Ortho Visit

Went to the Doc today. He is a quiet whistling fellow. Kind of a genius. This is the guy who drilled a hole in my knee bone and secured the new ligament in place with an 'absorbable screw'. Which he decided wasn't strong enough to hold inside my.......muscular body. So he took the screw out and used 2 very large staples in it's place. These are different than the 20 staples used to secure the wound. Took some x-rays and there is my knee and 2 staples looking very out of place. He walks in starts to whistle to himself looking at the x-rays and declares the staples are in perfect position! Then he lays me down and starts playing my leg like an upright bass until I yelp the exact note he is looking for. Then he says I'm on track and with 6 more weeks of P/T I should be good. Still 4+ months away from running, hiking, and falling down without aides. The day after my procedure, he left to climb up to the 1st base camp on a mountain in the Himalayas. Mt. Evergreen or some name like that. He really is an adrenaline junkie.

Walked without aides today but still need crutches and will be getting a smaller knee brace Friday. Now able to work Tuesdays and Thursdays and weekends.

Good news! My replacement remote for Direct TV arrived today, it will keep me busy at least through tomorrow.

new tables

Here are 2 tables we got for behind the couch.

Got all trenching done for drainage, gas line & irrigation in back yard. Gas line goes in next week followed by all irrigation tie-ins and final drain pipe placement. Then we can cap the whole yard with 3-5 inches of dirt and begin designing the yard deck and building it.

Work went ok. Broke the suspension on my cart, it must've been weakened by the incident of Jan 21st.

Mrs. Evans almost got picked by the preacher last nite at the tent revival but must've not looked desperate enough.

Not much pain in the knee it just feels weak. Hopefully they will start strengthening it next week.

2nd try

For some reason this pic is my favorite either because I got to hang with my pal or got to stand on a 1000' cliff edge or I had no crutches then.


This seems better then the Windows live blog I attempted to send out because the viewer is required to have a login for "live" which sucks as Mrs. Evans pointed out to me. Plus it goes directly to spam when sent. So far so good. and this URL is easy to remember.

Not much happening today. Did some digging in the yard by proxy. Mrs. Evans snuck out to a nearby tent revival with the neighbor. No joke they put a tent up right next to a Maverick gas station. I think they just went to Mesquite instead to play BINGO! The lord works in mysterious ways.