Ups, downs, and out

 

          Up :

          Good thing it didn’t happen while the grandtwins were here.

          Down:

          Monday morning, after having gotten up, eaten breakfast, and tidied a bit around the house, I stepped into the garage – literally one step – to toss a newspaper in the recycle bin and my knee went kaflooey.

          This was my good knee, the one that has never uttered a peep. And I hadn’t played pickleball for almost a week. By some miracle, or more likely because my doc is in a small 3-guy practice, I saw him that afternoon. Diagnosis, probably strained muscles either side of knee, take Aleve and add heat.

          So out came the heating pad that’s so old I wonder if it belonged to My Guy’s mom. Fortunately, I didn’t get electrocuted and after a couple of days it felt better.

I did play again on Friday and on Saturday was a bit sore, so I think I’ll concede to aging parts for a while.

        I also want to stay intact because I have a writer’s conference at the end of the week and don’t want to spend it hobbling around like a leftover from Halloween.

         

          For another up, I think I’ve finally got the timeline for book 5 under control. Long past page 37 I realized I’d been weaving forward and backward so much that I was confused, never mind my poor future reader. After chunking out sections, parking them to the side, making a list of events, and chunking things back in, I think I can now actually go back to putting new words on the page.  

 

          And OUT!     

          It seemed like a great idea to place zebra grass in back of the roses to hide the gas meter and add a little interest to the corner of the garden.

          So instead of artful grasses swaying gently in the wind,  they got so tall that they keep falling over and it looks like I’m growing corn. Not to mention the fact that we’re not supposed to have any plantings here over 6 feet.

          Today’s project – grass begone.