Exercise

 

Today is my first day in rehab. I haven't been out walk for exercise since last fall. A winter of assorted respiratory bugs kept me inside. I have eight weeks of this and I am really looking forward to it. I am SO out of shape. I truly regret having sold my exercise bike but there was no room for it in my condo except in the living room. I shouldn't have been so picky and the grandkids all liked it anyway. One of them always chose that for seating.

Spring is trying to come here. Still very overcast, occasional rain and often very windy. Blow away your trash can windy not anything worse than an occasional winter damaged branch coming down. Cherry blossoms are showing and birds are singing outside again. 

I finished reading Abigail Thomas' "Still Life at Eighty." She is a new to me as an author. It's very interesting, as I am 81. I'm not quite sure what I think of it. Some of it was familiar and some of it not. I'm going to read it again and put my thoughts on post-its on the pages where I wondered about what she said, Then I'm loaning it with my post-its to my daughter-in-law. 

Spring?

I haven't posted in a very long while. It was a long winter of flu and some miscellaneous health problems. Recovering I took many, many naps. The last couple of weeks I noticed I am back to 7-8 hours of sleep instead of 10 or 12. I still nap but for just an hour. I set the timer on my phone to accomplish waking up. I also turned 81 this month. That, 81 is a big nothing after turning 80. When is the next big celebration, 85, 90, that would be big?  Actually the next big celebration for me will be when my Great-grandson Isaac turns two in November. Or in June when a Grand-girl graduates college. 

Now I am volunteering at our local Fort Walla Walla Museum. This week they/we are setting up a hands on "store" in it's village for kids. I think it will be fun and I get to drive an electric golf cart around to bring stock from the main building to the store. I love that, I wish I could drive one around town. :-). Just thing for picking up groceries. I also got myself into an exercise class for people who haven't exercised in a long time. Maybe 81 isn't really so blah.