
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Mandatory Rest
I have taken a couple of weeks off. Not because I wanted to but because circumstances forced me to. A couple of weeks ago I had an accidental fall in the driveway. My husband was trimming the hedge and had a electric drop cord strung across the carport entrance. He could not see me because he was around the corner. As I was walking over the cord he happened to pull it at the same time so he could get it further down the hedge. Obvious to say, I fell face forward in the driveway. An urgent treatment visit later, I found I had a fractured elbow, severely bruised shin, bruised ribs and a muscle strain in my lower back. Thank goodness my parents came and stayed with us the first week.
I am healing quickly. My elbow is out of the sling because the fracture is stable. I have to be very careful for another month or so about lifting and suddenly jarring it until the fracture heals completely. It will be a while before I will have full strength and function back in it. My lower leg still swells when I am on it a lot but it is getting much better. My back is healing and my ribs no longer hurt when I breathe. I feel fortunate I was not injured more severely. I fell very close to our Aztec and could have hit my head.
I have learned some important things the past two weeks. One is that I can use my left hand (non-dominate) hand very well. Two, that it is OK to need help once in a while. Three, the household and other things in my life can go on without me. Four and most importantly how much I needed this rest and break. Maybe next time I can take a break though and not get hurt.
I am healing quickly. My elbow is out of the sling because the fracture is stable. I have to be very careful for another month or so about lifting and suddenly jarring it until the fracture heals completely. It will be a while before I will have full strength and function back in it. My lower leg still swells when I am on it a lot but it is getting much better. My back is healing and my ribs no longer hurt when I breathe. I feel fortunate I was not injured more severely. I fell very close to our Aztec and could have hit my head.
I have learned some important things the past two weeks. One is that I can use my left hand (non-dominate) hand very well. Two, that it is OK to need help once in a while. Three, the household and other things in my life can go on without me. Four and most importantly how much I needed this rest and break. Maybe next time I can take a break though and not get hurt.
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Things
Things is such a bland word but it seems to run lives just the same. I have spent the last couple of years decluttering our house and our lives. With each round, life seems to get a little simpler and sweeter. When I go to the store these days (that is when I do), I find there is not near as many things that catch my eye or that I crave. I am about to embark on another go through of decluttering. Really looking at if we need or want these things that take up so much space in our home. I spend so much time picking things up and moving piles of things around that it takes up a lot of my precious time. I find that the less I let "things" control my life the better it becomes. It is time for another round of simplifying our lives and getting "things" under control.
Monday, September 3, 2012
New Egg Layers
I went out tonight to find all the new egg layers had made it up to the coop on their own. Looks like Chuck won't need to give ramp lessons to this bunch.
Sunday, September 2, 2012
New Egg Layers
Yesterday, we moved our new egg layers in with the old ones. The old and the new layers spent a lot of time checking each other out. Last night, when we went to close up the coop for the night and check on the new ones the new layers were perched on the outside one in the run. We picked each of them up and put them up in the coop.
This morning Chuck opened the coop and found the new and old layers at a stand off. The old layers would not come out because they had to go past the new layers of whom they were scared. The new layers could not figure how to get out of this new strange building they had woken up in this morning. Chuck finally helped the new layers get out of the coop down the ramp. Then the old layers decided it would be safe to go.
Tonight we went out to find the new layers all huddled together on the outside perch once again. Unfortunately, the remains of Hurricane Isaac has finally reached us so they were out in a steady rain. We once again picked them up and put them inside of the coop on the perch. Tomorrow, we will see if they will come down on their own and then figure out how to get back up. We shall see/ Otherwise, we will be doing ramp walking lessons with the new ones once the weather clears. . .
This morning Chuck opened the coop and found the new and old layers at a stand off. The old layers would not come out because they had to go past the new layers of whom they were scared. The new layers could not figure how to get out of this new strange building they had woken up in this morning. Chuck finally helped the new layers get out of the coop down the ramp. Then the old layers decided it would be safe to go.
Tonight we went out to find the new layers all huddled together on the outside perch once again. Unfortunately, the remains of Hurricane Isaac has finally reached us so they were out in a steady rain. We once again picked them up and put them inside of the coop on the perch. Tomorrow, we will see if they will come down on their own and then figure out how to get back up. We shall see/ Otherwise, we will be doing ramp walking lessons with the new ones once the weather clears. . .
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