It's a sun and clouds mix and in the 70s, but there's a stiff chilly breeze. The scattered rain showers last night didn't come here. I suppose I'll have to start watering the outdoor plants again soon. No chance of rain again until who knows when. It's supposed to go down to 50 degrees tonight with the cold front coming through. It will be time to turn the heat on. By Wednesday the high is only supposed to be in the low 60s with lows in the low to mid 40s. It's going to be a sweater weather week with jackets in the evenings. Thankfully it's due to warm up next weekend.

I met up with my sister yesterday and gave her the birthday gift. Her birthday is next Monday but it's a busy time for me with PT starting tomorrow and another doctor appointment next week so I'm not sure when I'll see her again. Even though she works from home as an artist selling on Etsy, you never know when she'll be off somewhere around the state for the wildlife education and preservation volunteer work she does.

I'm still getting the hang of using the ankle brace. It's got a bunch of Velcro straps that go every which way. But the last is a big cover strap that goes all the way around the ankle pulling the brace tight, but if everything is set too tight the plastic stabilizers dig painfully into the sides of my ankles so I need to make sure everything is adjusted perfectly, neither too loose nor too tight. I had to watch a video on YouTube put out by the manufacturer to learn how to do this properly. The instructions that came with it have basic hand drawn images which aren't all that helpful.

So tomorrow the six weeks of PT begins. I'm going to bring copies of the MRI results summaries so the therapists know exactly what I'm dealing with since the script from my doctor just lists tendonitis, and says nothing about the tears in the tendons or the bone marrow edema in the one ankle bone. In the meantime I have to get the recycling out to the curb for tomorrow's pickup. There's not that much to put out since my other sister went home and took Sam the cat with her. Only half as many cat food cans to put out. Less packaging from people food since it's just me here. She's supposed to drive back up some time soon, but no idea when that will happen.