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Familiar view…daily walk

I’ve been doing a lot of walking as I recover from my bilateral knee replacement. Sometimes it’s extraordinarily lovely…the evening…though the knees are pretty good too.l

A wise owl I’m not.

It’s been a long time since I even thought about this blog. Sure enough, when I tried to bring it back up yesterday, it was broken beyond repair. But not, apparently, beyond restoration. It seems I had a backup staging site. Who knew?

I’ve more or less been broken in the past year or so myself. But again, not beyond restoring, thankfully. Last May I had emergency back surgery followed by months of recovery. And then this January past, it was bilateral knee replacements followed by more months of recovery.

I survived it all and am better for it. I haven’t gotten back to cycling yet, but I’m walking a lot, improving my strength, and have stepped back from a lot of things giving me plenty of time to do all that “recovery work.”

I’ll be riding the Katy Trail later this year with very few and very vaccinated friends. It should be fun. I missed a long ride last year and it is generally an annual ritual. Admittedly, I did get two long rides in the previous year, so perhaps…Nah, couldn’t be.

Anyway, I’ll do my best to report on it was we make our way across Missouri following the Big Muddy.

I just got back from a lovely trip to Alaska where I was hosted by two of my dearest friends. Alaska has been pretty good about managing COVID-19, so I wasn’t too worried about contagion. I’m fully vaccinated, so are my friends, and so were their friends and family. All good.

One of the highlights of the trip was being taken out by a friend to fish for halibut. Score!

I caught my limit of two that day!

That’s me on the left with the larger of my two for the day. Tasty too.