Sunday, May 17, 2020

Things are starting to really shows signs of creeping back to normalcy. At least one of the churches in town had their regular Sunday service at the church (but asked everyone to wear masks) this week (we didn't; the staff and elders are trying to figure out the best thing to do for everyone); my company has been seeing good comeback in surgeries going on; and of course nationwide people are holding rallies against the government "tyranny" of stay at home orders SMH. We're up to 58 cases in the county now, so it was a big week.....Natalie got 3 wisdom teeth extracted this week. She didn't have the 4th. So she spent the rest of the week hurting, icing, and eating very soft foods (tapioca is her favorite). At least they came out fairly easily, so hopefully she'll be over it soon. She has been doing better but it seems a slow process.....I decided to try biking the Winona Lake trails this week, so I headed out and just picked which way to go as I went along. ONe of the trails however seemed to be a more advanced one and I didn't see the obstacle in the trail (some sort of wooden box implanted in the ground on a downward slope so the far side made a drop-off) until it was too late to go around it, so I went over it unprepared and couldn't recover. Went down pretty hard, wound up with a nasty skinned elbow, a not so bad skinned knee, a bruise on my big toe, and another big bruise on my chest from hitting the handlebar. I was able to pedal home under my own power before I was too stiff to do so.....Beth got all her flowers and everything planted in the front garden this week, and we got her herbs planted in her new raised herb garden. I also took a bunch of older potting soil and spread it around in the middle of the back yard in a new attempt to grow some decent grass. It was about a wheelbarrow full of good dirt, and I figured I could attempt to get some grass growing next to where the pool will go as far over as the hickory tree, and that would be a good swath of lawn if it takes. For once, there was rain just after I planted the grass seed.....