...a nice calm morning...

 Well, I'm almost ready for camping.  You know, you get all the piles on the kitchen table, and have to organize things and get them actually packed.  We only take one vehicle, which is our pick up truck, and the Labradors take up the back seat.  It's a smallish bed truck, so we can't just take everything and the kitchen sink.  I'm not very organized, don't even know what we're bringing for dinner tonight, but we have stuff in the freezer...but I did make like 30 hamburger patties last evening, and put them in the freezer, for tomorrow night's dinner, with salt potatoes.

Yesterday we went for Miss Cam's appointment, and got her a new knee brace, said goodbye to the immobilizer.  It's only $240, but I'm hoping the insurance picks up most of it.  The brace she wore on the other knee after surgery: $1,999, before insurance.  We paid $400.  Two thousand dollars!  I'm old enough that you could buy a car for that much, back in the day.  

Anyway, from there we went to the house we're working on, and painted for four hours.  It was hot, humid, dripping, sweaty hot.  I had to carry a paper towel to catch the drips streaming into my eyes.  Camille even helped, but we did bring her a chair so she could rest after painting a bit.  The place is almost done, hopefully like one more visit to clean everything up...

It's looking good, the flooring is gorgeous.  

Before we left, we changed out of our painting clothes, and went to TJMaxx, as I promised the girls I'd bring them there after.  They found a few things, I found a cute dress for myself, which is a rarity, not even on sale, but it was only $20...I also splurged on a nice frying pan, on sale for  $20.  I buy cheap frying pans, but if one of those if $15, why not get a nicer one?   I am more excited about the frying pan than the dress, and I almost put one of them back because spending so much in one trip, ouch.

We stopped at the grocery store on the way home, they are good girls:  I offered to get them pizza or something, but they decided to get turkey, fresh Italian bread, a head of lettuce, and make sub sandwiches. It was so hot out, it was nice not to cook.  

The pool was so refreshing after being so hot yesterday...then, after dinner, I went out to an activity club swim time at our church pools.  Splashing around with the little ones, so fun, then Emily passed out popsicles, life is good.

This fine morning, slow going, first time since Tuesday I don't have to be out the door in a hurry.  But, I'm rather distraught:  I have been having problems with my hip for months now, on and off.  Sometimes it's fine and I tell myself:  you're FINE, no need to call a dr.!  But, sometimes it's really painful, like a sharp broken thing stabbing where the hip goes into the socket.  I'll be walking around like a completely mobile person, take a step, and wham, it catches wrong.  Some days if acts up all day long, but I can sometimes walk it off, and find a way to step that's tolerable.  This fine morning, I was walking in the kitchen when it came out of nowhere, just stabbing pain, caught wrong, sort of buckled, I lurched forward and caught myself on the counter top.  It shook the heck out of me, if I hadn't been near the counter top, I would have fallen down.   What if I had been carrying a baby?  Walking in the street?  On stairs?  

The problem here is that I'm going camping, sleeping in a tent (getting up and down from the air mattress on the ground!), and walking to the bathhouse several times a day.  I don't mind walking, and love camping, but oh dear.   I'm going to be taking slow mincing steps, like an old lady.  

And no, I have not called the dr yet.  I might though.  

Oh, the infirmities!  I found myself getting downright upset about this, because I just want to live my life, and move, and walk, and do things.  So I'm working on things, trying to find my thankfulness in it all.   It must be for my very best, if it is happening, and I don't know the big picture, I must need this somehow.  But, I am still praying that it goes away...

Have a really good weekend, and if you are so inclined, please say a prayer for me, that my hip behaves....