Life

It's been a fairly good month so far, despite the usual ups and downs that life happens to throw in from time to time. just to stop me from getting too complacent, I think.

My health seems mainly to be on an even keel. I am recovering, however, from pulling a muscle (I think) and that's sore and has curtailed some newer exercising that I'd wanted to incorporate into my daily activities. No worries though, it's just a postponement for now.

I was emptying my chest freezer, in order to defrost and reorganize it, and bent in for the umpteenth time ... and something on the right sided, beneath my diaphragm, went SNAP! and I yowled in pain. I could barely catch my breath. I couldn't believe I had done that to myself!

That night, I slept (almost sitting up) on the couch, with pillows all around, supporting that side. I had found that I got stuck on the bed and couldn't turn or get up so had needed to find another way to rest and sleep.

My exercising has been improving, I pedal on my elliptical multiple imes a day now, and read my books as I do so. 10 or 15 minutes passs quite quickly when I'm engrossed in a tale. Unfortunately, I seem to have gained more of an appetite, so I am not looking forward to going to ssee my doctor at the end of the mont. Methinks the scale might not be as friendly as it has been over the past year.

My grandson got married at the beginning of the month. He's in the Army, up n KY. His wife remains down here for a while, until base housing becomes available for them. I remember those days. I was married 4 days and my husband had to leave, and base housing opened up 7 months later. I only saw him a couple of times inbetween.

With the Spring weather making an appearance, hubby and I have been trying to work on the front yard. Now that I have my rollator and am ggetting around better, I have been going outside and sitting sawing tree branches. He fells the big branch, then I sit and saw it into reasonable size pieces that he can load on the trailer, to haul away. He's been taking them down the field, and lining the fence with them. We occasionally have coyotes in the field next to ours, so we are hoping the brush will make it more difficult for them to come onto our property. We don't have livestock any more, but my dogs are older now as is our one solitary chicken, and I don't want to run he risk of anything happening to them.

I've been quite proud of myself, being useful again! It felt good!

Well, that's all the catch up for now. Have an awesome day, my friends .