2024 Life Logs, Day 97: Happy 15th Birthday to Ziggy
Date: Saturday, April 6, 2024
Weather: Sunny, Cloudy, Rainy, Windy; High Temp 42, Low 36 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue, Falmouth MA
Ziggy Milo Handley was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico 15 years ago tomorrow. He had his birthday party today, and since I am going to be traveling tomorrow night, I am sending my birthday wishes a few hours early. Justin sent a picture of Ziggy at the bowling alley with friends. Ziggy was smiling so I am assuming he was having a great time. Happy birthday, Ziggy!
Today, I challenged my back, and it let me know it wasn’t happy. All I did was walk a mile, come home to do the exercises my physical therapist has me doing daily, and then stripped my bed to wash the sheets. The latter was the challenge. I worked slowly and carefully, but by the time I finished the laundry and started making the bed, my back was too tired to continue without a rest. It has been more than two and a half months since my surgery, but obviously I still need to proceed slowly. I think the back exhaustion was a combination of bed making and one of the exercises the therapist added yesterday. He now has me doing bridges which require lying flat on the floor, feet planted with knees bent, and then raising your back off the floor. I will miss my Monday appointment, so it will be Thursday before I have PT again. I am going to stop doing bridges until I see him again.
The other challenge today was the weather. It wasn’t horrible, but it just couldn’t make up its mind. It was sunny early, then it got cloudy. Later the rain started. Then it stopped and the sun came out for a bit. Then clouds and rain again, with the north wind blowing the whole day making it feel colder than it was. Just yucky.
So why will I be traveling tomorrow night and miss my PT appointment on Monday morning? Eclipse mania is the answer. I mentioned this earlier in the week, and now the time has come. My wonderful friends, Bruce and Jane Woodin, will keep Shadow for me, so I am all set to leave mid-afternoon tomorrow when we head off Cape for Sam’s soccer game. I thought Jonah’s game tomorrow was also off Cape, but it is earlier in the afternoon in Hyannis. If you don’t hear from me again until Tuesday, no worries. I will be in a car tomorrow evening after the soccer game driving to Portland, Maine, and in a car on Monday evening making my way back home. More than likely I will head straight to bed when we get home late Monday night. Sending logs will have to wait until Tuesday.
