my back is still a pain… been going on for a week now and the twisting and turning I do at night makes it very sore in the morning… by night time it is much better, but then I go to bed and irritate it all over again… it has been improving, very slowly, which is often what happens when you pull a muscle…

and then we went swimming on Tuesday, which may have put the recovery back a bit… if the car had been here this morning I think I would have gone to see the doctor because it felt miserable…

last week I didn’t put out the garbage and recycling because I didn’t think I could drag the bins over the snow to the lane so I really felt I had to do it this morning for today’s collection…

was on the way to the bins in the back yard when I heard my neighbour in the lane… he’s always asking if he can help me with anything, so I called him over and he took both bins and put them out for me…

was so thankful because they were sitting in a low spot where water had melted and then frozen so you had to wrench them to get them to start moving… and wrenching is just not a good thing to be doing these days…

tonight he brought the empty bins back into the yard which was also great… ever since I put the note on the garbage bin, it has been picked up without a problem… guess I should have done that a lot sooner…

garbage and recycling bins out while still light Thursday, February 21, 2013…

I walked from the end of the street with my daisies in hand tonight and got a shot of the creek with water flowing in it… the snow is finally starting to melt away, yay…

water finally in Truro Creek…