Hauled 28 two cubic foot bags of mulch home yesterday. Turns out Home Depot has a truck that will haul a ton and a half that you can rent for $20 for 75 minutes. They loaded that bad boy up for us but, of course we had to unload it ourselves. Yesterday morning we had 28 bags, this morning 8 and this evening 4. I was sweating like a pig after unloading that damn truck. Touched every one of those buggers. Truck bed was too high for Doree to grab them. Front yard is looking great. We also bought 4 Azaleas and 18 pansies to give the beds some quick color. The Azaleas we had planted this spring seem to have all died over the summer. Not from
drought or anything (plenty of rain this year) but from some kind of "rust" or something.
I am in remarkably better shape these days than I have been in the last 4 or 5 years. Being warm out and staying very active has seemed to helped. Knees are ok. Doctor gave me a script for professional knee braces and compression sleeves. I had been wearing some from Sports Authority. These are much better. Custom fit to me and hold the knees in precisely the correct position. I still don't need them all the time but, as soon as they start to hurt a little, on go the braces. Sometime the compression sleeves are all that's needed but, if I am going to do a lot of up and down work, braces all the way. The only complaint I have these days is my thumbs. Sometimes they hurt like hell. I have braces for them too but, they actually hurt worse with the brace on then with it off. It used to be confined to my left thumb but now the right is worse than the left. I suspect it's really caused by a combination of ar
thritis and using my phone to surf the web, text and such


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Well goodnight all. I'll try to check in more often. I've been feeling a little guilty for not doing so more often but, real life has definitely been interfering.
See you later, love and miss you all. Of course I think you all know that.
