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Nobadays
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# Posted: 10 Jul 2025 07:56am
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Almost 5am and getting ready to shove off for the 10 hour drive. Been in the upper 90's low 100's here in N. Central AZ, looking forward to cooler temperatures!
Update.... I'm healing up well from my open abdominal surgery in March, still taking care not to lift too heavy. My wife had her spine decompression surgery about 7 weeks ago. Doctor found way more than he had anticipated but did a phenomenal job clearing out all the arthritis, bone spurs and cysts. My wife feels better now than she has for years! So good she decided to schedule a knee replacement as well since she has been putting that off... besides, the "cabin season" has been shot in the rump anyway! We are still waiting on the call from the scheduler so uncertain when that will take place. We figure if it's not until mid-late September we will just move up to Colorado until just before the surgery.
Kind of been a tough year so far but we are both doing well so can't complain!
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FishHog
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# Posted: 10 Jul 2025 07:59am
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Enjoy the cabin time and glad to hear you both are healing up well
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 10 Jul 2025 08:46am
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Great!
Safe Travels 
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jsahara24
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# Posted: 10 Jul 2025 08:51am
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Safe travels and glad to hear the good news...
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paulz
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# Posted: 10 Jul 2025 10:24am
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DRP
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# Posted: 10 Jul 2025 06:29pm
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A friend's daughter was up here chillin after a lumpectomy. He looked out one morning to see her holding her chest as still as possible while running up the road, the bear was probably sucking up his deer gut and running the other direction but there it is, relaxing life in the country . Enjoy the summer!
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Nobadays
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# Posted: 11 Jul 2025 08:46am
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Thanks all!
Crazy waking up to 44°F with the cabin temp @ 63°! We haven't seen 63° since we were up here a month ago. We haven't got those kind of $$$ to turn our AC down that far! We are setting here chilly and loving it!
Everything is peachy here, no problems that I need to solve. Kind of nice! Do need to weed eat/mow some high grass. The lawn I put in a few years ago is brown, dormant from lack of rain/water. So I guess I'll be hauling water for a few days while trying to soak the grass up and bring it back to life. Monsoon rains look like they are coming in Monday with a high chance of rain each day for the next 4-5 days.
Still waiting on the scheduler to call. My wife says if it is going to be September for her knee surgery she will just have them schedule it in mid/late October andvwe will just move up until then. Fingers crossed!
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 11 Jul 2025 09:13am
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Imo, no sense going to all that watering work with rain that close to coming. I think you'd have to water All Day to get enough real ground saturation to make a difference.
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 11 Jul 2025 06:18pm
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@Nobadays What elevation are you at? We are at 8742 ft in the Jemez mtns. Still very dry. We've not had much rain so far this monsoon season; just enough to get the weeds started slo g with waking the grasses. Not a lawn but an assortment of mostly native grasses and flowers.
The soil is dry enough that if we got a sudden heavyish rain before having the ground wetted and soaked in, most of a heavy rain will simply run downhill.
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Brettny
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# Posted: 11 Jul 2025 08:18pm
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My father did his second knee. Hes fairly active but I think in the last 15yrs has slowed down alot due to knee pain. For the second one he did alot of activity prior to it and is having a way better recovery. Way better meaning hes going for alot of catskill mountian peaks at age 70..and planing on hitting major mountian bike goals of around 60mi round trip including biking up/down a major mountian ridge.
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Aklogcabin
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# Posted: 12 Jul 2025 08:09am
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I was just talking to my beautiful wife yesterday about how I'm not getting enough cabin time. Had to get a new knee also. Did want is called a jiffy knee. A lot less invasive and half the standard physical therapy. Surgery only takes like 40 minutes. They go in from the side and don't cut a lot.
Anyhows plan on flying out with my buddy in his plane and getting things set up. He will stay a couple days. And then my beautiful wife, daughter n grandson fly out for a while. And I'll fly back home with them.
