Date: 26 Oct 15 - 10:32 PM

Ohh, Megan. Your posts and links belong on even a separate thread. Would be a wonderful thread with the prefix "folklore." And would comment, compare, and commiserate regarding the ways parts of Scotland and the Appalachian plateau areas of West Virginia and Kentucky resonate. Am only about 10 minutes through Tom Weir's video and will return to it as soon as I finish this post. Those first scenes and comments could be about my own homeland, the hills and hollers of the western half of West Virginia. At least in some ways. The opening hike could be mistaken for a hike up a switchback above a West Virginia holler on the central Appalachian plateau. I think what in Scotland is called a glen, in West Virginia is called a holler (hollow.) Narrow valleys carved out by creeks and a few shorter rivers among ancient, rugged hills that millennia ago were towering mountains higher than most ranges that exist in the world today. Ancient, fey, rugged lands. Most of the height of the mountains where I was raised now rests along the Mississippi Delta or lies at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

Your time, care and attention in locating and sharing these videos is such an act of kindness. I am so grateful. You are opening doors that I am otherwise too lazy and too timid to have found by myself.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 27 Oct 15 - 03:13 AM

I had a thread going for a while called sunshine thoughts filled with all the places and events that made people smile.

I rarely get out much these days so spending some time "lukin fur peedie nims" (looking for little treats) for you is a pleasure.

Today I thought I would share with you some of our island music we have a strong fiddle tradition that we share with the Shetland isles. When I came here as a new bride many years ago it was still quite common to see the much loved fiddle hung beside the peat fire.

The old man in one house told me it was kept there because in old dry stone walled houses which were usually damp and bothered with woodworm the warmth from the fire and the peat smoke helped keep the fiddle sweet and free from damage.

Rousay fiddle music sadly now many of us live in centrally heated houses the old fiddle is in a case in a cupboard out of sight out of mind.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 27 Oct 15 - 08:36 AM

One of Megan's many gifts!

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 29 Oct 15 - 09:32 AM

A wet stormy day here so hids fine tae snuggle up wie a mug o hot chocolate and this lovely video from our northerly neighbours a Shetland lace is a knitted lace now I mesel hivna the skill but a full shawl is something to be treasured and often passes down from mother tae daughter through the generations.

I got the chance to return tae Shetland this year and spent four wonderful days rootin aroon on the main island. The landscape is rugged and free the folk are quiet yet if you tak time tae spik wi dem they are warm and generous. (That should give Maeve something to translate :) )

As a child on the edges of Glasgow I could never understand how ower peerie (In Orkney peedie i.e. small) Sheltie (Shetland sheepdog) could ever be of any use herding sheep. Having seen these small hardy sheep however it no surprise for an overwintered Shetland lamb weighs in at about 22KG compared to an overwintered Scottish Black face which comes in at about 40Kg.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 29 Oct 15 - 09:45 AM

"...if you tak time tae spik wi dem they are warm and generous."
"...if you take time to speak with them they are like Meg and Janie."

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 29 Oct 15 - 10:06 AM

He he he was just worried you might have gotten oot o practice

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 31 Oct 15 - 04:03 AM

Lass these might be the last ones for a while I am having some problems with the machine so it will be going for a check up.

This one is for Halloween. From the earliest I can remember my dad took me around the Glasgow necropolis . This city of the dead is filled with interesting architecture and people. The city was famous for ship building and heavy engineering and many of these captains of industry can be found alongside the poet who wrote "Wee Willie Winkie"

One of the last times I visited was with My brother in law and his wife and my Dauvit, They watched amazed as I would touch a memorial saying " this was name, he was Trade" I never realised how much of what my father had told me was still in my head.

My favourite stone however is not some fancy mausoleum but a simple rectangle of stone belonging to a Glasgow grocer, how do we know this? well all round the edge of the stone is a list of the things he sold and the opening hours of the shop.

The second is from a cd that came with the book of Scottish folk songs I never realised till I got this book just how much folk songs I had absorbed from my mum. She had a simple philosophy in life If you are happy sing because you are happy if you are not happy sing to make yourself happy.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 31 Oct 15 - 04:48 AM

Janie, Here is a link to a piece of music I composed, that is now being used in 6 hospitals in 4 states, for psych and cardio therapy. The cardiologist told me that "...there is a LOT of healing in this music.."
Try it, it will take you away, and play a movie in your head...but it's YOUR own movie....makes healing a bit easier.
When I took in a stack of CD's, for the cardiologist, and hospital, I gave them permission to copy and use them...no licensing..or money stuff...free. So, Mudcatters get that too...You WILL heal...I wish it a comfortable one!!

Regards,
GfS

P.S...Oh yeah, the link...

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 31 Oct 15 - 11:26 AM

Hello, Janie. I'm happy to hear that you are healing. Congratulations on not smoking, as well.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 31 Oct 15 - 11:32 AM

"sadly now many of us live in centrally heated houses"

Don't be sad. You are lucky not to be living in a damp place which promotes molds and fungi. You are also lucky not to be breathing smoke every day of your life. I will spare you the dreadful details.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 02 Nov 15 - 06:54 AM

Good morning, Janie. It's November, and you've been working hard to regain strength and use of your leg. Megan has offered some wonderful links to places I love.

