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@fiesty76
Hi,
I don’t jog at all. When the weather was cooler I would sort of sprint between mailboxes on my route or sprint or to the gate in my subdivision as it opened. It’s just too hot and muggy now. First day I haven’t walked in weeks. I got up too late which is unusual but that’s okay.
I did the child pose yesterday and it is easy for me...sort of like a resting pose between reps. For the Happy Baby pose picture a baby on the floor with his legs straight up in the air playing with his toes. I lay flat on the floor...no shoes...grab my feet by the toe area and pull my legs straight up so I am in an L shape position. I hold that position, keeping head on floor...do a few scissors and then lower my legs to the floor. But then I do 10 leg raises up and down right after that. First time I tried I kept rolling to the side.
This is not for everyone and I am not advising anyone to try it. It just keeps me limber.

I ordered and received a portable kitchen island yesterday. My son in law had to help me open the box...it was like a jig saw puzzle. I will attempt to put that together today until he gets over here tonight to help me. I’ve put things together before but this may require 2 people.

So Ill walk around my island today if I can get it set up...if not I just walk around the gigantic box it came in that’s in my kitchen along with a whole lot of little boxes. Time to go be a Happy Baby.

FL Mary

@imallears, Welll, in my book sprinting counts big time too! vbg Thanks for the baby playing with his toes idea; that will help and also the L shape, scissors motion. I'll try that.

We had a lovely built in island in one house and it was in constant use. My daughter has one in her home now and finds it indispensable. My kitchen is an galley style that works perfectly for me as the only cook in the house. I am beyond impressed that you would even attempt to assemble your new one! If it requires more skill than a screw driver, I'm pretty much out of luck. vbg

We're having 100+ degree days with 7 more consecutive predicted. This morning I took a walk at 6:30am and was a bit nervous because it wasn't clearly light yet. Nervous because my neighborhood group has reported some teen or young adult hecklers/bullies? nearby, both in vehicles and on foot. Luckily, my area was totally quiet but I am not venturing out as far from home as in the beginning.

I know kids are bored witless with being home so much but tv news showing roughing up elders walking in other cities is alarming. My bones are far too fragile, not to mention my addled brain to sustain much of a fall.

Plants purchased on my 1st shopping trip remain drying out in their orig. containers. Too hot, too early to be digging new homes for them so I'm watering with stored rain water twice a day. No humidity and no rain in site for this arid area so all life forms dry and wither quickly! vbg

I bet Precious kitty would love your island box to use as an escape cave to play in...feel free to send it here when finished if you don't have another use for it in mind, ok?

@lioness, I am sooo excited! Just placed my 1st call to daughter using my C.C. smart phone. You would think I'd invented salt!!! She had jut picked up my 14 yr old g.s. from high school football practice so the Both got tickled and celebrated with me....My little flip phone was also from c.c. but after activating this new one: ZTE: Avid 559, I realized I didn't know my new cell number.

I waited 20 minutes on speaker phone for service rep; then it took him fifteen minutes taking me through a bazillion unnecessary steps to f i n a l l y !! (after telling me in the beginning that he was not allowed to tell me my new number over the phone) to check my last billing statement Because my New # would be the same as my Orig. c.c. flip cell number...I was beyond frustrated with him !!!

Even so, I am really happy to have put one tiny toenail into the the 21st century. LOL I'd gone to Utube last night for a tutorial on "how to get started" with this particular brand and model. 11 short videos with steps and of course most of the latter ones far too complicated for a novice but it was very helpful for the first basics...like how to shut down, etc.

If Target has the c.c. you want, we'll soon be able to "cyber phone one another". Now how much fun would that be???? Good luck and let us know how your Target visit goes.

Good morning, walkercizers! Interesting talk about cell phones it does fit in with walking. I always carry mine in. My back pocket for emergencies. It has a pedometer which I really like except that the pedometer always tells me that I haven’t walked far enough! I must admit, even the dog didn’t want to go on a walk yesterday—too hot. Maybe today!

@imallears, Welll, in my book sprinting counts big time too! vbg Thanks for the baby playing with his toes idea; that will help and also the L shape, scissors motion. I'll try that.

