Well, it's been a while but I really don't have much of interest to talk about. We are still hitting the doctors way too much and they still aren't doing much to help either of us. My wife's ankle fusion surgery just keeps getting farther and farther away. My doctor and the ER people just don't have a clue what's going on with me so that's kind of dull too. My wife has been going to the gym and meeting with a personal trainer trying to build up some muscle since after the surgery she is going to be confined to a wheelchair for a month or two. I've been going with her and using the treadmill and the back strengthening exercises. Helping her in and out of that chair, bed and everywhere else isn't going to be fun for either of us!
I did come up with my own version of excitement. I was walking over to the window to close the window blind at night and managed to kick the leg of a chair with the little toe on my left foot! Talk about fun! Well, it slowed me down some but not all that much. I had a doctor's visit a couple days later so I asked him to look at it and he doesn't think it's broken or anything so it's just hobble around for a bit.
Yesterday we got up to 105 F so if you want to be outside you do it early! We've had some weeds growing in our front yard so I decided to work on removing them. I can only do about an hour a morning so it's taken me 3 mornings and I've still got some little stuff right next to the street. Now it's time for me to work on the back yard but I need to wait until next week; our trash can is full of weeds with no room for trash! LOL This pile is about 20% of what I did yesterday a.m. This bending over and pulling weeds at 76 years of age is no fun!
There was one fun thing I got to see. This guy was thinking of landing his balloon.
I don't have any idea why but he decided that he needed a different spot so he moved on to the right (south) in the photo.
He's not really landing in those trees. He's in a place about 2 blocks past (west) them. That whole lot is a weird thing. It is an acre just like ours. When we moved in there was a hole dug like someone was going to lay gravel and put in a foundation for a house. The trees were MUCH smaller. There is a well on the property and it's been pumping water to those trees for the 16 years we've lived here but there has been absolutely nothing done about building a house. Weird.
Anyway, that's all that's fit to print about life out here right now. We can't go anywhere because of the constant doctor visits so if I manage any more photos they will probably be either weeds or balloons! Take care and have a good time!