Here is someone whose music I miss: Rick Lee
Tam Lin- sung by Rick Lee

Rick Lee - "Your Lone Journey" by Rosalee and Doc Watson

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Nov 15 - 03:11 AM

I have to say that last year after the Getaway, Janie cooked me the best steak I have ever had in my life. This year, we had roasted chicken from the supermarket - but we still had a good time. Still, Janie, do you think you could arrange for steak next time?

I hadn't known much about Megan until after I came back from Orkney this year. I'm sure I walked right past her house, because I walked every street in her time in the four days I was there. If only I had known who she was and what a nice person she is.

But I have had the profound privilege of knowing Janie for many years, and that has been a pleasure.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Wesley S
Date: 03 Nov 15 - 08:58 AM

For Laughs: Has the "How it should have ended" youtube series been mentioned yet?

How it should have ended: The Battle Of The Five Armies.

Jurassic World

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 04 Nov 15 - 04:24 AM

Hi Lass hope you are improving steadily. If yer fed up wie me daft posts just gie me a dunt and ahll stop :). I had forgotten about this introduction which was sent out to people moving here for a job.living and working on Orkney

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Janie
Date: 05 Nov 15 - 09:28 AM

Thanks Wesley!

The pleasure is mine, Joe. Next year, steaks it will be!

What a shame that Joe and Megan did not meet. I suspect you are true kindred spirits. And Megan, I continue to relish your links, as well as those of others. I've never traveled outside the USA (rarely outside of the eastern part even here,) but should I ever have the opportunity, you have made the Orkney Islands a "must visit."

I'm to call the orthopaedist's nurse today to determine if I can return to work part time next week, before my next doctor visit. Worker's comp is pushing me to do so, but also pushing for 3 days a week going to an outpatient PT place. She is thinking that pool therapy plus the equipment available for me to work with would speed strengthening and weight bearing, and I agree. However, I have arthritis and other tendon/ligament/joint problems with my shoulders, wrists and hands. My concern is I still can't put more than 25-30% of my weight on the leg, which means using the walker puts considerable stress on those joints, etc. (The upper body muscles hold up pretty good. It's the joints and tendons, etc. that hurt and pop.) I need to use the walker as much as possible because weight bearing will promote bone healing. All the walking with walker involved with getting into and around the office at work 4 days a week plus getting into a PT place 3 times a week, in addition to taking care of ADL's risks me blowing out the upper body parts. I'd rather wait until I actually see the doctor and get more x-rays, and have a couple of weeks of the outpatient PT in the hope it will help me put more weight on the leg and less on my upper body parts before going back to work part time.

I don't advocate for myself very well with doctors and case managers and also am loathe to be misunderstood as being lazy or a shirker. So wish me luck and courage to speak up for what I think I need today when I talk with the doctor's office, and later with the work comp case manager.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 06 Nov 15 - 07:20 AM

the blackening is a peculiar Orcadian custom relating to weddings it happens to the groom though now some females seem to have adopted it, thankfully because I got married just outside Glasgow both Dauvit and I were spared the silliness.

The victim is waylaid by his friends and stripped, bound and bundled onto a lorry (Truck with a open flat bed) He is then Blackened with flour treacle and feathers and trundled round the town for a while, this can take a few hours and often involves beverages that are not tea or coffee. at the end the poor soul is often unceremoniously dumped in the sea to clean of.

the blakening

The blackening and other wedding customs most of which have gone out of use now except for the cog which refers both to the wooden receptacle made using the barrel makers skills(having two longer handles so that it can be passed from hand to hand among the guests) and the drink contained therein.Orkney wedding customs

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 06 Nov 15 - 08:56 AM

Janie, you would be an effective advocate for your clients, yes? In this case you are your own client. Get in there and tell them what is needed! Your plan makes excellent sense. Their misconceptions are their issue, not yours. I see nothing in this situation that would suggest anything other than an intelligent person working toward good healing using best practice.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Nov 15 - 11:01 PM

shut up fubes love meshya

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 07 Nov 15 - 04:35 AM

Thought I would give our legs a rest today and have a look at another means of transport there are 5 canals in Scotland this is The crinan canal

we will just need to get you a bouncy harness we can hang from the roof so you can exercise your legs and gradually build up the load bearing just like the ones they used to hang in doorways for bairns :)

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: GUEST,Frogprince at the gallery
Date: 07 Nov 15 - 12:48 PM

"bairns" ? I thought those were for children!   : )

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 08 Nov 15 - 09:18 AM

Frogprince if me airms wur langer or you nearer I wid gie ye a skelp :) did you see someone had answered your enquiry on the Jonathon pearthree thread.

Today I took a notion to go traveling and found this Chantey in China such a soothing voice the singer has and lovely scenery.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 10 Nov 15 - 04:38 AM

Good morning Janie I hope you are progressing nicely.

