Uman, going out for a smoke less than three hours post op is quite the non-compliant patient. We have an excess of hospital beds in my area, so if you are an inpatient, you usually get the room to yourself. The hospitals run adverts on television to attract patients, believe it or not.
Myrtle, you have certainly been through the ringer with this surgery. Fingers crossed that they get the infection under control before your next surgery date.
DS is signing the lease on his new flat this morning. He's taking over someone else's lease, and it runs until next April. It's going to be a project to get him moved in and setting him up with everything he needs.
I got tired of looking at the way the kitchen windows looked next to the wall after I painted the wooden exterior, so I repainted the whole wall and the one next to it that is the side of the garage. I still have some paint left over, so I may repaint to the right of the front door as well.
Mingus is standing on the windowsill, admiring the fall colors. I looked it up, and calling the season fall is a shortening of "the fall of the leaves.", a term from 17th-century England. A bit more about how "fall" and "autumn" diverged here:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/autumn-vs-fall
A handful of words got caught in the identity crisis, and fall was one of them. Both autumn and fall were born in Britain, and both emigrated to America. But autumn was, by far, the more popular term for quite a long time. In fact, the "autumn" sense of fall wasn't even entered into a dictionary until 1755, when Samuel Johnson first entered it in his Dictionary of the English Language.