Man I'm so ready ! That little log cabin out in the middle of nowhere Alaska. No other people, except loved ones and just wild. Hopefully this ol body will get healed up and I can spend a month out there hunting moose n bears. Then winter n snogos. Trapping. Cabin time.
Yeah it's been tooooo long
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Chillin at the beaver dam
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Nobadays
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# Posted: 12 Jul 2025 09:21am - Edited by: Nobadays
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Gcrank1.... water is free I just have to haul it up from the spring. Yep I'm pouring it to the grass every 4 hours. It's going to take a lot ! Rain here is hit or miss but hopefully the monsoons will start rolling in soon. The lawn is more than just something nice, it's part of my fire defense.
MtnDon.... We are just... well kinda... over the hill from you a little east and north of Chama. We sit at 9,500" up the Alamosa river. I have been over seeding the lawn with native grasses so it' will be a lot more drought tolerant.
Brettny... Yep, Exercise before the knee surgery is crucial to fast recovery. Until my wife had the spine surgery it was painful to walk even a mile. She has now been doing 2 miles most days and riding a stationary bike to try to bring the muscles back. Like your father we are 70 and have been very active hiking and backpacking. Hoping to finish the Colorado Trail next summer, only 111 miles to go!
Aklogcabin... I think my wife is having a similar replacement. It will be what her doctor calls a partial knee replacement. If I understand it correctly they remove the kneecap then install new wear surfaces on the knee joint and put a plastic kneecap back in. No cutting tendons and muscle, everything is pushed out of the way while they work. Way less recovery time. Her issue is just arthritis on the surfaces of the joint and kneecap so that is what is cut away and then replaced with metal and plastic. Hoping this goes as well as her spine surgery.
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paulz
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# Posted: 12 Jul 2025 10:02am - Edited by: paulz
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Been at the cabin all week. Nothing much new to report but a word of warning. Late yesterday, after a day of splitting wood and driving my wife to meet a friend for lunch, my wallet turned up missing. Searched everywhere, turned the bed top to bottom, drove back down to the restaurant, nothing. Hasn’t ever happened that I recall, but losing credit cards, licenses, couple hundred in cash had me besides myself. Finally just before dark I took the dog for a walk down the hill, which I had already driven several times looking. And there it was, beat up from driving over but all there! I must have left it on the truck and it slid off, luckily 50’ from the cabin.
Hard lesson in wallet care, often taken for granted.
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DRP
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# Posted: 12 Jul 2025 08:16pm
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Lucky find!
Not a doctor and cannot even recall staying in a Holiday Inn. My wife had a partial knee replacement done. It felt so good she forgot and jumped out of the back of the truck. They then did a full replacement but the scarring from the partial made that tougher. I think in her case a full from the get go would have been the better choice, but who knows. She is on the stationary bike and walking the dog daily, and happy she had it done.
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Nobadays
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# Posted: 19 Jul 2025 09:50am
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Quoting: Nobadays Still waiting on the scheduler to call.
Well.... we came back to AZ yesterday for an appointment with my wife's knee surgeon. He went over the MRI with us and examined her knee again. He says the only area of her knee that is worn out and arthritic is the kneecap and under it. The rest of her knee is quite healthy with no arthritis and very minimal cartilage loss. He plans to do a "patellofemoral arthroplasty" which is ten dollar words for replacing just the kneecap and the wear surface for it on the femur.
We got to set down with the scheduler and found out why she hadn't called. The past scheduler had quit about a month ago so they moved her into the slot. She arrived with 146 surgeries to get scheduled with more being added nearly daily! No wonder the other scheduler quit! They are supposed to schedule within 5 days of receiving the order... she said she is a month out, just scheduling.... no help yet and won't authorize overtime. We feel for her!
Long and short of it, her surgery is scheduled for October 27th. Which allows us to go back up to the cabin for a couple months. She will need to be back down here for the last week of September to do all the pre-op testing. Probably wouldn't be ready to return to the cabin until early December but with a fresh knee rebuild it's probably not a good idea to return to snow and ice. So definitely a short cabin season for us...
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