Ducks ALIVE in 2025!

[AMKuska]

@AMKuska , Thanks SO MUCH for asking!!

My personal best, wrap on top of quilts, was 4 horses, 16 legs, 20 minutes.

WOW!! I used to be a show groom way back in the day. That's a lot of wrapping, and so quickly too!! Well done!

I'm glad you are on the mend. I sure hope you are all back to normal and feeling good soon.

 

[ducks4you]

Ha, Ha!! I wanted to get on the road, bc we had a 6 hr drive and it was already 5PM.
Thanks ALWAYS for the well wishes.
PLEASE pray that I stay careful and do my exercises for the next 3 weeks. My window for stretching is closing.
I have a current bend of 109 degrees measured, but I Think I have surpassed it. I need to be at 120 degrees or more by September 4th.
I found/am following a guy, Jack La Torre, who demonstrates online equestrian exercises.
Since I bought two 3 pound weights (before my surgery) I can already do one of those exercises, a dead lift, sitting on the bed, knees apart, lifting from the ground, up and laying flat (I do this on the edge of my bed,) then sit up and down to the ground. You keep your back straight. It works the gluts and the abs.
My plan is still to do equestrian exercises faithfully until next July.
I will have to give up mucking stalls until maybe November.
I can Still use my garden seat and pull weeds.

 

[ducks4you]

No beans to grow this year, BUT, when DH and I bought tomatoes at the farm stand wednesday, I decided I will take an ALDI bag next time and have them fill it.
I can wash, cut off the ends, blanche and freeze, Maybe 6 bags for dinners this winter.

 

[ducks4you]

So...it was 6 years ago that I grew a successful sweet corn harvest. Thank you FB.
The black blob is my tow wagon. The red blob? anybody's guess...

 

[ducks4you]

I have Chosen to enjoy being stuck indoors, where I am forced to find meaningful activities like:
1) putting away the washload promptly
2) making the bed correctly every day
3) organizing my dresser drawers
4) organizing my bedroom closet
5) saying "thank you for your service" to clothes I really don't want to wear again and are worn out
6) decluttering
7) Law Office organization, which I do when I go into the office first then my PT/care team appointments.
I know myself, and when I am better healed I will abandon the inside world for the outside world, in which, if I do not wear a watch, I will lose track of time!

 

[ducks4you]

Speaking of washloads, I have a rant--we replaced an old washer with a newer one, and the sensors won't let me use the warm or hot cycles. Repairman told me that If I tried to do this again, the washer would break.

I had problems with the washer this week.

I had to restart it 7x to get it to cycle.
I have new hoses coming this week. On Clearance, good price.
I figured that the hoses are universal, and I my time is too valuable to wait for the older hoses to soak in CLR to remove limestone sediment. I will have DD's replace the ones currently on the washer, then I will soak Them at my leisure and store above the washer, so that I can periodically switch them out.
Most everybody's underground water supply has limestone and it clogs the hoses.
The older washer would still fill, just slowly.
I am currently window shopping for a Better washer. The cost of replacing this one with a simpler one is about the same as paying a repairman to fix This one.
My drier had a problem. I took my sweeper from suck to blow, blew out some stuck lint, and everything is now fine.
The drier is over 25yo and still working great.
Rant over, but I think some of you will agree with me.