Granddaughter, Ivy, sends her greetings

April 21, 2016 - Thursday

43 degrees/showers/calm winds

Pentoga Road

What a day to have slept in. It's cool, rainy, and the sound of rain drops hitting the metal roof overhead made getting out of bed extremely difficult. 

There's not a lot to talk about this morning. Yesterday was my appointment with the surgeon and my hernia surgery is scheduled for late morning next Tuesday. It appears as though there's nothing spectacular about the procedure and if everything goes as planned, I should be walking out of the hospital two to three hours after the last stitch is tied.

A very positive note is that the doctor said I should resume my walking ASAP after the surgery and that I can resume my normal activities as soon as I feel like it, but I can't lift anything over twenty pounds for four weeks. 

In the days of old, patients were advised to have bed rest for several days and not to resume too much activity for up to six weeks. It's since been found that the increased blood flow from cardio-type activities actually helps the healing process. 

On a side note, brag brag... the doctor commented that I was in good shape. That's two doctor's in two weeks who have said such. If I'm in such great shape, why do I have so many aches and pains when I get out of bed every morning?

I took Sargie out to lunch then came back home. The rest of the day was spent digging out rocks in the side yard on the opposite side of the garden. They were barely under the ground last year, but had heaved enough in this spring's thaw, to be nicked by the blade on the lawn mower. 

Sargie walked in the door last night bearing a huge pizza. In honor of losing ten pounds this spring, I decided to celebrate and thoroughly enjoyed demolishing well over half. It's back to the diet grindstone today. I'd like to shed another five to ten pounds to achieve my normal summertime fighting weight. 

Sargie's off today and we'll be making our way to Iron Mountain to purchase a new kitchen window. I found one yesterday and want her approval before buying it. If I can find an inexpensive window for the shop, I may go ahead and purchase that as well. It would fit in the outside wall alongside the solar heater. I need all the natural light I can get and as I told someone earlier, if I keep hanging lights and installing windows in the shop, I'm soon going to run out of wall and ceiling space. 

So that's the news from this part of the continent today. Not much.

It's time to clean out the trailer in preparation of taking it to Iron Mountain. I also need to make a few last minute measurements, plus, there is a giant pumpkin seed or two to place between wet paper towels to germinate. Oh yes, it's that time of year again.

After all, a man's work is never done.

So are the tales from Pentoga Road...

Congratulations to Stefanie Cyr Wainright (4th from the left) for completing ten years as a certified trainer and teacher mentor at the St. Paul School for Girls in Maryland. Stef was a student of mine (in band) from the time she was in sixth grade until she graduated from high school a long time ago in northern Maine.
Thanks Eileen for sending this along. I taught with Stef's parents, Uncle Bert and Eileen, for many years in a previous lifetime.