John has been having some shoulder trouble today, actually it started yesterday. He thinks all the raking and digging he did in the yard last week has aggravated the shoulder he had repaired 16 months ago. The pain kept him up most of the night; however, he still wanted to take our regular morning walk. We got a short distance from the house and he found that the arm became too painful to continued, so we turned back home. I know it must have been painful as he didn't even go to wood carvers this morning and he never misses carving.

I put a call into our doctor's office, but there were no openings this entire week and right now John is on a waiting list to get in. He's decided to rest the shoulder for a day or two and see how it goes. He has full range of motion without pain and didn't feel anything pop or tear while he was working, so we're hoping he just strained a tendon. Ralph Ramsey dropped in around noon and suggested John try using some liniment he has for sore muscles. After lunch John went over to Ralph's, picked up the liniment, and we applied some to the sore muscles. Still to early to tell if it's working. If it remains extremely painful, we'll have to see about going to Urgent Care in Uvalde.

The weather was actually cold today, so we stayed holed up in the house and kept warm. John spent most of his day watching TV while I did some cleaning up around the place and started a new mystery. The cold weather looks like it's going to hang around the next several days and that makes it a little easier to be house bound.