Ups and downs

What amazing weather we had today.  I have been so looking forward to going for daily walks with Austin, which I have been able to do the past several days.  But to my great dismay, it seems that plantar fasciitis has decided to revisit with a vengeance, this time on the opposite foot from two years ago.  I've been wearing the night splint for the past several months because the heel pain would come and go.  But yesterday and today it came and stayed.  If it doesn't let up with all the things I know to do, I'm going to find me a foot doctor and ask for a cortizone shot.

Dick had today and tomorrow off work, so he's down at our Lititz house getting some more things done in preparation for selling it.  

We're feeling happy about the direction our weight has been going lately, which is of course, down.  Actually, Dick's weight has been going steadily down ever since he moved up here.  I think he's lost about 25 pounds.  In the last six weeks I lost ten pounds.  Unfortunately, it's the same ten pounds I've lost several times before in the past ten years.  But this was without any extraordinary exercising or food deprivation.  Just an effort to be more healthy.  I must say it really helps to have a household where we're all on the same page.

I miss my Dad.  The most unusual things can trigger tears.  The other evening it was a commercial on TV for Miralax.  Imagine that.  But it brought back memories of how important his every bodily function, or the lack thereof, became in his last weeks here on earth.  This morning a song I heard reminded me of a conversation he and I had one time about God's trustworthiness, even when we can't understand hard things. And I wished I could talk with him again.  He always understood my heart.