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What a Difference a Day Makes (last Thursday to be precise)

Been a stressful early part of the week but turned around to be a great week.  Mostly about my latest ankle visit to the doctor.  It's healing and just needs more time but there is light at the end of the tunnel and I can see it.  Next doctor appt is in 6 weeks and that should be the end of it!  


In the house I can walk around without my brace.  This is a big deal.  The feeling of a soft sock on that foot has been missing for almost 3 months.  Oh it feels so nice.  I've got some P.T. to perform on it and heating but I've entered a new phase (end phase?) and I'm starting to see my life getting back to "normal" in the near future.  By "normal" I mean fishing and hiking in a few months as I was before.  I may buy some better boots for hiking, just to be on the safe side.

In other news, I've got my latest drawing done.  You don't get to see all the other work I those away because it's so bad or I'm just trying different things out.  On a driving tour of some new (to me) fishing streams, I pass all these old barns.  This county is full of them.  I took photos of some of them and this is the one that stood out so I did a drawing of it.  It's on 8x10 paper with ink and value markers.  I called it "Defiant".

Enjoy

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