Sunday, June 13, 2004
Another Day--No Dollars
Eleven jars of Strawberry-Rhubarb Jam now sit on my kitchen counter canned last night by me (believe it or not). Yes Miss Non-Domesticated me actually set about to create a tasty treat to spread on anything you feel like spreading it on--and I do mean anything. My only problem now is it isn’t setting up very quickly and as a sauce it may run all over the sheets(oops I mean bread!!) 
The sun is shining today. The thermometer that hangs in the corner of my little slab of a porch reads 78 and climbing. It is a go out and read in the swing day.
Another reason for the feeling of well being is that the MRI test showed no tear of the Rotar Cuff just Arthritis and lots of it in my right shoulder. To me that is very good news. The Dr. suggested physical therapy and when I ask to try exercises at home he suggested exercises from the internet. So hubby, the helpful, caring man that he is, searched the internet for me. The first exercise he found said to cure the condition to take a gallon paint can, empty the paint, fill it with lead. next take the paint can in the hand of the affected shoulder and start to swing it in a pendulum motion. With each swing try to bring the can a little higher in the arc. When the can mkes a complete circle and you hear a crack you will feel the painful tension release as your arm hit the sidewalk! Needless to say we check further for other options!
I took a Stress Test last Friday morning and the treadmill damn near killed me. It was set up in a large semi-trailer beside the Dr.’s office and I swear I moved the trailer a foot and a half forward with all the foot pounding I was doing. That was some serious sweating and gasping for breath I’ll tell you. I’ll hear the results of that in a couple of days. Until then I’ll continue to skip on my merry way--fat, dumb, and happy-- the only way to be!!
Well the Hubby has just sat down to start pitting and chopping apricots for the second batch of jam to be made in the Axsom domain this week. This is his project so I’m on my way to the swing.
I’ve finished reading ‘DaVinci Code’ by Dan Brown and ‘The Night Belongs To Me” by Mary Higgins Clark and enjoyed both immensley. So it will be ‘Blow Fly’ by Patricia Cornwell and “Deep Woods’ repellent that will accompany me to the swing.
