—boomf.
\nI tossed the current pair of jeans-that-fit into the wash, and substituted the light rayon baggy track pants that look like hell.
\nWorse, I tried to skate in them. Funny thing. You wear tight jeans on the ice, you get a sense of support for your muscles. You wear light stuff, no support, and I, yes, dragged a toe as I tried to recover from stepping onto my heel.<\/p>\n
Backward. Boomf. <\/p>\n
On the other hand—I rotated as I went down, landed on the flat of the hip between tailbone and hipbone, and managed to keep elbow AND head off the ice. Pretty good, eh. I wasn’t wearing my Crashpads ™ and thought I’d kill myself. But I didn’t. Didn’t hurt much at all, except I shook my brain when I sat down and had a consequent headache.<\/p>\n
That’s a way better fall on the ice than I usually manage. Also, I was moving, so I had the skid working FOR me. (A dead fall on the ice hurts worse than a moving one.) <\/p>\n
On the other hand, I managed to get the Mantis fired up and attacked the front yard. THAT made me sore. So sore. It bucks like an angry skunk when it hits grass roots. But—we’ll get there. I only have 80000 square feet to go. <\/p>\n
Didn’t do my headache any good. But I got about a 10x 8 section of the lawn done. That’s pretty good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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