We had a lovely built in island in one house and it was in constant use. My daughter has one in her home now and finds it indispensable. My kitchen is an galley style that works perfectly for me as the only cook in the house. I am beyond impressed that you would even attempt to assemble your new one! If it requires more skill than a screw driver, I'm pretty much out of luck. vbg

We're having 100+ degree days with 7 more consecutive predicted. This morning I took a walk at 6:30am and was a bit nervous because it wasn't clearly light yet. Nervous because my neighborhood group has reported some teen or young adult hecklers/bullies? nearby, both in vehicles and on foot. Luckily, my area was totally quiet but I am not venturing out as far from home as in the beginning.

I know kids are bored witless with being home so much but tv news showing roughing up elders walking in other cities is alarming. My bones are far too fragile, not to mention my addled brain to sustain much of a fall.

Plants purchased on my 1st shopping trip remain drying out in their orig. containers. Too hot, too early to be digging new homes for them so I'm watering with stored rain water twice a day. No humidity and no rain in site for this arid area so all life forms dry and wither quickly! vbg

I bet Precious kitty would love your island box to use as an escape cave to play in...feel free to send it here when finished if you don't have another use for it in mind, ok?

The idea of a spinal cord stimulator was a good decision. Has anyone heard of Vertiflex? A great product for reducing back pain via minimally invasive procedure. It works like a shim; wedge. It is put in between the affected vertebrae to open it and relieve the pressure.

@imallears, Welll, in my book sprinting counts big time too! vbg Thanks for the baby playing with his toes idea; that will help and also the L shape, scissors motion. I'll try that.

We had a lovely built in island in one house and it was in constant use. My daughter has one in her home now and finds it indispensable. My kitchen is an galley style that works perfectly for me as the only cook in the house. I am beyond impressed that you would even attempt to assemble your new one! If it requires more skill than a screw driver, I'm pretty much out of luck. vbg

We're having 100+ degree days with 7 more consecutive predicted. This morning I took a walk at 6:30am and was a bit nervous because it wasn't clearly light yet. Nervous because my neighborhood group has reported some teen or young adult hecklers/bullies? nearby, both in vehicles and on foot. Luckily, my area was totally quiet but I am not venturing out as far from home as in the beginning.

I know kids are bored witless with being home so much but tv news showing roughing up elders walking in other cities is alarming. My bones are far too fragile, not to mention my addled brain to sustain much of a fall.

Plants purchased on my 1st shopping trip remain drying out in their orig. containers. Too hot, too early to be digging new homes for them so I'm watering with stored rain water twice a day. No humidity and no rain in site for this arid area so all life forms dry and wither quickly! vbg

I bet Precious kitty would love your island box to use as an escape cave to play in...feel free to send it here when finished if you don't have another use for it in mind, ok?

@fiesty76
My son in law was working home this morning and come over at 8 to put it together. He left halfway through for a brief online meeting and then was back and finished it before 9: 30. I was surprised to see him. He gets antsy when he knows something has to be done. I finished “playing” with it and went out to get a new heavy duty cutting board and a few doodads. It so cute I don’t want to dirty up my kitchen later. I now have more prep space which was the reason for getting it and I’m not so jammed up with pots, pans, appliances and what not. I love love love it. My daughter in law who is an interior designer along with my son found it online for me. I always send her pics of things I am thinking to buy...love her taste and out of the box thinking. It was so funny to watch them doing their house Reno a few years back and changing each other’s blueprints. Jim wanted to add another story..that didn’t happen but he had his way with the kitchen.

And all I had to do was shop and play in my kitchen. I opened some of the boxes for my SIL and that was it. I don’t want to dirty up my kitchen tonight lol.

Happy FL Mary

@fiesty76 I wouldn't be too worried about walking in the early hours unless the problems have been at that time of day nearby. Remember teenagers are notorious late risers!
Sue

I read about this very recently at the clinic office. Sounds valid. Not a lot different compared to idea of instrumentation and fixation surgery for stenosis - just less complicated. Makes sense in modern medicine!