I sit a lot

Mornin' y'all. And a fine, cool, quiet morning it is. Birds have begun to sing, but the neighborhood is blessedly quiet this early. Unlike the evenings (and late into the night last night) when the kids are screaming and the neighbor across the street is yelling about one thing or another.

The leg is doing just fine, but I gotta tell you, it's only day three and already I'm frustrated beyond belief. I'm not built for sitting around so much of the time. For being so inactive. I don't want to push it, because I simply don't have time to deal with any problems that might arise from overuse. The stitches come out July 3, I head for California July 5, and that's that. It has to heal.

This thing, and the big hole that's left, is smack in the middle of the big muscle that runs up the outside of the shin. This particular muscle is fairly well-developed in my legs, largely from years of cycling and general exercise. It may well be the strongest muscle in my body. And, it's used for everything -- flexes when you flex the ankle, which we do when we walk and when I squat down to work in the garden, for example, and more often than you'd realize until it becomes an object of focus like this. I need to use it as little as possible for the time being. So, I sit a lot. Or lie down a lot. My eyes glaze over from reading after awhile. Not much to watch from TV land or on Netflix. In fact, it's amazing how little there is to watch on Netflix! When you narrow down what I've already seen, and winnow out the junk I don't care to see, all that's left is a few (very few) films I haven't seen, mostly old ones, and a bunch that I don't mind seeing again. Certainly won't be worth keeping the thing going once this one-month free trial is over.

So -- that's it from boredom land. At least the weather is good! Warm dry days, cool nights. Pretty good for June in the deep south.