Greetings all.

Warmed up today to a whopping 26 degrees (that being above zero, and in Fahrenheit ).

I however am not enjoying the weather, as I am laid up in bed, having been thoroughly thrown and stomped by ice and gravity into the stove-up realm. While picking up a 4” flex hose yesterday I managed to slip on the ice and slide down a little embankment…right into an open manhole. Made it about 6 feet  down before an unceremonious meeting with the concrete bottom. Walked away (or rather crawled/limped) with:

-several bruised ribs, one broken
-at least 4 bruised vertebrae, sacral and lumbar (fortunately none of those broke!)
-bruised pelvic wing
-majorly sprained back muscle
-partially torn tendon in left hip
-pretty good cut up the left on my tush to mid back (doc used superglue instead of stictches/staples because pants are a necessity in MT)
-scratched cornea in left eye
-various other bumps and bruises of varying magnitude

So, I’m not going to work for a few days it seems, considering I can hardly get out of bed by myself. And walking farther than the John is not happening either. I declined the offered hydrocodone prescription, a choice which I am somewhat beginning to regret as Aleve only does so much. But I suppose I’ll live.

Y’all watch that ice.

—TK

Greetings all.

Warmed up today to a whopping 26 degrees (that being above zero, and in Fahrenheit ).

I however am not enjoying the weather, as I am laid up in bed, having been thoroughly thrown and stomped by ice and gravity into the stove-up realm. While picking up a 4” flex hose yesterday I managed to slip on the ice and slide down a little embankment…right into an open manhole. Made it about 6 feet  down before an unceremonious meeting with the concrete bottom. Walked away (or rather crawled/limped) with:

-several bruised ribs, one broken
-at least 4 bruised vertebrae, sacral and lumbar (fortunately none of those broke!)
-bruised pelvic wing
-majorly sprained back muscle
-partially torn tendon in left hip
-pretty good cut up the left on my tush to mid back (doc used superglue instead of stictches/staples because pants are a necessity in MT)
-scratched cornea in left eye
-various other bumps and bruises of varying magnitude

So, I’m not going to work for a few days it seems, considering I can hardly get out of bed by myself. And walking farther than the John is not happening either. I declined the offered hydrocodone prescription, a choice which I am somewhat beginning to regret as Aleve only does so much. But I suppose I’ll live.

Y’all watch that ice.

—TK

I've got a nice picture if an Iver Johnson Cattleman from about 1975.