A New Year - a New Hip- and boy is it cold

No, not the hip..we are finally having the kind of weather that we should be having at this time of year. This kind of cold should slow down the pine beetles, help our spruce trees fight off the spider mites....we had actually forgotten what a wind chill 0f -45C feels like. For those of you out there who don't live in this kind of climate, let it be known that you can freeze your skin in two minutes, if you don't plug in your car block heater the %^*^%*^%* thing won't start, and your tires will have a flat spot from sitting on the cold garage floor.

So what about the hip? Seems my pain has not bee a figment of my imagination, nor the practically zero mobility of my right leg. Will NOT post the x-ray, but it shows the arthritis clearly. Saw the surgeon last Wednesday, operaton on April 21st. Not bad for a system that has been back-logged for so long. I still wonder at the health system in a province as rich as ours. As I also wonder at the crumbling schools infrastructure, the lack of day care space, - we could all relate horror stories that are the legacy of a certain premier and government that will remain nameless...o, sorry Ralph....

Until the next inspiration...