Two weeks in July

Last week wasn't a great week any way you look at it...  I doubt I have any photos worth sharing...

It started on Thursday when I was vacuuming and managed to wrench my back AGAIN!!!  This is becoming an unfortuate habit!  I honestly wasn't doing anything strenuous and the only bright spot was that I already had an appointment that morning to see the acupuncturist for hip pain so I ended up there and said forget the hip, do something for my back!!!

I became philosophical as I got treaments over the next few days...  Do I really believe in acupuncture?  I have no idea.  The first time I had it I had done exactly the same thing to my back when I was at the preschool and the principal had directed me to the acupuncturist (also known as a bone setter) and said if I hurried I might get there before he closed for lunch.  I pulled into the parking lot just as the therapist was turning his closed sign on his door but he took pity on me and treated me during his lunch hour and when he asked me if I was adverse to doing acupuncture I said I'd be willing to try ANYTHING!!!  That was my baptism to needles and electric current treatment.  

It's hard to say if these things do any good...  You go home and get bedrest and within a couple of days things are on the mend again...  was it because of the acupuncture or would things have gone the same way just staying in bed?  This time around it worked the same way.  Treatment, put me in a back support and tell me to go home and rest.  Which I did for four days with Tetsu waiting on me hand and foot.  He is an excellent nurse.  But of course doing nothing makes me feel worthless on top of the pain and the atmosphere around me was gloomy...  But thank goodness my new Kindle was available for me to spend the many quiet hours!

No machine quilting going on as I don't want to push my quilt around for awhile.

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Then around noon on Friday, I come downstairs to turn on the TV and find out about the horrific news of the former Prime Minister Abe's assassination.  That has been unbelieveable and ever since, throughout the past week the news covers all points of the horrible occurrance.  You may remember that I wrote just a couple of months ago about Japan's strict gun laws and so it truly was an unthinkable possibility that anyone could be killed by a gunman in Japan.  By now we all know that it was a handmade gun but that indicates that now anyone in Japan can make a gun if they can get on the internet!!!  And because of the rarity of guns in Japan, it turns out that none of the Special Police protecting our politicians or whoever, are prepared to protect against gunfire!  Someone with a knife?  Yes, that is a possibility that the police have been trained for, but not a gun!  It is such a terrible calamity.

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The Covid numbers have increased alarmingly the past two weeks yet I think everyone has decided we will just have to live with it and the consequences...  There is still travel going on between prefectures and overseas.  Children who are out from school aren't tested unless high fevers are involved.  We still wear masks constantly but even I have gone back to the pool (no masks in the water of course) so it is a risky deal...

Any good news?  Well, Tetsu and I are celebrating our 42 anniversery today, maybe going out to dinner, maybe not as we will be taking some out of town guests to dinner anyway tomorrow.  

Every year I show these same two photos... I think our wedding photo albums are in the depths of the downstairs closet so sorry, I'm not going to go rooting them out today...

I guess you could say it started here.  This was our wedding invitation.

That's called ending a somber post on a high note.