Gymnopodal Therapy Redux

It’s now been 12 weeks from the surgery to repair my ruptured Achilles tendon. Boy do these things take a long time to heal (and often they never do get back to normal).

Saturday Comic

For today, let me go with a strip I’ve never used before, Pluggers, about folks who just plug along. The suggestions come from readers, and those suggestions are then drawn up by the writer.

Pluggers, October 20, 2016

Of course, one has to be barefoot for this to work.

 

Gymnopodal Therapy

It’s now been 10 weeks since the surgery to repair my ruptured Achilles tendon. Maybe it’s time for an update.

Saturday Comic

Just like last week, I’m going to pull out another summertime Red and Rover. This one is from August 19 from 2016.

Red and Rover, August 19, 2016

Aside from the summertime contentment, it also illustrates the ways that toes have a way of being useful that shoes just cannot capture.

 

Saturday Comic

As I’ve said before, Red and Rover is my go-to strip. This one is from June 27, 2016.

Red and Rover, June 27, 2016

Things really couldn’t be more idyllic.

 

Hookworm at the Beach

My Facebook feed has been full of stories about the Canadian couple who acquired hookworm, or as the story stresses, larva migrans, while vacationing in the Dominican Republic. Of course, many of the stories tell you that the solution for this is that you should always wears shoes on the beach.

Oh, really?

1,000,000 Hits

Today my blog got its 1 millionth hit.

And it only took me a bit over 8 years . . .

1,000,000 Hits