PORCH PONDERINGS

Creeping Crud - Cold Season

I got the good 'end of winter not quite yet' creeping crud. Cough, congestion. I think this is related to feeling crappy last week. Possibly related to fainting last week. Everyone in town that I know is coughing. No one has the flu or Covid or RSV. No fever. Weird. So I've been taking cough syrup and mucus relief. You know what they say about a cold, treat it and it'll last a week. Don't treat it, it'll be gone in a week. But that is barring complications, so don't take this as medical advice.

I went to the County Commissioner's meeting on Friday last, as I do now. Everyone in the courthouse, with few exceptions, was coughing. I hope I wasn't contagious. Oh well, if I was, bad on me.

It's a nice spell of weather right now, 50's and 60's. Bright blue skies and the snow is virtually gone. The Musselshell County DES people, the fine men that monitor such things told the commissioners that the rapid snow melt yielded 1-3 inches of water. Nice. Good for the upcoming spring and inevitable dry summer we'll have. No major flooding, also good.

I walked down by the river, running muddy and fast, but not over the banks. Ice floes on the river banks, but not crowded under two bridges as they usually are in flooding.

Tomorrow I have to go talk to the hand specialist about my MRI done a few weeks ago. I have to see what the magic machine saw. Is it fixable, or do I just treat the symptoms? Do I throw more $$ at this, with recovery time, or just gut it out?? ROI is in the back of my mind. Especially if I am thinking of major dental work soon. My hand does hurt today, but I think it's a change in weather coming, windy tomorrow with another snow storm possible.

I need to get back into the swing of things here on the site. Is anyone else being thrown into the doldrums with world events?? I seem to be. So I have to buck up and ignore and get back to writing.

I really do.