Friday Morning Nov 22nd

 Well I'm still doctoring this back with pain killers and heat but at least I slept well over night for a change. Hopefully I can at cure it without any surgery, but I do need to do some physical exercise and yesterday I did a little with some garden work and some stretches. The pain is still prevalent but not excruciating as a couple days ago, so just maybe I'm on the mend.

I started the day with my usual routines of some quiet time to honor my lord, Jesus and  to lift up several by name for comfort and healing. All seem to be holding with this post. I had slept in because of this one pain pill that I take before bedtime and I was fuzzy for a couple hours in the morning as that was the first time I had ever taken this pain med, yikes the side effects are dangerous and it makes me wonder if I should take it, but I did and stayed horizontal all night long for change.

I headed out to the back yard where I have two separate garden patches and harvested a ton of leafy greens while Nancy was off shopping. I filled 4 colanders of red lettuce, romaine, Swiss chard, spinach and kale and cleaned them and spun them dry and made a huge salad and even gave some of each to neighbor Bobby who was so thoughtful of my pain that he mowed my front yard while mowing his. It was me helping him a couple weeks ago to unload a chest freezer that started this back muscle issue and he feels bad that it was this event, oh well. I knew I should have worn my back brace but I didn't, my bad.

I did hand water the gardens after moving up some tomato seedlings into pots as well as hoeing around some of the bigger plants. I now have green tomatoes on all three of my tomato plants. The grasses and weeds are doing a number in the gardens as well. We did get a down pour the other night which brought in a cold front and yesterday morning the temps were down into the 50's but eventually warmed up to the low 70's with no humidity. I sat outside in the sun for awhile enjoying the cool temps with bright sunshine.

Nancy was off doing her thing as she likes to shop and did bring home a nice salmon filet for supper along with yellow squash and asparagus. I was losing a pound or so before I hurt my back with pickle ball and outside work but now I'm not doing much physical exercise so I'm putting it back on, oh well, LATER