So I have not tucked my tail between my legs and run home. Besides, there is nothing out there that can make me give up.  Apparently my last blog sounded discouraging. Sure. I am learning to live with a body that is not the body I last worked with. I guess a debilitating back injury does that. :-)   Between Steve, Linda and Barbara I won't lack for a voice of reason as I struggle to regain all I can of what I lost. I much appreciate the good advice/ guidance

It is unreal, when I  think about the test  of will power I am going through. It started over a year ago and I am still doing all I can just about every day. I can see the places where I have improved and it is heartening. I can also see how limited I still am and I am just going to have to keep trying. As you read my blog, keep in mind that I am going to be writing a book about what I have been going through since I got hurt. As I work on book I will be coming back to blog as a reference and I want to remember what I was feeling. Believe me, you don't go through something like this and have that old happy, happy, joy, joy, feeling all the time.

I will be sharing a lot of what I go through as in most ways, when I am feeling poorly,it  has a lot to do with the amount of pain I am in and much to do with the discouragment of learning I can't do things the way  I want anymore. There will also be triumphs and that is really what this story will be all about. Fighting my way up the mountain. I won't always mention the pain as it does seem tiring. I think you will be able to see it in my blogs.

  There is much that does not even make it to the blog. Usually it does take a lot of pain to dampen my spirit and it does tend to make me withdraw. I try not to let people around me  see how bad it gets.  Sometimes I just wish I could go back to work and a life that at least resembles the life I lost. I am the hyper spirit stuck in a body that will not cooperate.  I wonder how many people would understand that I strike up conversations a lot  to give my mind something new to work on when I am hurting. Meditation actually makes my pain worse. Stimulating conversation and learning new things are  my best non-narcotic pain fighters.

I have good friends who care that I am successful. That and a good project. So bear with me. I don't know where it leads to, this path I am on, but it certainly leads on. :-)

It was interesting figuring out how to make non-skid  cover old screw and bolt holes.

Basically this is it. Remember the mess I started with ?

I would love to share the completed chain locker with me but it seems I have nobody available to crawl in and get a picture. I was going to work on gps mounting today but fate through rain at me as I picked up saw to start. So today is my day off.

Three boats over 40 ft. were put in water this week. I now have a big empty lot by Mary Lee. I have room to throw a ball for the dog again. OH!!! Wait a minute. I don't have a dog :-) :-) :-)

So I met Mike and his wife Sue this week. Mike is doing a refit on there boat

Now they have a shady place to  relax. Mike is going to be helping me move Mary Lee south this seasson. Then driving back home. I believe they are setting up to spend winters in Florida. Mike restores old cars for a living.

  I am looking forward to spending a winter with no snow.  I am also planning to get implant (tensit unit for back) taken out this winter.  I don't use it anymore and I think it is causing problems. I thought about having it done before I came to boat but decided I would end up hearing something like not doing any lifting for 8 weeks or something like that. I decided it can come out when I am settled for winter.

That box for mounting gps is still setting over there teasing me. I suppose just a few cuts and a handful of screws would not be considered working. If it starts raining again before I get started then I have my answer :-)