July the 19th, Wednesday-edited

Today was SO HOT I felt like I was melting most of the day.  Okay, it wasn't that bad I guess.  It is much worse in other parts of the country right now.  Eventually, I got productive enough to go to work for a little while.  My doctor released me to do some things that I hadn't been able to and I went and did some.  There was some minor aching and tingling from the overuse syndrome.  It seems to have mostly subsided at this point.  Hopefully 2 weeks is enough to build back up some of the skills I haven't been practicing.  If all goes well with this, I start doing the type of work I was doing when the overuse syndrome started.

My daughter had some friends over when I got back and so I visited with all for a bit.  It was an impromptu craft night.  After dinner Gideon and I went for a walk.  He had walked about 1.4 miles when I dropped him off and then went out again.  I was way low on step count.  When I was almost home a man asked me for directions.  Instead of trying to describe, I turned around and brought him where he needed to go.  End result is that I feel I did a kindness to a stranger and that is qualifying as my happy for today.

Close to the center of this picture is a dark plume of smoke. I don't know where.  Right after I took the shot, the plume turned white.  About 10 minutes later I went in the general direction and found no sign of anything.  

*edited-because publishing when one is really asleep, in the middle of a sentence, and letting the spell fixer choose the wrong words should not really be a thing.  😴