Blogging time has sprinted away from me while I've been distracted by Covid, my knee diagnosis, playing ring-around-the-rammies, the weather, an agility trial, and my first ever Advent spin! I'm determined to get a post up today, then it's off to the races again.
Except for some residual drainage, we've all recovered from the bug. And for whatever reason, I had a full week of comfort in which my knees rarely bothered me, making my diagnosis seem an abstraction. Then yesterday they started complaining again, and I had a very uncomfortable night. Makes no sense to me; I hope to get some answers on January 20 at my appointment with an orthopedic surgeon. I asked for a surgeon who is open to bilateral surgery, and have started compiling a list of questions for him.
Last week was full of "he-jinx." The ewes have been taking turns coming into heat, standing at and walking the fence closest to the rams. All the boys were/are interested, but mild-mannered Bench turned into a jerk with the two other big boys, constantly bickering and butting. Bijou started laying down more than usual, a sign of a suffering sheep, so I texted the person who had reserved him to see if they could pick him up early, before he could get seriously hurt. Then on Saturday morning I did a double-take at chore time:
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What is wrong with this picture? There's only supposed to be three.
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| Relieved to see that Bud, left, could still stand! |
Bud, the ram lamb, has been kept in protective custody on one side of the Ram-ada Inn since he broke his shoulder. Somehow someone 'broke him out,' and there he was in the wooded lot with three mature rams in hormonal temper! Amazingly, he seemed none the worse for the experience, but I immediately set to work separating everyone for optimum safety (good thing we had to stay home from church anyway due to Covid). On Tuesday afternoon, Bijou's new owner picked him up so he's now out of the fray.
December started all aglitter, as befitting this holiday month. We awoke on Sunday (early, due to an agility trial) to our first hard frost, and it has been frosty every morning since. Frost art!
Sunday was a cold day to run agility, never getting out of the 30s. Poppy and I got two first place Qs – and got to put two tickets in the "Blew the Q" raffle (but she was still a rock star 😁).
I also started my first Advent spin on Sunday. A couple members of the Jenkins community on Ravelry volunteered to do all the work if people wanted to contribute fiber and pay postage. They did an
amazing job of dividing and packaging everything into 10g fiber snacks for
58 people to open every day of December through Christmas. So far I've managed to spin each daily snack into singles, but sometimes just barely. I'm giving myself through this weekend to keep up; after that I may cut myself some slack and enjoy the fiber snacks (and the holidays!) a bit more at my leisure.
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| Opened and started at the agility trial! |
Time to close and get back to work, but first, my daily IG/FB posts made since my last blog post:
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| Butternut lasagne (a family favorite) – it's what's for Thanksgiving dinner! |
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| Happy unofficial first day of the Christmas season! |
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| Dogs are good medicine. |
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| My first Advent spin, thanks to a holiday fiber swap with fellow Jenkins spindle lovers on Ravelry.. Started while hanging out in the car between classes at an agility trial. |
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| Waiting to go out on pasture in the morning. |
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| A lovely little sunset from horseback. |
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| Dogs are good entertainment. |
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| Good morning. |
That's it for now from . . .
7 comments:
I will be interested to learn what you hear from the surgeon after you see him. I understand wanting to get them both done at the same time, but I know there are some drawbacks to doing that. Glad that Poppy is still doing well with Agility!
There are drawbacks to EVERYthing, A, even to doing nothing. I just have to decide which decision has the least drawbacks for ME.
I am glad you are recovering from the virus. I love the Advent spinning.
What a variety of photos! They're all lovely, and wasn't all that frost beautiful? I'm sorry to hear about your knees... I had mine done five months apart and was very very glad that I had done it that way. Thanks for the wonderful photos!
I love the daily spinning surprises, too, Donna, and so far I'm keeping up!
Thanks for the TKR input, Mokihana. I'm glad you enjoyed the photos!
I think I am finally caught up on your blog posts! I get behind so quickly on just about everything now-a-days. I have a blog post of my own - that is partly prepped, but not enough to publish. Need to make time for that. What I haven’t heard yet about your desire to do both knees at the same time is how you will manage with all your at home responsibilities (dogs, cat, horses, sheep - it is a LOT.). I agree with the desire to get it alL done at once rather than spreading it out. But, two knees means YOUR will literally need help just to get to the bathroom. Your husband will help you I am sure, but he has a full time job - how about your son? Any other family? I guess knowing in advance how disabled you will be initially after surgery and during early recovery would be good questions for the doc. Really - you do the work of 3 people!! You will need many hands at your beck and call as possible. Darn - what a hard situation. Hopefully you can start lining up your temporary replacements now.
Trust me, Elaine, post-surgical management is on my mind a lot! Both my guys work full time, so I figure I will need some help during the day. A friend has offered to help, and I have two wonderful neighbors who are retired but as active as I am. Once I've met with orthos to get more info (appointments are Jan. 8 and 30), I plan to ask if I can hire them for daily help since they live much closer to me than my friend. I imagine our church members will help with food, as well.
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