Starting with a picture of ‘my dead’ plant to show all is not as bad as it seems. 

Tuesday after I posted my ugly day got uglier.  First Spirit bit my thumb when I tried to put his water dish in his cage.  That was a Neosporin/Band-aid moment but it was nothing to what happened next.  I had asked Jay to empty the dirty clothes hamper and take the contents to the laundry room but when I went into the   bedroom the clothes were still there.  I bent over to pick them up, lost my balance, and fell forward bending the toes on the foot with the cast the wrong way.  All I could think of was only ten days to go and I fall.  I called the doctor’s office for an appointment today because he isn’t in on Wednesday.  I made arrangements with Your Ride to pick me up and bring me home.

Yesterday I spent most of the day in bed to keep my feet up and warm. 

Today a couple of hours at the Doctor’s office, two x rays of the toes (only sprained not broken), a check of my blood pressure and Jay’s meter for accuracy, my lungs and heart and I was given an OK and after waiting for my ride I went home.  Still a little pain but feeling a whole lot better about the outcome.  The good news is even with a cast on my leg I have still lost a bit of weight.  Not a lot but some. 

I have confess that I messed up the other night when I left one of the screen doors propped open on the French doors and high winds took it off.  Oh well I wanted to change them over to storm doors anyway when I can afford it.  The positive results is I was able to get this picture through the glass.

I need a closer view but for now this is a Red-Bellied Woodpecker.  We have had a couple of males and a couple of females at the feeder for the last three years but I haven’t been able to get a picture until now.

Oh well everything happens for a reason I just have to figure it out.