Slow Week

Friday the 12th –

It’s been a tough week to get anything substantial done. I think some of the reason is I’m still recovering from the fall. I tried to take a walk yesterday but after about a mile my right ankle started hurting so badly I couldn’t walk on it. I must have stressed it in the fall and didn’t realize it. After resting for a few minutes I was able to gradually walk again. I headed home and the pain eased as I walked it off. I didn’t try a walk today because the ankle was still sore.


I did get my stitches out of my lip yesterday. Penny says I look much better. I’m wearing the wrist splint part time now. What do you think?


Kitty Update – Izzy is gone now, too. That leaves 5 cats. We went by the pound (PAWS) yesterday to see if any of our missing cats had shown up there. They had one cat that looked like Izzy but it did not have a cropped left ear. No Izzy, No Seal, No Unsub. I did get to pet Meredith today. She is still not confident that petting is OK. Last night a possum showed up at the feeder. Tonight I have a net rigged up at the feeder to try to catch him. The cats, however, seem to think I put the net there for them to sleep in. The 4 youngsters spent most of the night sleeping on it. I’m not catching any possum like that.


By bedtime I was achy all over. All my joints ached. I thought I was catching something that took 7 days to incubate. Last Friday I was in the emergency room – maybe I caught some bug there.


Saturday the 13th-

Surprisingly I slept well. I felt better and my aches were gone. Penny and I made our usual Saturday morning visit to Waffle House. We are regulars at 3 places in town; Target, Waffle House and Lowes. Today’s visit to Waffle House was interesting. We normally get there at shift change. That’s not smart because service is usually poor. Today the new shift had taken over and we got served immediately. We got our coffee and I noticed it looked a little light in color. We creamed and sugared and took a sip. It was tea! I think the previous shift sabotaged the next one by making tea in the coffe maker. What was funny was that a guy sitting at the counter didn’t realize he was drinking tea until we told him.


I haven’t mentioned here that we just got another camera. A canon camera that has 12X zoom and image stabilization went on sale for better than half its original price. Penny noticed it and scooped it up. Today I found out that sister Kathy just bought the new canon camera that replaced ours. Ours is 6 megapixel, hers is 8. She’s going to have lots of fun with that camera – she’s got the eye for good photos.



One neat feature on the camera is called stitch-assist. With it you can take up to 26 pictures - a panorama or a large mountain – and then the software will stitch the pictures together seamlessly. This picture of Fort Walton Beach Landing is made from 4 separate shots.







Speaking of Kathy, Penny and I spent a good part of the day picking out pictures of Egmont Key to put into picture frames we have and to use as picture post cards. Penny just finished making an order on line for them.

We are finally getting some typical Fall (I don’t like that word) weather here. I succeeded with a nice long walk this afternoon with no problems. My body isn’t achy today either. One good thing is that with all the other hurts on me my back has been relatively trouble free this week. It’s my dad’s solution to pain. Make something else hurt worse and you don’t notice the original.