Once in awhile-now and again-this is us

its a big place im going to. therapy in the back and a gym in the front. all the staff are super nice. my therapist continues to be pleased with my progress. i’m to the 130 range now. i gained 8 points. 140 is the goal. i’ll have one more month to get there.

here’s a glimpse of what i do. take notes sharon-

first i get a 10 minute warm moist heat to start, that feels so good.

my equipment is on the table. i’m on my own for these now.

i do a few of the easier ones first like squeezing the ball between my knees – raising my lower leg up with the bolster under my knee, letting it down slowly so you work the muscle – raise my whole leg extended up just 8 inches and feel the burn as you lower it – then do the same thing laying on your side.

remember the ONE i posted before – here it is

this one really hurts the muscles in the back of your knee. but its not the worst one of all.

you wouldn’t think the one below would be so bad, but its where the torture lies.

i don’t have a weight yet, thank goodness. do you see the ‘10’ minutes you have to lay there, your muscles screaming for you to stop after 4-5 minutes. i use visualization to get my leg to 10. i told jerry no picture for this one. i’m just laying there, dying😫

then its off to the machines
this one is pretty easy. you push outward with your knees. i started out with 2 lbs. now its 5.

this one you push in. again its pretty easy with 5 lbs. i’m sure they will raise it again soon.

on this one you start with your legs up and then swing them down under you, again 5 lbs.

then its a 7 minute ride on the bicycle on the lowest resistance 🚴🏻‍♀️ for now anyway

i’ve been doing those machines several times now. i was given another one monday.

as i walked up to it i said ”whoa“ what do i do on that”?😧

this is what you do

once you get yourself into it, all you have to do is push yourself up not to quite full extension, and then back down slowly. it was pretty easy once you get in it. this was the last one.

then its a quick massage ’aaahhh’..😁

then its the the TENSmachine with an ice pack for 15 minutes. and that’s it. after 2 hours we get to go home, limping a little, but proud of myself.

thanks for spotting me jerry. i couldn’t do it without you💗and for taking the pictures. i posted the best ones.

hope you find a willing spotter sharon. it helps a lot.

i was thinking of sharon while doing this. a post on the blog is the best way to send pictures with a story to somebody. that’s why ray helped me, so long ago, to send pictures home while we were on a trip. everybody that wants to – can see them. no more sending one here and one there. no more silly postcards. i highly recommend it. you didn’t know you were creating a monster bloggist, did you ray? i do thank you ray💗every time i start and finish a post. (btw, the computer was toast)

I see the doctor tomorrow. i hope he’s as pleased with my progress as my therapist.

thanks for all your comments, they bring me so much joy. another good reason to post on a blog😁

i hope you all stay tuned,

💗jilly

P.S. amy likes quotes as much as i do. i’m glad we share that.

this is a good one to live by amy💗u

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You all know midas by now. he adopted us when he was 3 or 4 months old. a lot of my early pictures got deleted when i got the blue screen of death on our first computer. some very special ones too. tony tried hard to get them back, but couldn’t, even with help from his co-workers.

you know that screen-don’t you?

midas has wanted to be an outside cat for all these years. no amount of coaxing could change his mind. he’s stayed around while we did all that traveling. 4 months one time, with care from family, friends, and neighbors. frank and linda have become his babysitters of choice for years now. he loves them and goes to their back door to see them and their cat through the glass door. linda sends me lots of texts when we are on a trip.⬇️

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since midas never wanted to be a house cat. we would bring him in after illness’s and the fourth of july. this year he wanted in when the fireworks started, three days in a row. even with all the fines attached to doing them, people still did them, loudly. as soon as it quieted down he -wanted out again.

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Midas does this ⬇️ practically every day too-

this is how he get’s from one side, to the other side, of the porch. i finally sat and waited to get a video, and then took these frames from it. pretty cool huh?

