A kilted "day-date" with my wife

**mookien** · 8th July 11, 09:40 PM

What a heartwarming story about your wife's successful surgery and your "day dates". That's wonderful, and congratulations to you both!

That's a great looking kilt (and outfit) and you wear it well. I wish I had the skill and patience to sew a kilt.

Thanks for posting the pics. The redwood tree sequence is particularly "fun". The first picture fooled me about the size of the tree, and log in front of it, until I saw the picture with you in it. What a scale shift! I assumed the tree was much smaller than it really is.

**longhuntr74** · 8th July 11, 09:51 PM

Thanks all for the comments and the kind thoughts. Dale...she was pretty much the same. No problems with her other joints...but her left hip was never formed (born with a birth defect). They discovered the displasia (sp?) rather late and did the best that they could with it at the time. That leg was also 1" shorter...and the surgery helped her get 1/2" back as well...and that is having some benefits in correcting a spine alignment problem/sciatica.

Originally Posted by mookien

The redwood tree sequence is particularly "fun". The first picture fooled me about the size of the tree, and log in front of it, until I saw the picture with you in it. What a scale shift! I assumed the tree was much smaller than it really is.

Yeah...I actually made a comment about that when I posted these pics on Facebook...forgot to post about the deceptive view here. They're BIG trees!

**Highlander31** · 8th July 11, 10:35 PM

Good to see Mrs. longhunter74 is feeling better and enjoying the outing.

Nice photos. Seeing those brings back some nice memories.

As a young man, I spent some time down there. We would go down to Jade Cove three or four times during the summer, and dive for "California Jade". While it's not the same quality as the jade from the Orient, a descent ring or pendant can still be made from it. Of course the spear fishing was always good as well.