Katie and I spent Christmas in San Diego, a month in Vacaville, and back to San Diego for a week of annual medical/vision/dental appointments and everything is A-okay. We're now in Hot Springs LTVA, and it sure is nice to be back!
I spent some time overlooking one of the beaches in San Diego between appointments. They are re-doing this one, and had planted a huge palm tree in the sand. I wonder how deep they had to dig the hole to anchor it, and keep it from falling in future windstorms and sand erosion.
The beach was blocked off but we had a nice view from the parking lot above.
It will sure make for some beautiful sunset photos for many years to come.
I haven't posted for a while because I've had some issues. I was having a lot of problems with my laptop and it finally died. Luckily I have Carbonite and a Seagate back-up drive. I ended up buying a new computer and have spent a week re-installing programs and documents, photos, etc.
After my last appointment on Friday I took off, driving through the mountains on I-8 headed for Hot Springs. I've never driven in such wind! It was so bad I was being blown all over the road and it took all my concentration and strength and constant gripping of the wheel with both hands to stay in my lane. My fingers were numb and I was having to shake them to stop the numbness. It was a gruelling drive.
A word of advice: If this happens to you, get off the road and wait it out. I'll never drive through a windstorm like that again. My main concern was keeping The Palms in our lane and somehow I felt I was committed and just kept going. I didn't think about what was happening to my hands. I finally made it, and found a nice little site and settled in. Saturday morning I woke up and started cleaning, arranging, re-arranging... pretty much the whole day was spent getting organized. I was just a happy little camper!
I woke up on Sunday with such pain in both my thumbs and my left wrist that they were useless. It's now Friday and so far there's no improvement, maybe my right thumb is a little better.
I did call my doctor. I'm on a new med for my bones - I'm at the right place according to my bone density scan to start taking a medicine to keep my bones strong and I thought maybe my thumb and wrist issues were a side effect of this new pill. The doctor said the medicine had nothing to do with the pain I'm having.
The only thing I can think of is that I strained the tendons with the constant, hard gripping of the steering while driving through the mountains, and have acute tendinitis. I have some pain meds from my surgery last year that I never used, so I'm taking those now, and they are helping. I've fashioned a lovely sling from one of the neck scarves I bought in Vacaville and sometimes I'll rest my left hand in it. In the meantime, I'm pretty much left with four fingers on my right hand that I can use with no pain, but no thumbs and no left hand. Hopefully they will heal soon. I have been keeping up with your posts, but I can't type without it hurting, so I won't be posting for at least a few days, maybe longer, and that's why. :(
If you have any healing prayers, please send them up for me. It's kind of funny that I completed a week of tests and exams and have excellent health, my teeth are great, my eyes are just fine, and I'm pretty much useless because of a drive through the windy mountains. I think God punked me. :)
In the meantime, Katie and I are happily settled in a nice little site with birds and bunnies out the window to watch. We're quite a ways from from the trash dumpster, so every day or so we take a good walk to take out the trash. We've had nice sunny days, cold cloudy days and some rain and wind so far, so the weather has been interesting.
We are right on a side road, off the main road going through the campground, so I have a nice view of all the people coming and going to the spa and the garbage dump.
I like bushes around The Palms, and have put out some seed for the critters.
I need to rethink they way I'm storing some of my clothes. I noticed an ad in the The Costco Connection, a little monthly magazine mailed out by Costco with some articles, some ads, etc. One of the ads this month is for Ziploc Space Bags. I want to put some of my out-of-season clothing into vacuum bags and store them under my couch. I've searched, but can't find them on-line. According to this ad, they are "New" at Costco. Do any of you have them? If so, would you leave a comment and let me know - are they stand-alone bags or do you need a device to suck out the air. And if they don't need a device, do they work well?
And...A BIG WELCOME to our latest follower, New Age Nomad - Adventure's of a Nomadic,Van-Dwelling, Minimalist, Living Rent Free, Off The Grid. Sounds good, right??? I've got to go through the posts and see what he's up to, he started this blog in September 2012, so it should be pretty easy to start at the beginning. So far I've learned he has a beautiful dog, Candy, and takes gorgeous photos of Yuma sunsets - just gorgeous! Thanks for following along with us, welcome aboard, New Age Nomad! :)
From Me and My Dog, have a great weekend, everyone! :)
