Beth's orthopedist appointment was this week, so now we know for sure what's wrong with her knee. A lot, it seems. Torn meniscus (we thought we knew that) and arthritis are the big ones. No real idea when the torn meniscus happened, but she did fall on her kneecap a couple years ago and was in great pain after that for a while so we're guessing it was then. But apparently the arthritis in her knee has been developing (like it does) and it's just gotten to the point where it's now bad. The doctor said that with arthroscopic surgery he can probably fix about 75% of her pain, but if she were 10 years older she'd be looking at knee replacement. Which means she probably has TKA to look forward to in 10 years (or, if we can wait 11 years, she'll be on Medicare and it will be a lot cheaper). I'll be nearing retirement age then but I may still be at ZB, so maybe another discount there. Get her a Persona with Vivacit-E. In the meantime, we went to CVS and found her a cane to help her get around. Especially since we're going to the Henry Ford Museum next week.....

Softball had an incredible victory this week. We fell behind by a few runs early on, but came roaring back with a vengeance. Had a couple innings where we batted all the way around (even with 15 players). Jumped all over them, let them score a few of their own (they're not bad players!) and won the game 24-13. That was a really fun game to play, and Beth said it was a really fun game to watch. I even got a few good hits, scored a couple runs, had a couple RBI. And the good news/bad news: we are going to make up both of the rainout games the next 2 weeks...but we'll be gone so I won't be able to play in them!

I've been getting all the arrangements for taking Alex out to Washington next month to start college at Digipen. We have tickets on Alaska Airlines because it was so much cheaper than even Southwest. I also found out that renting a car for 4 days is about twice the cost of plane tickets to and from there. I found a good rate through USAA, though, so that was good. Now lodging....hotels are expensive there. Haven't got one of those yet, maybe I'll look for an AirBnB.

Beth and I had the communion meditation in church today. We try to connect it with our lives of late so we went with 'graduation' and 'commencement' and how the disciples world changed before and after the cross. Neither one of us were really happy with it but we got good feedback. 

Nat has been house/dogsitting for Mary Jane again this weekend as she goes back to Indy. She didn't lock herself out this time (but she did spend too much time at home, judging by to dog poop and pee on the floor of the kitchen when I dropped her back off there), but overnight Saturday something happened with the front door; when she got up Sunday morning the door was ajar, and she had been certain she locked it when she went to bed. That really freaked her out, big time. She thought somebody must have broken in. Nothing was missing, though, and the dog was still inside (she said she heard the dog barking during the night), so when we called Mary Jane she said the door has blown open during strong wind storms before a couple times. So we're guessing that must be what happened.