Ah, the wonders that come with age. Creaks, aches, pains and all the times you pushed your poor body beyond it’s limits finally catching up to you. No one is immune and my lady and I are no exception to the rule especially when it comes to those two lower appendages that’s carried us sooo many miles over the years.
Now it’s time to pay the piper it seems.
You see, her right leg has been yelling and screaming at her lately to the point where it stops working altogether and just sits in the corner and sulks. On the other hand, my bad back takes out my left leg more and more often these days and it also usually heads off to the same corner for a joint sulking session. They’re taking to muttering a lot also.
So we’ve arrived at a solution.
We’ll bind her right leg to my left and we’ll hobble around as one. This won’t be a permanent type thing since it would make sleeping and the occasional bathroom visit rather awkward to say the least. That plus the fact that she’s off to her quilt shop 6 days out of the week (7 during the warm season) and there would be no one left here to do the chores. And I’m sure she has no desire to go traipsing down to the VA every other week nor would she appreciate me hanging about while she waited on customers.
Velcro straps seem to be the best way to go then.
Of course we’ll have to practice at being 3 legged for awhile to make sure we get it right. After all, we wouldn’t want to seem awkward at doing this sort of thing. Once we have it down pat though, we figure it will come in handy for shopping trips, going for walks, general errands about town and making other folks look at us in funny manner. We’re always looking for new ways to make that happen so why not take advantage of the situation?
If one or the other leg starts acting up and wanting to go for sulk then we’ll already be leaning on one another and the other leg can take over for awhile.
We might even get our picture in the local newspaper, you never can tell about these things.
At least one can always hope?
Oh Yes…. I want photo’s – this has to be worth seeing!!!
Wow, do I love this theme. You need to post when you make a theme change- since you do it often your traffic will skyrocket!
Sixty: Yah, I should post about and have been meaning to. It’s all K8′s fault really since she started using it first which reminds me; I have to send her a fix for the comments section of ‘pages’. She has the comments template code in the wrong place.
Hopefully I’m finally settled on a theme for the time being though. Would be nice.
I like this reply to individual comments bit!!! I got your email and fixed the code but the blog’s slow to react. Much like myself!
Hey K8,
Looks like you’ll have to update to the latest version in order to get the styling on the “page” comments. Besides, it’s the latest version that gives you the threaded comments.
You’re slow to react? I think I’d best leave that one alone.