i woke a bit before 5 and stayed in bed until a little after 5. Then I got up and went for my morning walk. And then I did shoulder exercises, and then showered by which time I was super hungry. I should have added a little water to this morning’s oats; they were a little thick, but still delicious.
The stars were bright on the morning walk. I’ll savor that for as long as I can. It won’t be too long before I won’t be able to get up early enough to see the stars like that. Or stay up late enough.
I got packed for a possible overnight stay in Boise tomorrow. It’s all going to depend on how my left eye reacts to the laser procedure that my retinologist is going to perform tomorrow. It could blur my vision, which would mean I’m not going to drive home, or it could not and I will get to come home. I’ll just have to wait and “see” oh that’s terrible.
I did ankle exercises during my lunch hour. I’m planning on keeping up doing both programs for a while. Until my shoulder and ankle feel better, I suppose. I’ve felt improvements in the shoulder area almost 6 weeks in, but it’s still not “fixed” as much as I’d like it to be. But the program is 12 weeks and has a second level that’s also 12 weeks so I’ve got plenty of things to try to keep working on it.
I only walked a half mile after dinner because I needed to get home for family zoom. I thought about using my phone to join the zoom while I finished my walk, but while I was walking, I got this sudden pain in my chest and decided that it would be better to get home and not be walking around looking at my phone.
I tried using CLR on some of my tools that had gotten rusty. I think it helped, but I’m going to have to look at them tomorrow and see if they still look improved. I might need to get something more heavy duty to clear the rust out properly. I want to start digging up rocks and trying to fill in the holes where I’d previously dug out rocks. I’d like my mowing this year to be a little bit easier.
I’m going to be working in the morning tomorrow, and then driving out to Boise. I made my hot springs reservations for Thursday as a hedge against not being able to drive home on Wednesday, or if I was just later getting home. I really hope the laser procedure goes smoothly and that my right eye has healed enough to get a new prescription. I’ve been noticing that it’s harder to read with my glasses on with my left eye from up close. And the right, of course, hasn’t had a proper prescription since before the surgery last September. I hope I won’t have to reschedule my eye doctor again.
Today felt like a return to routine, so of course I’m going to mess that up with tomorrow’s adventures. I did get some writing done on the ICT trip. And I started rereading the book about Ambrose’s death that I’m writing so I can flesh parts out and keep going with it. I feel it’s an important piece for me to finish, whether I end up publishing it or not.
