Surprise Healing

 

Adventure Location:

Decatur, Alabama

Date: July 21, 2023

The OFM got a big surprise this morning when he hurried to the necessity room right after waking. He realized he got the whole way from the bedroom at one end of the Castle to the other end and his left knee did not object in any way. That was a wonderful realization. The rest of the day was painless but the knee was a bit stiff on occasion. After breakfast the OFM spent a few minutes testing the knee and decided to take a short slow speed limbering of the knee called a gentle walk.

It worked out wonderfully. We hit the trail right behind the campground and followed it to where it joins the rest of the trail complex. This is our starting pint this morning.

It is pretty straight and level to the big junction of trails. The walking was gentle and no pains at all came to worry us.

When we got to the big junction we took this picture of the swamp surrounding the campground since it is a nice picture.

Then we returned by the same route as we had come. After we returned the OFM tracked and measured our distance and the whole easy distance was .75 miles. From the way the knee felt the rest of the day it was a just right choice. We feel that we can now take a couple of days to build up and recover from the injury and then we can rip and tear like before.

The OFM went on a rampage on the computer after the walk and we got rid of files we did not need anymore that had no good reason for still being on the hard drive. Most were pictures that we had not used for the blog but for some stupid reason we still had copies here and there. When it was over our final count of files deleted was 589 total files. The computer was getting so light after getting rid of all them we had to tape it to the table to keep it from floating away.

Then this late afternoon we had rainstorms move into the area so we took our dirty clothes over to the campground laundry and put that to washing and drying. Sure enough the rain kept on going until dark but we got the laundry done and put away anyway.

If the knee is doing well tomorrow, we have a bit of food shopping to do and then no idea what we will be doing for trying to have tooooo much fun.