Still, Safer, Grow

I played my first pickleball since the accident yesterday at lunch. Even though my left elbow is still covered with a tegaderm patch it didn’t bother me all that much. I still felt a bit tired but played pretty well overall. It felt good to get back out there.

Yesterday I received the new tubeless tire that I will hopefully install on my Master V4. The tire and tubeless valve were sent to me for free from Ewheels who I have worked with for many years. The hope is the tubeless tire will seat cleanly on the rim and will in the process eliminate inner tube blowout as a source of future failure on this wheel. I am hoping to start the process tonight.

It will be a bit more involved than the first time I swapped the tire on this wheel as I need to first remove the Clark protective gear to do. That gear held up very well during the crash. I need to see if anything else is significantly bent or broken along the way, hopefully not.

Last night I ran to Home Depot to grab a small pot and some potting soil. I just received a dwarf mulberry tree via Amazon, believe it or not. It arrived in good condition but needed to be put into a real pot. I placed it in it’s new home, watered it and put the baby tree on the table on the lanai where it can get indirect sun.

I have not tried to grow anything like this for a long time, dating back to when I still lived in the Estates. I sort have placed a symbolic meaning on the tree, hoping it can grow and prosper just like I hope to since I had the accident.

This evening would normally be volleyball night but with a left elbow that is missing several layers of skin the idea of sand getting into that does not sound appealing, at all.