{"id":1530,"date":"2018-07-26T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:59:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:59:39","slug":"birthday-as-i-turn-60-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1530","title":{"rendered":"Birthday! As I turn 60 again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How do I do that? Easy!&nbsp; Always subtract seven years. So a few recent pictures &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s my fat, hairy leg &#8211; where I got bitten on the back of my knee. Currently on antibiotic for my<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lyme_disease\"> lyme disease<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3840608200d-320wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13154\" title=\"20180712_112944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3840608200d-320wi.jpg 320w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3840608200d-320wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First time I&#8217;ve had it. We thought this was a spider bite, but when I finally went to the doctor 17 days later &#8211; immediately diagnosed as Lyme (the day I took the picture). To me it just didn&#8217;t look like the pictures you see of a lyme bite area. I was bitten on June 23rd. I finish the doxycycline in seven days. Improvement started immediately on taking it. Leg looks pretty normal now &#8211; just fat and hairy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And here &#8211; at the Carusi Cowboy and Indian Party 12 days ago.A serious Indian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad384069b200d-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13155\" title=\"20180714_202301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad384069b200d-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad384069b200d-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And with a couple of cowgirls. Our friend Stacy &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3a3d0f3200b-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13157\" title=\"20180714_202501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3a3d0f3200b-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3a3d0f3200b-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the cowgirl from York, England<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad35df7cc200c-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13159\" title=\"20180714_204242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad35df7cc200c-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad35df7cc200c-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As my good friend Bob E. used to say, &#8220;easy livin'&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I do that? Easy!&nbsp; Always subtract seven years. So a few recent pictures &#8211; Here&#8217;s my fat, hairy leg &#8211; where I got bitten on the back of my knee. Currently on antibiotic for my lyme disease. First time I&#8217;ve had it. We thought this was a spider bite, but when I finally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13160,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions\/13160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}