Today I found this lovely recording of Ye Banks and Braes played outside Robert Burns cottage in Alloway. Every year as a child we would go there I believe the have built a fancy visitor centre now.

Little did I know then that the first 19 years of my married life would be spent in an almost identical dry stone cottage except the one we rented had a slate roof.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: GUEST,maeve, on borrowed machine
Date: 10 Nov 15 - 02:45 PM

Away from home, me. Poor connection, so short post.

Megan, thank you for your kind and steady support of our friend Janie.
Maeve

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: GUEST,Maeve
Date: 11 Nov 15 - 06:03 PM

Janie, how is it going? Has self-advocacy done its job?
Away from home, but hoping you are healing well.
Maeve

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 12 Nov 15 - 12:49 PM

Hope you are getting things sorted. tonight we have battened down the hatches there shouldn't be any problems we don't have many trees near houses or roads and they are only predicting 90miles an hour.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 13 Nov 15 - 04:22 PM

Kicking the thread back topside.

Janie- you doing ok?

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 14 Nov 15 - 03:59 AM

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 14 Nov 15 - 04:00 AM

Duh senior fingers :) Hope you are ok Janie

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Janie
Date: 14 Nov 15 - 04:37 AM

Getting better. Less pain. More flexion. Last night I dreamed I was walking without the walker.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 14 Nov 15 - 06:44 AM

always a good sign when your body starts wanting to be ordinary again. Lets celebrate with an ariel view of the cairngorms and Scotland from the air

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 14 Nov 15 - 10:23 AM

"...I dreamed of walking without the walker" You'll get there, Janie. Glad you are feeling better.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Nov 15 - 11:03 AM

We are all hoping for continued improvement... even those of us who don't check in regularly. I wish I could have been part of the Joe, Amos & Dani crew right after the Getaway.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 17 Nov 15 - 06:22 AM

Good morning, Janie. Our resident Pileated woodpecker announced himself with a grand, big voice yesterday before arriving in one of the big old black cherries trees in the apple orchard. He seemed a bit miffed the fruit is all gone.

Sending thoughts your way.
Maeve

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 19 Nov 15 - 01:50 AM

Hi Lass hope you managed to get some weight on the leg.

When I was little no Saturday morning was normal without a trip to the Glasgow Barras (a covered market) It was said you could find anything there a wander through the stalls was always an education from the old (well he seames awfy auld when I was four) man who used to play the hammer dulcimer (the instrument still fascinates me today) to banter from the various stalls.

In the days before the NHS looked after our health my big brother remembers the snake oil man and a big black man who used to pull teeth with his fingers.

this is The barras   played by Alistair MacDonald

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Janie
Date: 20 Nov 15 - 04:54 PM

I love farmer's markets. Sold at them for years. Very different from the Saturday market Daddy would take us to when we were small. Loved them then, and love them now.

Go back to work half time on Monday and starting outpatient PT (as opposed to home exercises given by a PT who was stopping by every week or so.) According the Dr. and the x-rays, bone-knitting is slow, but is happening. Can put some more weight on the leg but gonna be stuck with the walker for at least another 6-8 weeks and still dependent on wheelchair to cook, do laundry, or go any distances. The upper body joints, tendons, bursa and ligaments continue to be challenged. It's a balancing act - as is much of life, eh?

In good spirits.

Thanks, y'all!

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 20 Nov 15 - 08:14 PM

Janie, just keep healing! One step at a time, one foot in front of the other, etc.!

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Megan L
Date: 24 Nov 15 - 03:36 AM

Well Janie I hope the time at work didn't tire you to much.


Scotland revealed was a series a few years ago it captured my wonderful land.

I remember many years ago some cousins came from Utah to visit we were commenting on the beauty of their country and its largeness. One of the girls admitted they did have wonderful places but would often have to travel for a long time to get a change of scene. She said it was the thing she loved most about Scotland that you could travel a couple of hours and have traversed several different types of landscape.

In Glasgow which back in my fathers youth was a smoky dirty industrial city you got a bus or jumped on your bike on a Friday night and a short time later you were sitting outside your tent by a lochside (lake) enjoying supper ready to walk valleys or mountains the next morning.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 04 Dec 15 - 06:57 PM

How's it going, Janie?

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: Janie
Date: 05 Dec 15 - 09:32 AM

Progress is slow but prognosis for full recovery remains good. Still restricted to walker and wheelchair but hopeful next x-rays will show enough bone healing to allow me to graduate to a cane.    Have lost a lot of muscle mass. If I could put full weight on the bone right now, it would collapse because of the weakness of the muscles. Have also developed some tendonitis below the knee.

Start serious outpatient PT next week and that should help push progress a bit faster.

Subject: RE: Janie's broken leg needs music & laughs
From: maeve
Date: 07 Dec 15 - 08:41 AM

Janie, thank you for your update. It does take a looong time to recover, and I have found my idea of "strong" far exceeds the therapist's measure. I know you'll keep at it, continuing your healthy nutrition and attention to working your muscles intelligently.

Love,
Maeve