Scattered Thoughts . . .

Last night, I made some Korean ribs for dinner.   Well... I really should call it a "Korean-ish" dish since we lack some of the ingredients for true Korean food (and some of those ingredients should never be in any food). I replaced some ingredients with things we can get locally, yet, even that was difficult and required some driving around. The ribs were delicious as usual. I served them over white rice and garnished the plate with chopped green onions. We also added some Indian flavor in the form of Naan bread since we had some leftover from another dish we made the other night. This garlic Naan bread fit in well with this tasty dish. Unfortunately, my health does not agree all that well with meals such as this... even with me adapting some ingredients. Dinner was absolutely delicious but my health crashed which quickly turned the night into a night of nausea.  When the nausea got to unbearable levels, I took my bedtime dose of medications (it was only about 8:15pm

We had a really nice weekend and had an especially nice Sunday dinner with the grandchildren, Liza, and Sheila's parents, Will and Sue! Lukey arrived at the house with a golf club in hand which immediately reminded me of creating golf courses when I was a kid myself. We kept the course design simple on this day, however.  First, we dug one single hole, inserted a cup, and then we figured out where to place five different tee off areas... one straight-on... one off to the side... one which we called "down in the hole" which placed the tee off area lower than the green... one which was off to the side of "down in the hole" requiring chipping around tall brush and foliage... and one which required chipping over our firepit.  We took a little break for lunch... cheese quesadillas, tomato soup, apple sauce and berry jello for the kids... some leftover fried okra for me... and a cherry tomato medley salad for Gee... then back outside to play more go

A little graphic I put together to depict most of today's pain. Even though I have broken up my small stone pathway project into many small tasks, these smaller tasks were clearly still far too much for my injured spine. There is no doubt in my mind nor should there be any doubt in anyone's mind after reading my blog that once you seriously injure your spine, your spine will always be a significantly weak point of your body... enduring re-injury after re-injury.  The latest cause of this re-injury was due to overdoing it while trying to install a small stone pathway in our yard. Everything I attempt to do has a price... no matter how small and insignificant the project or activity. In this particular segmented project, I would move about six or eight stones out of the way... shovel out the exposed lawn... put the lawn in a wheelbarrow... move the stones back into place... then dump the wheelbarrow full of grass. Then I would move to the next small section.  Clearly, t