More news (or What I did on Sunday...)

Wendy has been playing in a Bell Choir organized by one of the players/conductor from Bells of the Sound for about a year now. The group occasionally plays during Sunday sermons at the Tibbets United Methodist Church here in West Seattle. Today was to be one of those days. When The forecast began calling for snow, I volunteered to get Wendy to church on time, and also get her home afterwards.

While the sermon was going on, I went and had a cup of coffee a few blocks away at Hotwire (see previous post). One of the Baristas there was working on a Holiday Project of making artistic lattes, and after taking a picture offered it up to the people that were in the shop at the time. It was delicious... here are Before and After pics from my phone's camera (not great for close-up work) - I was very careful about drinking it...

 

I then headed back to the church after toodling around the neighborhoods seeing just how poor traction was and to have just a little fun swinging the tail around corners where there was enough room and visibility to do so... Drifting just a little, and at extremely slow speed...

When I got back to the church, I stashed the laptop under the seat, and as I was standing up, my lower back twinged in a not very pleasant way... It was kind of scary, to tell you the truth,  but I was able to stand up, and walk into the church lobby without pain, so I wasn't to worried about it then. Just a little, and it made me much more cautious there rest of the trip home. We stopped at the Farmers Market which was fairly short on vendors today (I can't imaging why, really...) and got some veggies and a little bacon for the week.

When we got home I carefully extracted the laptop from under the seat, and then as I was trying to stand up again, another twinge... this one a little bigger... Since then (about noon, or a little later) I've been sitting on ice & heat, and trying to ignore the pain in my lower back.

So, I'll be making a trip to the Doctor tomorrow if I can get in, and not doing much of anything else for a little while.

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