thanks to all of you for your gracious comments from my last post. i am most definitely inspired to write on and provide pictures and tales of the day to day. above you will note a bad habit completely instigated by yours truly. it has been condemned by many visitors, yet upheld by certain family members so can everyone stop blaming me already!? by the way, she does like the sweater. we were also visited by some pilgrims recently... 
and here's one just in case you forgot what i looked like. i feel like lauren taking pictures of myself in the bathroom. miss you, lor...
today i got to take n to his physical therapist who works with him at a residential therapy pool in town. it was great to see him moving around in the water-- one of the places he has always been at home. they keep the temperature at 95 degrees so he was plenty warm and it's ozonated not chlorinated so that is wonderful. and best of all, it's mostly covered by insurance. praise the Lord! his p.t. is a wonderful woman who gently challenged him with lots of arm and leg reps. with kickboards, floats, and her own resistance against his. she finished up with a really cool aquatherapy technique called watsu... something like water shiatsu. she helped him strap into leg and neck floats then buoyed him up on his back. i watched a marked relaxation and relief wash over nathanael's tired and unbelievably frail body as his head slipped into her hands and the floats upheld the rest. i wanted to cry and fall asleep a the same time watching n float like an angel with no pressure on his joints nor anywhere. there was just the sound of water echoing off concrete as she softly zigzagged him through the water making sure to keep his eyes from the refracting sunlight that was dancing off everything. we both felt better afterwards. the other great news is that she said we could pay for facility use and come on our own time if i could remember her techniques and practice them with him. this really blessed us, since she didn't have any ego involved and just wants n to get exercise. this would be a wonderful activity for us so i'm just praying we can make it work with our schedules.
here is n a while back before it got chilly. wally is surely a nice companion dog for him.
and here is our pretty girl whom everyone we meet on street or trail calls: "Buddy! Hey, Buddy!" come on, people. doesn't she look like a florabelle?
and here is her sci fi debut in tent rocks not far from area 51...
thanks for reading. i surely appreciate it. i hope all of you wonderful family and friends are well. thinking of you much on this thanksgiving weekend. one more thing...george washington? fraggle? or lucy? let me know.
it's been a while. most of you know that n is not doing well. his legs and feet are in much pain as the tendons, ligaments and bones are deteriorating in his knees and ankles. the best we can do right now is to try to get him to a therapy pool. we so appreciate all of the prayers and phonecalls. we had to get n a walker. it's been pretty sad around here.
we had a visitor, our friend jeff, who loves n. he is a treasure hunter and adventurer who brought over some old weaponry and tales from the past to cheer n up. they get along famously and j.d. was greatly impressed, too. we are blessed to be here in NM with so many kind folks who want to see n well.
