Thursday, April 2, 2026

YESTERDAY

Oh what a wonderfully warm and beautiful day it was upon waking up yesterday morning.  Plans were for me to get outside right after breakfast to do yard work, including picking up the numerous pinecones which had fallen over several weeks.  But other work was planned too before the temperature rose high in the afternoon.

Pinecones were the first order of the day and after picking up over 100 decided to stop bending for awhile and give my back a break.  Instead focused on removing a huge pine branch from the front yard which had snapped off with the recent high winds.  Was too heavy for me to lift so dragged it to the side wooded area where I started to push it further in.  Until....
That is the right side of my right leg.  As I was pulling the branch and trying to position it inside the wooded area the weight shifted and a sturdy nub of a branch penetrated my sweat pants into the leg.  Then as it moved it pulled flesh to expose raw meat.  It hurt like heck and don't know how deep it went into my leg as I didn't want to open the wound.

Left my yard tools there, came in the house to wash and medicate my wound.  Kept my leg elevated so the blood would coagulate.  Since it was getting close to lunchtime decided to eat and continue with my leg lifted.  Then it got too hot and came inside to hook.  This was the afternoon temps yesterday.
A cold front came thru last night which produced a thunderstorm and rain, so temperature is nowhere near that today and I'm wearing a sweatshirt.  Normally I keep my winter thermostat set at 63 but the previous day plus yesterday increased the inside temp to a very warm 68.

Sorry for the boring post and will try to make up for it next time.

Saundra