Wounded Knee

I'm happy to say that I'm well after another health issue since my last post. The next day was hot. Finding some sprinklers not working at the farm with sufficient pressure I crawled into an mass of overgrown shrub and weed looking for the leaking pipe causing water to spill down a bank and into a neighbour's drive and down the hill. My knee cap twinged painfully.

The next day, suffering some discomfort, I walked with a bit of a limp. Alarmed I was not. The following day, the 21st, I drove to Tullamarine to pick up Ian Sinclair in the morning who was arriving with his son from Canada. Ian is a family friend from right back to Mt. Waverley days and went through primary school and tech school the same year as Jod. I had orders for foliage needing to be be picked that afternoon so after a lunch of salad rolls off I went up the tree. My knee had stiffened somewhat with the drive to the airport and back so it wasn't work I relished.

The climbing aggravated the knee. The legs do the supporting and bracing and balancing while you twist and turn reaching about to cut foliage with the pole cutter or the handsaw. By days end I was in agony and couldn't bend my knee sufficiently to apply the brake so Gord had to drive home. The pain continued right to the end of January so as it turned out, with first my back and then the knee, for about half of January I could barely walk.

Our Canadian visitors stayed till yesterday when they headed off to prospect for gold with a metal detector somewhere in the golden triangle. With the knee and visitors it's been difficult to focus on responsibilities as I normally would. Not that Ian and Culan were demanding, but the computer rooms were converted to bedrooms and the presence of overseas friends has you talking more and thinking business less. Yesterday it was 40C on our deck and I had a Nobelius Park meeting in the afternoon, out of which came plenty for me to do. I get the feeling February will also be tough as I have so much catching up to do.

Finishing on a bright note, I managed a second honey extract last weekend and it was our 30th wedding anniversary on Jan 31, which we celebrated in fine style. Thirty years married. I'm pleased with that. Lib is a wonderful friend and life ally. I'm very lucky.