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this was a very special treat ted sent to midas. the good stuff.

ted loves him and he’s never even met him. i send him a lot of pictures so he knows him that way. he thinks he’s a remarkable cat. so do we🥰

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We got him a drinking fountain that constantly moves to help keep the mosquitos away

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i guess you can tell we love our midas. he’s been a very special cat from the beginning.

i was thinking of ted when i put this together, but i hope you all enjoy it too.

don’t know what’s next❓

stay tuned ❓

💗jilly

P.S.

and jerry still sits with him every morning

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I’ve been trying to keep busy without overworking my knee. the exercises do that. so doing puzzles, which don’t make my knee hurt, keeps my mind off the discomfort going in on my knee. this is my latest puzzle – the one tracy got me for Mother’s Day💗fun to do and i loved the matte finish.

and posting is a good way to keep my brain off my knee. which is doing so much better. i got good news yesterday at therapy – iv’e reached 122 in my range, 2 above my goal. the exercises are getting much tougher now and she’s adding more. how many of you could do of this one?

other than that,since i have so much time on my hands, i’ve been cleaning out some of my stuff……..slowly, sitting down.
tracy and tony will tell you i have a lot of stuff, and always have. which they will inherit, like it or not. but i like looking at my stuff! that’s why i have it out. what good is it hiding in closets or packed in the garage. traveling since 2007 after jerry retired, until our last trip to see tracy in North Dakota, i’ve acquired much more stuff. (i can hear you ray, a person that detests stuff).
talking about stuff reminded me of a routine that george carlin did about stuff that was hilarious. Check it out on you tube🤣

so, i started getting busy sorting, cleaning and dusting and getting rid of some stuff. first i started with my bookshelf that was filled with rocks, shells, found objects, etc. everything is precious to me with memories attached. so its hard for a stuff collector to get rid of stuff. but i am – slowly – sort of. I’m hoping someone will want my stuff someday.

⬇️ i couldn’t get rid of my pencil’s. one from every state. they are useable. or our found money i put in the water pitcher that was a gift from my mother💗 it’s useable and spendable. and yes, thats all found money.

⬇️surely someone will want these hearts. they can all go in someones garden someday. some are gift’s and some are found hearts. all special. In the center is a 🧡copper heart we got in bisbee, az. the heart in the right back is a piece of raw amethyst from 💜quartzite, az. the map of the us is a cutting board. it’s useable – and the schweerhart goes with us.💗we do have another one.

⬇️the the shelf below has one of my favorite finds. a 💗heart shaped abalone shell. you would have thought i had found a diamond. tony got me the rose quartz globe in the special holder years and years ago.💗i have black sand from hawaii and white sand from colorado. jerry’s paper weight is here too. calling cards tracy made, a joy jar amy made, some wheat pennies, and the little big book of life💗all precious.

⬇️my mother bought me the candle💗from ’ports-a-call’ way back when it first opened. the kids made us the piece of wood with shells on it💗I think at camp. i’ve collected the glass boxes from thrift stores to hold stuff.💗on the left bottom is a ring💗frank and linda bought me. it’s made from years of paint collected from the paint booths at the ford plant in deroit. many layers have been scraped off the floor and made into beautiful jewelry called ’fordite’. it looks like precious agate. you can see this online. very interesting.

and don’t you just love the piece of driftwood💗can’t part with this stuff.

⬆️the plate above is one of jerry’s💗aunt lucille we brought back from touson when his cousin, melanie,💗passed away suddenly. the owl was brought to us from tony and thuy’s trip to vietnam.💗the ‘el camino real bell’ road sign replica is from one of the many missions we visited.💗 some pegmatite pieces that look like silver, but are actually quartz, and the framed picture is one of ted’s valentines💗

of course i have a lot more stuff. but i’ll save that for another day and i’ll wait awhile to post it. can you tell i have a lot of time on my hands?

stay tuned for other stuff 🙂

💗jilly

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Have you got your flag out yet??? this is one of the most important days to fly it🇺🇸

l searched ‘American flags’ in my google photos, and came up with quite a lot. I went through them and picked out a few to share with you on this July 4th.

I hope you have – as they say ” a safe and sane” holiday.

a song we’ve been singing since grade school ~

a couple of puzzles ~

We had this bench in the the yard for years. it’s patiently waiting to be repainted ~

this flag is hanging in the Kennedy library ~

and here we are – jerry, me, sharon, ray, martha – at the Reagan library ~

at one of the many car shows ~

at one of the may air shows ~

such a pretty sight, must have been memorial day ~

another pretty sight ~

maybe i should do my hair ’red, white and blue’ ~

JUST KIDDING

but you never know, i’m turning 76 this year

stay tuned

❤️🤍💙jilly

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