As I was driving to Bikram this morning, instead of contracting the right psoas to shift my weight, I focused on shifting the angle of the right sitz bone. This engaged my right psoas, as before, but also engaged the outside of the right thigh muscles to push the hip over.
After Bikram, I went to Home Depot to see if I could get help with my one-gallon Home Depot brand garden sprayer. The one I had stopped holding the pressure. I could hear the air releasing but couldn’t figure out where it was coming from. I bought another one. It didn’t work the first time I tried it. I hoped someone at the store would know what was going wrong.
The clerk in the garden center didn’t know anything. She called for help. After 10 minutes, a woman came to help. She took one look and called for some man to help. Another 10-minute wait. He came and showed me how to tighten the top. “Okay, I said. Now pump.” He could hear the air escaping as well as I did. I got another, “I have no idea,” and he walked away. The woman came back, brought me a new one, waited while I set it up, and checked to see if it would work. I walked out none the wiser but with a sprayer that would work well enough for me to do the job I had in mind.
I got my phone out to call the monument company, but before I got a chance to dial, I got a phone call from a friend. We set up a lunch date for the fourth. When I called the monument company, I got a voicemail prompt. There is only one guy in this company. I know he left for India right after meeting with me to buy more stones. He may not be back yet. Even if the one I selected doesn’t work out, it won’t be a problem. We can inter Mike over Christmas when the family is here and set up the monument any time after that.
As I left Home Depot, I called Jean. She had good news: her broken foot was completely healed, and she no longer had to wear a boot. We also talked about Shivani, who is having some medical problems. She tried to get an appointment with a doctor. The earliest appointment is in October. There was a rush to retirement recently in San Fransisco by doctors who didn’t sell their practices to younger doctors. It looks like this major city is facing the same problems some rural areas face.
I went out to spray the hibiscus the second time ten days after the first against blister mites. I realized the sun was hot and decided to wait until early evening so the spray wouldn’t damage the plants.
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