A lazy day for me….except that I spent ABOUT  an hour and a half weeding and harvesting vegetables for tonights stir fry. That was enough work for a Saturday. lol The stir fry had kale and mustard, baby beets, the last of the snow peas, carrots, celery, garlic and onions, and some cherry tomatoes thrown in as an afterthought. Oh, and a sweet potato. It was rather good.  And I cooked rice in my crockpot for the first time, and it came out perfectly. I may make a habit of that.

I did some reading from the Sustainable Living book…a thoughtful article by the Ehrlich’s, Anne and Paul.  Another article by a man named Colin B…B…Beanis (?) -don’t have it in front of me–about his experimental year of living no-impact in Manhattan.  apparently he has made a movie of it as well and it debuted at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival (or will).  And another article (or part of) that I cannot remember just now. My beloved has the book in the bedroom – trying to catch up on his reading. The class is on Tuesdays.  Later we watched that hilarious Kevin Kline/Tom Selleck movie “IN & OUT”   Interestingly enough, I came in here and started reading my favorite blogs and saw Mary talking about Debbie Reynolds, who is also in the movie.

The visit yesterday with the new doctor went well. He ordered an MRI for me, which I scheduled for Monday morning at 7:15 AM.  Then, later in the day, around 3 PM, the other office called. Yes, it was MS Snippypants.  She very politely said “Ms Kelly, I have your appointment with Dr Rogalsky set up for Friday July 17th at 1:30 in the afternoon.”   I said “Really?”  (every bit as politely as she).   And then I said “Thank You.”  And I hung up.  Monday I have to call the other office and let them know the appointment is set up. NO way am I passing on this appointment-it’s too soon to lose. lol

Anyway, I was quite taken with the young man, and it turns out he has had surgery on his shoulder that Dr Rogalsky did and thinks he is one of the best in the area. Good enough for me.  One bit of troubling information is that when I had him look at my thumb that isn’t working right, he said he thought it may be the beginnings of rheumatoid arthritis.   No thanks, I said. That wouldn’t be my idea of a good time…  He said the tendon isn’t slipping over the joint (or something like that).  He advised me to take Alleve for the anti-inflammatory because it’s very inflamed. So I got some and started it yesterday.

Feeling very grateful to be finally getting somewhere with this knee thing. It’s causing all kinds of problems in my hip and lower back… I have problems there anyway, from the Ubiquitous Event.  This is antagonizing it.   I need to go to the Chiropractor again, but am hesitant to go until after the knee surgery.  The more I think about it, maybe I really should go before that…

My darling kitten that keeps doing the disappearing act did it again. She finally came home today, and is sleeping her life away on the back of the couch. Hubby says the 4 kittens have upset the balance around here, and he’s probably right.  She seems to get along with them just fine, but…

Okay then. Time for a font and color change, and a new look to the Country Living blog.

What do you think??