Looking Forward

My plaster has been off for a month now.  Yay.  That is eight weeks of my life I will never get back.  I have also made the concerted effort to take no more painkillers either.  If I can manage the pain, then I must learn to live with it.  Mostly this theory works.

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I have religiously been doing my physiotherapy exercises and have 100% of ankle movement back.  I have returned to walking my 2 miles every day on the road.  Sometimes I go onto the hill or in the field and it is not as difficult as I thought it would be.  I just have to be careful.  BeAnne is always by my side.  She loves the walks and bounces about happily missing every rabbit she puts up.

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The winter walks can be hard going sometimes, especially if the weather is not helpful.  Today was no exception.  There was a good strong wind and it blew against me all of the way out and then rain all the way home.  I came home feeling very virtuous, if soaked.

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Today’s reward for my strenuous effort (walking into the wind must use more muscle effort and calories)  however was a double a rainbow over my little house and I managed to capture it on my piddly phone.  I am rather pleased with that photo.

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There are some spectacular winter sunsets too this time of year.

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So I will keep walking to get my fitness back and then I will be ready to start riding again in the New Year. This is enough of an incentive to keep me walking.   I have all sorts of plans for next year – out and about south with my camera.  There will be no stopping me then. 

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I will be pleased to say goodbye to 2013.  That double rainbow is for me and my future.

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5 thoughts on “Looking Forward

  1. Crickett Hoffman

    We don’t get double rainbows. I guess we aren’t double lucky like Shetland.

    Love Hammy’s grin. No need for orthodontia there.

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