Recovery

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I'd like to say that we're on the road to recovery, but really it's just my ankle that I can speak for.  Our psychological viewpoint is going to need more time to readjust to the change that happened so quickly and many months ahead of schedule.  For a few more days we look to be resting up at my parents' before being amazingly and so suddenly available for a stint of house sitting for some friends.  The friends who are in fact watching our cat and we will now be able to watch their cats and their house while they are away.

That means we will be looking for a place to live starting in July sometime.  We still have our RV tucked away in storage and will need to get back to that and what little we own contained inside its walls, which now seems like an insanely excessive amounts of possessions after 2 months of backpacking.

The biggest problem today is "the hunger."  The hiker hunger that develops after hiking all day for the last few months isn't quite as bad as the people we met hiking from Georgia but it's pretty bad.  Everything we see we want to eat, and then when we're done we're thinking about what's next.  To compensate we have a lot of fruits and vegetables sitting out as a distraction.  Yesterday we had a good bit of fruit, a huge salad for lunch, another huge salad for dinner and a couple of bowls of broth based soup. Okay... and a few leftover truffles from the Kent Coffee & Chocolate Company visit... and there was that Snickers bar I found in our food bag when looking for dirty laundry.  While we didn't lose a ton of weight, we did lose some and built a good bit of leg muscle in the process.  We're now on a mission to not gain back the weight like we hear happens so often.

As for the ankle, it's still swollen as is the side of the foot, but I can hobble about alright to the bathroom and to the kitchen, and there isn't much pain now.  Flexibility is alright pointing my toe up and down but the side to side motion is still seriously impeded.

Today is another day of rest, and a bit of a celebration.  Dave and I are celebrating our 15th wedding anniversary today.  We're probably going to celebrate by watching a movie while I ice my ankle, oh wait, that's what we've been doing since yesterday.  Ah well, when you have something that works why change? (c;   What movie?  I think it's The Hobbit today.