House arrest is over....

 7:56 am - Friday - December 22nd - GNHS - 62° F, humidity 89%, wind 4 mph out of the east by southeast....heavy cloud cover, and occasional rain today with a forecast high of 63° F.  On this date in 2018 TLE and I were visiting the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY.....another bucket list item crossed off the list.....↴

I really think that's her color

My favorite Corvette body style

When your body is hurting hours seem like days, and days like weeks, but for me Thursday was only the fourth day since I reaggravated my knee injury from a few weeks ago.  Life kind of comes to a screeching halt when you can't get out of a chair, stand up, or walk without pain.  Every day since last Sunday I've sat down at my laptop workstation each morning to type my latest blog entry, and my knee hurts the entire time.  Finally, this morning, Thursday, I am sitting at my laptop pain free.  That, for me, is a big change, and very encouraging.  Each day has seen slow, but steady improvement, but being able to sit here typing without pain for the first time in 5 days is a really big, noteworthy improvement, hence I am making note of it....lol.

After applying first ice, then heat to my knee Thursday morning I ventured outside to feel the sun on my face, and enjoy just standing there without pain....maybe a little discomfort, but no pain.  Walking up and down the entry stairs to the Newell, or trailer is still an adventure, but that is getting better, too.

Around 12:30 pm a change of scenery, for me, seemed in order, so TLE and I drove over to the Sunset Grill at Fountain of Youth for lunch.  Each time we visit FOY we discover something new.  For instance, Thursday we discovered they have a barber shop right next to the restaurant.  I think I will visit them today (Friday) to get a trim before Christmas.  After lunch we were walking up to the grocery store to buy a few things when we noticed the barber pole....very cool!

As I mentioned yesterday, rain was forecast for Thursday evening by the weather guessers.  Frankly, at the beginning of the week the guessers forecast rain for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, but each day it changed until Thursday they said it would rain all Thursday night, and into Friday night.  Well, that hasn't happened, either.  We got sprinkles during the night, and it was still sprinkling when we awoke this morning (Friday), but it has stopped again, and now we can see some blue sky in the distance.  Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining, just observing how difficult weather prognostication is around the Salton Sea.

We were back at GNHS around 1:30 pm, and by 2:30 pm I was walking down to the hot pools/tubs to take another soak.  We've only been here a tad over 2 months and I think I've soaked more this season, than all of last season combined....

Filling up the tub

.....a beautiful afternoon for a soak!  I hung out there for around 45 minutes before draining my tub, and walking pain free back to the Newell.  

Alas, there are no pictures of the sunset, or Chocolate Mountains lit by the setting sun for Thursday.  Just lots of cloud cover portending the eventual sprinkles we got last night.  TLE and I watched the 'Survivor' finale (recorded Wednesday night....it was a 3 hour show, and we didn't want to stay up to 11 pm), which ended being the closest vote ever.  TLE and I both thought Dee, or Austin would win, and ultimately the final vote was 5-3 in favor of Dee.

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