Places to Sit
Ah, summer!
Of course, the best thing about summer is doing stuff outdoors. For the kids and spousal unit it means playing and bike riding. For me it means reading or knitting or just sitting outside. My favourite place to sit is on a bench at the front of the house. You can barely see the bench from the street, so it's private too. If you sit there you can watch the happenings on the street and people hardly know you're there.
Here's the view from the other side.
This is the youngest. He's saying, "No pictures!"
Among the many views from the bench are these wooden chickens and flowers among the foliage. These were given to my boys from my cousin. His dad made them for him when he was little, and now my boys enjoy them every year. When they outgrow them I'll put them away for when my cousin has kids of his own.
Here's the view to the street. See the little birds in the birdhouse?
If you look closely, you can see three of them.
Moving to the back yard, this is my favourite place to sit. There's a gazebo over it, and a picnic table to the left.
Here is the spousal unit making dinner. Note how his left arm is just hanging down uselessly. It should be in a sling, but he lets it air out now and then. The sling is because he was injured at aikido, and needed a steel reinforcement over his clavicle.
For anyone who is familiar with aikido, the injury is because they were doing ikkajo with uke doing a front flip. My husband was uke for a yudansha he had never met before, but it turns out the guy is a cowboy. As my husband was doing the front flip,the cowboy brought him right down in mid-flip. My hubby's neck cleared the mat, but not his shoulder. The damage is so extensive that his yoshinkan days are probably over. Obviously the cowboy didn't know how to do the technique properly. It's easy to injure people in aikido. In fact it's so easy that you have to constantly coach beginners on how not to hurt people. Only newbies end up hurting others - it should never, ever happen at the senior levels.
Anyway, here are the stitches, still healing. Poor hubby!
Of course, the best thing about summer is doing stuff outdoors. For the kids and spousal unit it means playing and bike riding. For me it means reading or knitting or just sitting outside. My favourite place to sit is on a bench at the front of the house. You can barely see the bench from the street, so it's private too. If you sit there you can watch the happenings on the street and people hardly know you're there.
Here's the view from the other side.
This is the youngest. He's saying, "No pictures!"
Among the many views from the bench are these wooden chickens and flowers among the foliage. These were given to my boys from my cousin. His dad made them for him when he was little, and now my boys enjoy them every year. When they outgrow them I'll put them away for when my cousin has kids of his own.
Here's the view to the street. See the little birds in the birdhouse?
If you look closely, you can see three of them.
Moving to the back yard, this is my favourite place to sit. There's a gazebo over it, and a picnic table to the left.
Here is the spousal unit making dinner. Note how his left arm is just hanging down uselessly. It should be in a sling, but he lets it air out now and then. The sling is because he was injured at aikido, and needed a steel reinforcement over his clavicle.
For anyone who is familiar with aikido, the injury is because they were doing ikkajo with uke doing a front flip. My husband was uke for a yudansha he had never met before, but it turns out the guy is a cowboy. As my husband was doing the front flip,the cowboy brought him right down in mid-flip. My hubby's neck cleared the mat, but not his shoulder. The damage is so extensive that his yoshinkan days are probably over. Obviously the cowboy didn't know how to do the technique properly. It's easy to injure people in aikido. In fact it's so easy that you have to constantly coach beginners on how not to hurt people. Only newbies end up hurting others - it should never, ever happen at the senior levels.
Anyway, here are the stitches, still healing. Poor hubby!
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