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Good morning from Collegeville,

You would have to score the weather today a “10”. Sunny, warm and a breeze from the north bringing low humidity. The carpal tunnel surgery was a success. I highly recommend Dr. Satterberg at Midsota Plastic Surgeons. By the way, the sign of carpal tunnel problems is waking up with numbness in your fingers at night. The inactivity during sleep allows the nerves to swell and hence the numbness and later on, the horrific pain.

This is the third time that I have had to deal with a wounded wrist. The first time was a broken right wrist caused by an impact with the windshield of a 1950 Ford Sedan. I was the youngest member of The Black Knights Car Club in Upsala and one of our pastimes was to drag race on the gravel roads outside of town. Wesley N. had borrowed the family sedan and we were in the left hand position in a race with one of his classmates, Dave C. I was riding “Shot Gun”. We drifted a little too far to the left and got caught up on the “gravel ridge”. The Ford was pulled into the ditch and hit a bridge approach. I only had time to put my right arm in front of my face and I crashed into the windshield. I can still recall the spinning tires, the stuck horn, blaring, and the blood. I ended up with a cast on a broken wrist and missed my sophomore football season.

The APHC show this week is live from the Koussevitzky Music Shed at Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts with the final live broadcast of the summer season. Special guests include genre bending string band Joy Kill Sorrow, singer and songwriter Heather Masse, and harmonizing siblings The DiGiallonardo Sisters. Howard Levy sits in with the Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band. Enjoy the show.

“We make first our habits, and then our habits make us.” John Dryden