Ramblings of a rural(ish) geek

I did some fairly intensive weeding yesterday, and today the muscles in my right hand hurt. Fooey. I had hoped that the strained muscle would be better enough that I could weed. :( So I guess I'll have to scale back the weeding efforts. Again. If I scale them back too much farther, I won't be doing any! I suspect the kids will be getting a lot more "can you weed?" requests this summer.

I put a hummingbird feeder in the front flowerbed, in amongst the bleeding hearts. Three hours later, I saw a hummingbird at the feeder. I guess they found it.

Finally went to the doc. "as you suspected, it is tendinitis in the extensor tendons on two outer fingers and to a lesser extent on the thumb." Treatment is rest (as much as possible), ice, anti-inflammatories, and OT, which I start on Thursday. So, not unexpected but still rather annoying. She doesn't expect me to stop playing entirely, at least not yet -- if things don't start getting better within a few weeks, I may have to; and she strongly suggests that I take the summer off to let things heal as completely as possible.