What a crazy morning! The scale made me so happy and I took off to walk a new walk! After doing a familiar loop, I decided to walk on the golf course path from the ninth hole back toward our house. It was early enough that I didn't have to worry about being conked on the head by a golf ball, which may have been better than what happened.
There is a wash between our house and the neighbor's and it leads from the golf course path to our front yard. I was so proud of myself for thinking of it as a new way to go home. As I approached it, it did look like the plants had filled in a little since the last time I cut through there, probably about a year ago. In my new mode of thinking of myself as a thinner person rather than a heavier gal, I really thought I could walk through it without any difficulty. Well, it wasn't so much a width problem as a height problem complicated by stickery things growing on a tree that looked like its foliage was soft and silky. As it became clear that I had to bend down to go under some branches, and started to do just that, my center of gravity obviously shifted and I started to sink, like a rock! So I grabbed onto a branch of this stickery tree. It didn't break, it just started to bend as I was sinking! And, under me was a large cactus. I was where the wild desert things are and didn't want to deal with anything else at that point so I was anxiously looking for snakes, etc. I ended up sitting next to the cactus hoping no one was watching this quite funny site. I did get myself up, not a pretty picture, and hobbled into the house feeling very silly.
Here's the good news - I could never have gotten up from that indelicate seated position a year ago when I would have had to support 30 + more pounds to do the maneuver. And, there weren't any snakes or other critters to cause damage.
The bad news? I will be going to the chiropractor tomorrow to get straightened out, and actually that is no big deal. But next time, I think I will stay on the sidewalk.
