The holiday weekend didn't turn out how we had envisioned it would. We had plans to sit back and relax and enjoy the weekend on the lake. Instead Saturday morning I took David to the emergency room at the local hospital. He has a really bad infection in his big toe and the bone was exposed and extruding. He was admitted into the hospital and immediately started on IV antibiotics. He is scheduled for surgery tomorrow to amputate that toe. So instead of a restful weekend at the lake he has had an even more restful weekend confined to the hospital bed and I have kept the roads busy driving back and forth. (The hospital is 20 miles from the campground). We are scheduled to move from this park and to another one on Sunday but after explaining the situation to the park ranger here they are allowing us to stay until June 15th which is a great help. Hopefully we can move before then but at least we know we have more time and can move when David is more mobile. For those reading this who don't already know it, David is an amputee. His right leg is amputated below the knee and he has had a lifetime of leg/foot problems. This toe amputation is a big deal since he has already lost the little toe on that foot to a prior infection several years ago. Of the 10 toes he will now only have 3 remaining. OK, enough talk about all of that.
Let me give you an update on the cardinal. I am not a violent person at all but I believe if I had a BB gun I would surely kill this bird. It has pecked at that window non-stop for 4 straight days and is driving me crazy. Today however it found a new window to share its time with. It is in love with David's truck window! It flies between the living room window and the back truck window, pecking away. We had this problem with a male cardinal when we lived in Austin too. We had these really high transom windows in our living room and it would peck at that window on and on and on. At least that was a big house and I could escape the noise by moving to another room. In the RV there is no where to go to escape the noise it creates. Below is a photo I took today of the bird pecking at the truck window. And so Memorial Day weekend comes to a close and I sit alone by the campfire blogging.
