It’s Friday! Heavy smoke from the Canadian wildfires has once again drifted into the United States, creating some pretty unhealthy air quality across much of the Midwest. Here in Illinois’ southwest suburbs, you can definitely smell the smoke when you step outside. It feels like we’re getting an unwanted replay of last year, when the haze hung around for more than a week. Hopefully Mother Nature clears things out a little faster this time.

As for me, I’m still running a fever, so tomorrow I’ll be meeting with my doctors to figure out what the next step is. At this point, I’m open to just about any treatment plan… as long as it doesn’t involve another hospital admission. One eight-day stay was more than enough, thank you.

On a much lighter note, it’s finally Friday! That means it’s time for another reader-submitted amateur photo, along with the usual double dose of babes and double dose of jokes to kick off the weekend. Enjoy!

-keep

Keep,

Not bad for a 63 year old.
Hotel room at Turks Beaches, great place to vacation.
Keep the Babes coming.

-Anonymous

It’s Thursday. One of my readers attended the 4th of July Parade in Kalispell, Montana, and thankfully he brought his camera along. He captured a ton of great shots featuring all kinds of automotive goodness, and was kind enough to share them with us. So sit back, scroll through the gallery, and enjoy!

-keep

Keep, We decided to go up to the Kalispell, MT 4th of July Parade and were pleasantly surprised to see a large group of Corvettes as well as several other vehicles of interest. We hadn’t been to a car show for a while and this was like the car show coming to us. There is apparently a “Funseekers Corvette & Yacht Club” in the area but I have no idea if these were their members but many were wearing the same hats.

Not sure if you can use these because there are a lot of people in them. But I guess if you’re going to drive and wave in a parade, you have to expect your picture will be taken. I was hoping to see how they attached flags to some of the Corvettes but was unable to. I’m guessing they didn’t drill holes and bolt them on! Anyway, you’re welcome to use any you want. Thanks for all you do and hope you’re feeling better.

PJ

It’s Wednesday. Well, here we go again.

I woke up this morning feeling shaky with what seemed like a fever. I already had a scheduled appointment at the Wound Care Clinic, so after that I headed over to Quick Care to get checked out.

The good news is they were able to rule out an infection in my hip wound. It’s healing well and shows no signs of being infected, which was a huge relief.

The next thing they checked was for a UTI, and the initial test came back looking positive for some pretty nasty bacteria. So now I’m back on antibiotics while they culture the sample to figure out exactly what’s growing.

It just feels like every time I think I’m turning a corner, something else pops up. I’m really hoping this is just a minor detour and not the start of another long chapter.

-keep