Friday Morning

I slept late this morning and now I wish I hadn’t because my back hurts. it is odd how that always happens when I sleep late.

We had about 10 inches of snow yesterday Fred informs me. I have already been out to the drug store to get his insulin and another prescription and a few bits and bobs for myself. The sidewalks had been cleared a bit and the snow was dry and squeaky and easy to walk on. This morning I chose to go up the very steep upper part of our road instead of going up Main St. which is a slow hill upwards. I did the steep hill at a reasonable pace and only had to stop once which pleased me. The reason I had to stop was that my leg muscles needed a rest and not that I needed to catch my breath. This is different from what has happened in the past when I have had to stop because both leg muscles and breathing needed a break. I guess walking on the treadmill has helped my breathing. {It is a manual treadmill and harder to use than a powered one. I know this for a fact because I used to have a powered one.} Anyway, I am mostly able to do 5 minutes at a time on this manual machine with a lot of effort and without stopping. This is an improvement over when I started when I was not able to complete one minute.

I am seriously considering going out to shovel a bit of snow! The sidewalk plow has thrown up a big pile in our gateway, and it was hard to get out onto the sidewalk. I know Mike {our landlord} will do it when he gets home from work, or Addi, our next door neighbor often does ours when she does hers, but it isn’t much and since I will probably not get out for another walk, it can count instead of a walk. And, yes, I know to be careful and take it slowly. The local newsreaders are on all the time about how many unfit people die of snow shoveling! There is an older-than-me gentlemen who lives across the road from us and I have watched him many times shoveling his snow. He goes slowly, lifts only a small amount at a time and takes frequent breaks!

Until later…