Josh, Walks, Rocks, Heart, Rising

There are so many good people in the world--like Bastrop son's friend Josh, who will be visiting Fio on Monday to help her with her financial plans. She knows what she wants to do, but doesn't know how to do it.
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Meanwhile, Fiorella and Sonia Dog are enjoying daily walks in the east woods, although doggie's balance is much better than Fio's--four legs are a definite advantage when journeying on uncertain terrain.  Not that Fio has taken any falls lately--she's a past master at grabbing onto cedar branches.
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It's rock-gathering season, but Fiorella hasn't set herself up a pile yet. No problema--there should be a good accumulation left over when the low-water bridge finishes up, and your Fio will be ready and waiting with the trunk of her baby car wide open.
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Fio drove over to her heart doctor's office for a half-year check up the other day and got through it with flying colors. It's a wonder what a pace-maker and an artificial aortic valve will do for a girl whose maternal grandmothers died early from heart diseases.
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After staying up half the night to grade papers and prepare classes for her UT students way back when, Fio would drive her kids to preschool in the morning, pick them up in the afternoon, then drowse on the couch while the children played. Years later, they told her that when she fell asleep, they thought she had died. (Wonder what they thought when she arose.)