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A friend from church called on Sunday night to ask if she could visit the next day.
I was glad to invite her over!
She arrived right after lunch; I had not had time to do any serious tidying up, but that might have been just as well, for too much time on my feet made me tired.
I am grateful that I can be up and walking about my little house without my cane, without serious pain in my back - but if I am up and about too long, my lower back and shoulder blades do feel tired.
Being a talkative type I was soon telling her about almost everything she could see. On the phone she had asked if I needed anything, any help.
I opened up and said I'd been wondering if I could stay on my feet long enough to make a banana loaf. She quickly offered to help me.
It turned out she had the recipe in her head. I just had to find the tools, pan and get the frozen, brown bananas out of the freezer. She did the work and I was surprised at how long I moved about without sitting down.
Soon we had the banana bread pan in The oven.
She noticed the 4 ripe pumpkins under my kitchen table. I explained that I had been afraid I didn't have the strength cut them open, scrap out the seeds and bake them so the pulp could be used for pumpkin pies.
She wanted to see my biggest, sharpest knife. I got it out and was glad for her strong efforts.
In no time we got one cut open and we scraped out the seeds.
I got out brown sugar to sprinkle inside the two halves, and added some water. We found a pan big enough to hold both halves but that would fit beside the banana loaf already in the oven.
About then she decided she would need to leave, if I was okay with taking them out of the oven. The bread needed 35 more minutes.
Thrilled I went back to my recliner and was glad to settle down for a rest until the timer would go off.
It was a wonderful and productive visit!
The next day, the day I write this RoseBouquet, that I found myself, feeling tired all morning, afternoon, and evening too! My head hung sleepily most of the day!
I was well aware it was Tuesday and my day to write the RoseBouquet, but I was too sleepy/tired all day! All I could do was promise myself that I would definitely do this job today!
Happily, today I am feeling quite normal again. But mostly sitting in the recliner and banging away on the keyboard.
Obviously, I'm going to have to devise how to bring my physical stamina up some more ....like normal..
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Being laid up with 3 fractures over three month has really knocked me out of my normal routines. Now I am feeling more pain free, but not motivated enough to to step up to my normal work pace yet. As you saw above, three months of mostly in-activity has slowed me down in other parts of my body and life besides getting up, dressed, and fed about three times a day has broken up my former routines.
I see now that I must work to establish them again - of course, making sure not to wear out my back too fast.
I had certain business projects I worked on in the afternoons, and the more complicated ones saved for my evenings, and usually staying at them until about midnight.
I tried last week to get started on some of these projects, but often found my head rolling off to one side and dozing off. I promised to do better this week. So far little progress.
Ah, but I woke up at 5 am this morning, spent the morning in prayer, and now I'm trying to get this RoseBouquet finished before another friend comes by in a couple of hours. I may zonk out yet later, but I feel I'm making a bit of healing progress daily.
So my business routine may be part of my routines again real soon. I'm eager to see that happen!
I'll hold back on describing all those projects until I have a better grip on them.
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You may be used to watching TV. I don't have or want one but I have been finding some educational and some fun entertainment in YouTube Videos.
There's quite a lot of info about using food as remedies in health issues.
Or for that matter, one can pick up some advance news like about changing laws for seniors driving regulations. Whoa! There are going to be some stiff fine for some new rules that all drivers will need to watch out for!
Political videos about well-known people like President Trump can be fascinating for sheer absurd things that are happening, like in the Russia-Ukraine war.
Our Canadian Prime Minister is becoming well-known for his ways of foiling President Trumps attempts to trip him up.
I'll need to break this habit up, but sometimes, watching something for FUN is restful. right?
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