More Weekend Things

Now that we have a cat, I feel justified in including stuff like this. To be fair to our kitty, he really doesn’t start meowing in the morning until he hears me up and walking around.

Had my first PT session on Friday so I have lots of exercises to do. There are a couple that focus solely on the calf and the rest seem to be more ankle related although that works the calf as well. But the PT guy said he included some things like that to help with the swelling – maybe things that will move the fluid through.

Do have my first post injury dance lesson tomorrow so we’ll see how it goes. The calf is actually bothering me less and less but the ankle swelling is going to be a problem.

We had another busy weekend. Well, busy by our standards at least. There is a winter farmer’s market that we decided to check out on Saturday. I guess this is a thing because we’ve gone to other winter markets in the past. There are some farms that have greenhouses because there was a lot of local produce still available. This market is supposed to run until April but I think by February the pickings will be a little slim.

Which is why they tend to fill these places with other vendors. Lots of bakery type places selling breads and sweet things. A few places with meat to sell and some with craft type things. There was a guy selling shrimp which was actually locally farmed somewhere in town. Weird considering we are nowhere near any large body of water. Really wanted to ask the guy how he set this up but he was trying to sell shrimp so I didn’t want to waste a lot of his time. We didn’t buy any although we were curious.

Had to go out later to a place that sells wreaths. My wife would sometimes make something from scraps but has decided that convenience outweighs any creative urges. She adds a few things just to spruce it up a bit. But there is one big hardware store that goes all out for Christmas and they have nice things so we make a point of stopping there to get something to hang on the front door.

Yesterday, we went to our zoo because they have a serious light display. Normally, the place is wall to wall people but it rained on and off all afternoon and that kept the crowds way down even though it basically stopped raining after dark. Most of the animals are not out because it is too cold and the ones that are tend to be sleeping so you really go to walk around and look at the lights.

They did bring a couple of penguins out to a central area which is something they started doing a couple of years ago. I asked the keeper how they decide which ones to bring and she said it was really whichever ones decided they wanted to go. I guess they’ve trained them so that when they give a signal, the penguins know there is an opportunity to leave their enclosure and sit outside for a bit and so whichever ones are first in line get to go. Wonder what goes through the penguin mind when they hear the signal. “No, I’m not feeling it today” or “Yeah, I really need a break from all these guys in here”. Anyway I though that was interesting.

Have started work outs again. I took time off just because of the whole breathing/calf issues. Had to scale back a bit but it was good to actually be doing something again. My fitbit kept giving me all these high scores for readiness telling me I was good to go so it was making me feel guilty about not getting in a lot of activity. Fitbit doesn’t care about my injury.

The cat decided to come watch this morning. Not sure why. Some days he just likes being in the same room as me. Well, then he went to use the litter box and came back to tell me about it so I could clean up for him. Then he just sat and watched what I was doing.

Well that was the weekend wrap up. Here’s another cat meme and I can definitely relate to this one.