New Modified shoes, yard & Grandpa flashback

So these are my new Skechers. Can you tell  they've been modified 1/2 inch in the heel & 1/4 inch on the ball part of the foot? The man who did the work even cut the design to make it look like this. Had 2 pair modified. And, my medical insurance paid for 1 pair! That was a nice surprise. Thank you Prime Orthotics:) I'll be back with some New Balance shoes next time. God willing.

new shoes!

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The Yard:

 

Here's my front yard after cutting down the 18 inch weeds & thick grass. Looks good, no? God has blessed us with rain........So the weeds will return.


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Flashback during practicing walking without my cane:
When I was about 7 years old my grandfather had a cane. In Spanish called a bordon. Don't know why he needed it, but, remember asking him if he needed it whenever he stood. "Quiere su bordon Grandpa?" Sometimes he would use it & sometimes he wouldn't. He didn't use the cane much in my short memory of this time. And, sometimes I think he used it to humor his grandkids.
Around this time was when my brother, cousins & I would be given money to go to the movies on Sunday afternoons. The bus picked us up on Rio Grande Blvd. & dropped us off in downtown Albuquerque right in front of whichever theater we were suppose to be at. There was the Kimo, State & Sunshine Theaters. The reason I mention this, is sometimes we would see preview "reels" of vaudeville auditions where a cane would come out from behind the curtain to pull a bad act off stage. It was very funny:-))) 
Anyway, we would go home & re-enact what we had seen & pull each other off our "stage" using Grandpa's cane. He would laugh at our antics. Which of course got sillier the more he laughed. Until finally my mom or aunt would put a stop to our fun with making us do something stupid like washing  up for supper;)
I am amazed that he had such a great sense of humor after everything he went through in his earlier years. Like I stated before, some things will break us & some things will make us stronger. Grandpa obviously knew how to count his blessings.