Back To The Ordinary

 With the birthday celebrating all done, we have been back to ordinary routines here lately.

There are flowers to pick and arrange.

House keeping and laundry to do. 

Berries to pick and enjoy.

Exercises to do.

This stationary bike ride got shortened when I wore out and got too hot. My mile + walks the last few days have been pleasant in the coolness of cloudy weather.

I have my "kids" to keep track of as they set out on their latest adventures. They were supposed to climb Mt Lassen today, but fire has closed all of that area, so they are back in Oregon on Mt Mcloughlin today. 

Crater Lake and Newberry Crater Obsidian Flow

On Friday I saw my physical therapist, she watched me walk and said there was noticable improvement. It has been ever so slow, but better. We signed off, I am to keep doing my exercise routines, and "keep doing stuff", like the four soccer matches I went to. She cheered at that accomplishment. She advised that I keep this up for six months and contact my orthopedic surgeon to get on the list for knee replacement in February. I made that contact today. 

Monday I had my latest echocardiogram, then met with my cardiologist. There has been no change, no deterioration in 16 months. Yay! My artificial aortic valve is fine and my mitral valve is holding steady. All good news.

I have been watching a lot of Olympic events, especially swimming, soccer, and gymnastics. I'm glad there are rebroadcasts of some of these in the evenings, since I can't stay tuned all night and day. 

Now I have just enough time to study our state primary ballot and voters guide. Of course I'll be choosing Democrats unless there is an obvious reason not to. I am pretty excited about the November election now. We have a strong woman candidate in Kamala Harris. 

Onward we go!